Attrition's 2008 album, All mine enemys whispers (The Story of Mary Ann Cotton) available via Projekt.com and Attrition.Co.Uk

There are tones and ranges of sound that can channel emotional response directly into one's consciousness... Rhythmic entrainment and psychoacoustics are capable of eliciting specific emotional responses ...

Asides from being great pop culture horror/action flicks, the Underworld movies were also known to have produced two really good goth-styled soundtracks. Two of the really standout songs on these albums were from Maynard James Keenan's side project Puscifer.

Keenan - best known for his work in Tool and ...

I'm driving along in a 1963 Cadillac trying to hold the lumbering sway of its heavy chassis straight to the road as I rumble down the city street past the usual castaways and early risers. I can't feel it but the steam coming out of their mouths makes ...

So I'm driving down the road listening to your stereotypical alternative rock station when they decide to play a song called Handlebars from a group named the Flobots. The first ten seconds sounded ridiculous, yet catchy; then the song broke out into rap music and I was totally mesmerized ...

If you're a casual Nine Inch Nails listener, this digital download is probably not for you, unless you're also a fan of slightly ambient industrial noise. If you're a hardcore Nine Inch Nails fan - or a computer using musician - then this is definitely going to excite you ...

Phillip Pullman's screed against organized religion hits the screens in a family-friendly Christmas release. It is, of course, little surprise that the film's Gnostic message has been entirely purged from the film. However, the core attitudes about the oppressive nature of organized religion shine through. Did I mention ...

This is an interesting little book and noteworthy because of a total lack of instruction on practice. I should say straightaway that if you’re looking for a book to teach you something about how to actually do Shamanism, this isn’t the book for you. However, if you’re…

I wanted to like this book. I really did. First of all, I was familiar with Messr. Digitalis’ online presence and thought he would have something really special to contribute to the ongoing community discussion re: old forms, new functions. However, I was increasingly disappointed with this book the more…

I hate HATE HATE Christopher Penczak! How the hell does this guy keep getting books published? This particular shit shingle is a bunch of New Age gobbledygook, new jack Theosophy that attempts to make some kind of grand unified field theory that appeals to…

For a part-time schizophrenic and Gnostic acid casualty, Philip K. Dick has a long history of Hollywood blockbusters. While a perpetual college favorite, his books rarely get adapted as heady, art-house style pictures. Rather, Hollywood has made his novels into cyberpunk noir (the almost universally revered Blade Runner), big-budget summer…

Despite the glut of ridiculous controversy surrounding the rather mediocre Da Vinci Code -- which to date includes the outrage of an 'Albino rights' group and the ruffled feathers of the 'mythical' Opus Dei - a great deal of the information at the heart of the story is based on fact. Given ...

Why, oh why? Why would an occult site even bother reviewing a book on business? Good question. The simple answer is that Douglas Rushkoff's Get Back in the Box is more than a "business book." It's a powerful schematic that can be just as useful in every other ...

When Peter Carroll brought chaos magick to the forefront with such works as Liber Null, Psychonaut, and Liber Kaos he touched on some fascinating subject matter in the occult, but left the experimentation up to the reader, much to the dismay of armchair theorists worldwide. But where Carroll leaves off ...

When confronted with disorder the brain will attempt to overlay some form or pattern to make sense of the chaos. The meticulous geometries often accompanying psychedelic hallucination are one example of this phenomena. The brain, it seems, is an organizing device that recoils at disorder and attempts to subdue it…

Rushkoff is no stranger to taking non-fiction themes and wrapping them into a fictional story. Ecstasy Club is one fine example. However, some writers are quick to learn that the graphic novel format is a completely different monster than the traditional fictional form. Fortunately, Rushkoff takes it slow and easy ...

A narrative account of the mystic sixties usually isn't my idea of exciting bedside reading or a harrowing page turner. However, Gary Lachman's Turn Off Your Mind manages to surprise you in more ways than one.

First let me start with the negative... Lachman has a tendency of ...

Further proof that "They" are looking towards "Us" for the next generation of cultural hits and snazzy media fads, the Disinformation DVD is a collection of four episodes of the British counterculture, reality-bending, mockumentary hosted by Richard Metzger of The Disinformation Company. The DVD also includes six hours of the ...