Lisa Burke, Author at Cryptic Rock

Dolly Parton – Pure & Simple (Album Review)

Lisa BurkeLisa BurkeSeptember 15, 2016

Country, Pop, and Bluegrass star Dolly Parton has achieved countless accomplishments, including but far from limited to, putting out forty-three albums over an impressive forty-nine years or so. At seventy years of age, Parton is still going strong, and with her highly regarded knack for ... Read More

Skeletonwitch – The Apothic Gloom (Album Review)

Lisa BurkeLisa BurkeAugust 26, 2016

Out of the depths of Ohio comes a unique band with a knack for mixing Thrash with blackened, yet melodic Death Metal leanings by the name of Skeletonwitch. In the game for over a decade now, they most recently sustained a big lineup change with ... Read More

Black Tape For A Blue Girl – These Fleeting Moments (Album Review)

Lisa BurkeLisa BurkeAugust 23, 2016

Thirty years ago, back in the times when an abundance of synth bands were thriving with their wacky, colorful, and catchy MTV videos, a sub-genre called Dark Wave was emerging. Around that same time, a group by the name of Black Tape for a Blue ... Read More

Heart – Beautiful Broken (Album Review)

Lisa BurkeLisa BurkeAugust 10, 2016

Female fronted Rock-n-Roll bands have been making history for many years now with influential acts such as Janis Joplin, Fleetwood Mac, Joan Jett, and Pat Benatar, just to name a few. Although, one could not mention pioneering female rockers without speaking of Canada’s Heart, which ... Read More

Ringworm – Snake Church (Album Review)

Lisa BurkeLisa BurkeJuly 29, 2016

An interesting aspect of many Heavy Metal bands is, once a large body of work has been established, certain albums attain significance in a listener’s mind. This is while other pieces of work may simply fade away until a brand new album is released. That ... Read More

Doro – Strong and Proud (Album Review)

Lisa BurkeLisa BurkeJuly 19, 2016

Wacken Open Air has been on the forefront as one of the largest Heavy Metal festivals in Germany, Europe, and even the world. Many well-known and upcoming Heavy Metal and Hard Rock artists have passed through this festival at one time or another and had ... Read More

Lisa Burke

Dolly Parton – Pure & Simple (Album Review)

Skeletonwitch – The Apothic Gloom (Album Review)

Black Tape For A Blue Girl – These Fleeting Moments (Album Review)

Heart – Beautiful Broken (Album Review)

Ringworm – Snake Church (Album Review)

Doro – Strong and Proud (Album Review)

Dolly Parton – Pure & Simple (Album Review)

Skeletonwitch – The Apothic Gloom (Album Review)

Black Tape For A Blue Girl – These Fleeting Moments (Album Review)

Heart – Beautiful Broken (Album Review)

Ringworm – Snake Church (Album Review)

Doro – Strong and Proud (Album Review)

This Week in Horror Movie History – Flowers in the Attic (1987)

This Week in Horror Movie History – Creepshow (1982)

This Week in Horror Movie History – Strangeland (1998)

Interview – Skott

Interview – Devil’s Dildo

Interview – Joanna Cassidy

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (Movie Review)

The Deserving (Movie Review)

Tarot (Movie Review)