Hawksmoor : Yclept Thorn

There’s a dank haze that emanates from James McKeown’s latest outing as Hawksmoor. After a couple immense and Komische/Berlin School-heavy records with the great Soul Jazz Records -plus an amazing collaboration with Ivan The Tolerable- Hawksmoor has returned to the crypt of Library of the Occult for Yclept Thorn. This is no ordinary electronic folk […]

Dressel Amorosi : House of Dolls

The musical world of Dressel Amorosi is a splendid, sinister thing. The band consists of Heinrich Dressel(Valerio Lombardozzi) and Federico Amorosi, a duo locked heavily into the world of Giallo scores, Goblin jams, and prog rock tightness. All combined together gives us a musical world of 70s Italian horror with plenty of meat on the […]

Giallo Prog Duo Dressel Amorosi Return With ‘House of Dolls’, Out 10/24; Listen To “Octagon Tower”

My first experience with the Giallo/Prog duo Dressel Amorosi was 2018s excellent DeathMetha, a hypnotic and bloody slab of sleazy disco and late night panic. I didn’t hear the album proper till it was re-released on limited edition cassette via Spun Out Of Control in 2020. It touched on classic Giallo grooves and panic-laden tension […]

Salvatore Mercatante : Strega III: Dianus Of Doorways

I first heard New York City’s Salvatore Mercatante way back in 2019 with his excellent dark synth/Giallo exploration Il Lamento della Strega. I was blown away by it as it felt like it was pulled out of some alternate reality; Gothic undertones and 70s Italian horror come together to make this beautiful and eerie sound […]

Dream Divison Gets Reimagined with ‘Una Rosa nel Giardino d’Inverno: Il Ritorno (A Rose in the Garden of Winter: The Return)’; Listen To “Black Rose(Sean Wolcott Version)”

If ever there was an album that screamed “remix version” it would be Dream Division’s excellent 2024 long player A Rose In The Garden Of Winter. Opening up Dream Division’s sound from just Tom McDowell working alone like a mad scientist, he brought in a who’s who of incredible musicians to create Dream Division & […]

The Psychic Circle : Wizards of the Watchtower

The Psychic Circle is the U.K. psych/prog project of Tom McDowell(compositions/synths/organs) and Jack Harris(guitar/bass). Since 2020 the band has released three LPs ranging from acid-tinged psych rock to proggier tendencies, as well as touches of the 70s Giallo scores of Goblin and Fabio Frizzi. All of those elements come together into something quite unique, singular, […]

The Cube of Unknowing : Bog Summoner

If ever there was an album that sounded exactly as the name of the record implies, then The Cube of Unknowing’s Bog Summoner is it. Other names that would have been equally as descriptive would have been Cosmic Travels Into The Subconscious, A Black Hole Journey, Losing Your Mind In The Slipstream, or Dreams Drowning […]

Chris Alexander : Body Double

The latest to drop from the great Library of the Occult is a sweet treat for all you lovers of 80s slashers, sleaze, and sweaty exploitative art. Canadian filmmaker and composer Chris Alexander has offered up Body Double, a sweat-drenched slab of sleazy 80s film score work. While not a re-imagining of DePalma’s great 80s […]

Dream Division Returns Larger Than Life With ‘A Rose in the Garden of Winter’, Out 8/23; Listen To The Giallo Funk Of “Midnight Visions”

Tom Mcdowell has been making music as Dream Division for quite some time now. Starting out as a solo heavy synth project he’s allowed the project to evolve and mutate into something far more than its humble beginnings. From sci-fi synth dread to imagined soundtracks to classic horror literature to baroque ghost tales to 60s/70s […]

Witchboard Readies New Album ‘Incidental Goth Club Music For Television and Film’, out 7/12; Listen To “Get Anxious”

Witchboard is the musical project of writer, producer, and director Glenn McQuaid. Known most notably for his debut film, 2008s I Sell The Dead, as well as his audio series Tales From Beyond The Pale(both with Larry Fessenden and Fessenden’s production company Glass Eye Pix.) McQuaid also directed a segment of the original anthology film […]