Katatonia released their latest album “Night is the New Day” earlier this month. Release dates were November 2 in Europe and November 10 in the US.
By H. M. Garber Kyt Dotson’s sixth volume, Writing on the Wall, consists of three more chapters of her “Mill Avenue Vexations”: Poetry, Hohokam, and Undone. The first chapter, Poetry, consists of Vex and Patrick consulting an expert at Arizona State University to help decipher a clue she was given previously. While she and Patrick [...]
By H. M. Garber Kyt Dotson’s fifth volume, Drum Circle, consists of three more chapters of her “Mill Avenue Vexations”: Chance Encounters, Street Preachers, and The Drum Circle. In the first chapter of this volume, Chance Encounters, Kyt uses Melee, a street rat, to describe the strangeness that happened in previous chapters while giving the [...]
After a little more than a year and a half, Goth Help Us (GHU) International has folded. Little was said by founder and CEO Rebecca Hohm, other than she is planning on starting from scratch and will do what she wants to do, which is help people. New organizations have been popping up, formed by [...]
By H. M. GarberKyt Dotson’s third volume, Incantations of Incarnations, consists of three more chapters of her “Mill Avenue Vexations”: Kel the Bosh, Incantations of Incarnation, and Friday Night on the Ave. The first chapter of this volume is titled Kel the Bosh, which is Romani (Gypsy) for “play the fiddle.” In this chapter, we [...]
Its been two years since Swedish symphonic metal founder Therion last played in the states and Los Angeles was fortunate enough to be the third show to kick off Therion’s world tour to support their newest release, “Gothic Kabblah”. I arrived in time to see Aesma Daeva (see interview and CD review). When stepping into [...]
By: Tanya Vasquez Leaves’ Eyes played at the Key Club on a date for their second USA tour as a support act for a power metal band. They were an opening act for Kamelot along with several other bands including two progressive metal groups. The first of these was very mainstream and pop like. They [...]
In an unfortunate turn of events, Goth Help Us San Diego was dissolved on Monday, September 10, 2007. Goth Help Us International seems to be taking a new direction as they have updated their bylaws and excused the San Diego chapter after a year of good works. The Goth Help Us, San Diego chapter was [...]
As many people in the Southern California region are aware, there has been a problem with violent crime against the Gothic community. None of us are certain precisely why this is, but we can guess; bad press, bad public image and misinformation undoubtedly top the list. The most notable California violence was the attack on [...]
By: Chris Stead A Dark Noel Projekt Records Let me start by stating that I am personally not a fan of holiday music. That being said I would like to say that I would listen to this album any time, holiday or not. The album starts with a haunting rendition of Carol of the Bells, [...]
By: Chris Stead So, lately I have been doing quite a bit of thinking and my thoughts were best punctuated by James Treagus’ comment about Goths and aging. (If you aren’t familiar with James Treagus and his work, click here) Simply put, James said that people that are into CyberGoth and the like may not [...]
