The year is 1987. Progressive horror author Clive Barker was nearing completion on his first feature as director, the cruel parable of cancerous, sado-masochistic love called HELLRAISER. Barker had enlisted underground Industrial duo Coil to provide a suitably sludgy and grinding musical accompaniment to his dark romance, but Coil soon called off their efforts over what was reportedly a mutual decision with Barker.

Lee’s Palace is a broom closet. Okay, maybe it was Tiger Stadium to me when I used to play live shows there in the 90’s to half filled rooms, but man, art rock kingpin Peter Murphy deserves a bigger boat…

On first listen, CHAOS OF FORMS, the new album from the Boston, Massachusetts band Revocation, is not dissimilar to what you think you’d hear if you took a crapload of your favorite old thrash-metal records, threw them in a sonic blender, crammed in a few death-metal tones and hit the “puree” button. Yet such a description goes nowhere near doing this band justice.

Psychobilly. It’s like the lovable hipster uncle of the punk rock family, sitting atop a stack of old Cramps records and watching old black-and-white monster mashes while talking your ear off about the warm analog appeal of a plucked upright double bass. Still, despite the accessible pop sensibility and distinctive fashion sense of the psychobilly phenomenon as a whole, it feels like the scene has stuttered into a bit of a slump lately. Now that psychobilly godfathers Nekromantix have cruised back into town with flattop haircuts intact and new album in hand, can they manage to refresh what many have dismissed has a hopelessly moribund musical style?

"Peter Hook and the Light" hit Toronto on Saturday, September 24rd with a solid, action-packed performance showcasing timeless tunes...

Fango recently received a bit of inside information that reports the Trioxin epidemic to be alive and well...on Long Island?!? Being a former longtime resident, I can tell you from experience that watching the New York Islanders lose on a daily basis and attending the annual Oyster Bay Oyster Festival aren’t all the glitz and glam they may appear to be from the outside. But fear not, fright fans, because a rotting, brain-hungry phoenix has recently risen from the ashes in the form of the Island’s own grind/metal/punk/zombie-core band, Warfear. Their fifth studio album, ADDICTED TO TRIOXIN, is composed of eight brutal tracks all lovingly dedicated to a film near and dear to every one of your putrid hearts, 1985’s RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD.

In its 14-year history, Midnight Syndicate—the collaborative musical project of Edward Douglas and Gavin Goszka—has become a touchstone of the ambient, Gothic and Halloween music markets. Indeed, what would your annual Halloween specialty shop be without a CD selection rack featuring most, if not all, of the duo’s previous CDs displayed prominently on its shelves?