Author: Alex de Borba
Alex de Borba
Bogotá, Colombia
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NecronomiCon Providence Walks Lovecraft’s Own Streets
Providence’s biennial weird fiction convention returns to the city Lovecraft mythologized, running August 13th through 16th, 2026.
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Unified Confront a ‘Devouring Plague of Mediocrity’
A Bogotá band formed in 2024 answers the city’s brutal death metal inheritance with a debut about ritual, fear and…
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Jennifer McMahon’s ‘Stay Buried’ Reopens a Vermont Plague
Gallery Books publishes McMahon’s 13th novel, a dual-timeline folk horror rooting a Vermont outbreak in inherited quarantine customs.
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Soulgrind Emerges from Tuonela in ‘Ad Pulchram Mortem’
Fifteen years after ‘The Tuoni Pathway,’ Soulgrind returns with a record steeped in Tuonela’s mythology, reaching beyond Finland’s gothic scene.
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A Private Collection Becomes a Chamber of Horrors in Alton
Troy Taylor’s August 14th fundraiser previews Alton’s new Chamber of Horrors, testing whether one collector’s archive can carry a public…
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Death. Void. Terror. Reemerge in ‘To the Great Monolith 2.5’
The anonymous Swiss project’s first release since 2020 lands on cassette only, its ritual concept rooted in trance practices older…
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Mass Minor Chases Doubt Toward ‘Beyond the Edge of Reason’
The Austin project follows a confessional single into a November album, carrying a regional dark-music lineage onto international stages.
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Infest Tests Its Manchester Foothold for a Second Year
The UK’s longest-running dark-electronic festival returns to Manchester Academy, with IAMX headlining and Utah Saints in an Infest debut.
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Zyklon and the Machine Inside Norwegian Black Metal
Zyklon lasted three albums and nine years, and converted exhausted black metal vocabulary into merciless striking warfare.
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M’era Luna Turns 26 on the Hildesheim Airfield
M’era Luna returns to the Hildesheim airfield for a twenty-sixth edition anchored by Lacrimosa, Within Temptation, and In Extremo.
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Hulder Turns Its Solo Ritual Into a Duet on ‘Verbolgen’
Hulder’s ‘Verbolgen’ turns a decade of solo ritual into a duo, carrying trilingual pre-Christian themes beyond the scene that shaped…
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Riley Sager’s ‘The Unknown’ Reopens a Vermont Vanishing
Dutton publishes ‘The Unknown’ on August 4th, sending a film production into New Avalon’s century-old Vermont disappearance for Sager’s novel.
