Jerome Deppe & Chuck Van Zyl

("The Evil Thief" by Jerome Deppe - gelatin silver print - click image to view larger)

Here's a highly recommended event for you Philly people...

Jerome Deppe & Chuck Van Zyl 

Photography Exhibition

Opening reception this Friday, October 1 · 5:00pm - 9:00pm

Germ Books & Gallery

2005 Frankford Avenue

Philadelphia, PA

germbooks.com

("Graceland" by Chuck Van Zyl - gelatin silver print - click image to view larger)

The show will be up through the end of November. Don't miss it!

Also be sure to "like" Germ on Facebook here.

("Dragonfly Memento Mori" by Jerome Deppe - waxed cyanotype with tannin - click image to view larger)

Sky Burial

For a much more detailed look at a Sky Burial click here (NOT WORK SAFE).

Thanks (yet again) to Michael Hensley for the suggestion.

Must See Philly Triple Feature SUNDAY NIGHT!

Colors of the Dark co-conspirators Isaac Williams and Ed Ballinger will be showing their cinematic work this Sunday as part of The Philadelphia Film and Music Fest. 

Isaac will be screening "Paying the Price" as well as the sure-to-be-amazing making-of called "Maybe We Can Go To Hollywood?" AND Ed will be screening "The Secret Door." (Click titles for trailers).

Here are the pertinent details:

This Sunday 9/26/2010

7:30pm at 

The Media Bureau

725 N. 4th Street Philadelphia, PA 19123

no advance tickets so come earlier

$8 - cheap

Forgotten Places

Forgotten Places from →Zac Boyet← on Vimeo.

Jerome Deppe

Verge of Light just released the digital version of Jerome Deppe’s excellent album “Showtunes for the Damned.” This was originally released in 2008 as a CD and Graphic Novel (which is still available here).

Here's an excerpt of a review by Simon Collins, from Judas Kiss Webzine:

“Showtunes For The Damned is the fourth solo album from Baltimore-based musician Jerome Deppe. In addition to being a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, and playing guitar for David E. Williams as well as recording his own music, Jerome is a painter and photographer, and Showtunes… is a multi-media showcase for his plethora of talents. [… the album] is a tour-de-force of dark pop, rising above the gravitational pull of its obvious 80s industrial, goth and post-punk influences to offer a stark, unflinching commentary on living in the end-times.”

You can listen / purchase this over at bandcamp (or in the player below). The album is also available through iTunes America will be for sale via Amazon MP3 shortly.



As you can see on the right, "Showtunes for the Damned" is the first Colors of the Dark Bandcamp Album of the Month. If you know a release on bandcamp that you think would make a good Album of the Month please email us a link to check out.

Lorna The Exorcist / Seven Doors Hotel

Now THAT my friends is a DVD cover.

"Lorna The Exorcist" will be coming soon on the fine Mondo Macabro DVD label.

In slightly unrelated news, something wonderful has just come to our attention: 

One of Colors of the Dark's all-time favorite writers and musicians, Stephen Thrower, has a blog.

Why should you care about yet another blog?

This man is known for recording music under many names including Cyclobe, UnicaZürn, Coil, and Possession AND is responsible for three of the best books on cult cinema (The Eyeball Compendium, Nightmare USA Vol. 1, and Beyond Terror: the Films of Lucio Fulci). He's also finishing up a book on the director of the above film Jess Franco.

Check out Stephen Thrower's Seven Doors Hotel here.

Big Bang Big Boom

BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Hobo With A Shotgun

Colors of the Dark hasn't been so happy to learn about a new movie in ages. Why? Here's three reasons...

1) Rutger Hauer FINALLY got a decent starring role for the first time since the 80's (we keep his bio on our coffee table).

2) The title.

3) Did you SEE the trailer? You need to watch the unrated trailer here.

For more on the movie you can read a little piece Fangoria did and visit the official website.

Thanks to Michael Hensley for the heads up on this movie.

Epee Du Bois

Epee Du Bois Live @ Wierd 2.24.2010 from WIERD Records on Vimeo.

You can check out more from Epee Du Bois on his MySpace page.

For info on who is playing Wierd in NYC soon click here.

ASIATROMA

Le Dernier Cri's latest Hospital Brut excretion is "ASIATROMA" and it looks amazing.

To order go to lederniercri.org and click "DC Shop" in the upper right corner.

Here's their (translated) official blurb:

ASIATROMA/ HOPITAL BRUT SPECIAL JAPON
RELEASED FOR SEPTEMBER EXHIBITION IN TOKYO / FUKUOKA ....
TRIBUTE TO YOKAI AND MORE !!!!!

WITH : Keiichi OTA, Sekitani, Ichiba Daisuke, Nemoto, Les Frères Guedins, Bolino, Julien Rictus, Stu Mead, Fredox et Laetitia, Andy Bolus, Valparess, Matthias Lehmann, Antoine Bernhart ,Moolinex, Martes Bathori, Nuvish, Matti Hagelberg, Marcus Nyblom, Craoman, Dave2000, Brecht VandenBroucke, Tommi Musturi, Mathieu Desjardins, Anne Van Der Linden, Brinkman, Gary Panter , Guillaume Soulatges, Judex,Michel Goyon, Albert Foolmoon, Liquide de la tete, Clark Walter, Franck Omer, Timothy Georgarakis, Maki , daniel cantrel, tomahawk, Vero, Zven, Maite Grandjouan, mathieu jiro, Sophie guerrive, Reijo Karkkainen, Helge Reumann, Clark Walter, marie Valentine, Zeami, Leo, celine Guichard, Andreas Marchal, Pit, Klaus Theuerkauf, george tourlas, Yokogaga, Luke ramsey, JM Bertoyas, Marcel Ruijters, valium, Marc Brunier Mestas Nina Bunjevac, Isao Moutte, Dennis Tyfus, Pierre Marty, Jonathon Rosen ,Reinhard Scheibner, shannon freshwater, Pegui, charles papier,Alkbaz, ciro, thomas Bonin, Romain Lamy, Richard Bawin, Quentin Faucompre, Maija Kurseva ,John Broadley , Lilas, Quicky, Giraud ,DDB , Jo 99, Camille Girard et Paul Brunet, Remi,Ludovic Levasseur, Mikko Kallio , didier progeas, Bald eagle, Olaf Ladousse, Franck Omer , Keenan Marshall Keller, Yann Taillefer, Stephanie Lucas...

22x30cm + various interior formats
200 pages, screen and offset printed
Cover 5 color passes
600 copies
40€ (at this moment = $51 USD)

Talk Normal

Check out Talk Normal at myspace.com/talknormaltalknormal

Unearthly Trance - V

(Photo by Jimmy Hubbard - Click image to view larger)

Unearthly Trance gets a lot of airplay at the Colors of the Dark corporate offices. In fact, we've had their music piping thru the PA system, on 24 hour repeat, for the last 93 days.

The new album, titled "V," will be available for sale thru Relapse on September 28th. You can pre-order the LP or CD and order killer new merch here. There will also be a cassette version available from Humanless Recordings soon.

You can hear three preview tracks here. As you will soon experience, UT just get better and better with each new release.

Check out the amazing album cover by Glyn Smyth.

(Click image to view larger)

You can read all about the process of creating the art on Glyn's blog here.

The band will start an East Coast tour on September 29th. The Philadelphia show on October 13th will be a special collaboration with UT and Jonathan Canady.

For more on Unearthly Trance go to their official website.

Gone With The Pope / Grindhouse Releasing

This film was screened in a few U.S. cities earlier this year. Let's hope that means there will be a Grindhouse Releasing DVD soon.

You can read all about "Gone With The Pope" here.

Here's a Grindhouse 2010 promo video (WARNING: this is not even slightly work safe)...


And you can see many more excellent Grindhouse Releasing trailers on their YouTube Channel.

Relay for Death

Out now on Hanson Records, Relay for Death - "Birth of an Older, Much More Ugly Christ" LP (limited to 300 copies).

Here is the (amazing) description of this album by Hanson proprietor Aaron Dilloway:

This shit is DARK…  and I’m not talking about some fucking “I sleep during the day” dark…I’m not talking some “Cannibal Corpse shit - I’m a fucking mutilator” dark….And I’m not talking “I’m a noise dude into black metal” dark…  I’m talking total fucking END OF THE WORLD shit…like…everyone is going to die and it’s gonna be fucking TERRIBLE.

Recorded in 2009 by sisters Roxann and Rachal Spikula while in a hospital doing some fucked up health study where all they could drink was Shasta for like 2 weeks.  NO JOKE!  Master tape arrived wrapped in a duct taped hospital gown with my address written on it in sharpie.

Side A:  The tape becomes unpaused and kicks in with a menacing organ drone that mutates into the lo-fi skree of an empty room, eventually becoming a swirling abyss of tape hiss and the sound of nothing happening in a hospital… Distant creaks, buzz, and hums littered with hiss and garbage sound layered into a very unsettling frenzied drone.

Side B:  A crunchy noise inferno that eventually leads us to what sounds to me like being in outer space watching the earth exploding.  As you watch everything we know of destroyed, a saddening descending synth wave appears, buried by blasts of destroyed earth.  It ends… and you are disturbed.

Limited to 300 copies.  Pitch black vinyl with pitch black labels. Heavy duty black and silver silkscreened covers with the ‘Hanson Droll Flaps’

Take a break from yer most recent mediocre synth bliss out tape and take a trip back to the real fucking world…where everything fucking SUCKS.

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You can hear / download MP3 excerpts of this release here and here.

Go to the Hanson Records website to order.