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Colombia
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Bogotá Horror Film Festival at Eight Holds the Cinemateca
Founded in 2018, Bogotá Horror Film Festival opens international submissions for its eighth edition, October…
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Argovia Launches ‘Primal Repetition’ Through Intimacy at Hall 74
The Bogotá progressive quartet presented their second album at Hall 74 the day after its…
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Storm of Darkness Take Capital Live Concerts This March
On March 27, Storm of Darkness occupy Capital Live Concerts with 17 years of anti-religious…
Voices
Discourses
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Ellaya Yefymova: Processing Trauma Through Art and ‘Memento Vivere’
Ukrainian artist Ellaya Yefymova discusses her philosophical shift from “remember death” to “remember to live,”…
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Herejía: A Symphonic Covenant from the Edge of the Abyss
The Colombian metal institution releases ‘In Nomine Obscuritatis,’ a posthumous fulfillment of its founder’s vision…
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Aaron Sadrin: Heartlay and the Archaeology of the Self
With the new album ‘The Alteration,’ Heartlay’s Aaron Sadrin moves beyond genre to pursue a…
Critique
Records
Visual
Expressions
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Nadezda’s ‘Hopscotch’ Holds More Than the Play Admits
At Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco, Nadezda’s ‘Hopscotch’ is a mini-collection testing whether spontaneity…
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‘Dark Secrets’ Has the Hammer, While ‘Witches’ Has the Victims
‘Dark Secrets’ in London and ‘Witches’ in Nantes engage the book that authorized mass executions.…
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The Museum Receives Carrington, Hammershøi, and Meatyard
Three exhibitions in Paris, Madrid, and Atlanta reframe darkness — surrealist, symbolist, and American vernacular…
Gatherings
Conventions
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ParaPsyCon Se7en and the Prison That Refuses to Release
Seven consecutive years inside the Ohio State Reformatory have made ParaPsyCon the paranormal convention circuit’s…
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Oddities & Curiosities Expo at Baird Center in April
The Oddities & Curiosities Expo arrives at Milwaukee’s Baird Center on April 4 and 5…
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The Oddities Flea Market Brings History to San Diego in April
The Oddities Flea Market brings scholars, silversmiths, and collectors of the death-adjacent to JULEP Venue…
Festival
AExpo
A comprehensive exploration of the contemporary vanguard, uniting art, film, literature, fashion, music and technology.
The festival’s program of exhibitions, conferences, workshops, and performances is dedicated to the gothic and the surreal, all driven by a core mission of social responsibility.
Live
Events
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Bogotá Horror Film Festival at Eight Holds the Cinemateca
Founded in 2018, Bogotá Horror Film Festival opens international submissions for its eighth edition, October…
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Nadezda’s ‘Hopscotch’ Holds More Than the Play Admits
At Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco, Nadezda’s ‘Hopscotch’ is a mini-collection testing whether spontaneity…
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ParaPsyCon Se7en and the Prison That Refuses to Release
Seven consecutive years inside the Ohio State Reformatory have made ParaPsyCon the paranormal convention circuit’s…
Archives
History
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Eternal Tears of Sorrow: The Final Chapter of a Melodic Death Metal Legacy
Finnish melodic death metal pioneers Eternal Tears of Sorrow have officially announced their disbandment, bringing…
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Anorexia Nervosa: Reflecting on Their Impact and Influence in Black Metal’s Evolution
Anorexia Nervosa’s innovative fusion of classical grandeur and black metal ferocity inaugurates The Vault. This…
Society
Culture
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Elegance in Darkness: The Dark Allure of Morticia Addams in Gothic Culture
Morticia Addams embodies gothic elegance, turning beauty and darkness into art through her flowing black…
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Faithful Monstrosities: The Grotesque Visions of New Gothic Art
New Gothic Art revives the Gothic era’s interplay of divine grandeur and macabre distortions. From…
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The Supernatural in Victorian Mourning Practices: Ghosts, Seances, and the Cult of Death
Victorian mourning rituals merged grief with supernatural beliefs, reflecting a society grappling with mortality and…
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Dimmu Borgir Settle a Debt With ‘Ulvgjeld & Blodsodel’
Eight years of silence end with a single that foregrounds ancestral Norse debt and bloodlines,…
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Moonspell Summon the Tragic Vampire Back in ‘Far From God’
Five years after ‘Hermitage,’ Portugal’s Moonspell return with a music video soaked in vampiric tragedy…
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‘Corazón de Cristal’ Finds Perros de Reserva in New Jersey
On their third album, Medellín’s gothic underground crosses a continent — and the distance is…
Featured
Releases
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Heike Langhans Turns Inward on LOR3L3I’s ‘Peace by Proxy’
Heike Langhans’s debut album as LOR3L3I arrives as a dark electronic solo statement from Dunedin…
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Mortiis Goes Where No Era Has Gone on ‘Ghosts of Europa’
Mortiis’s ‘Ghosts of Europa’ arrives June 26th on Prophecy Productions: an electronic rock record from…
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Angellore Pour Nine Years Into Five Songs on ‘Nocturnes’
‘Nocturnes’ arrives six years after ‘Rien Ne Devait Mourir,’ announced by two singles that place…
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‘She Made Herself a Monster’ Trades Ambiguity for Allegory
Anna Kovatcheva’s debut sets a con artist loose in nineteenth-century Bulgaria, but the novel’s refusal…
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Arcturus: When the Circus Came to Hell and the Grand Heresy of ‘La Masquerade Infernale’
In 1997, at the height of Norwegian black metal’s notoriety, the band Arcturus released an…
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Cacophonous Records: The Devil’s Bargain that Made Metal Weird, and Paid the Price
The story of Cacophonous Records is a parable of art versus commerce. It shows how…
Press
Blogs
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Why Developers Keep Reaching for Builders Over Block Themes
Developers favor builders for undisclosed affiliate revenue. Block themes now match builder design systems through…
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Static Sites and Vibe Coding Are Not a Client Strategy
Static generators and vibe-coded websites do not satisfy the security, accessibility, and maintainability obligations that…
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FluentCart: Cutting Through Complexity with Self-Hosted E-Commerce by WordPress Ninjas
FluentCart is a new self-hosted e-commerce plugin by WPManageNinja, designed for WordPress users who value…
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Hilde Nymoen’s ‘Syner’ Documents Khold’s Norwegian Verse
Harg Forlag Publishing releases ‘Syner,’ collecting all of Khold’s lyric poetry from Hildr Nymoen, with…
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When the Page Goes Dark in ‘Uri Tupka and the Devils’
Mike Mignola’s third ‘Lands Unknown’ graphic novel arrives November, sending a heretic theologian into a…
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‘Universal Monsters: The Phantom of the Opera’ Kills First
Boss and Simmonds’ Impressionist approach to Gaston Leroux’s Phantom reveals a murderous ghost story underneath…
Identity
Lifestyle
Modifications
Corporeal
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Tattooing, Tattoo Collectors and Tattooists as Deviants
This article looks at two groups within the most elite realm of tattooing, tattoo collectors…
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Is Inscribing the Body a Modern Anthropological Attraction?
From anthropological curiosity to fairground attraction, sub-cultural marking to a fashion statement, tattoos have been…
Explorations
Tourism
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At Père Lachaise, the Murdered Dead Precede the Famous Ones
Napoleon’s secular death invention and the 1871 Commune massacre gave Père Lachaise, Paris, two dark…
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What Dark Travelers Miss When Dracula Is All They Know of Transylvania
Five centuries of frontier war and mass death produced in Transylvania not a vampire legend…
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Romanian Vampiric Dark Tourism Characteristics
After the fall of communism in Romania, the number of foreign tourists in search of…
Brands