It shouldn’t come as a surprise to regular readers of this website to see me admit that my infrequently updated Monday Magick columns are often a laboratory for my own personal brand of high weirdness in one way or another. Weird music. Weird musicians. Weird musings on unquestionably weird subject matter.[…]
How did this trailer for the upcoming ‘Call of Cthulhu’ video game based on H.P. Lovecraft’s Gothic horror classic of the same name and the attendant Cthulhu Mythos which has developed around his brand of cosmic horror get me out of the existential funk I’ve been in enough to actually[…]
After taking last week off Monday Magick is back and it’s darker, harder, and heavier than ever! How so, you may ask? Well, this week we’re featuring “Dunwich”, a decidedly sludgy bit of Lovecraftian Rock by British Stoner/Doom Metal quartet Electric Wizard from their 2007 LP ‘Witchcult Today’! Longtime readers[…]
“I be on those chemicals… She be on my testicles… Poke her with my tentacle… Then put her on my schedule…” I’m a lazy fuck who hasn’t listened to anything but “Really Doe”, a brand new track from Detroit emcee Danny Brown featuring Ab-Soul, Kendrick Lamar, and Earl Sweatshirt, all[…]
Teepublic, one of several purveyors of a multitude of screen-print ephemera is having a big Back to School sale right now so I took the opportunity to load up on relatively cheap t-shirts. I copped Yo Cult by obinsun, Wu-Tang Cthulhu by Melonseta, Ritual by JacobCharlesDietz, Stranger Kids by erobriant,[…]
I will be the first to admit that the occult bona-fides of this week’s Monday Magick entry are questionable at best. But let me explain why I chose to feature “Eye in the Sky” from UK-based Prog-Rockers The Alan Parsons Project’s 1982 LP of the same name before you go[…]
We’re keeping the vibes mellow yet mysterious again for this week’s Monday Magick entry. “In the Morning of the Magicians” comes from one of the best Pop/Rock albums of our modern era, The Flaming Lips’ 2002 sci-fi-themed electro-psychedelic opus ‘Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots’. The lyrics leave a lot of[…]
This week’s Monday Magick entry, “Shake a Fist” by Hot Chip, is one of those tricky songs that isn’t supposed to be about magick or the occult but sure as hell sounds like it is. The tune comes from the London-based five-man Indie Dance act’s third LP ‘Made in The[…]
Over the last few months I’ve become more and more fascinated by investigator and author Walter Bosley and his ‘Empire of the Wheel’ series which focuses on the high weirdness of California’s so-called Inland Empire. I happen to have been born in the area and spent time in several of[…]
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[…]
Our Labor Day candidate for Monday Magick, “Dark Horse” by Katy Perry featuring former Three 6 Mafia frontman Juicy J, is probably a surprise to some. But I totally meant to share this video when it debuted several month ago. After all, there’s a whole YouTube cottage industry of conspiracy[…]
This week’s Monday Magick entry echoes out of eternity from 1971 London, England where four piece Blues Rock band Egg, formerly known as Uriel, took up the pseudonym Arzachel to record an experimental, and eldritch, psychedelic album. The self-titled LP, released by the little known Evolution label, didn’t exactly set[…]
