Frank Frazetta, an illustrator whose vivid paintings conjured up epic fantasy worlds of heroes fighting horrible beasts with swords and battle axes, died on Monday in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 82. His death, caused by a stroke was confirmed by Frazetta’s agent Robert Pistella, who stated that the artist passed away this afternoon in a [...]

By Herlaka Rose Give a brief history on your start as an author. I’ve been writing since a very young age. When I was younger, I would watch a (Horror, of course) film and just kind of re-write it in a shorter, summed up version. I can’t draw worth a shit, but when I was [...]

By Greg Maupin Greetings, Many thanks and much respect for doing this interview, lets jump into the fire! How did Ater come into existence? Ater came out during 2005 with the intention of crafting some good raw and fast black metal; after a couple of years we started to improve our lineup and songs, with [...]

Demented depravity from the mind of a clinically insane pedophile, are the themes that surround Verkrag’s first full length album, “13 Victims.” Self imposing and debuting the genre of ‘psychotic-black metal,’ the albums ominous ambience to steady tremolo guitar playing, high shrieked vocals, and obvious programmed percussion, are the only aspects that truly stand alone as black metal. Straight [...]

It’s refreshing to hear some brutal death metal from our Asian metal brothers. These guys can give these new crops of death metal bands a run for their money. Singapore’s Vulgate Dogmas are talented and it’s a major injustice that this band isn’t signed yet. What I enjoyed about “The Lies in Between” is the [...]

Sweden’s Svarti Loghin’s second album originally started out as an idea and vision by guitarist and singer S.L. in 2005. It eventually bloomed into a full band. Although I haven’t heard their debut album, “Empty World,” hearing this cd a few times I felt I was sucked into another planet. I know most black metal purist probably [...]