Author: Alex de Borba
Alex de Borba
Bogotá, Colombia
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Masacre Opens for Bloodbath, NervoChaos at Lourdes Hall
Sweden’s death metal veterans debut in Colombia alongside Brazil’s NervoChaos, opened by Masacre, at Bogotá’s Lourdes Music Hall.
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Cărtărescu Joins the Twentieth Fiesta del Libro y la Cultura
As Mircea Cărtărescu joins its twentieth edition, Medellín treats gnostic dread as native reading territory, not imported genre.
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Carlos Garaicoa’s ‘Ciudad Armero’ Haunts Cali’s La Tertulia
Carlos Garaicoa’s ‘Ciudad Armero’ at Cali’s La Tertulia turns Armero’s ruins into bone, asking what memory owes the dead.
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Amsterdam Tattoo Convention Keeps Its Ritual Edge
At NDSM Loods, the 20th Amsterdam Tattoo Convention sets hand-tap traditions beside its competition circuit rather than inside it.
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Sigh Turns Nine Paintings of Decay Into ‘Goh-ka’
Sigh anchor ‘Goh-ka’ in Kusōzu, the Buddhist meditation on bodily decay, extending 2022’s ‘Shiki’ into a darker register.
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Javier Morales’s ‘J’avis sinistra’ Risks Ibagué’s Museo de Arte
In Ibagué, a regional museum stages folk demonology as art, testing whether naming a discredited belief risks reviving its authority.
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Green Carnation Concludes Trilogy in ‘The Messiah Complex’
Green Carnation completes its trilogy on September 4th, carrying Rimbaud’s Ophelia and Norway’s progressive metal into Europe.
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Enslaved Locate the Center of Everything on ‘Mið’
Norway’s Enslaved return with ‘Mið,’ a seventeenth album built on Old Norse cosmology and guest voices from Sápmi and the…
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Kamelot Turns a Fallen Cathedral Into ‘Dark Asylum’
Kamelot’s fourteenth album, ‘Dark Asylum,’ pairs a fictional Victorian asylum with real reform history and a tradition read well beyond…
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‘The Cutting Garden’ Turns a Funeral Into a Bouquet
Image Comics’ first Gothic original graphic novel pairs Darcy Van Poelgeest’s script with Erin Connally’s watercolors in a New Orleans…
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Beseech’s Erik Molarin Talks Reuniting on ‘Future. Present. Past.’
Vocalist Erik Molarin discusses reuniting with Lotta Höglin, the studio kinship behind the record, and returning to his Borås roots.
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Self-Deceiver Exchanges the River Styx for ‘Nihil’
Bogotá’s Self-Deceiver follows 2022’s ‘Across the Styx’ with ‘Nihil,’ a record that opens on the Norse god Baldr’s fatal dream.
