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Now displaying: 2020
Aug 13, 2020

Justin and Ed are back for Chapter 8, and bring with them an impressive selection of tunes for your enjoyment. From goth classics by Alien Sex Fiend to brand new industrial bangers by Be My Enemy and Violent Vickie, this show will satisfy even your darkest desires.

Special thanks to Violent Vickie for sharing her new song “The Blame” from her forthcoming album Division! Click the bandcamp link below to listen to more Violent Vickie, and preorder the new album, due out September 2020.
https://violentvickie.bandcamp.com/album/division
Twitter: https://twitter.com/violentvickie
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ViolentVickieMusic/

The Arcane Machine is a monthly show with supplemental content on Facebook, Twitter, and Discord throughout each month. If you like what you hear, please visit the artists’ pages linked below and buy some music!


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The Tracklist:

 

1 – “Night Riders” by Stromkern from the album Night Riders (2001)
(Website)

2 – “The Angel of Anarchy” by Be My Enemy from the album All That I Love, I Destroy (2020)
(Bandcamp)

3 – “Ignore the Machine” by Alien Sex Fiend from the album Who’s Been Sleeping in My Brain? (1983)
(Website)

4 – “Please Remain Calm” by SKOLD from the album Never is Now (2019)
(Bandcamp)

5 – “Oh My Goth!” by Razed in Black from the album sacrificed (1999)
(Bandcamp)

6 – “Voices Of Doom” by MONO INC. from the album Voices of Doom (2009)
(Website)

7 – “SS Deathstar Supergalactik” by Hanzel und Gretyl from the album Uber Alles (2003)
(Website)

8 – “Too Late to Love You” by JUNEBUG (Ben Babbitt) from the album Kentucky Route Zero Act 3 (2014)
(Bandcamp)

9 – “The Blame” by Violent Vickie from the album Division (2020)
(Bandcamp)

Aug 12, 2020

South of Egypt lies Nubia, the ancient home of of the Kushite Kingdom. The Kushites built their own pyramids and even rose to rule Egypt at one point. In this episode we discuss the history of Kush and the many pyramid tombs they built in the red sands of Sudan. 

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Aug 11, 2020

Horror Addicts Episode# 185
SEASON 15 “Cursed, Cubed”
Horror Hostess: Emerian Rich
Intro Music by: Valentine Wolfe

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katherine hutson | another day dawns | dial m for murder

http://traffic.libsyn.com/horroraddicts/HorrorAddicts185.mp3

Find all articles and interviews at: http://www.horroraddicts.net

 

88 days till Halloween/Halloween NOT canceled!

 

VOICES: 

Alan Clark: http://phantomelectrik.com

Emerian Rich: http://www.emzbox.com

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Cedar George

b l o g  e d i t o r

Kate Nox

s t a f f

KBatz (Kristin Battestella), Daphne Strasert, Jesse Orr, Russell Holbrook, Lionel Green, Kieran Judge, Crystal Connor, Nightshade, Courtney Mroch, R.L. Merrill

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Aug 10, 2020

Year: 1986

Albums: The Glove, Blue Sunshine

Bauhaus, Bela Lugosi's Dead 12"; Burning from the Inside

Our lovable, fluffy-haired misfits finally look old enough to creep into Hastings' only goth club, The Crypt. And what a time they have! A tribe is discovered, a new band crystallizes around Nick, takes on a very strange Latin name, and friendships deepen over the music they start making. Simon finds a comforting anonymity-and-belonging in the midst of the dry ice, the noise and the unholy, beautiful confusion.

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Aug 3, 2020

shannon lawrence | sharone | hole in the ground

http://traffic.libsyn.com/horroraddicts/HorrorAddicts184.mp3

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Serena Memorial:

https://www.facebook.com/Serena-Toxicat-Kefira-Leclerc-Memorial-Page-113698087068564/

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h o s t e s s

Emerian Rich

h e a d  o f  p u b l i s h i n g

Naching T. Kassa

p u b l i s h i n g  p. a.

Cedar George

b l o g  e d i t o r

Kate Nox

s t a f f

KBatz (Kristin Battestella), Daphne Strasert, Jesse Orr, Russell Holbrook, Lionel Green, Kieran Judge, Crystal Connor, Nightshade, Courtney Mroch, R.L. Merrill

Want to be a part of the HA staff? Email horroraddicts@gmail.com

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spotify 

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overcast

https://overcast.fm/itunes286123050/horroraddicts-net

podcast republic

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himalaya 

https://www.himalaya.com/en/show/501228

google play music

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rss

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Aug 2, 2020

Welcome to the Cemetery Confessions Baby Bat 101 crash course! Whether you’re 12 or 85, you’ve come to the right place. Our curated guide features guests from across the spectrum from long time well known DJ to shiny new goth moth and everywhere in between. We’ll chat about music, clubbing, dating, identity, politics and more!

Our guests this month are Scary Lady Sarah, Nadja, and Nat!

Politics:
-Post Punk Politics
-Sexism and Industrial
-Assimilate

Music: 41:40
-Goth Comp
-Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace
-25 Years in the Reptile House
-80’s Goth Wasn’t Just About Music
-The Value of Music to Identity
-Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul
-2019 Goth Albums
-Post-Punk.com
-Goth Music History
-Origin of the term ‘Goth’

Fashion and Makeup: 1:01:47
-Gothic Lamb
-Kambriel
-Dark Angel Co
-Kaufen Apparel
-Luciferothica
-Junkyard Bat
-Haute Cotoure
-My DIY Tutorial 1
-My DIY Tutorial 2
-How to do a Deathhawk

Clubbing and Socializing 1:21:17
-So you want to start a local scene
-The Etiquette Guide to Goth Clubs
-Goth Club Tips

Dating 1:43:30
-Goth Guide to Valentine’s Day
-What’s wrong with Wanting a Goth GF?
-Dating in the Goth Scene

Identity: 1:52:00
-What is Goth?
-The Philosophy of Goth
-Aging in Goth

Further Reading:
-My Goth Library

Jul 30, 2020

Part 2 of 2

Year: 1985

Albums: Young Limbs & Numb Hymns, Batcave (compilation)

First and Last and Always, The Sisters of Mercy

Our daring young alternatives get deeply embroiled in the sounds of 80s goth, as The Sisters and the Batcave album mark the point of no return for our poor little lost ones, our willing victims of the terminally weird. Will they ever learn? Not likely, not if this week's breakdown of the almighty Andrew Eldritch's lyrical ouevre is anything to go by...

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Jul 23, 2020

Podcast Interview with Jean-Marc Ledderman about his new album "Letters to Gods and Fallen Angels". This is an amazing concept album packed with talent. We discuss his incredible career in music and his artistic adventures.

Jul 22, 2020

The practice of footbinding - binding the feet tightly in order to change their shape - appeared sometime before the 10th century in Imperial China among noble women. As time passed, it became popular among women of all classes, despite the pain and debility it caused. In this episode, we discuss the process and the reasons why women continued this practice into the 20th century.

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Jul 13, 2020

Part 1 of 2

Year: 1985

Albums: Young Limbs and Numb Hymns, Batcave (compilation)

First and Last and Always, The Sisters of Mercy

As our unlikely, small-town heroes reach the age of 16, they make a revelatory discovery: there's a goth club in town! Attempts to sneak in may be less than successful, but Nicky and Simon's discovery of a scene filled with misfits and marvels begins in earnest with their knowledge of The Crypt. Girls and booze also loom into view, with all the inevitable consequences...need I go on?

Jul 9, 2020
This one's a heavy conversation about problematic musicians. Vote with your dollars and don't support shitty behaviour!
Jul 8, 2020

Justin and Ed have returned, spinning more amazing music from the underbelly of the music industry. Chapter 7 sees a bit of a change in the way that the music will be selected for each show, and we think it’s going to make The Arcane Machine a better experience for the fans. This month’s selection of tunes includes a little something for everyone: the bluesy industrial sound of Sister Machine Gun, classic goth from Siouxsie and the Banshees, experimental electronic from Download, and much, much more!

The Arcane Machine is a monthly show with supplemental content on Facebook, Twitter, and Discord throughout each month. If you like what you hear, please visit the artists’ pages linked below and buy some music!

Special thanks to Myla for the listener-request song at the end of the show.


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The Tracklist:

1 – “Red” by Sister Machine Gun from the album Burn (1995)
(Website)

2 – “Be My Druidess” by Type O Negative from the album October Rust (1996)
(Website)

3 – “The Last One Alive” by VAST from the album Music for People (2000)
(Website)

4 – “Video Kid” by The Birthday Massacre from the album Nothing and Nowhere (2002)
(Website)

5 – “tuFF paws” by Download from the album Unknown Room (2019)
(Bancdcamp)

6 – “Happy House” by Siouxsie and the Banshees from the album Kaleidoscope (1980)
(Website)

7 – “How to be Eaten by a Woman” by The Glitch Mob from the album Drink the Sea (2010)
(Website)

8 – “Exterminate Annihilate Destroy” by Rotersand from the EP Exterminate Annihilate Destroy (2005)
(Website)

9 – “Only” by Nine Inch Nails from the album With Teeth (2005) Requested by Myla
(Website)

Jul 3, 2020

We take a look an important musical influence for goth: the pioneer of glam rock, Marc Bolan.

Do check out the video of The Damned on stage with T. rex when they toured together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOss9PYsPvg

Featured songs:

Metal Guru by T. rex

Telegram Sam by Bauhaus

Get It On (Bang A Gong) by Power Station

7 Ways to Kill a Man by Andi Sexgang

Judgement Day by Love and Rockets

Our extra mixtape is available at https://www.mixcloud.com/ItsMidnightSomewhere/

Thanks to Kevin Matthews for introducing the episode

Our producer, Justin Minister

Theme music by Robyn Bright

Art by Marion Green

Jul 2, 2020

This month we share embarrassing childhood stories, take on gatekeepers, explore why goth is still relevant and answer r/goths most burning questions!

Our guest this month is Lady India!
Facebook, IG, TikTok, Eat the Rich

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Introductions

Goth in Hot Weather 7:00

What Was Your First Goth Band 14:01

Gatekeeping 21:57

What Place Does Goth Have in the World 40:41

Disliking Labels 58:20

Difficulty Socializing 1:14:05

What Psychology Drove you to Goth 1:31:55

Sinister Suggestions: 2:04:00
-Solar Fake - Song to say Goodbye
-Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
-Bohren & Der Club of Gore
-Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones
-Blood Machines
-A Gorey Demise - Creature Feature

Jun 29, 2020

Year: 1984

Albums: Pornography, The Cure

Hyaena, Siouxsie and the Banshees

Completing week 2, we hear how dreams of freedom grow from the dark visions of the Banshees' Hyaena album; its similarities to David Lynch's excavation of the wild urges and violent drives beneath the surface of suburban life are drawn out. Our young gothteens start dressing in line with the styles and ideas they see in the burgeoning alternative culture.

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Jun 24, 2020

While The MCP is on summer break, we like to present short horror stories in place of our usual episodes. Without Further ado, please enjoy The Ebony Frame, a tale of supernatural obsession, by Edith Nesbit.

This episode will be available for one month, and then will only be accessible to Patrons of the MCP at the $1 level and above.

Jun 23, 2020

Horror Addicts Episode# 182
SEASON 15 “Cursed, Cubed”
Horror Hostess: Emerian Rich
Intro Music by: Valentine Wolfe

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dark divinations special! | beauty in the suffering | wishmaster

http://traffic.libsyn.com/horroraddicts/HorrorAddicts182.mp3

Find all articles and interviews at: http://www.horroraddicts.net

137 days till Halloween

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Dark Divination Special 20:13

Naching T. Kassa and Emerian Rich chat about Dark Divination and host readings by: Hannah Hulbert, Jon O’Bergh, Rie Sheridan Rose, R.L. Merrill, Emerian Rich, Jeremy Megargee, Daphne Strasert, HRR Gorman, Alan Fisher 

They Wound Like Worms audiodrama

And story profiles of Joe L. Murr, Ash Hartwell, Stephanie Ellis, Michael Fassbender

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h o s t e s s

Emerian Rich

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Naching T. Kassa

p u b l i s h i n g  p. a.

Cedar George

b l o g  e d i t o r

Kate Nox

s t a f f

KBatz (Kristin Battestella), Daphne Strasert, Jesse Orr, Russell Holbrook, Lionel Green, Kieran Judge, Crystal Connor, Nightshade, Courtney Mroch, R.L. Merrill

Want to be a part of the HA staff? Email horroraddicts@gmail.com

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overcast

https://overcast.fm/itunes286123050/horroraddicts-net

podcast republic

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himalaya 

https://www.himalaya.com/en/show/501228

google play music

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Jun 22, 2020

Part 1 of 2

Year: 1984

AlbumsPornography, The Cure

Hyaena, Siouxsie and the Banshees

Waking Up to Goth - in Week 2, we find our alternative heroes turning on to goth and alternative music and culture in a big way. Though still young, the seeds of creativity and freedom are beginning to sprout. From the dark earth laid down by The Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees, Simon and Nicky start to dream, still sitting behind school desks, of wider, stranger horizons...

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Jun 19, 2020

Year: 1983

Albums: Breaking Glass, Hazel O'Connor

Head Over Heels, Cocteau Twins

We join our brave young alternatives for the conclusion of their debut week. We've seen them narrowly escape injury at the disco at the end of the pier, and we've heard Nicky's paean to the inspirations of Breaking Glass, now check out Simon's exploration of what made Cocteau Twins so important to his life as a 14-year-old becalmed in the doldrums of the everyday world in small-town suburbia, England, in the early 1980s.

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Jun 19, 2020

Part 1 of 2.

Year: 1983

Albums: Breaking Glass, Hazel O'Connor; Head Over Heels, Cocteau Twins

Week 1 introduces our alternative heroes. At the tender age of 14, they meet as one is escorted out of the disco at the end of the ramshackle seaside pier, after being threatened, as the other is on his way in, with two hungry-for-action sociapaths riding shotgun. After meeting, Nicky and Simon find they share a love of alternative music and culture, and take their first steps into a darker world of creativity, fascination and doom.

Episodes will be posted in 2 parts.

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Jun 18, 2020

This week we're talking about cover songs and why we love them. And what the heck is Garbage Hour? The bands featured are Velvet Kills, Parralox, Black Nail Cabaret, Dead When I Found Her, Andi Sexgang, and Carpenter Brut.

https://velvetkills.bandcamp.com/album/mischievous-urges

http://parralox.bandcamp.com/album/silent-morning

https://blacknailcabaret.bandcamp.com/album/voyage-voyage-cover-ep

http://deadwhenifoundher.bandcamp.com/album/stitches-cover-ups-2

https://liberationlondon.bandcamp.com/track/love-comes-in-spurts-free-download

http://carpenterbrut.bandcamp.com/track/maniac-feat-yann-ligner

Also - check out from Dune Altar Records

https://www.dunealtar.com/product/do-you-feel-that-way-too-a-tribute-to-the-sound-digital-download-mp3

Production by Justin Minister. Theme song by Robyn Bright. Visuals by Marion Green.

Jun 17, 2020

As two DJs in Toronto during quarantine times, we are feeding our souls with music and happy to share some finds with you.

Maman Küsters - https://oraculorecords.bandcamp.com/album/lextase-la-terreur

Walt Disco - https://waltdisco.com/

Empathy Test - https://empathy-test.bandcamp.com/album/monsters

Sâada Bonaire - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULlI8C5c-qY

A Certain Ratio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll34-KQkbhU

Thanks to our producer Justin Minister

Theme song by Robyn Bright

Logo/visuals by Marion Green

Jun 16, 2020

This episode we dive into the psychology of living through a pandemic, and explore how well equipped goths are for dealing with death, all while reading a journalist to filth. We also review the new album from Mystic Priestess!

Our guest this month is Ryan, vocalist from the deathrock band witchhands.

If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us on Patreon!

Sinister Suggestions:
-Happy!
-Imaginos - Blue Oyster Cult
-Imaginos Documentary
-Loom - Katie Gately
-Halloween Carol’s

BLM Resources:
-Resource List
-Donate to Help Against Police Brutality
-Anti-Racism for White People
-75 Things White People Can do for Racial Justice
-Documentary about the Direct Line of Lynching to Today's Prison System
-Commitment Against Racism
-Mass Incarceration Information

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