Ep. 111 Corpsepaint

“I’ve looked into his eyes and seen the blackness of the beyond,
the great nothing that waits for our warmth.” The podcast gets as
metal as it will ever get: we’re joined by Tenebrous Kate of the
Bad Books for Bad People podcast to discuss David Peak’s utterly
indefensible horror novel Corpsepaint. Its snaking story slithers
its way from a grimy travelogue about a pair of musicians traveling
across Europe to the Ukraine to record an album into full-blown
Lovecraftian apocalyptic horror. But wait, it gets worse! Murder,
torture, school shootings, heroin withdraw, the cruelty of the old
gods, evil goats and blood-caked fretboards, the story begins with
black metal and ends with plague, cannibalism and mass death. The
discussion touches on the traditions of cosmic horror, the definite
but indefinable distinction between black and death metal, and the
pleasures of artworks that will definitely fail any moral purity
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twitter.com/TheLastMachine Intro music: Unleash the Bastards / “Tea
for Two” Outro music: Marcus Pinn / “Vegas"