All Shall Perish promised a second new track if they hit their Kickstarter goal, and after raising more than $83,000, they delivered. “Led to Slaughter” is out now, fifteen years of riffs condensed into one announcement that the comeback is completely real. Stream it now. Continue reading
Two-time Grammy-nominated artist Poppy and Japanese horror manga legend Junji Ito have joined forces on In Old Records, a fully produced vinyl audio drama adaptation of Ito’s 1997 horror short story, now live on Kickstarter via Zero Zero Enterprises.
The story follows a long-lost record of singer Paula Bell’s final song. A terrible curse befalls anyone who listens to it. Pressing that story onto actual vinyl that people can spin at home is either a stroke of genius or a deeply questionable life choice. That tension is entirely the point.
Ryan Cady adapted the script. He wrote Haunt You to the End for Image Comics and has credits across Marvel and DC. He also co-wrote the graphic novels Poppy: Genesis 1 and Poppy’s Inferno with Poppy directly, making him a natural fit here. Poppy delivers the English narration, with singer and voice actress Shoko Nakagawa handling the Japanese version. Acky Bright designed the jacket, which carries Junji Ito’s actual bloody handprint. Ito remains directly involved throughout the project.
Iced Earth’s Jon Schaffer will reunite with the band’s former singer, Matt Barlow, under the name Schaffer/Barlow Project to record Christmas classics on a new record called Winter Nights. The project has a Kickstarter that you can contribute to and has surpassed the $15k goal in a brief run with $19k funded so far in less than a day. Watch the trailer and see the tracklisting now. Barlow played his last official show with Iced Earth in 2011 Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany. He joined Demons & Wizards on stage in New York City for a cover of Iced Earth’s “I Died for You”, which is on this Winter Nights album. Continue reading