Author: Alex de Borba
Alex de Borba
Bogotá, Colombia
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Reading the Bandaged Figure on Anathema’s ‘Serenades’
Penprase’s sepia tableau turns a horse skull and wrapped body into a study of concealment that fronts a debut caught…
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Litosth Turn Golgotha Into an Indictment on ‘Dreaming’
Litosth’s fourth album turns Golgotha and Byzantine iconoclasm into a Brazilian argument against inherited faith and structured belief.
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Firtan Turn the Annihilating Light Inward on ‘Helios’
The German band’s fifth album binds Greek solar myth to Sanskrit philosophy, and reaches an international underground that hears it…
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Septon Scores the Open Wounds of Colombian History
An independent Barranquilla band grounds symphonic metal in Romantic and Impressionist repertoire, then aims it at Colombia’s historical wounds.
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Jen Julian’s ‘The Winter Folk’ Renews the Faustian Bargain
Run For It publishes Jen Julian’s second novel, an Appalachian folk horror that binds a one-wish contract to Scots-Irish and…
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Caelestia Reckon With the Dead on ‘Revelations In Black’
Caelestia binds Gothenburg melody to American death metal precision, carrying literature and wartime history to a global underground.
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Datlow’s ‘Lovecraft’s Brood’ Completes a Cosmic Duology
Ellen Datlow gathers 19 previously published cosmic horror stories for Tachyon Publications, closing the duology opened with ‘Lovecraft’s Monsters.’
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Faustian Trade Violence for Horror on ‘Parable of the Sewer’
An Australian death-metal supergroup reaches from Melbourne toward a Scandinavian black metal benchmark on its second full-length album.
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‘Dive or Die: Children of Rain’ Drowns the World in Dread
Drop Rate Studio follows ‘Wantless’ with a Lovecraftian underwater roguelite, sending survivors on deadly dives before a final Flood.
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FantasoFest Pairs Basque and Mexican Folk Horror in July
Bogotá’s Iberoamerican fantastic cinema returns to the Cinemateca from July 13th to 19th, opening with Paul Urkijo’s Basque folk horror…
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Sentenced and the Finnish Craft of a Chosen Farewell
The band from Muhos turned its own dissolution into a finished work, closing a sixteen-year account on melody, grief, and…
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Ambrotos Raise Constantinople’s Fall on ‘Atrocious Chants’
An Athens black metal project places the fall of Constantinople at the center of its most formally ambitious record yet.
