Author: Alex de Borba
Alex de Borba
Bogotá, Colombia
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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 that carries her Draconian years…
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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 Norway that refuses to repeat…
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‘Heresy’ Places Pre-Christian Dutch Myth on Shudder
Didier Konings’s debut draws a medieval Dutch village toward the pre-Christian feminine mythology of the Witte Wieven, now streaming exclusively…
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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 duration and grief at the…
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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 and psychological precision can coexist.
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‘Whistle’ Debuts on Shudder with Its Aztec Curse Intact
Corin Hardy and Owen Egerton route a genuine Pre-Columbian ritual instrument through American high school horror, premiering on Shudder on…
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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 most coherent sustained experiment.
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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. The framing is irreconcilable.
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Pestilence Always Pulls the Cover, Never the Position
Pestilence has cancelled four covers across eight years — one plagiarized, three AI-generated — and publicly defended each original decision.
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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 pilgrimages that never fully reconcile.
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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 — as institutional inheritance.
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Dark Academia Is Gothic Fiction That Forgot Its Name
Forty-three dark academia titles in 2026 confirm what ‘The Secret History’ always knew: the mode’s Gothic core is structural, not…
