Everything Went Black Podcast

EWB 315 Jacob Curwen

Jacob Curwen of All Hell joins us this week.  They just wrapped up some dates with the legendary Profinatica and released an EP a few months ago.  Check out All Hail the Night if you dig raw black metal with occult lyrics.

 

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

Outro:   “Let the Night Run Red” – All Hell

EWB 314 Paul Aloisio

Paul Aloisio of Restless Spirit returns this week.  Be sure to check out their forthcoming LP “After Image.”  This time around Paul and I talk about vampire movies and our thoughts on the recently debuted “The Final Voyage of the Demeter.”

 

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

Outro:   “Merging Nebular Drapes” - Venemum

EWB 313 EUGENE S. ROBINSON

The great Eugene S. Robinson returns to EWB this week. For those of you that have tuned into his past episodes will know, Eugene gets a lot it. Primarily, we talk about his forthcoming memoir A Walk Across Dirty Water and Straigh Into Murderer’s Row. We then mover on to the new latest Oxbow record, fascist leaders in world history and some MMA talk.

 

Intro:     “All the Dark Things” – Mike Hill

Outro:   “Lovely Murk” - Oxbow

EWB 312 J BENNETT

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

EWB 311 ROBERT E HOWARD EPISODE W KARL HAIKARA

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

EWB 310 PAUL ALOISIO RESTLESS SPIRIT

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

EWB 309 EVAN HOPPERQUELL VENEREAL LATRINE

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

EWB 308 UNHOLY PASSION SURVIVAL SONGS

 

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

EWB 307 - LONG SHADOWSTHE FESTIVAL

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

 

EWB 306 MIKE SCONDOTTO

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