Blood Mother is the new project from Rick Giordano, composer/former member of a group called The Lion's Den, which ended last year. I was unfamiliar with both until two days ago, when I stumbled upon this track and it led me down a little bit of a rabbit hole that crescendoed in reading this.
Interesting snapshot of the state of things for an independent band in 2025/26.
Part of that rabbit hole was discovering The Lion's Den's music, and I'm pretty blown away. I'm sure I'll post some here eventually, but in the meantime, you can check out their catalog on Bandcamp HERE.
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I wasn't sure how I would feel about this new Faces of Death flick hitting theatres this week, but being that I'm in Chicago and can see it with friends, I figured we should cover it for The Horror Vision.
Other than its omnipresent shadow in the 80s/90s as a kind of specter-ish rite of passage I never succumbed to, I have no real relationship with the original films beyond feeling they're just kind of gross and indicative of everything that's wrong in the world. That said, the writer in me is fascinated by this kind of thing, and when I found out it was the team that did Cam, my tentative curiosity began to pulse with a bit more anticipation.
Ultimately, this film is fine. I can't say a hell of a lot more than that. I don't want to see things that I can't unsee, but I feel like by the very nature of what this is, it should have left me at least a little haunted. No. Definitely an engaging slasher/thriller, but ultimately, I don't know, while I'll issue the blanket, "Support Horror in the theatre," I just didn't really care that much.
Playlist:
The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
Motörhead - 1916
Nitro - O.F.R.
Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
Testament - Para Bellum
Mountain Realm - Stoneharrow
Blood Mother - The Night Fires (single)
The Lion's Den - Bath House
Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Deftones - private music
Zeal & Ardor - Eponymous
Portishead - Third
Type O Negative - Life Is Killing Me
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Still away from home, so I'm using my mini-Thoth.
• Ace of Swords
• Two of Wands: Dominion
• V: The Hierophant
Collaboration from a breakthrough of the Will dissolves the mundane and creates something new. This is SPOT ON. I can't say much more yet, but it involves A) a promise I made to myself about my 50th year, and B) the day in the woods I described above.
