Everything Went Black Podcast

It’s been a great year for new music.  A ton of great records have come out already and the remainder of the year looks promising.  J Bennett returns for a mid-year reckoning of some of ur potential entries into the best records of 2023.

Intro:     “All the Dark Things” – Mike Hill

Outro:   “Baptismal Tomb” - Nightmarer

Fellow Horseman Karl Haikara of the Sol Nox podcast joins us this week.  As you know, we have an ongoing collaboration called Darkness Weaves where we are discussing the work of Karl Edward Wagner, one of the worthy successors to Robert E. Howard, the godfather of sword and sorcery. Karl and I discuss Howard, an overview of his philosophy and our entry point into his violent world of dark, heroic fantasy.

Intro:     “All the Dark Things” – Mike Hill

Outro:   “I am Abomination” - 1349

Paul Aloisio of Restless Spirit returns this week.  He discussed the heavy atmosphere surrounding the creation of their new album Afterimage. We go deep in this episode and it add an extra layer of meaning to an incredible record.

Intro:     “All the Dark Things” – Mike Hill

Outro:   “Marrow” – Restless Spirit

Evan Hopper of Quell and Venereal Latrine joins us this week.  This is a rare, in-person episode; Evan and I had plans to see Emperor at the King’s Theater in Brooklyn and combined the visit with this crucial intel drop.

Intro:     “All the Dark Things” – Mike Hill

Outro:   “Hymn to the Blackened Maw” - Quell

Ralph and I add another facet to the Unholy Passion.  Survival songs is an exploration of the art that helps us get through lif’es challenges.  We explore music, writing and other media in this episode. Similar to our other efforts, we get extremely personal and intense.

Intro:     “All the Dark Things” – Mike Hill

Outro:   “Guess I’ll forget You” – The Black Heart Procession

We got caught flat-footed this week.  It's been a rough week: moving, unpacking etc so I'm releasing an episode of one of the Patreon shows that Ralph and I do.  

For those of you who checked out my reading of The Festival by HP Lovecraft that I posted around the holidays, this is a good companion to the story.  Ralph and I discuss the short story in depth along with spoilers.

Intro: "A Dark and Stormy Night" - Mike Hill / Vasilek

Outro: "Country Road, Six Miles In" - The Gault

My good friend and fellow podcast co-host Mike Scondotto joins us this week.  Among other things, Mike and I do the Necromaniacs podcast every week, so you may wonder what he is doing here on EWB.

Mike is here to talk about the Confusion discography.

Intro:     “All of the Dark Things” – Mike Hill

Outro:   “Storm the Walls” - Confusion

Karl Haikara (Sol Nox) and I continue the mission. I give a brief rundown of the past weekend’s Nightlands Festival, the inaugural Cadabra Records Weird Fiction Event before diving into The Fourth Seal, the next short story in the Karl Edward Wagner collection In a Lonely Place.

Intro:     “Darkness Weaves” – Mike Hill

Outro:   “Ostia” - Coil

Jean “Spyda” Clervois, proprietor and head coach as Spyda Muay Thai joins us this week.  As most of you know, martial arts and specifically Muay Thai is a big part of my life.  For the past three years, I have been training with Spyda, first at another local facility and more recently at his own gym located in the heart of Garwood, NJ.

We discuss his journey in the martial arts world, the genesis of the gym and where he wants to take things as we all move forward into the future.

Intro:     “All the Dark Things” – Mike Hill

Outro:   “Protect Ya Neck” – Wu Tang Clan

Ralph and I continue our ongoing series The Metaphysics of… This week’s episode confronts an  inevitability that will seek and find us all: Death.  This is a heavy episode; we both get personal and talk about our individual experiences with both. 

Intro:                    “All the Dark Things” – Mike Hill

Outro:                  “Death is the Road to Awe” – Clint Mansell