This just in from the depths of Youtube: Bay Area blackened crust outfit ColdClaw has released a new video for “The Deafening,” off their upcoming album Anti-Martyr: Decades to Suffer. The album will be out this Friday, September 27th through Ritual Sound Recordings, available for preorder here. The video takes inspiration from horror films, featuring a busty… Continue reading AltCtrlToob Video Roundup: ColdClaw, Mourn the Light, and More
Listening Lately: Monolord, Dialith, Howling Giant, and The Connecticut Metal Coalition
This edition of Listening Lately is brought to you by the half an hour before my laundry comes out of the drier. September has been a fruitful harvest of music coming across my path… Yesterday, Monolord released their album No Comfort via Relapse Records. I had never listened to this Swedish trio, but every stoner/doom… Continue reading Listening Lately: Monolord, Dialith, Howling Giant, and The Connecticut Metal Coalition
Exclusive Track Premiere: “Pandaemonium” by HER DESPAIR
There’s a lot to be gloomy about in 2019, and here to provide the soundtrack to these grim and desperate times are Her Despair. Taking their inspirations from the heyday of goth rock, the UK sextet bring these up to the modern era with their own twist. After an exceptionally successful EP entitled Mournography, they… Continue reading Exclusive Track Premiere: “Pandaemonium” by HER DESPAIR
Why Are You Doing This? A Chat with Connecticut Metal Coalition Founder and Apostasy Frontman Ryan Early
If you’re looking for unbiased journalism, this is not it. Ryan Early’s band Apostasy has been active in the Connecticut metal scene for roughly as long as I’ve been paying attention and we’ve occasionally shared a lineup. Now Early has started a group called the Connecticut Metal Coalition, of which I am a part. But… Continue reading Why Are You Doing This? A Chat with Connecticut Metal Coalition Founder and Apostasy Frontman Ryan Early
Money Hacks for Metalheads and Old Millennials: The Skeksis are Scamming Us, and Other Thoughts
A few thoughts I’ve had while writing these money columns (and forever): The System is not designed for us to beat. The regular people are like the naive Gelflings in Netflix’s Dark Crystal prequel series, going about our lives in ignorance of what’s really happening inside the castle. The corporations, the mortgage company, the car dealership,… Continue reading Money Hacks for Metalheads and Old Millennials: The Skeksis are Scamming Us, and Other Thoughts
NERD TALK with FOREVER AUTUMN
Greetings friends, this is Autumn Ni Dubhghaill from Forever Autumn. I have been asked to contribute my favourite video game, book, and movie to Alternative Control’s “nerd talk.” It’s a great idea and I jumped at the chance though now I find myself at odds. How can one choose one favourite for any of the above… Continue reading NERD TALK with FOREVER AUTUMN
AltCtrlToob Video Premiere: “Spit of Stars” by GHOST:HELLO
Our friends in Ghost:Hello are always pushing the creative envelope. Check out their latest endeavor, an animated music video for their song “Spit of Stars.” Inspired by Lovecraft and the Tibetan Book of the Dead, a mysterious artist known as Stonino made the animation — and also contributes the Italian narration of Dante’s Inferno in the middle of… Continue reading AltCtrlToob Video Premiere: “Spit of Stars” by GHOST:HELLO