Nicholas Franco, Author at Cryptic Rock

Interview – Burton C. Bell of Fear Factory

Nicholas FrancoNicholas FrancoAugust 6, 2015

Fear Factory is currently celebrating their twenty-fifth year of existence, and though the journey has not always been smooth, the band has held the banner for mechanized, Industrial Heavy Metal high since they first emerged from their roots in Los Angeles, California. Through lineup changes ... Read More

Fear Factory – Demanufacture Patented For Two Decades

Nicholas FrancoNicholas FrancoJuly 9, 2015

Sometimes an album gets released and does very well, shifts a lot of copies, and winds up as a feather in that band’s particular cap for years to come. Other times, the album winds up encapsulating an era, heralds a trend, or sets a tone ... Read More

Sigh – Graveward (Album Review)

Nicholas FrancoNicholas FrancoJuly 2, 2015

Dating back to 1989, the band Sigh has existed on Metal’s periphery for twenty-six years, producing nine studio albums and four EP’s, all the while cementing and maintaining a world-class reputation among connoisseurs of the more avant garde sect of Heavy Metal’s varied bouquet. Beginning ... Read More

Sentenced – Mourning The Funeral Album a Decade Later

Nicholas FrancoNicholas FrancoJune 30, 2015

Those who came into the realm of extreme music in the ’90s were thankful for labels like Century Media Records, which gave worldwide distribution to such a disparate and delightful horde of awesome, oftentimes challenging bands for our collective delectation. One of the most notable ... Read More

Arcturus – Arcturian (Album Review)

Nicholas FrancoNicholas FrancoJune 25, 2015

At the dawn of the 1990s, a movement of music and ideology emerged from Norway which became known as the second wave of Black Metal. Regimented, extreme, and as serious as its progenitors in KISS and Venom were flippant, it took Bathory, Hellhammer, and Sarcofago ... Read More

Interview – Mia Coldheart & Ida Evileye of Crucified Barbara

Nicholas FrancoNicholas FrancoJune 22, 2015

In the world of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal music, there are a growing number of women popping up among the everyday ranks of long-haired, bearded, and/or tattooed men plying the trade. There is an even smaller, but still growing, number of all female bands ... Read More

Nicholas Franco

Interview – Burton C. Bell of Fear Factory

Fear Factory – Demanufacture Patented For Two Decades

Sigh – Graveward (Album Review)

Sentenced – Mourning The Funeral Album a Decade Later

Arcturus – Arcturian (Album Review)

Interview – Mia Coldheart & Ida Evileye of Crucified Barbara

Interview – Burton C. Bell of Fear Factory

Fear Factory – Demanufacture Patented For Two Decades

Sigh – Graveward (Album Review)

Sentenced – Mourning The Funeral Album a Decade Later

Arcturus – Arcturian (Album Review)

Interview – Mia Coldheart & Ida Evileye of Crucified Barbara

This week in Horror Movie History – Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

This Week in Horror Movie History – The Watcher in the Woods (1980)

This Week in Horror Movie History – Rabid (1977)

Interview – Patra

Interview – Leslie Uggams

Interview – Marque Richardson

Martinez, Margaritas and Murder! (Movie Review)

The Script – Satellites (Album Review)

Coldplay – Moon Music (Album Review)