Recently, Obscuria Gothic Shop was approached by the legendary Fangoria Horror Magazine to do an interview for their website….and of course I was happy to oblige!

Some thought provoking questions were asked of me by writer Jorge Solis who was great to work with.

A small sampling of the interview:

FANG: Cyberpunk lovers will find plenty to enjoy with your exclusive hand-machined industrial cyber goggles, cyber masks and cyberpunk DVDs. What is it about the cyberpunk genre that interests you? How has it influenced the shop?

BRONSON: Great question! The cyberpunk genre is both a love/hate relationship for me. I grew up loving it from an aesthetic perspective, and for the rebellious nature of the main characters in books or films. I liked how the hero could sort of live outside of the system, yet move within it for his/her own means. At the same time, in this genre, the prevalence of societies fallen into dystopia, poverty and totalitarian control by a single large for-profit entity is very disconcerting…..

Read the rest of the interview on the Fangoria site here:Obscuria Comes to Light

Tags: fangoria, gothic shop

Obscuria Gothic Shop will be vending the Florida Underground Music Festival on February 6, 2010. All ages show, doors are at 2:00pm, cost $7.

Florida Industrial Fest 2010

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Checkout this contest being run by the lovely and talented writer/author Gabrielle Faust for the month of October. Win a $50 gift certificate to Obscuria.com! Details on how you can enter here: October Contests

About Gabrielle (synopsis from her website, for a more complete portfolio, continue here.)

Faust’s diverse talents have allowed her to pursue an eclectic career as an illustrator, technohorror author and leading industry entertainment critic. 2005 marked the release of her first published collection of poetry, Before Icarus, After Achilles, which was received by the public with a great enthusiasm. Faust partnered with Immanion Press in August of 2007 for the publishing of her cross-genre technohorror trilogy Eternal Vigilance, a post-apocalyptic vampire saga of epic proportions, the first of which, From Deep Within the Earth, was released in April of 2008. The second installment, The Death of Illusions was released in March of 2009. 2009 also saw the release of Faust’s second collection of poetry entitled Crossroads with Seraphemera Books. She is currently at work on the third installment of the Eternal Vigilance vampire series entitled Blood Kin

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As a thank you to the community and to celebrate Halloween, TheUnclean.com is having a month long series of contests. All throughout the month of October, you can win prizes. Winners will be announced on October 3rd, 17th & 31st.

Some of the prizes include Splinter on DVD autographed by Directory Toby Wilkins, the book Zombies for Zombies autographed by the Author David Murphy, FEWDIO’s Nightmare House Vol 1 on DVD autographed by the FEWDIO team, new music from Black Tape for a Blue Girl, a $50 gift certificate to Obscuria.com (a gothic shop), VIP membership to BlueBlood.com, ZOMBIE! merchandise from MurderGear.com and lots more. So, if you want to grab your share, head over to http://TheUnclean.com/halloween for the details.

TheUnclean.com has continued to grow for over two years now, with content being focused on news, events and resources for the subculture communities. During this time, Bane Unreinen of The Unclean has been fortunate enough to interact with some really great people within the community. Writers, film makers, publishers, artists, musicians & DJ’s, fashionistas, models, horror enthusiasts and many others. Bane is eternally grateful to the community as a whole and to the people he has met so far in particular.

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We are honored that the infamous Rue Morgue magazine contacted us to display an item in their deviantly dark “Needful Things” section of issue #93 September 2009.  The featured item is the Nosferatu’s Rest Coffin Pendant , a wicked coffin shaped pendant inspired by F.W. Murnau’s German classic silent horror film and crafted by Alchemy Gothic.

Rue Morgue magazine is a Canadian based publication that gives a balanced look at horror in culture and entertainment through their website, magazine, festival of fear horror convention, radio station and more.

Tags: gothic shop, nosferatu, Rue Morgue

Our longtime friend Tanya Hostetler recently underwent a double lung transplant after a long time battle with Cystic Fibrosis – a serious and difficult to manage disease.  Tanya’s other half Shawn Ohtani, and her love of the Metal/Industrial scene keep her going, along with her sense of humor and smart ass retorts.  Along with such a live saving surgery comes tons of expenses, lost wages and difficulties to overcome.

A link to her experience/progress blog: Tanya’s Blog

This Saturday September 26th 2009 a benefit show is being held in her honor and as a fundraiser. If you are in the Orlando area, come out and show your support and see a great show!

Door admission: $10 @9:00 pm

The Haven Lounge
6700 Aloma Avenue
Winter Park, FL. 32792

Project Pitchfork LIVE in the USA 200!

Here are the confirmed dates so far (venues will be announced soon):

08/19/09 Houston (tba)
08/20/09 Dallas – The Church
08/21/09 Austin – Elysium
08/22/09 Phoenix – (tba)
08/23/09 San Francisco (tba)
08/24/09 Seattle – El Corazon
08/26/09 LA – (tba)
08/27/09 Salt Lake City – Club Vegas
08/28/09 Denver (tba)
08/29/09 Chicago (tba)
08/30/09 Minneapolis (tba)
09/01/09 Detroit (tba)
09/02/09 Pittsburgh (tba)
09/03/09 Toronto Canada (tba)
09/04/09 Boston (tba)
09/05/09 Philly – Shampoo Club
09/06/09 Richmond (tba)
09/08/09 Cincinnati (tba)
09/10/09 Atlanta – Masquerade
09/11/09 Jacksonville (tba)
09/12/09 W.Palm Beach – Respectable Street
09/15/09 New Orleans (tba)
09/17/09 San Antonio (tba)
09/19/09 NYC – Stimulate

… if your town is missing, then go and pester your local concert organizer until he capitulates and books us, all right?

http://www.pitchfork.de/concertenglish.htm

Just found this video, a very intersting melding of styles and imagery. The vocals are deep, brooding and gothic, with a synthy/violin sounding background which breaks into country sounding fiddle riffs, very danceable indeed, and would be tons of fun to hear at a club!

Tags: surreal horror, video

For those that didn’t make it this year, there is  always next… the amazing Kinetik Festival is going on right now in Canada, with over 3 days, 35 bands of pure Industrial, EBM, Noize, and Electro bands…
Official website: Kinetik Festival

Some of the bands playing are Das Ich, Reaper , Project Pitchfork, Icon of Coil, Assemblage 23,  and many more awesome bands… unfortunately Skinny Puppy had to cancel for some reason….

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We recently were invited to setup a vending area for the Fifth annual Necropolis Masquerade Ball (thanks DJ LD) , in  downtown Orlando. It was great night and we got to hear some newer songs like the “Zydrate Anatomy” from the REPO: The Genetic Opera soundtrack … along with the elusive Christian Bale Rant Remix (thanks Ginger!), as well as some favorite Industrial/EBM sounds. About 350 people turned out for the night which was cool with a fantastic range of outfits.. along with some awesome animal head masks that reminded me of the movie The Wicker Man.

We setup with a couple of tables in the Pit area, along with amazing artist Vaughn Belak from whom we bought a surreal painting much to our delight.  Some photos to follow…

Tags: gothic shop, Vending Events