Diabolic Majesty

 

Holy cow - a new Revocation album dropped! Haven't heard the entire thing yet, but a couple songs in, I very much digging Netherheaven, which you can order from Metal Blade Records HERE.

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NCBD:

A big haul this week for NCBD. Let's dive right into it:

Gonna have my hands full with this one for a day or two, but that's some great reading. 

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How the hell do you talk about this movie without actually talking about it? The trailer is one of the best I've ever seen, as it shows you so much that wets the Horror Whistle, but tells you absolutely NOTHING about the film, and after seeing this one yesterday, I want to tow the exact same line.

Barbarian's trailer indeed tells you little about the movie. In fact, it actually tells you less than I thought going in. There is so much here, so much that makes it not only my "film-to-beat" for 2022 but also, one of my favorite Horror Flicks in recent years. And make no mistake, this is no "psychological thriller." Nope. This is pure, unadulterated Horror. There are some gnarly ideas and images in here that make for an often revolting watch - in the best possible way, of course. 

 My suggestion - go see it on the big screen if you can. I may be going back for a second time tonight. My only regret will be that I can't go in blind a second time.

 

The fact that this is Writer/Director Zach Cregger's first feature blows me away. Mr. Cregger is now on my "See anything they make" list right next to other indie filmmakers like Ti West and Joe Begos.

 

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Playlist:

NIN - Pretty Hate Machine

NIN - Broken EP

NIN - Burn (Single)

NIN - Dead Souls (Single)

NIN - The Downward Spiral

Ministry - Land of Rape and Honey

Idles - NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

The Afghan Whigs - How Do You Burn?

A001 - Nyctophobia EP

Forhist - Eponymous

Revocation - Netherheaven

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Card:

Sometimes you have to be an asshole to get things accomplished. 

Kinda I Want To... See Werewolf By Night Right Bloody NOW!!!

 

I'm starting my week with Pretty Hate Machine and thought I'd pass it on. >kl3

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In my absence, A LOT of trailers and announcements dropped via Disney-con (or whatever it's called). A lot of super cool stuff to be excited about, but this tops the pile for me:

 

I have NO IDEA if or how this fits into the MCU continuity, but Werewolf By Night appears to be a Black and White Grindhouse flick. Also, watch closely and you'll see a glimpse of one of my favorite characters, Man-Thing!!!

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I just have to say that Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips' That Texas Blood has become one of my favorite comics on the stand today. Issue Seventeen was BRILLIANT.

The comparisons to Fargo, both the series and the movie, are unavoidable, but this book is so much more than that. 

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Playlist:

Idles - Joy As An Act of Resistance

The Moody Blues - Knights in White Satin (single, album-length)

Ginger Wildheart - Year of Fanclubs

The Afghan Whigs - How Do You Burn

Pixies - Doggerel (pre-release singles)

Black Sabbath - Eponymous

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

The Cure - Disintegration

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Card:

From Jonathan Grimm's Bound Tarot, which you can buy HERE.

Pertains directly to a conversation I had with the creator of the Bound Tarot yesterday while driving back from Chicago. I have inbound new ideas and information for a project I am GIDDY with excitement about. 

The Afghan Whigs - Soldier

 

Somehow I totally missed this stunning single the Whigs released in 2017.

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Maika Monroe is really on my radar of late. True, she was fabulous in both The Guest and It Follows, and both were years ago. Seeing this year's Watcher a few months back at a Beyondfest screening, she really stole the show. And now this:

 

I signed up for Paramount + again recently so K and I could finish Evil, Season 3, and looks like I'll probably hang onto it a bit longer to catch this on Friday, October 7th.

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Playlist:

Various - Return of the Living Dead Soundtrack (Playlist)

The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us

The Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle

The Misfits - Legacy of Brutality

Idles - Joy As An Act of Resistance

Melvins & Lustmord - Pigs of the Roman Empire

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Re-engaging with Magick this weekend could lead to a breakthrough, but it may also lead to Ruin. I'm pretty sure I know exactly what this is talking about, and my intention remains to stay away.

Never Fight A Man With A Perm

 

Words of wisdom Lloyd. Words. Of. Wisdom.

I discovered Idles two days ago completely by accident. I think. Since setting up a work-from-home office in our new house, I've been using Spotify more than I ever have. I'll always prefer Apple Music for most things, but there's some great stuff about their competition, too, one of which is how bands will just show up in your 'feed' based on their algorithm. I know a lot of folks hate that word and practice, however, I have found that, while I would never want to solely rely on an AI to find me music, they sometimes come up with some good stuff I had otherwise missed.

 
Case in point, Idles appeared on my landing page yesterday and I have no idea why. But upon hearing "Never Fight a Man With a Perm" for the first time, I was in love. The album that song is on - Joy As An Act of Resistance - is start-to-finish fan-fucking-tastic! 

This video of them performing Never Fight A Man With A Perm literally gives me chills. This is a band that the architects of the BBC's Hyundai/ Mercury Prize in 2019 never would have dreamed would be performing on this stage; seriously, the incongruency of the elaborate look of the set with this snarling mess of a band brings tears to my eyes and joy to my heart. 

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New Lucky McKee? YES!

 

I'm betting money this will be announced next week along with the second half of Beyondfest's tenth-anniversary line-up.

 

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An unexpected surprise yesterday at the comic shop:

With allusions to the works of both Dickens and Dan Simmons, and probably the most refined interpretation of Occult Victorian England since Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s seminal work From Hell, I am totally in for the ride on El Torres and Joe Bacardo’s new comic Phantasmagoria! Also, the title is quite possibly my favorite word in the English language, so bonus points on that. This one is from Scout Comics' Black Caravan line, which is really starting to beef up their presence in the Horror Comic Continuum. 

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Playlist:

Idles - Joy As An Act of Resistance

Idles - Brutalism

Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs

Pailhead - Trait

Misfits - Static Age

Misfits - American Psycho

Godflesh - Pure

Revolting Cocks - Linger Ficken' Good

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Back to Missi's Raven Deck for a single card signifier today:

Equilibrium for sure. Yesterday everything was out of whack, and I'm weary of bringing that with me into today. I'll take this as a reminder of yesterday's pull - even keel. Weight (wait?) and measure. 

Pixies - Dregs of Wine

 

This one had me with the opening spoken word segment, dipped a bit, then picked way back up at about 2:20. It's been really interesting watching the Pixies pick back up and add to their legacy. I'd still REALLY like another Frank Black, Black Francis, or Catholics album (that'd be my #1 want), but Pixies have continued to evolve. Most bands like this just swim in circles and relive their glory days. Not these guys (and gal). 

The new album Doggerel is out on September 30th; pre-order HERE.

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NCBD:

Kind of a big week for NCBD. Here's my planned haul:

Not sure I'll be keeping up with this new Alien series; I dropped off the previous one after the first story arc, figured I'd grab the #1 and reassess. 

This new Ghost Rider title is really hot and cold with me. None of the issues have been bad, but a few were spectacular. Wolvie guest-starring so soon isn't really a good sign in my book, but both titles share Ben Percy as a writer, so maybe that's all it is. Either way, c'mon Ghost Rider - "Thrill Me."

I LOVED that last week, Gerry Duggan had the opportunity to write an X-Men issue that didn't solely deal with Judgement Day, which, as I suspected, is beginning to wear on me. I'm hoping the same for this lastest issue of Immortal X-Men. I'd really like the Sebastian Shaw issue to deal with Shaw's place in the bigger picture of Krakoan politics.

Still having lots of fun with this Moon Knight series. 

And talk about lots of fun. This one is just fantastic (pun intended).

This wins "Cover of the month" award, for sure. 

Tried and true, that's IDW's TMNT. 

Of the two books I began simultaneously earlier in the year that bear more than a little resemblance to one another - A Town Called Terror and West of Sundown - West of has ended. Or at least, the first arc has. I enjoyed that book, but I'm not 100% I'll be back if it returns. The same can be said of this one; it's not bad, I'm just not convinced. We'll see; this issue is most likely ending the first arc, so I'll do a re-read and make a decision then.

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With a surprising number of "Gloryhole Horror" flicks hitting streaming lately (2, but still, that's quite a bit considering the subject matter, eh?), The Horror Vision held a very Special episode: our Glorious Gloryhole Death Match. One of the unexpected joys of doing that episode (there really were no others), was discovering the H.P. Lovecraft/Hazel Heald novella Out of the Aeons, which has never been in any Lovecraft collection I have previously owned. I took a brief respite from Sandy Macnair's Carspotting to read about the origins of Ghat (see Glorious, the winner by far of the aforementioned death match) in the Cthulhu Mythos. 

Out of the Aeons is available on Kindle for $0.99. First published in 1935 in Weird Tales, I'm really having trouble believing I'd never heard of this one before. 

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Playlist:

Revolting Cocks - Linger Fickin' Good

The Cure - Carnage Visors

The Cure - Faith

The Verve - Eponymous EP

Type O Negative - October Rust

Type O Negative - World Coming Down

High On Fire - Blessed Black Wings

Godflesh - Post Self

Godflesh - Pure

Type O Negative - Origin of the Feces

The Afghan Whigs - In Spades

The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs - 1965

The Twilight Singers - Blackberry Belle

Calexico - Garden Ruin

Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry

The Afghan Whigs - Do the Beast

Idles - Joy As An Act of Resistance

Ginger Wildheart - The Year of the Fanclub

Miss Piss - Self-Surgery

Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spin

Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss

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From Jonathan Grimm's Bound Tarot, which you can buy HERE.

Everything this morning is about approaching things with balance, adaptability, understanding and a keen eye. So something needs a closer look it would seem...

Afghan Whigs - I'll Make You See God

I was holding off on listening to the singles The Afghan Whigs have released from the upcoming How Do You Burn, however, I'm seeing them this coming Saturday night, so I broke down and started getting to know them. Being that the album drops this Friday, September 9th, I'll have all day to listen to it. So far,  really great stuff. Not sure it will top In Spades, but that would be quite the feat. 

Linger Fickin' Good, Baby!

 

Getting psyched to see "The Revolting Corpse" at the end of the month, courtesy of Mr. Brown. I'm not entirely sure who will be on stage, but either way, it's sure to be amazing.

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K and I wrapped up Evil season 3 on Paramount Plus the other day. As always, this show leaves an ENORMOUS void when it's off. I have a feeling the next season may be the final; either way, with the low-grade anxiety Netflix is resonating with its coy attitude toward Sandman's renewal, it's good to know that the next season of Evil has already been announced. 

Next up, Feud!

 

We'd been meaning to watch this since it aired back in 2017, and our timing proves fortuitous, as a quick look-up on IMDB surprised us with the listing for an upcoming season two slated for next year.

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I finished Irvine Welsh's Marabou Stork Nightmares. Jesus. This was easily his darkest book, and that's bloody well saying something. Still, I loved most of it; it always feels like slipping into a favorite Marathon Shirt when I tackle one of Welsh's novels, and despite several absolutely soul-searing scenes, this was no exception. Next up, Welsh's long-time friend Sandy McNair's tell-all book Carspotting: The Real-Life Adventures of Irvine Welsh.

Like Marabou, I've had this one for over a decade. After this, I'm thinking I may re-read Welsh's 2006 novel Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chiefs, which I haven't read since it came out.

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Playlist:

King Woman - Celestial Blues

Charles Bradley - Changes

Cocksure - Corporate_Sting

The High Confessions - Turning Lead Into Gold with the High Confessions

Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance

Willie Nelson & Leon Russell - One For the Road

The Black Angels - Eponymous EP

The Black Angels - Death Song

The Afghan Whigs - How Do You Burn? (pre-release singles)

The Afghan Whigs - In Spades

Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower

The Bangles - Different Light

Joseph Bishara - Malignant OST