![Finding a Path through the Darkness: A Gen Con Look at Paizo’s Creepy New Releases [EVENT/ARTICLE]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Paizo_Thumbnail-240x240.jpg)
Finding a Path through the Darkness: A Gen Con Look at Paizo’s Creepy New Releases [EVENT/ARTICLE]
Paizo is one of those companies that shows just how a creative manufacturer can go from a smaller Indie game expansion company to a major power player in just 7 years. The now iconic Pathfinder roleplaying system may have been based on D&D’s 3.5 Open Gaming License mechanics when it was released in 2008, but it has steadily evolved since then, at times passing D&D in sales, and spinning off a catalog of expansions, classes, maps, and figurines, to say nothing of the successful card game variation that debuted…
![In The Noose: The Death Penalty Through Centuries and Countries [ARTICLE]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/hanging-240x240.jpg)
In The Noose: The Death Penalty Through Centuries and Countries [ARTICLE]
The death penalty has very ancient roots. There is in fact evidence of its application since peoples like the Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. But still today it’s applied in many advanced countries, such as the USA. We certainly know that the prehistoric communities did use the death penalty, but we don’t have written evidence of criminal codes because the laws were passed down orally, and they were applied generally in a quite subjective and arbitrary way by people had…
![Behind the Gavel of Ambience: Deliberating with Judgehydrogen [INTERVIEW]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/JudgeHydrogen_Thumb-240x240.jpg)
Behind the Gavel of Ambience: Deliberating with Judgehydrogen [INTERVIEW]
Judgehydrogen is a visual artist and musician. The focus of his works are apocalyptic myths. He is best known for his song “A Body of Water” which appears in the feature film Sinister, directed by Scott Derrickson and featuring Ethan Hawke.
![Sacrificial Acts of Transcendence [ALBUM REVIEW]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/JH_CDCover-240x240.jpg)
Sacrificial Acts of Transcendence [ALBUM REVIEW]
I’ve followed Judgehydrogen since his first release, Atheistic God, in 2007. In this album he forges a new apocalyptic mythos that foreshadows his future works. Sonorous female vocals and lush atmospheres, music that seems to take you on a mental journey. Printed in a handsome slip case and a few surprises. His deepest album to date.
![Armada [BOOK REVIEW]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ArmadaThumb-240x240.jpg)
Armada [BOOK REVIEW]
In the near future, Zack Lightman is a video game savant at one of the most popular games in the world: ARMADA. Armada allows people with souped up VR control rigs to control flying robots and attempt to fend off an alien invasion. In a case of pop culture déjà vu harkening back to The Last Starfighter and Ender’s Game, Lightman discovers that the game is a training simulator designed to find the best and the brightest pilots on the planet to defend the earth from a real alien invasion. However, after a hurried recruitment, Lightman discovers that deception lurks…
![Skot Shaw: Unveiling Leper’s Lead Singer [INTERVIEW]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/LeperCover_Thumb-240x240.jpg)
Skot Shaw: Unveiling Leper’s Lead Singer [INTERVIEW]
Leper is the musical and artistic expression of Skot Shaw. Using hauntingly melodic vocals, driving keys and brooding guitar, Leper orchestrates a compelling sound combining elements of goth, industrial, dance and rock. All the while, Leper exudes the shadowy, emotional eeriness that defines a goth band. Leper’s influences and inspiration are drawn from many different sources creating a musical tapestry woven with the threads of despair, struggle and redemption…
![Kill, Granny, Kill [FILM REVIEW]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Kill-Granny-Kill-Poster-240x240.jpg)
Kill, Granny, Kill [FILM REVIEW]
Answering an in-home help ad, Abby leaves family and friends for a remote farmhouse in the country where her new employer is hiding some unusual hobbies. Soon Abby is plunged into a nightmare of hellish proportions – pitted against a clan of ruthless, amoral and degenerate flesh-eaters led by their murderous GRANNY!
![Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! 3: The Seven Serpents [VIDEO GAME REVIEW]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/SorceryFrontCover-240x240.jpg)
Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! 3: The Seven Serpents [VIDEO GAME REVIEW]
In concluding the last game, Kharé, Cityport of Traps, we unraveled a mystery involving mages and an invasion that permitted our adventurer to escape Kharé with our hide intact and made our way into the forbidding wastelands known as the Baklands. In this new chapter, we find ourselves in the Baklands blazing a trail for the metropolis of Mapang—home to the deadly keep where the Archmage who has taken the stolen crown has fled—only to discover that 7 deadly serpents are hunting us. These serpents are the treacherous servants of the Archmage and, those who don’t kill us, will rush back to…
![Souls and Crows: Haunting The Tower of London [ARTICLE]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/10405406_10203630204252423_5482324808261447845_n-240x240.jpg)
Souls and Crows: Haunting The Tower of London [ARTICLE]
The Tower of London is a very old building dating back to 1000, strongly backed by William the Conqueror. It’s not a single “tower”, in fact it is a very large complex consisting of 21 different towers and various buildings that over the years have served as a royal residence, fortress and prison. The tower was the place of many atrocities and torture, renowned for the diabolical instruments developed within it.
![The Reaper’s Image [SHORT INDIE FILM REVIEW]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ReaperImage-poster-240x240.jpg)
The Reaper’s Image [SHORT INDIE FILM REVIEW]
Based on the short story “The Reaper’s Image” from bestselling author Stephen King comes a bone chilling tale about a museum curator, Johnson Spangler, who seeks a prized antique mirror that is rumored to be cursed. Denying the mirror’s dark past, Johnson must purchase it from sleazy antique shop owner Samuel Claggert. Upon purchase, Johnson must remove it from the shop’s attic with guide Mr. Carlin who is scared to death of the DeIver Glass. The two journey to find the prized possession, but it isn’t the only thing they find. They say only chosen people can see the reaper’s image in…
![Wretched Thoughts: Digging Into Grave Robber [INTERVIEW]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/GraveRobber3_Wide-240x240.jpg)
Wretched Thoughts: Digging Into Grave Robber [INTERVIEW]
Recently I was able to attend a performance by horror punk band, Grave Robber. Their songs have deep spiritual meanings embedded in imagery of horror, gore, shock value and other things you might find in a Romero flick. The lead singer and “shovel bearer” Wretched was nice enough to give me the pleasure of an interview.
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