Category: Interview
HIMUKALT transgresses into depravity to reveal traumatic truths
The future is now. We are living in the epoch that past generations and science fiction authors have speculated on with hope and wonder, only ours is lacking the gloss of sentimentality and narrative structure. …
ANTEDILUVIAN elevate & defile through “The Divine Punishment”
Sex and violence — Two foundational aspects of human nature that are as inseparable to us as the flesh we wear. No matter how we might ascend to higher planes of civility, the seeds remain, …
SCUM DIVISION rises from the roiling black filth
Festering in Western Canada’s underground, the vile collective known as Scum Division conspires its next move. Volley after volley of ugly, nihilistic, non-music rages forth from this addled assembly of lunatics. Their outputs feels like …
ELIJAH TAMU reveals his rare & unique methodology of worship – Part 2
In an additional twist, we revealed the first part of Elijah Tamu’s massive interview on Walpurgisnacht earlier this year. The artist was kind enough indulge us with a multiple page correspondence that revealed much of …
LEOPARD MOTH summons forth breathtaking nightmares of the flesh
If ever we needed to argue the flawed and often deeply erroneous nature of our own species, apart from any religious or metaphysical pretext, a telling avenue of discussion is our own relationships with the …
ELIJAH TAMU delivers a sermon enlightening his antithetical Orthodox art – Part 1
The notion of contrast is a foundational element to all that is substantial. The negative space begets the bodies alive within it, and the darkness of void only makes the light held inside shine that …
LESLY PIERRE PAUL brings a New Vision to contemporary Haitian spiritual art
Lesly Pierre Paul was born in 1990 in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. For a bit more than a decade, he has pursued the arts and carved out a name for himself as a prolific painter, focusing heavily …
ATRÆ BILIS achieve divine nihility in the pursuit of understanding
Sitting down with Atræ Bilis’ David Stepanavicius and Luka Govednik, one gets an undeniable feeling of synchronicity between the two. Both have a very deliberate way of speaking, and gentle manner about them that feels …
SPELL channels the mysteries of the heart & dreamscape
As much as we think we know of the inner machinations of existence, the greater truths yet elude us, and we can only grasp and wonder at what logic, if any, directs those strange and …
BLOOD AND SUN rises up again in the name of Love
Luke Tromiczak is a name that exists in hushed tones on the fringes of the underground in one of the least celebrated, but most vibrant musical countercultures in North America. Meanwhile, he has become one …