Hey there, just a quick update to say that I am migrating a lot of pieces of this website to a separate Black Gum Print Shop website that will handle all of my printmaking and illustration/business stuff. You may notice that my online shop has disappeared over the last couple of days. Fear not! It will reappear shortly (a week?) with a brand new url and interface and look. Thanks for your patience.
I’m also going to take this opportunity to remind you that I have a Patreon, and for only $5 a month, you can get prints in the mail every month.
Read MoreHey y’all, haven’t blogged in a while, so I figure it’s time to give an update on some recent illustration and printmaking work I’ve done.
Read MoreHey all. This post will just be a general update on stuff I’ve been doing! (Click to read more)
Read MoreMarch’s Patreon packages went out, and I had fun putting the packages together. March’s print of the month, which went out to all subscribers at every tier, was this risograph print of a Mao quote, illustrated by me (these are also now available in the shop) [Click to read more]
Read MoreFor Women’s History Month (and a belated celebration of International Working Women’s Day), it’s an episode with absolutely ZERO MEN. Every band played tonight is completely composed of women. There are a couple special blocks in this show, including sections featuring one-woman BM, foundational 80s acts, and more. (Click for more)
Read MoreTonight’s episode features extreme metal from Appalachia, in no fixed order by date, genre, or geography. We have doom metal from Eastern Kentucky, ambient black metal from the Pennsylvania coalfields, bestial black metal from the Smoky Mountains, and a lot more. (Click to read more)
Read MoreTonight, we explored stoner metal in a way that is by no definition ordered or organized—stoner metal of all places and times, starting here in Richmond, VA in the recent past. (Click to read more)
Read MoreAfter much hemming and hawing, I finally bit the bullet and started a Patreon for my printmaking/art. I recently got my own private studio space, and I’m so stoked about what this will mean for my artmaking practice going forward. I also know that, as a result of this investment in my printmaking, I have to kinda bust a little ass to make my work sustainable going forward. This is part of that.
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Read MoreTonight on The Unquiet Grave (9-11 pm on WRIR LP 97.3 FM) we took a trip through all the best new stuff released so far in 2022. We checked out everything from French avant-jazz metal to teenaged thrash from Sweden. [Click to read more]
Read MoreTonight on the Unquiet Grave we listened to war metal from all around the globe. War metal is a subgenre with contested boundaries, but suffice to say it's raw, chaotic, and bestial, and often tinged with death and thrash. [Click for more]
Read MoreTonight’s episode explores the extreme metal of Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, and Algeria. This episode is largely black metal, though there are a few outliers.
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Read MoreTonight, to complete our thrash tetrad (with previous episodes including East Bay, Brazilian, and Teutonic thrash), we did East Coast thrash! Everything from dusty New Jersey demos from the mid-eighties found under somebody's bed to heavy-hitters like Anthrax were covered in this episode. (Click to read more)
Read MoreHey y’all, I updated the shop with a couple new things this past week. First, these risograph printed valentines featuring the visages of Mao, Lenin, Castro, and Sankara. (Click to read more)
Read MoreNo talking, just grind! Tonight it’s short and fast ones for two hours and a total of 55 tracks. This episode has grind of lots of different types and eras and from a ton of different places and scenes. It’s a grab bag!
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Read MoreOn this episode, we explored heavy metal of the U.S.S.R., mostly from the mid-to-late-eighties. I want to give a special shoutout to my absolute favorite album cover from one of the bands featured on this episode—the cover of the Минздрав СССР/Реаниматор single by Режим (Rezim) featuring Lenin joyfully sweeping imperialists off the globe:
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Read MoreTonight listeners met me in Blashyrkh for a wintry mix of all eras of Norwegian black metal icons Immortal, including demos and the first EP, all the LPs, and pre-Immortal (Old Funeral; Amputation) as well as post-Immortal (I, Demonaz, Abbath) projects. We even listened to some of Demonaz’s music composed for video games! It’s comprehensive Immortal worship—brave the cold and listen to an archived version of this episode here.
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Read MoreTonight we reminisced on the year we all just survived and the best heavy metal created under its auspices! We checked out everything from the weirdest black metal to the silliest grind, and lots in between. I also gave my New Years resolutions for this show…
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Read MoreIt’s the last Unquiet Grave episode of the year 2021, and it’s the Yule episode. We listened to everything from Gehenna’s “Sathana Claus” to Satyricon’s “My Skin Is Cold” in celebration of this, the most festive season. Consider it cold therapy for your Christmas hangover.
Read MoreTonight’s episode was about Viking Metal, a subgenre I admittedly know little about and, tbh, am not that into personally! It was nonetheless fun putting this episode together and learning more about it, and I also appreciate that it’s extremely seasonally appropriate. Lots of frost and snow in these tunes.
Read MoreThis evening we feasted on Destruction, Kreator, Sodom, Tankard, Exumer, Living Death, and a ton more German thrash metal (not all Teutonic thrash bands are German…but everything on this episode is).
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