Necrocasticon

Welcome to a very special edition of the Necrocasticon, our landmark 200 th chapter. Tom, Scott, Walt & Dan welcome our biggest guests ever in Horror and Metal, as we talk to Bram Stoker Award winning Author Brian Keene and the man behind Cities on Flame: Albert Bouchard, formerly of Blue Oyster Cult. It's a chapter 4 years in the making, for you, our Necrocasticfans! All this plus we chime in on...

This is Volume 4, Chapter 45 of the Necrocasticon, the penultimate episode before we break our milestone 200 th chapter! And we're getting bizarre when Scott and the panel interview Mike Vaughn, the author of The Ultimate Guide to Strange Cinema. Wanna know where those bizarro writers get some of their ideas? Check out the movies in this book! Walt reviews Children of Bodom, HEXED, and Mike Duke's...

Volume 4, Chapter 44 of The Necrocasticon welcomes Andy Parsons from Brick By Brick to talk about their new album. Plus Sal DelGreco joins as our guest panelist this week as Walt reviews the latest from Queensryche, Scott tells us what he thought of The Lords of Chaos, Tom took a trip into the Spiderverse, and Dan speculates on what we can expect from Captain Marvel this week.

We close out #WIHM this week with another double shot of guests! Author, editor and small press owner Andrea Dawn from Tell Tale Press, starts us off... Then author and contributing editor to Rue Morgue magazine, Monica S. Kuebler joins us to send our women in horror month coverage off in style. Plus we've got the top 10 things trending in metal and horror, Scott reviews the new Candlemass, Walt's...

We're going all out for #WIHM this week with Dicey Grenor, author of the Narcoleptic Vampire series and The Gal in the Blue Mask, Meghan Hyden, joins us to give her Top 10 Women In Horror! Plus Walt reviews Cold Skin, Scott loves the new Rotting Christ, Dan comes to blows with Soldier of War & Tom reviews The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot.

Welcome to Volume 4 Chapter 41 of The Necrocasticon. #WIHM continues with Donelle Pardee Whiting, the editing Goddess at Stitched Smile Publications, joins us for a frank talk on how important an editor is to a writer. Plus Scott reviews the live King Diamond Blu Ray and 13 th Beast, the latest from Malevolent Creation. Walt's getting hot for the new In Flames and Tom wants to raid coastal ports w...

The Necrocasticon kicks off Women in Horror Month with special guest Lisa Vasquez, from Stitched Smile Publications! Plus Tom, Walt and Scott have this week's Top in metal & Horror. And Dan? Well, he had a job to do...

Necrocasticon Volume 4 Chapter 39 is full of special guests this week! First, our friend Skip Novak, from You've got to be Kidding, joins Tom at the campfire to discuss the new movie BLOOD BOUND, and Tom and our friend Devilboy interview the director, Richard LeMay! Then, Sgt Fury tackles Daniel Baldwin and Vivica A Fox's CROSSBREED. We've got a new thing: Devil Boys Top 10 Picks this week in Meta...

Volume 4 chapter 38 of The Necrocasticon welcomes special guest panelist, author and horror expert Pembroke Sinclair for our discussion! Metal Reunions, plus horror reboots and remakes, what are some of our favorites in this subgenre that often ignores lesser quality sequels in franchises. All this, plus Sgt Fury breaks some Glass!  

Coming in 2019! What do we think of the Grammy nominations? Sgt Fury comes to blows with Adam Steigart's FANG! We put on our blindfolds to talk about the Netflix phenomena Bird Box. Did I like the new Watership Down? Walt reviews the new Soilwork & I go to Sleep...

Happy New Year! Volume 4 Chapter 34 of the Necrocasticon brings us highlights from our favorite interviews of 2018 including: Dan Padavona! CV Hunt! Andy Parsons! Dave Thomas! Matt Hayward & Pat Lacey!

Merry Christmas & happy holidays from the Necrocasticon staff! Christmas Eve used to be a night of ghost stories, so keeping with this tradition, as a special gift to you, for this holiday season we offer you the complete Authorcon Author reading panel. Featuring John Koloski, Loren Molloy, Nicole Minuck, Lorna Czarnota, James McNally, and our very own Tom Clark. Vampires, Serial Killers and a goo...

Volume 4 Chapter 32 of The Necrocasticon is pretty busy for Scott, Walt and company! First, we find the common connection between AC/DC's Back In Black and Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive. Then Wrestler vs. a B-Movie returns as Dan reviews Uncorked Entertainment's Lifechanger. But that's not all - Tom interviews Lifechanger's writer/director Justin McConnel!

We're all over the map this week as volume 4 chapter 31 of the Necrocasticon returns to ScareACon 2018 with the Horror Podcasting panel. Tom, Walt and their friend Rich Coryell from Horror Zone 607 talk about what it takes to have a horror themed podcast. Plus we go completely off the rails and talk about the upcoming crop of Marvel movies, but we bring it back with news on Judas Priest, Uriah Hee...

It's time for our fourth annual "Last Minute Holiday Gift Buying Guide" at The Necrocasticon! Tom, Scott, Walt & Dan give their picks for the best of 2018 in movies, TV, music and books in the horror and metal genres.

Tom, Scott, Walt & Dan are all back in the barn for Volume 4 Chapter 29 of the Necrcasticon! Our favorite duos in metal and horror be it writing teams, albums, singer/guitarist combos, books or movies, we'll talk about some of our favorite two-fors! Plus we have the Elvira, Mistress of the Dark panel from Spooky Empire, back in October!

The guys remember Stan Lee and Dan gets all choked up, Walt is all about the new Nita Strauss album, Scott is loving the Walking Dead's new direction and Tom moderates the Horror Writer's panel at ScareACon 2018 featuring horror historian David J. Skal, Amy Baker and Dan Walters.

Necrocasticon Volume 4 chapter 27 delivers with a fall basket of horror & metal goodies! Mr. Scott went to see Cannibal Corpse - Sgt Dan took on the latest from Uncorked Entertainment, Scarecrows - Walt saw Death By Metal and remembers Chuck's legacy - Tom saw Overlord and it blew him away. Plus we talk to the director and co-writer of Scarecrows, Stu Stone!

Volume 4 Chapter 26 of the Necrocasticon... where we blend horror and metal with a common connection! Tom and Dan are in charge this week, mostly. We're giving Mr. Scott the week off, but Walt joins Tom and our friend Rich from 3 Fat Nerds for OUR FAVORITE HORROR Panel from ScareACon 2018. Dan gets uncorked, once again, and reviews KRAMPUS ORIGINS In wrestler vs. a B-Movie. Tom revisited Stephen K...

We wish you all a Happy Halloween week here at the Necrocasticon! Mr. Scott and Sgt. Dan are in the drivers seat again, taking us on a trip through metal and horror history, and dishing out our Halloween week picks for #HeavyMetalHorrorween. Then, Tom and Walt give us a preview of their coverage of ScareACon. In the coming weeks we'll be bringing you some of the panels they were a part of, from th...

Volume 4 Chapter 24 of the Necrocasticon asks "Where's Walter?" and welcomes Scare-A-Con show runner JV Johnson on to talk about overcoming adversity when putting on a convention. But that's not all. A couple weeks ago Tom got to moderate a Q&A panel with horror legend Don Coscarelli, and we'll have it here for you in its entirety! Plus... Tom and Dan's spoilerific review of the new HALLOWEEN and...

Tom and Walt go to Authorcon & Parahorror Fest with plenty of shenanigans to partake in! Tom moderates a panel with Dawn of the Dead's Helicopter Zombie, Jim Krut, and author/actress/director Loren Molloy. Scott and Dan hold down the fort in the studio with this week in metal & horror history, plus our #HeavyMetalHorrorween picks!

It's a very special chapter of The Necrocasticon this week as we welcome back one of the grandfathers of splatterpunk and extreme horror, Craig Spector. Craig has been battling stage 4 prostate cancer the past couple years, and has found music to be his best therapy. It's a different Necrocasticon than you're used to, peeps & perps, as we let Craig take the stand and tell the story of his musical...

Volume 4 Chapter 21 looks for our missing Sgt Dan, forcing Tom and Walt to review HELL FEST and MANDY. We wish happy birthday to Blue Oyster Cult's biggest record and few other things as Scott delves into This Week in Horror & Metal History. Also, Machine Head asks, "What do you do when half the band quits?" Plus we kick off #HeavyMetalHorrorween with the first of our holiday horror/metal crossove...

Volume 4 Chapter 20 gets a little smokey (we're talking about Walt's Smoker here, right?) as we present our favorite trilogies in metal, print and screen. Plus Tom interviews writer-director-producer Megan Freels Johnston about her female driven horror films, being a role model for young women and her interesting pedigree. But that's not all, oh no. Sgt Dan brings us his best Films of Fury review...