Author: Alex de Borba
Alex de Borba
Bogotá, Colombia
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Grimoire Academy’s Gothic Market Returns to Escondido
Grimoire Academy’s Gothic Market sets up at the California Center for the Arts with tarot tables, bone art, and vampire-and-witch-themed…
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Fen Returns to Roots on ‘Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth’
Fen’s eighth album opens a two-album cycle rooted in East Anglia’s drained fens, carrying atmospheric black metal beyond its native…
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On ‘Maanaääri,’ Noumena Reckons with Finland’s Great Wrath
Noumena’s seventh album sets Finland’s Great Wrath to melody, testing what a specific national wound demands of a genre built…
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Mad Cave Sends Plague Doctors Into ‘Lazarus Order’
Mad Cave Studios launches an eight-issue medieval horror series casting oath-bound plague doctors against monstrous transformation.
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Shabti Send Servants on ‘Haze, Cacophony, and White Light’
A Portland trio, settled after nearly two decades of lineup change, turns an Egyptian funerary practice into a warning about…
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Fejd Chart a Colder Corner of Norse Myth on ‘Nifelheim’
On their fifth full-length, Sweden’s Fejd set Old Norse cosmology’s coldest primordial realm against a folk metal culture already primed…
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Jotungrav Root Their Debut ‘Elegi’ in Norse Rebirth
Jotungrav’s debut album turns Norse myth into a four-song elegy on loss and rebirth, extending a documented tradition with reach.
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The Oddities & Curiosities Expo Trades What the Mütter Keeps
A traveling market of taxidermy and preserved oddities lands roughly twenty-five miles from a much older kind of collection.
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Amarilla Draws Children Only Slightly Wicked
In conversation, illustrator Amarilla discusses morally gray children and meeting readers face to face for the first time.
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IDW’s ‘Witches of the Western Wood’ Turns Bloody
IDW Dark’s fourth issue turns inherited witchcraft into open violence, tightening the countdown to the Headless Horseman’s first ride.
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Occult Master Confront Leprosy’s Exile on ‘Occult Master’
The Oulu trio’s debut turns a leprosy narrative into progressive doom, already reaching international metal press ahead of release.
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Del Sandeen Returns to Savannah in ‘These Walls Remember’
Berkley publishes Del Sandeen’s second novel on August 18th, a Savannah house where undealt-with history becomes the antagonist itself.
