It is the final hour of spook season, and in the midst of most people's plans to go to costume parties, haunted attractions, or go trick-or-treating, the sacred origins of the holiday are all but ...

A New Form of Beauty, Heresie, … If I Die, I Die, The Moon Looked Down and Laughed and Over the Rainbow (Mute) Gavin Friday, leader of the long-defunct Virgin Prunes, is nothing if not a goth-punk ...

This is a very, very good day for heavy music. We've already posted the ass-stomping new albums from Sharptooth and Skeleton, and now the Las Vegas outfit SpiritWorld have come out with their ...

This time of year, the general pubic is often reminded of Halloween's pagan roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain. But there is also a thriving pagan community in the United States, both on the web ...

Rewind the tape to 1913 Paris, when the premiere of "The Rite of Spring" changed classical music and dance forever. No less than Igor Stravinsky's dissonant score, Vaslav Nijinsky's iconoclastic ...

Near the end of the night, when the room was hot unless you were being fanned by the hair of someone head banging next to you, Juho Kauppinen and Jaakko Lemmetty of the Finnish metal band Korpiklaani ...