Free Short Story by John McGuire – And I Feel Fine.Skulls & Bones, Cloaks & Cats – All New Art Prints by J Edward Neill.Haunted Black Cat Portraits by Shadow Art Finds.PRESS RELEASE: Battle Box Dice Roller: Reclaiming Time in Tabletop RPGs.RPG TV Friday – The Witcher, The Expanse, The Wheel of Time, Hawkeye, and Star Trek.Ten Things Not to Do at a Literary Reading.My Favorite Films of 2015 (two days too late).He can also be found at Enter your email address to subscribe to Tessera Guild's blog to receive notifications of new posts by email! His other prose appears in The Dark That Follows, Hollow Empire, Beyond the Gate, and Machina Obscurum – A Collection of Small Shadows. Want to read the first issue for free? Click here! Already read it and eager for more? The Trade paperback collecting the first 4 issues is finally back from the printers! If you would like to purchase a copy, go here! John McGuire is the creator/author of the steampunk comic The Gilded Age. And looking forward to when they come back to Atlanta. I’m looking forward to really delving into the records now (you know, listening to them 30 or 40 times in the next month or so!). Plus, if someone is still sitting in the row ahead of you, there was a real danger of me kneeing them in the back of the head (luckily no incidents to report). This has nothing to do with the band, but instead with the venue: the seats we had didn’t fold up, so while you’re standing the back of your legs are constantly banging against them. Probably the introduce the band segment, while funny, with 7 “Nameless Ghouls” to introduce, it went on a little too long. In fact, if I was going to see another band there I would look into having seats right on the balcony edge to get the more comfortable seats (see Low Lights for the problem with the seats). The lead singer was very personable, interacting with the crowd, and telling stories (i.e. There were costume changes, a keytar solo (which is something that I never knew I needed in my life until I saw it – amazing!), a sax solo (yes, these are the reasons they don’t “fit” in a category), a guitar battle between two of the eight band members (Cardinal Copia and 7 Nameless Ghouls), the introduce the band segment (ladies and gentlemen: Ghoul!), Cardinal Copia’s alternate idea for what they should do instead of an encore song (let’s just say that it was very crude and funny and would have broken way too many city ordinances). Only Pearl Jam has ever matched something like that of all the bands I’ve seen. And to top it off they played for 2 hours and 45 minutes (with a 15-minute intermission!). They sound pretty much as they do on the albums. So definitely one of those shows where you were never going to be “out-of-place”. You had your 18 to 25-year-olds, you had your slightly older metal-heads, your Goth guys and gals, your more straight-laced people, families (mom, dad, and two 13ish daughters right beside me), and even those who dressed up and wore the face paint to match the band. But at the Ghost show, it was a true meeting of so many different types of people. Now enough time has passed that I’m the “older” guy in the back bobbing my head. I remember going to shows in my 20s where everyone in the place was around 18 to 25 and there would be the couple of “older” guys in the back bobbing their heads along with the music. And by having 8 people in the band (yes, 8!), it allows them to have a very “full” sound during the show. With Metal shows, you never know quite what you are going to get. Even when I was at the show itself, songs I’d only heard maybe 4 or 5 times were already in my head, and I found myself singing lyrics I didn’t even realize I’d known. They are definitely all those things, but as I told a guy at work, their stuff is very catchy… more so in my mind than a lot of the Metal I’ve listened to in the past (and still listen to). Here’s the thing about Ghost, they are a Dark Metal or Doom Metal or Heavy Metal Band… I’m honestly not entirely sure. A friend had asked if I wanted to go and seeing as how I had heard about 2 songs from them… I obviously said yes. This past Friday I went to see Ghost play at the Roxy just north of Atlanta (actually across the street from where the Atlanta Braves now play).
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