This week Monday Magick makes its first foray into the Hip-Hop genre with a track from Wu-Tang Clan affiliates Sunz of Man and Killarmy. The track, “Soldiers of Darkness”, was only released as a single via the RZA’s independent Wu-Tang Records label in 1995 with “5 Arch Angels” featuring Shabazz[…]
My favorite purveyors of Illuminist Disco Punk, YACHT, delve deep into the vault of vocoder Funk on their spaced out & sexy new jam “Works Like Magic”. “Works Like Magic”, which should work magic on dance floors and roller rinks, is from their forthcoming ‘Where Does This Disco?’ EP, out[…]
I really got a kick out of the feel-good conspiratorial nature of the underlying story in the video for “Dreamy Bruises” by North Carolina lo-fi Electro-Pop duo Sylvan Esso. I checked it out on a whim based on the weird connotations that arose around the song’s title in my mind[…]
Like I mentioned in the Jack Parsons post, I spend most Autumns on the hunt for attractions around “Haunted New England”. Back in the day this included local “Haunted Houses” put on at various locations across the region which I attended with glee in my younger years. They’ve become less,[…]
I was more than a little entertained by the inventive 2012 found-footage horror anthology ‘V/H/S’. The 2013 follow-up, ‘V/H/S/2’, on the other hand seemed a bit slow-moving and didn’t hold my attention quite as well. The red-band trailer for the third installment, ‘V/H/S: Viral’, makes it look like it might[…]
Every year around this time my appetite for all things supernatural increases to a staggering degree. In search of spooky shit that happens to be close to me geographically I usually resort to Google searches for terms like “occult”, “spooky”, and “haunted”, affixed to various nearby locales. Sadly, I rarely[…]
This week’s Monday Magick comes courtesy of no less a purveyor of occult-inspired Rock than the grandaddies of Heavy Metal themselves, Black Sabbath. The song, “Behind the Wall of Sleep”, took its name from a short story by the creator of the Cthulhu Mythos himself, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, and appeared[…]
Apparently it’s been available On Demand for about a month now, and even got a short theatrical run earlier this month, but I only just now caught wind of IFC Midnight’s ‘At the Devil’s Door’. The trailer caught my attention by focusing on story, and then trowing the creepy right[…]
A young card-sharp travels through time & space in an effort to defeat Old Scratch at his own game in the new video for “Jonathan”, the booming new single from Aesop Rock & Rob Sonic’s collaborative effort Hail Mary Mallon. “Jonathan” is the first single from Hail Mary Mallon’s forthcoming[…]
With his new Kenny Segal-produced single “Eat Rich” and its Brent Weinbach-directed video Busdriver continues to be one of the most challenging wordsmiths in Hip-Hop while maintaining an equal amount of creativity in the visual presentation of his music. “Eat Rich” is the fourth single from the Good Life/Project Blowed/Hellfyre[…]
It was only a matter of time before a Monday Magick entry focused on one of the most important, and most original, Illuminist/Gnostic philosophers to ever grace the music industry, electronic alchemist Bruce Haack. His 1969 Columbia Records LP ‘The Electric Lucifer’ was one of the boldest statements, both musically[…]
Gareth Edwards parlayed his work on the DIY Sci-Fi/Horror flick ‘Monsters’ into gigs directing the recent ‘Godzilla’ reboot and an upcoming ‘Star Wars’ spinoff. His approach was markedly subtle, opting to keep the monsters hidden for most of the film in an effort to build suspense before the “big reveal”.[…]
