It’s not Christmas without a little cheese metal, is it? I kind of like Helix’s take on the perennial holiday classic Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree. It doesn’t stand in the way of the melody, doesn’t try some massive reinterpretation of the song or the message; they just plug in and rock that sucker out.…
It’s not the holiday season for me without some Jethro Tull. Something about Ian Anderson’s arrangements, soaring flute passages, and witching-hour vocals just evokes powerful imagery of, as C. S. Lewis might put it, the Deep Magic from the Dawn of Time; music with one foot in the Ancient Pagan world, but also one in…
Well that magical feel-good time of the year is upon us, my friends! A bit of frost in the air, a touch of snow on the ground, burning leaves and hot apple cider and molassess cookies and… no wait, I live in South Florida. It’s hot, muggy, rainy, and even our ginormous flying cockroaches are…
Is it already over? 🙁 Well here we are, Halloween. It’s roughly about 5:45 PM on October 31st, and Boots and I are slowly lounging around in preparation for heading out later tonight, for drinks and dinner and costumes and karaoke and Halloween fun. And here I am, lamenting that I won’t be able to…
It’s not a big surprise to feel your temperature rise You’ve got a touch of redline fever ‘Cause there is just one cure that we know for sure You just become a heavy metal believer… This is a song about a freakin’ car, and it rules. And I can’t stand The Eagles anymore, but hot…
Saint John’s Eve on Bare Mountain. Or “Night On Bald Mountain” as it is most commonly known in English. Already it sounds creepifying, but this orchestral fantasy/musical picture by Modest Mossorgsky (and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov) vividly details a terrifying picture of witches and demonic hordes racing through the Slavic night, terrorizing villages in the shadow of…
Moving in the wrong direction brings bad luck Living without protection really sucks It’s so hard when you’re on your own You might fall into The Forbidden Zone Ye gods… It had to be a good 25, maybe closer to 30 years ago, when I first saw the whackadoo independent underground art/wtf musical film Forbidden Zone.…
Here’s to love, the sicknessThe great martyr of the soulHere’s to life, the viceThe great herald of misery… Nothing like a sweet love song to get the heart a-tittering, right? Metal band Agalloch created a most chilling neo-folk tune with their 2003 track A Desolation Song. And could any song title be any more apropos…
Frankenstein was the first in line And the Wolfman came up next Dracula was doing his stuff Breathing down my neck… Well, I mean they can’t ALL be dark, terrifying, horrific, and morbid right? So let’s veer off into a much more FUN direction… and this song is the living definition of goofy Halloween fun. I’ve…
My sinister sounds sweep the grounds Stillborn I lie beneath it I throw it away, the freaks all stay Deformed and laughing screaming… Rob Zombie is no stranger to anything and everything horror. I mean really, his name is a dead giveaway right? No one gets slightly unnerved by “Rob Cutebabyelephants”, do they? Unless they’re…