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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 2d

Viktor Wynd’s book of Dark Fairy Tales is out now with illustrations by Luciana Nedelea. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/10/20/d... #DarkFairyTales #Pretel #ViktorWyd #fairytales #horror #fantasy #darkfantasy

Dark Fairy Tales: Stories From Around The World, by Viktor Wynd (Prestel 2025)

Viktor Wynd takes us on a trip around the globe to sample dire folklore in Dark Fairy Tales. The proprietor of the Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art, and Unnatural History in London, Viktor Wynd is a…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 3d

Lambrini Girls. 📷: Wayne Edwards. More photos at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/10/19/p... #punk #punkrock #hardcore #ska #rock #hardrock #heavymetal #livemusic #LasVegas #PunkRockBowling @punkrockbowling.bsky.social #LambriniGirls

Photo Gallery: Lambrini Girls at Punk Rock Bowling 2025

I went to the twenty-fifth installment of Punk Rock Bowling in Las Vegas for Ghost Cult Magazine (link to that article is below). Here are some of the pictures I took. Photos by Wayne Edwards. © Wa…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 4d

The final memoir of Ozzy Osbourne is out now, Last Rites. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/10/18/l... #music #heavymetal #biography #Ozzy #OzzyOsbourne #BlackSabbath #GrandCentralPublishing #UK

Last Rites, by Ozzy Osbourne, with Chris Ayres (Grand Central 2025)

The final memoir (probably) of Ozzy Osbourne is out now, Last Rites. Ozzy Osbourne published an earlier reminiscence, I Am Ozzy (Grand Central Publishing, 2009). That book was very much like a biog…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 5d

Long time Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice has a new record out with his band Purpendicular called Banned. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/10/17/p... #heavymetal #metal #rock #hardrock #IanPaice #DeepPurple #Purpendicular #MetalvilleRecords #classicmetal #tradmetal #bluesrock

Purpendicular, Banned (Metalville 2025)

Long time Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice has a new record out with his band Purpendicular called Banned. Purpendicular is a band legendary musician Ian Paice started a few years ago. The name is a c…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 6d

RIP Ace. Last time I saw him play was with Alice Cooper a few years back in Los Angeles. Wish I had seen him more. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Kiss Guitarist Ace Frehley Dead at 74

Ace Frehley, the Spaceman of Kiss who played with the group from their formation in 1973 until 1983, and then again in the Nineties, has died at 74.

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 6d

Head Cut. 📷: Wayne Edwards. More photos at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/10/16/p... #punk #punkrock #hardcore #ska #rock #hardrock #heavymetal #livemusic #LasVegas #PunkRockBowling @punkrockbowling.bsky.social #HeadCut

Photo Gallery: Head Cut at Punk Rock Bowling 2025

I went to the twenty-fifth installment of Punk Rock Bowling in Las Vegas for Ghost Cult Magazine (link to that article is below). Here are some of the pictures I took. Photos by Wayne Edwards. © Wa…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 8d

The Schizophonics. 📷: Wayne Edwards. More photos at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/10/14/p... #MuddyRoots #MRMF #livemusic #musicfestivals #rock #Schizophonics #punk #folk #heavymetal

Photo Gallery: The Schizophonics at Muddy Roots (2025)

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 8d

Titans of Siren. 📷: Wayne Edwards. More photos at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/10/04/p... #MuddyRoots #MRMF #livemusic #musicfestivals #rock #TitansOfSiren #punk #folk #heavymetal

Photo Gallery: Titans Of Siren at Muddy Roots (2025)

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 9d

Graveripper steps up to the edge with their newest album, From Welkin To Tundra. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/10/13/g... #heavymetal #metal #rock #hardrock #thrash #blackenedthrash #Graveripper #WiseBloodRecords #Indianapolis #blackmetal

Graveripper, From Welkin To Tundra (Wise Blood 2025)

Graveripper steps up to the edge with their newest album, From Welkin To Tundra. Stalking the seedy streets of Indianapolis, thrash mongers Graveripper crashed into the heavy music world in 2019. T…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 10d

The third full length album from Ontario stoner prog band The Isosceles Project is Bear The Torch. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/10/12/t... #heavymetal #metal #rock #hardrock #TheIsoscelesProject #Canada #Hamilton #instrumentalrock #prog #heavyprog #instrumentalmetal #progressivemetal

The Isosceles Project, Bear The Torch (2025)

The third full length album from Ontario stoner prog band The Isosceles Project is Bear The Torch. Author of two previous long-players, Oblivion’s Candle (2009) and Bridges (2012), The Isosceles Pr…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 12d

Noogy. 📷: Wayne Edwards. More photos at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/10/05/p... #MuddyRoots #MRMF #livemusic #musicfestivals #rock #Noogy #punk #folk

Photo Gallery: Noogy at Muddy Roots (2025)

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 12d

Sweet’s 1986 concert at the Marquee Club in London gets a new release from Metalville. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/10/10/s... #heavymetal #rock #hardrock #Sweet #TheSweet #MetalvilleRecords #LiveAtTheMarquee

Sweet, Live At The Marquee (Metalville 2025)

Sweet’s 1986 concert at the Marquee Club in London gets a new release from Metalville. Metalville Records continues with its series of re-releases of long out of print Sweet albums. This newest one…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 13d

Immortal Lee County Killers. 📷: Wayne Edwards. More photos at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/10/01/p... #MuddyRoots #MRMF #livemusic #musicfestivals #ILCK #rock #ImmortalLeeCountyKillers #punk #folk

Photo Gallery: Immortal Lee County Killers at Muddy Roots (2025)

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 13d

Heavy Hell 6, The Final Act. 📷: Wayne Edwards. Notes on the festival and a few more photos at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/10/08/h... #HeavyHell #HeavyHell6 #blackmetal #deathmetal #heavymetal #BlackCircleMusicBar #livemusic #musicfestivals #Nunslaughter

Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 13d

Thrash legends Dark Angel release their first full-length studio album in over three decades, Extinction Level Event. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/10/09/d... #heavymetal #rock #hardrock #DarkAngel #ExtinctionLevelEvent #ReversedRecords #thrash #thrashmetal #California

Dark Angel, Extinction Level Event (Reversed 2025)

Thrash legends Dark Angel release their first full-length studio album in over three decades, Extinction Level Event. I am a huge fan of Dark Angel, and I have listened to their seminal albums an u…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 22d

Bolt Swallower. 📷: Wayne Edwards. More photos at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/09/30/p... #MuddyRoots #MRMF #livemusic #musicfestivals #BoltSwallower #rock #experimentalmetal #heavymetal #punk #grind #hardcore

Photo Gallery: Bolt Swallower at Muddy Roots (2025)

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 23d

Counterrevolutionary metal band Dirkschneider And The Old Gang release their first full-length record, Babylon. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/09/29/d... @csquaredmm2.bsky.social #heavymetal #metal #rock #hardrock #Germany #DATOG #DirkschneiderAndTheOldGang #tradmetal #traditionalmetal

Dirkschneider And The Old Gang, Babylon (Reigning Phoenix 2025)

Counterrevolutionary metal band Dirkschneider And The Old Gang release their first full-length record, Babylon. Dirkschneider And The Old Gang – DATOG – was originally launched a few years back for…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 24d

Thlurm. 📷: Wayne Edwards. More photos at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/09/28/p... #MuddyRoots #MRMF #livemusic #musicfestivals #Thlurm #rock #experimentalmetal #heavymetal #punk #grind #grindviolence

Photo Gallery: Thlurm at Muddy Roots (2025)

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Lasse Marhaug @lassemarhaug.bsky.social · Jul 14

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 28d

Cosmic Reaper dredges up some fresh North Carolina gloom for their latest album, Bleed The Wicked, Drown The Damned. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/09/24/c... #heavymetal #metal #rock #hardrock #CosmicReaper #NorthCarolina #stoner #stonermetal #doom #stonerdoom #desertrock #sludge

Cosmic Reaper, Bleed The Wicked, Drown The Damned (Heavy Psych Sounds 2025)

Cosmic Reaper dredges up some fresh North Carolina gloom for their latest album, Bleed The Wicked, Drown The Damned. From Charlotte, Cosmic Reaper coalesced from the mist in 2017. After an early EP…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 29d

Groovy doom band Warcoe will crack your speakers with their new album, Upon Tall Thrones. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/09/23/w... @ripplemusic.bsky.social #heavymetal #metal #rock #hardrock #RippleMusic #Warcoe #Italy #stoner #stonermetal #doom #stonerdoom #desertrock

Warcoe, Upon Tall Thrones (Ripple 2025)

Groovy doom band Warcoe will crack your speakers with their new album, Upon Tall Thrones. Warcoe started out five years ago in Persaro. A doom band that revels in the honorific at confluence with t…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · Sep 22

Halifax gothic metal band Paradise Lost release their seventeenth album, Ascension. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/09/22/p... #heavymetal #metal #rock #hardrock #ParadiseLost #NuclearBlastRecords #doom #doommetal #melodicdoom #gothicmetal #gothic

Paradise Lost, Ascension (Nuclear Blast 2025)

Halifax gothic metal band Paradise Lost release their seventeenth album, Ascension. Paradise Lost was create thirty-five years ago. Pioneers of gothic metal and icons in the heavy music field, Para…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · Sep 21

The Koffin Kats in the Big Tent. 📷: Wayne Edwards. More photos at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/09/20/p... #MuddyRoots #MRMF #livemusic #musicfestivals #TheKoffinKats #KoffinKats #rockabilly #rock

Photo Gallery: The Koffin Kats at Muddy Roots (2025)

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Sep 19

If you have information you can share about the VA, reach out to our reporter @vernalcoleman.bsky.social directly at [email protected] or on Signal at vcoleman91.99 👇

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I’m a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter based in Chicago who writes about, among other things, law enforcement and veterans’ issues.

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · Sep 19

Chicago progressive dark metal band Novembers Doom release their dozenth album, Major Arcana. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/09/19/n... #heavymetal #metal #rock #hardrock #ProphecyProductions #NovembersDoom #doom #doommetal #darkmetal #Chicago

Novembers Doom, Major Arcana (Prophecy 2025)

Chicago progressive dark metal band Novembers Doom release their dozenth album, Major Arcana. Novembers Doom was founded in Chicago in 1989. They are known as a death/doom band, while they deploy t…

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