I really thought this movie was made by madmen - Wes Craven Author: Bartłomiej Krawczyk In October 2024, 50 years have passed since the American and then world premiere of one of the most famous horror films in the history of cinematography. "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is one of the most analyzed and reinterpreted horror films of all time. Reviewers and cinema theorists have…
On October 20, Whispering Sons came to Poznań with their hypnotizing and dynamic sound. Known for emotionally charged performances and deep, engaging music, the band presented a captivating set spanning their entire discography. The concert was supported by a successful performance by septembie Author: Bartłomiej Krawczyk I have long wanted to go to a concert of the Belgian post-punk quintet Whispering Sons, because I subjectively consider their debut album...
![](https://darkultura.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/426666262_896465205813771_2970532945612423176_n-600x400.jpg "Insect Ark "Raw Blood Singing" (Debemur Morti Prod.) [REVIEW]")
I appreciate that Insect Ark did not get carried away by the vision of questionable advertising specialists and were not called a supergroup. Because considering the set of teams they had a hand in, it would even be justified. Fortunately, however, we are only dealing here, or at least, with a duo that is finding its way in a more difficult and at the same time...
At the beginning of the 21st century, neofolk music was triumphing. Soon she tripped over her own feet and broke her face. Is there room on the scene for up-and-coming artists who will revive this genre? We distinguish four noteworthy projects Author: Przemysław Murzyn I discovered neofolk music with passion and delight in the early 2000s, but I quickly realized that...
The cemetery located in Austria pays tribute to the lives lost in the Danube, encouraging us to honor the memory of those who left this world without a name. Author: Bartłomiej Krawczyk The Vienna Friedhof der Namenlosen (Simmering district), i.e. the Cemetery of the Nameless, has the suggestive name of the cemetery of drowned people and suicides. This is the only place in Europe fully dedicated to the victims of the river. I had the opportunity to visit this…
On September 16, an attack on the listeners' senses was launched at the UV club in Łódź - an "acoustic blitzkrieg", as it was noted in the description of the event. Lydia Lunch, one of the leading figures of the New York no wave movement, an eternal rebel and the queen of counterculture, together with Marek Hurtado, a French musician and versatile artist, performed in the repertoire of the legendary Alan Vega Author: Justyna Wróblewska...
![](https://darkultura.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/451194896_1069150708112388_7342005449671396747_n-600x400.png ""Mond" - the legacy of G. Rodenbach in the music of Soror Dolorosa [REVIEW]")
It was starting to look like a city. Once again he was the brother of silence and melancholy of this sorrowful Bruges, his soror dolorosa... - "Bruges dead" (1892) Author: Bartłomiej Krawczyk In 1892, a short novel by the Belgian symbolist poet and writer Georges Rodenbach (1855-1898) was published - "Bruges dead" ("Bruges-la-Morte"), pioneering for the time of its creation, illustrated with 35 black and white photographs of the city of Bruges....
![](https://darkultura.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/0037014593_10-600x400.jpg "Stridulum: "Paradigm" [REVIEW]")
Author: Bartłomiej Krawczyk On November 24, 2023, the premiere (via Manic Depression Records) of the second studio album of the native darkwave/dark electro duo Stridulum, titled "Paradigm", took place. This is definitely a portion of music that I still like to return to and will return to in the future. I already enjoyed the previous album (full-length debut) of Stridulum - "Soothing Tales of Escapism" (2021) ...
Author: Justyna Wróblewska I don't belong in the world, that's what it is. Something separates me from other people. Everywhere I turn, there's something blocking my escape. – Mary Henry, “Carnival of Souls” A woman suspended between life and death. Strange, always incongruous. This is the heroine of "Carnival of Souls", the film that inspired a work that is a milestone of horror...
Author: Magda Z. “Legs as thin as holders in inkwells of black shoes. A dress made of dark fabric, still too big, probably from Marysia's sister. A double string of short beads around the neck and Maria Dąbrowska's fringe. Nothing about this child foreshadowed the beauty of the pin-up girl she would transform into in the 1950s," described five-year-old Zosia in the photo...
