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The horror trilogy continues with another Halloween Essential Special! This time Boogieman Brengineer emerges from The Fog carrying a tome of nightmare fuel for young book-fair goers everywhere. So as night falls, clutch your old books close and flee inland! Beware the Brengineer!

Brengineer Halloween Essentials

The Cover Decoder horror trilogy has begun! In this first terrifying Halloween installment, Tapes crawls from the cauldron with the terrifying VHS covers of Pumpkinhead and chases you screaming like a falsetto banshee into King Diamonds haunted gallery. Beware of murder! Betrayal! and Adult Gordes! Covers await and they are hungry!!

Tapes Halloween Essentials Slides

Cover Decoder is kicking off season two with tentacles and terrors! The Brengineer cracks open the necronomicon to show you a glimpse of true cover art horror inspired by the works of H.P Lovecraft. Tapes banishes Lovecraft's racist persona with Jarrod Taylor's mystically crafted Lovecraft Country Cover and after a Q & A interview gives the decoder take on what the Lovecraftian Legacy means. Full of eldritch covers and fresh takes this is a truly horrifying way to dive into the Halloween season!

The Lovecraft Legacy Slides

Cover Decoder is kicking off season two with tentacles and terrors! The Brengineer cracks open the necronomicon to show you a glimpse of true cover art horror inspired by the works of H.P Lovecraft. Tapes banishes Lovecraft's racist persona with Jarrod Taylor's mystically crafted Lovecraft Country Cover and after a Q & A interview gives the decoder take on what the Lovecraftian Legacy means. Full of eldritch covers and fresh takes this is a truly horrifying way to dive into the Halloween season!

The Lovecraft Legacy Slides

The horn of fandom has been blown and five knights of Coverdom have answered its call! Season one of Cover Decoder has come to its end and as promised the Decoders are going out with an all fan cover episode!  Enter the ring with nazi punching Rocketmen, telepathic assassins, multi-eyed aliens, punk rock western shoots outs and discount hair rockers! Who will win the armor of Coverdom and claim their free shirt? Listen to find out! Featuring a Q & A interview with Andriy Dankovych, loads of great artists, a look at the past episodes and look to the episodes to come this is truly an epic end to the season!

Random Fandom Slides!

Once again the morgue is filling up with visionaries. Never fear, the Decoders are here to immortalize them through the lens of Covers! Grab your fiddle and waltz with Inks in the swamps of Charlie Daniels albums, uncover the lesser known realms of TSR as Brengineer remembers a D&D legend, carry the burden of the ring as Tapes tours Ian Holms’ acting career and end in the colorful world of flavor molded by Joel Schumacher. Legends are waiting and they are thirsty, join us and pour a little out.

The box has called out to the Decoders once again and its contents are episode gold! Space shark surfing baseball players make a connection to the early roots of hip hop, sift through the scandalous past of a classical painter and fly to Nam on the back of a jamin astro pterodactyl! It's art, its music, its history and its all emanating from the legendary Box!

This episode is an epic chapter in the Decoders tome, for lo and behold! They have reached out past the cold peaks of Winterstead and made contact with Master Ingsmith of Guild Of Lore! Throw a log on the hearth and grab a mug as the Decoders sit down with the talented Jason Shook for a discussion on art, inspiration, his live Dungeon Synth performance and some VERY intriguing future projects.

This here is a special bonus episode Cover Junkies because it contains two things. One: the Decoders unveil their very first shirt! Available now for purchase, learn about its creation from the source, our very own Inks. And Two: learn how you can win your very own Cover Decoder shirt this September for free!

In this home cooked episode the Decoders hit memory lane and pull some covers off the nostalgia shelf. Mercer Mayer, Jeff Easley, and Paul Simon dish out a hot heaping helping of childhood memories and creative nourishment. So grab your mug and kick up those feet because this episode is all about the warm fuzzies.