Klayton: Raising Circle of Dust from the Ashes [INTERVIEW]
Jan03

Klayton: Raising Circle of Dust from the Ashes [INTERVIEW]

Most industrial music lovers are familiar with Klayton and his work. He is the musical mastermind behind such projects as Circle of Dust, Argyle Park, Celldweller, and most recently Scandroid. Following his resurgence of Circle of Dust and the re-release of previous material I hoped to get a chance to talk with him; my hopes were not in vain!

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Lovely Ladies of DarkestGoth: The 2017 Spokesmodel Announcement [NEWS/ANNOUNCEMENT]
Nov30

Lovely Ladies of DarkestGoth: The 2017 Spokesmodel Announcement [NEWS/ANNOUNCEMENT]

Each year, the DGM Spokesmodel represents DarkestGoth and the Gothic community at large through spokesmodel galleries, event coverage, promotional material, articles, and interviews. To help accomplish this, they receive press credentials so that they have the special access they require to events, festivals, cons, and parties. This is not only a rare honor, but it’s also a responsibility, because they are helping our readers to live vicariously through them throughout the year they reign.

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Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! 4: The Crown of Kings [VIDEO GAME REVIEW]
Nov24

Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! 4: The Crown of Kings [VIDEO GAME REVIEW]

At long last, we finish the quadrology of Inkle Studio’s reimaginings of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, Sorcery! (If you’re just now discovering our reviews of this series, read our prior reviews of Sorcery! , Sorcery! 2 , and Sorcery! 3 .) In concluding the last game, The Seven Serpents, we made our way through the treacherous time-warped Baklands, tracking 7 deadly serpents who were tasked with hunting us down and slaughtering us, or, at the very least, warning our nemesis, the Archmage, of our approach so we could not assault Mapang unawares. In the final chapter, we find…

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The Death of Superman Book & DVD Set [GRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW]
Sep28

The Death of Superman Book & DVD Set [GRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW]

I first got into Superman when, as a child, I lived in a desert town with no TV and, once a month, we’d go to the largest city in our area to get provisions. There was a half-price comic book store and I would find ‘70’s and ‘80’s Bronze age books for 15 cents apiece, purchasing as many as I could to make the month until I got back bearable. DC comics always had a more powerful tone to me and I would try to buy comics that I could find in as sequential an order as possible. Superman books were some of the more intriguing (second only to Flash, in my mind) because he was so powerful, that the w

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Saturnalia of the Accursed [ALBUM REVIEW]
Aug24

Saturnalia of the Accursed [ALBUM REVIEW]

Having toured 29 countries, played over 700 shows and appeared on over 200+ songs and 16 albums over the past 2 decades, Argyle Goolsby (the co founder of the horror punk troubadours Blitzkid) returns to conjure up the curtain on some new music. He has also played bass alongside Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein (former guitarist of Misfits) in the band Gorgeous Frankenstein. Now flying solo, he has placed his previous EPs and singles onto one full-length album.

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Welcoming Curves: Chatting with Club Bodice’s Miss Mortis [ARTICLE/EVENT]
Aug18

Welcoming Curves: Chatting with Club Bodice’s Miss Mortis [ARTICLE/EVENT]

Started a year ago by Miss Mortis as a Gothic dance party at the famous San Francisco LGBT club, The STUD Bar (www.studsf.com/ ), Club Bodice is a monthly Body Positive dance party for folks of all sizes, with the goal being for folks to be comfortable, have fun, and feel safe. Now their anniversary party is coming up with a very special dedication and we had a chance to chat with Miss Mortis all about it!

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Watch Over Us [INDIE FILM REVIEW]
Aug10

Watch Over Us [INDIE FILM REVIEW]

John Randall is a single, unemployed father living with his two daughters, Becca and Eliza, at his father’s house. As if tension between him and his daughters wasn’t enough, there are strange events that keep happening around the house and family barn.

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Friday the 13th [EP REVIEW]
Jun30

Friday the 13th [EP REVIEW]

Just days before the announcement that the original Misfits would be reuniting, on Friday the 13th last month The Misfits also announced the release of a new EP entitled Friday the 13th. The music is performed by the current lineup.

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Born to Game: Day 2 of Gen Con 2015 [ARTICLE/EVENT]
Jun15

Born to Game: Day 2 of Gen Con 2015 [ARTICLE/EVENT]

Chatting with Ben Loomes was refreshing, as his desire for improving the storytelling landscape around him was one I could totally understand. As a roleplayer himself, he found real world campaigns lacked the auditory elements found in video games and set about to change that. Using a complex sample based program (so that every type of sound can have random components) with reverb options (so you can have sounds happening in different qualitative environments, from open plains to confined caverns), he created a series of sound effects and music scores that can be triggered by your smartphone

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Pi Day Die Day [INDIE FILM REVIEW]
Jun11

Pi Day Die Day [INDIE FILM REVIEW]

On March 14, Pi Day, a serial killer is on the loose in the small town of Euclid Falls. The students of Euclid High fear for their lives as their classmates disappear, falling victim to this elusive murderer. With the help of Euclid High’s math teacher, Mr. Douglas, Detectives Mahoney and Beecher find clues to solve this circle of bloodshed.

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Born to Game: Day 1 of Gen Con 2015  [EXTENDED ARTICLE]
Jun08

Born to Game: Day 1 of Gen Con 2015 [EXTENDED ARTICLE]

Gen Con has the distinction of being the largest table top gaming Convention in North America, with a focus on board games, pen-and-paper, card games, and anything related to games that are not primarily played in the digital realm. (This doesn’t mean that there aren’t some cool tabletop games that take advantage of technology in their gameplay, but the technology isn’t required for the playing of most of the games.)

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