This year was my first year with Black Friday off in 9 years. You would think I would have liked to spend it the right way, by missing it completely due to 24 hour Thanksgiving food coma. But me being the glutton for punishment, I decided to spend it the traditional way. I got up… Continue reading Two Music Geeks Enroll in Red Scroll
Author: Christopher Baldwin
A How To on Music Nerdom: Part 1
Hi, everybody! I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Peter Progger, and I sure love progressive rock music. It really is the best music ever, and is clearly better than like, 90 percent of music out there. Not a lot of people realize that fact, and I’m here at Alternative Control to educate people… Continue reading A How To on Music Nerdom: Part 1
The Cape of Death
A short piece from an upcoming collection tentatively titled Violas and Violets. The phenomenon weeps in the city by the water. A veil; a blackness overtakes them all. Shadows blotch the streets, every window is eclipsed. Every face drapes in the burden. Every single skin withers in the last moments of this detrimental living.… Continue reading The Cape of Death
Surgical Precision – A Review of Carcass’ Surgical Steel
For me, listening to a new metal album is a comforting experience. When I turn it on, I can pretty much guess at what I’m going to hear. I’ve been listening to this music for so long, that I feel like I’ve heard it all. For me, almost everything the genre offers seems like a… Continue reading Surgical Precision – A Review of Carcass’ Surgical Steel
Surreal Fruits and Flavors: A Preview of Le Li
So, how the hell do I promote a book that I wrote without sounding like a douche? By saying as little about it as possible and allowing our fine (and probably incredibly handsome) Alternative Control readers make up their own minds on whether this stuff connects with them or not. I’ll provide this short introduction… Continue reading Surreal Fruits and Flavors: A Preview of Le Li
No Absence of Passion – A Review of Misery Signals’ Absent Light and Interview with Guitarist Greg Thomas
Misery Signals is a stand-out band for me, and a bit of an enigma in my music collection. I really don’t find myself listening to their brand of metal that much, but I have a special appreciation for what they do. Let’s face it, the metalcore sound has been beat to death, with most of… Continue reading No Absence of Passion – A Review of Misery Signals’ Absent Light and Interview with Guitarist Greg Thomas
Selection from Night of the Black Rainbow
This is a chapter from an upcoming collection titled Night of the Black Rainbow. It’s a series of micro-stories linked thematically by a sci-fi fantasy concept dealing with the apocalypse. An anomaly appears in the sky as a huge vacuum-black arch, instilling terror, panic and hysteria in the populace. Supernatural events occur, and this… Continue reading Selection from Night of the Black Rainbow