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Lucifer's Child - The Illuminant album cover

Lucifier’s Child – The Illuminant (Album Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockMay 1, 2025

Associated with speedy guitars, unsettling bellowing vocals, and a distinctive dark and ominous atmosphere, Black Metal is a sub-genre that is not exactly for everyone… but nor should it be. Adopting a similar ideology to traditional Punk Rock, Black Metal was seen as underground and ... Read More

Mörk Gryning – Fasornas Tid (Album Review)

Nicholas FrancoNicholas FrancoDecember 12, 2024

Having been in existence since 1993, Sweden’s Black Metal veterans Mörk Gryning were a part of the advent of the ferocious second wave of the genre. And though they may not have achieved the same heights as their countrymen Marduk and Dissection, the band certainly ... Read More

Castle - Evil Remains / Hammerheart Records (2024)

Castle – Evil Remains (Album Review)

Scout HinsonScout HinsonSeptember 8, 2024

Somewhere in dark fantasy land there is a necromancer slowly working away at her spells. Collecting spirits and essences, one day she hopes to raise an army from the dead to return to the castle from which she was disgraced. Wreaking havoc for the greater ... Read More

Interview – Johanna Platow Andersson of Lucifer

CrypticRockCrypticRockJanuary 23, 2024

To many, music is the lifeline that provides support, comfort, and piece of mind in all functions of life. Truly a companion that gives an outlet to express our joy, sadness, fears, and everything in-between… where would many of us be without it? More than ... Read More

Lucifer – Lucifer V (Album Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockJanuary 16, 2024

The road traveled by Rock-n-Roll bands is almost never straight and narrow. An interaction of varying personalities, some bands work, and others sever ties due to conflicts. Fortunately for Johanna Sadonis (now Johanna Platow Andersson after marrying Nicke Andersson) several now defunct musical projects were ... Read More

The Ghosts of Monday (Movie Review)

Jeannie BlueJeannie BlueJanuary 30, 2023

A haunted hotel with a macabre past? Check. A cast of characters who are pre-loaded with tension in their blood? Check. Paranormal activity linked to a potential curse? Indeed! It’s all lurking inside the walls of The Ghosts of Monday, a new Horror-Thriller that arrived ... Read More

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Lucifier’s Child – The Illuminant (Album Review)