New Zeal and Ardor!!!

FUCK YES! I'm a little late with this one, as I've been so preoccupied with the new Perturbator that I forgot Z&A dropped a new track and announced an album coming out sometime in early 2022. I think; I swear I saw a February date when I first went to this song, but I can't find that any longer, so maybe I'm wrong and we'll get the album sooner. That would be fantastic!

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INTERVIEW:

Super psyched that my cohost on A Most Horrible Library, Chris Saunders and I got to interview comics legend Glenn Fabry this past week. Check out the episode on Spotify, Apple Music, any other pod-platform, or just right here on youtube:

If you're unfamiliar with Glenn, he's best known as the man who did every single cover for Garth Ennis and Steve Dillion's Preacher, still my all-time favorite comic. To say this was an honor would be an understatement indeed.

While talking to Glenn, we found out he has a Big Cartel shop, and I had to throw up a link. Glenn doesn't make royalties on almost anything he did cover-wise, so he's not exactly sitting on top of the world like Mr. Ennis is (deservedly so, but still). I picked up a couple awesome prints from Glenn's shop, and wanted to spread the word. 

Glenn's Big Cartel is HERE, and his Creature From the Black Lagoon is NO JOKE.

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NCBD:

Seriously, I think there was like a week this month without a Spider-man book and I felt the void! What has become of me?

And I guess because we had a week off, two spidey books this week!

Wrapping up what has been a fantastic series that truly is unlike anything else I've ever read. The solicitation logline, "Breaking Bad meets The Sandman" isn't exactly right, but it gets you in the ballpark, and I'd never take issue with such an over-the-top comparison because it did its job - it convinced me to take a chance that I do not regret.

Somehow I missed issue three of Dead Dog's Bite, so I'll be holding off reading this until I can pick that up, too.

YES! Issue 45 was my favorite comic of the year so far, so I can't wait to see what else the 90s has in store for Marcus and crew.

Cool series, but another one that I hiccuped and missed a few issues of. I'll remedy that by next week though. So glad to be reading some Larry Hama again.

This book continues to impress me, despite its over-the-top, almost classic Image feel.

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Playlist:

Perturbator - Lustful Sacraments

David Bowie - Hunky Dory

Harakiri for the Sky - III: Trauma

Silent - Modern Hate

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Tinderbox 

Zeal and Ardor - Run (Single)

Zeal and Ardor - Stranger Fruit

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Super appropriate - Opportunites revolving past me in several areas, leaving me dizzy, uncertain and confused. Fighting to stand atop my decision and look at it all with a meticulous and discerning eye.

Every Little Star

I still just absolutely adore everything about this song. 

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Watch:

New Russian creature feature Superdeep looks pretty promising:

 

Hit Shudder on June 17th.

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Playlist:

Lustmord - Heresy

Various - Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series)

Swans - The Seer

Led Zeppelin - Presence

Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs

PM Dawn - Set Adrift on Memory Bliss (radio edit single)

Various - The Best of Northern Soul

David Bowie - The Next Day

Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen

K's 70s Playlist

Corpse Eater: Satanic Misery Live for the Dead

Dream Division - Beyond the Mirror's Image

PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea

Joy Division - Closer 

My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Confessions of a Knife

Pigface - Live in Chicago 2019

Type O Negative - World Coming Down

Chelsea Wolfe - Diana

 

Any day we get a new Chelsea Wolfe track is a good day. This one is in conjunction with DC Comics and the Dark Knights: Death Metal series they're doing that I know absolutely nothing about except that I couldn't care less about it. Except, now I love this song. So that's one thing Dark Knights: Death Metal has going for it. DC is releasing a full soundtrack for the series, which, if you're of a mind, you can pre-order in whatever format you like HERE. Tracklisting below: 

Mastodon - Forged by Neron 

Chelsea Wolfe - Diana 

HEALTH, Tyler Bates - ANTI-LIFE (feat. Chino Moreno) Maria Brink, Tyler Bates - Meet Me In Fire (feat. Andy Biersack) 

Grey Daze - Anything, Anything 

Rise Against - Broken Dreams, Inc. 

Manchester Orchestra - Never Ending 

Denzel Curry, PlayThatBoiZay - Bad Luck Carach 

Angren - Skull With a Forked Tongue 

Starcrawler - Good Time Girl 

GUNSHIP, Tyler Bates - Berserker (feat. Dave Lombardo) 

Greg Puciato, Tyler Bates, Gil Sharone - Now You've Really Done It Show Me 

The Body - Stone Cold 

Earth IDLES - Sodium 

Soccer Mommy - Kissing in the Rain

That's a pretty interesting lineup, and despite my lack of interest in the comic, the artwork is cool and features heavily in the vinyl release.

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Watch:

Planning on watching this over the weekend:

 

Also, after fighting through 30 or so minutes of Zack "Slo Mo" Snyder's Army of the Dead last week, I may try again. May.

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Playlist:

Various - Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series)

Windhand - Split EP

Les Discrets

Lustmord - Heresy

Swans - The Seer

Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower

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Ah, I love a direct pull:

Dealing with an ongoing staffing issue on my team at the biorepository. Always tempted to say things I should not, so this is a great reminder to play it cool.

 

My Last NCBD in SoHo proved Violetly Cold

Violet Cold's album Empire of Love is a bit uneven to me, but that's because it swings BIG, and that's not a bad thing. This track was the first I'd ever heard of them - really a one-man project - when it came up in Apple Music's algorithm. I wasn't sure how I felt about it at first, but it quickly gained favor. Then, yesterday morning, I realized I had this song irrevocably in my head, and as soon as I fired it up on my headphones, it felt like an ice-cold mouthful of water on a hot day.

Check out Violet Cold's Bandcamp HERE. 

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Oh Edgar Wright, how I love thee:

 

Looks fantastically Argento-inspired. 

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NCBD:

This is a day late, but my Wednesday proved to be a beast. 

This week's NCBD was considerably quieter than I've had in a while, for sure. Which is nice on the wallet, and the stack of books I still haven't read from last week.

This cover art is SICK. I'm thinking this is the issue where all hell breaks loose and I can't wait to see that!

Possibly my favorite comic at the moment, I'm really loving Daniel Warren Johnson's take on this character. This book reminds me of old TSR gaming, 80s style, where it felt like ideas, monsters and weapons from every corner of pop culture were being drawn together into one great, big beautifully pulpy soup. It's Daniel Warren Johnson's aesthetic, and it's enhanced by his art, which is just scratchy enough in the right places to feel like a throwback to the way comics used to look.

Feels like I've been waiting for this one for longer than however long it's been since The Last Ronin #2 came out.

A very solid historical Horror story.

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Playlist:

Goatsnake - Breakfast with the King

Silent - Modern Hate

Vreid - Wild North West

Harakiri for the Sky - III: Trauma

Violet Cold - Empire of Love 

Corpse Eater: Satanic Misery Live for the Dead

The Jesus Lizard - Liar

CCR - Eponymous

The Replacements - Tim

The Veils - Time Stays, We Go

The Birthday Party - Mutiny/The Bad Seed

Various - Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series)

Silent Trese

Whenever my good friend Jacob sends me a band to listen to, I know it's going to rule. Silent, however, even tops the best of his previous recommendations. I cannot express how much I LOVE this album; it embodies everything I love about a modern post-punk aesthetic and reminds me A LOT of how much I loved that first Savages album back in what feels like one hundred years ago.

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I don't really know much about Trese yet, except my DwC cohost Mike Wellman sent me the trailer last week and it's being made by/with people who our friend Karen Kunawicz knows. Mike has a copy of the book it's based on hold for me, so I should be picking that up and reading it soon, so I will leave you with the trailer for now and report back on the book later this week.

Really cool stuff, from the looks of it. 

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Playlist:

Led Zeppelin - Coda

Silent - Modern Hate

Mudvayne - Choices (single)

Exhalants - Atonement

Windhand - Split

Deftones - Ohms

Violet Cold - Empire of Love

ZZ Top - Rhythmeen

White Zombie - Astro-Creep 2000

QOTSA - Villains

Goatsnake - Black Age Blues

Lustmord - Heresy

Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower

Leviathan the Fleeing Serpent - Corpse Eater: Satanic Misery Love for the Dead

Various - Lords of Salem OST

 

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I can't really go into it here - or more like I don't want to at the moment - but I take this as a direct commentary on a BIG question that has been on both K and my own mind these last few days. 

Coda of the Dead

 

Probably the second Led Zeppelin song I ever heard, and possibly the first one I heard while seeking out the band's music (oh so long ago now), I still have a huge crush on "Ozone Baby". I feel a huge Zep binge coming on and I welcome it with open arms.

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Watch:

While I won't be watching Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead tonight - it's Joe Bob night, of course - I will be checking this out at some point this weekend. I'm hoping for big, dumb fun but not really expecting to get even that. I really hope I'm wrong. 

 

Speaking of Netflix, here's a teaser the streaming giant just dropped for an upcoming flick that has me very intrigued. I hardly go to Netflix anymore for anything, however, that sometimes works against me. I have to try and remind myself that despite the ginormous size of the company and somewhat banal output, they did bring us flicks like Cam, Hold the Dark and even Stranger Things. So they are capable of really hitting the nail on the head. 

Love that red!

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Playlist:

Les Discrets - Prédateurs

Alice in Chains - Dirt

Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark

The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out!

Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower

White Lung - Eponymous 

The Jesus Lizard - Liar

Jackie Wilson - Higher

Blanck Mass - Animated Violence Mild

Faith No More - The Real Thing

David Zinman, Dawn Upshaw & London Sinfonietta - Gorecki: Symphony No. 3

Dead Man's Bones - Eponymous

Led Zeppelin - Coda

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And now for something completely different...

I hung out with my good friend Keller yesterday (we're both vaxxed), and at the crux of our evening, he pulled a spread for me with his Marseille Deck. My question pertained to K and I looking for a house, and his answer was extremely helpful, even if it wasn't exactly what I wanted to hear.

The Associate

This track popped up in Rose Glass's Saint Maud - which we review and discuss on the newest episode of The Horror Vision Horror Podcast, and it made me immediately pull out Down and pop it into rotation. Of the classic Lizard triptych of essential records - Goat, Down and Liar - Down usually comes in third for me. That said, it's still among the greatest albums of the 90s in my opinion, and it's always a good feeling to reconnect with their music, especially after encountering it in a modern movie. 

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NCBD:

I'm LOVING that Marvel is taking so much of my money every month for Amazing Spider-Man. Nick Spencer's run has me hooked, and as of this issue, it looks like Bagley is back on the art!

The Autumnal is one of those rare, truly unnerving stories that feels like it could very easily be picked up and turned into an A24-ish movie. Let's hope that happens eventually, but in the meantime, issue 6 left us in a place that suggests this week's #7 will be crazy!

This series is riding at about a 65% approval rating with me at the moment, but I've apparently locked back into Marvel fan-boy gear for the first time since the MCU's Civil War broke it, so I'm enjoying the hell out of that 65%. Also, Dane's anthropomorphic black goat-headed butler is named Phillip. I can't love that enough.

This series. Whoah. Timely; a much-needed window into what other people go through to get into this country. 

I HAVE to have this cover. Love Stray Dogs, and issue #3's cliffhanger has had me on edge at the mere mention of the series since last month. 

Another book I also wanted to mention is Osaka Mime. I was lucky enough to have Behemoth Comics reach out to my podcast A Most Horrible Library a while back and send us an advance of Andy Leavy and Hugo Araujo's Osaka Mime graphic novel. I really dug this book and seeing its release slated for this week, suggest people pick it up.

A black and white Urban Horror story set in Japan, here's the solicitation:

"When a couple are found brutally murdered in the Dotonbori District in Osaka, Japan, two detectives from the Supernatural Unit of the Osaka PD must hunt down and apprehend a dangerous and murderous Mime, a shadowy shape-shifter which can take the form of the last person it ate. How do you catch something so dangerous, that can hide in plain sight?"

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This one snuck in under my radar, but looks fabulous! Featuring Raised by Wolves' Niamh Algar, the idea of setting a Horror story in the video nasty area already has me hooked, however, toss in the missing sister seen-in-a-movie bit that Ed Brubaker just played with in Friend of the Devil, and I'm super psyched for this one to drop on VOD June 18th!

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Playlist:

The Jesus Lizard - Down 

Soundgarden - Down On The Upside

Neverly Brothers - Dark Side of Everything

Ghost - Meliora

Type O Negative - Life is Killing Me

The Doors - LA Woman

 

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A good omen considering we have officially begun to settle back into a genuine sense of normalcy. K's birthday Dinner at Lazy Dog Cafe on the patio last night was the first time we'd eaten a meal in a restaurant in over a year. It felt nice to celebrate my Empress with such a marked occasion that signifies a return to life as we knew it B.C.