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Colombia
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Paradise Lost Remaster the Album That Named ‘Gothic’ Doom
Thirty-five years after ‘Gothic’ gave gothic doom its name, Peaceville returns the record remastered —…
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Kampfar Storms Ciudad Frecuencia in Medellín This May
Thirty years of Norwegian pagan darkness reach Colombia for the first time as Kampfar performs…
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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…
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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Haunted America Conference Returns to Alton’s Dead
America’s oldest established ghost conference convenes in a river town whose Civil War prison and…
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Kampfar Storms Ciudad Frecuencia in Medellín This May
Thirty years of Norwegian pagan darkness reach Colombia for the first time as Kampfar performs…
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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…
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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Argovia Made a Video of What No Audience Witnessed
For Bogotá’s Argovia, the video for ‘Unstoppable’ begins where their sold-out Hall 74 launch ended…
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Stars Lead the Dead to ‘Vyraj’ in Dymna Lotva’s ‘Zory’
Belarusian post-black metal act Dymna Lotva opens ‘Vyraj’ with a song written for souls in…
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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,…
Featured
Releases
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Mortem Rouse Norway’s Oldest Darkness on ‘Mørketid’
One of Norway’s earliest black metal bands answers its near-mythic 1989 demo with a second…
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Witchsorrow Keep the Faith on ‘The Devil And All His Works’
British doom trio Witchsorrow return after eight years with a record of total devotion, carrying…
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Forsmán Set Iceland Burning on ‘Brenndar Rústir & Fuðrandi Fjörur’
A debut full-length from a Kópavogur quartet carries Iceland’s old promise of fire and flood…
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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…
Screening
Cinema
Interactive
Gaming
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‘SAW: Genesis’ Goes Back Before Jigsaw Existed
‘SAW: Genesis’ marks the Saw franchise’s return to games after sixteen years, recast as a…
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‘Necrophosis: Full Consciousness’ Offers Playable Horror
Dragonis Games and PQube bring their weaponless first-person horror to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S,…
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‘Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss’ Demands the Mythos Prove Itself
Big Bad Wolf’s first-person Lovecraftian thriller opens its demo on Steam five days before an…
Readings
Bookshelf
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Dark Horse Sends the Chupacabra Into ‘Beast of Borikén’
Julio Anta and Daniel Irizarri reframe Latin America’s youngest monster as an ancient island protector…
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Skybound Sends ‘Blood of the Wolf Man’ into the Seventies
Skybound adds The Wolf Man to its Universal Monsters comics line in a four-issue werewolf…
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‘Hellraiser: Resurrections’ Opens Five Doors at BOOM!
BOOM! Studios returns to Clive Barker’s Cenobite mythology with five weekly one-shots in September, launching…
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