March, 2016

• 3 March

  Seattle Sounds: New Years Day

  

  I had the pleasure of opening for New Years Day and the Birthday Massacre with my band Murder Weapons in Seattle at the end of 2014. I was pleasantly surprised at the charisma and talent of New Year’s Day. Their music appealed to Metal/Gothic and Industrial fans and their humility …

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• 3 March

  Seattle Sounds: Interview with Guitarist, Steve White from KMFDM

  

  KMFDM is still today, one of the front running Industrial-Metal acts, formed in 1984 by Sascha Konietzko in Hamburg, Germany. Since then, KMFDM has performed in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. KMFDM’s earliest performances were as a local act in Hamburg. Their first major tour was in support of …

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• 2 March

  Seattle Scene Report: 10 Questions with Lacuna Coil

  

  I had the honor to meet Andrea Ferro and Cristina Scabbia and chat with Andrea of Lacuna Coil at El Corazon Seattle in late 2014. We chatted about the tour, album and where they are heading, as a band. It was a great pleasure to hear the Lacuna Coil story …

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• 2 March

  Tears in the Rain: A Look Back at Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner

  

  We are only four years away from 2019, also known as the year of the world of Blade Runner, and we are nowhere near the nightmarish dystopia that director Ridley Scott envisioned on the big screen. Scott’s Los Angeles is a grim and wet metropolis, teeming with larger-than life advertisements, …

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• 2 March

  Heroes United Against Cosplay Bullying

  

  Bullies love to target anyone who looks or acts different from the norm. As such, cosplayers are not immune to harassment and humiliation from outsiders and even fellow cosplayers with rigid standards on proper cosplay. Cosplayer and costume/prop maker JezzabellGem decided that she needed to do something about the negativity …

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• 2 March

  Aurelio Voltaire

  

  Versatility and devilish charm come to mind when thinking about musician, animator, writer and top hat wearer Aurelio Voltaire. His music takes you straight to a Victorian graveyard where skeletons play the violin and zombies are a roaring good time. Voltaire’s sound defies classification, ranging from dark cabaret to gothic …

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• 2 March

  Strega Fashion

  

  Once upon a time, alternative subcultures thrived underground. They arose from nebulous origins in backstreet clubs, each enthusiast crediting a different journalist, a different band, with starting it all. Now we live in the age of social media, and whilst some in the alternative scenes remain offline, enjoying the mystery …

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• 2 March

  14 Inspirations for Steampunk

  

  Wild Wild West (1999) – A classic that is a fantastic and imaginative movie. It acts as a true foundation of what Steampunk can be in wild western civilization. With plenty of fun to be had between the characters and their gadgets and gizmos, Wild Wild West is a joyride. …

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February, 2016

• 29 February

  A Tribute to the Master of Eldritch Horror

  

  On the morning of March 15, 1937, Howard Phillips Lovecraft succumbed to intestinal cancer, dying in a manner similar to the way he had lived most of his short life of forty-six and a half years, quietly and alone. He was buried several days later in the family plot at …

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• 24 February

  Van Helsing: Why We Can’t Have a Nice Universal Monsters Reboot

  

  The 00’s were full of horror films that weren’t exactly horror films, but were instead a valiant effort at pretending to be horror films because of the inclusion of characters based in horror mythology. Van Helsing is a painful addition to this group; I say painful here due to that …

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