Retro Halloween Vibes

Aren't these old Halloween photos so cool? They make me wanna travel back in time :)

I still don't know what I want to dress up as for Halloween this year... There seems to be so much pressure these days to have a completely AMAZING costume and to become something that no one else has thought of yet. I find though that most of these constumes aren't in face scary at all (since when have you found a smurf, an 'ironic' hipster dad or a princess, scary in the slightest?). 

Bring back 'The Classic Witch' I say!

Joseph Edward Duncan III - SERIAL KILLER

Once again, it's been a while since my last post..
Over the Summer my Fiancé and I ran out of series to watch before bed and as a result, we ended up watching serial killer documentaries again! I know, before bed really is NOT the best time to watch this kind of thing... and this was never more clear to me than when I watched this documentary on Mr. Joseph Edward Duncan the 3rd.
I have not been as disturbed by a serial killer documentary as I was by this one in quite some time! These events occurred quite recently, 2005 I believe. The reenactments are a bit annoying, but the story in seriously intense... It's horrendous really.

Seriously, don't watch this unless you want to get distressed

Documentary - CHILD OF RAGE

REDLIGHT

I channeled some anger into this song :P

The Most Horrifically Pervy Kids TV Show Host Of The 70's

It's been a while since I've posted anything and I was waiting to post again when I felt there was something worth posting - this is definitely it!
I saw this on my facebook news feed this evening and I was so unbeleivably freaked out by it, just imagine being one of those kids.... I don't understand why it's on a site for 'funny' stuff, it's terrifying! I think it belongs here a lot better..

Extremely Pervy TV Show Host - watch more funny videos

Murderous Love #5 (The Mini-Album has finally landed)

3 Bonus Tracks are included in album download, 9 tracks in total

Enjoy!

BENEDETTA BONICHI - To See In The Dark

I've come across this really cool artist, Benedetta Bonichi! Check out these amazing cross-breed human/animal x-ray images...

There are loads of other really great images on her website documenting some installations she has done and other things.. here are a few examples :

The Murders of Ken & Barbie

Nobody is really that perfect....

Photos : Mariel Clayton

Nanu Nanu #1

Murderous Love #4 (The Shadow Party)

I will be doing a candlelit gig on Wednesday October 26th to launch my new EP, Murderous Love.. There will be chocolates, shadows dancing on the walls and free dark glitter make-up for anyone who wants to twinkle in the candlelight! Support on the night comes from Sí who is just about to release her much anticipated debut album 'Great Expectations'. Let her haunting voice and stunning harp and piano music bring you on an emotional journey into her world.

Doyles (Upstairs) - College Green, Dublin

Doors : 8.30pm

Entry : €6 (€8 with cd)

Dress Code : Black

Dramatic Make-Up : Recommended!

Creepy handmade chocolates for all who attend, made in my very own witching cauldron!

There are also still just a hand full of Delux Hard-Copy EP's left in stock. You can pre-order your own copy here while stocks last

JUNKO FURUTA - The girl who went through 44 days of torture

I saw this floating around the internet, it's pretty extreme so don't read if you are in any way squeamish!  Poor poor girl...

DAY 1: November 22, 1988: Kidnapped Kept captive in house, and posed as one of boy’s girlfriend Raped (over 400 times in total) Forced to call her parents and tell them she had run away Starved and malnutritioned Fed cockroaches to eat and urine to drink Forced to masturbate Forced to strip in front of others Burned with cigarette lighters Foreign objects inserted into her vagina/anus DAY 11: December 1, 1988: Severely beat up countless times Face held against concrete ground and jumped on Hands tied to ceiling and body used as a punching bag Nose filled with so much blood that she can only breath through her mouth Dumbbells dropped onto her stomach Vomited when tried to drink water (her stomach couldn’t accept it) Tried to escape and punished by cigarette burning on arms Flammable liquid poured on her feet and legs, then lit on fire Bottle inserted into her anus, causing injury DAY 20: December10, 1989: Unable to walk properly due to severe leg burns Beat with bamboo sticks Fireworks inserted into anus and lit Hands smashed by weights and fingernails cracked Beaten with golf club Cigarettes inserted into vagina Beaten with iron rods repeatedly Winter; forced outside to sleep in balcony Skewers of grilled chicken inserted into her vagina and anus, causing bleeding DAY 30: Hot wax dripped onto face Eyelids burned by cigarette lighter Stabbed with sewing needles in chest area Left nipple cut and destroyed with pliers Hot light bulb inserted into her vagina Heavy bleeding from vagina due to scissors insertion Unable to urinate properly Injuries were so severe that it took over an hour for her to crawl downstairs and use the bathroom Eardrums severely damaged Extreme reduced brain size DAY 40: Begged her torturers to “kill her and get it over with” January 1, 1989: Junko greets the New Years Day alone Body mutilated Unable to move from the ground DAY 44: January 4, 1989: The four boys beat her mutilated body with an iron barbell, using a loss at the game of Mah-jongg as a pretext. She is profusely bleeding from her mouth and nose. They put a candle’s flame to her face and eyes. Then, lighter fluid was poured onto her legs, arms, face and stomach, and then lit on fire. This final torture lasted for a time of two hours. Junko Furuta died later that day, in pain and alone. Nothing could compare 44 days of suffering she had to go through. When her mother heard the news and details of what had happened to her daughter, she fainted. She had to undergo a psychiatric outpatient treatment . Imagine her endless pain. Her killers are now free men. Justice was never served, not even after 20 years. They deserve a punishment much greater than they had put upon Furuta, for putting an innocent girl through the most unbearable suffering. This story from 1989 is true. Please spread her story around. Everyone should know about the existence of Junko Furuta’s unimaginable and incomprehensible suffering, and this is why this group has been made. Invite your friends. Never let her story be forgotten. If this story changes the life of at least one person then it has been worth it. Rest In Eternal Peace, Junko Furuta 1989-Eternity

A Baby Was Born, Underground

I have been having some of the most horrific dreams lately, and by the sound of it so have all my friends! have any of you readers noticed this yourselves? Perhaps it is something to do with the times we are living in, a general sense of unrest that seems to be gripping our societies around the globe.. or the fact that the hours of light are getting less less? 
I'm pretty sure mine are to do with some sort of undigested grief over the passing of my mother during the Summer... because they are pretty much all about her. Nearly every night I am dreaming that she is alive and then when I wake, the real nightmare starts as I come to terms with the fact that she is not alive at all, but most definitely dead... FOREVER


In the last dream (the most horrific) she died and we buried her. We were grieving and grieving for her, but six months later we were presented with some sort of DNA evidence to suggest that she was not actually dead when we buried her but in a deep, deep coma. I decided we were going to have to dig her up as there was still a chance she could be alive down there and a whole team of people got involved in the dig. When we got down a few feet into the ground, we began to hear voices whimpering for help... eventually we got to the coffin itself and when we opened it we discovered the most horrific scene. 
Not only had my mother still been alive when she was buried, but she had also been pregnant! 


She had given birth inside that tiny coffin 4/5 months after being buried alive, and both her and the baby had survived.
They were skin and bones and could barely move or make a sound they were so weak.
Although this sounds terrifying and horrific, we were so happy and relieved that she was ALIVE!! It was the happiest feeling in the world to think that I had a mother again. 
Then.... I woke up and once again had to realise that my mother was in fact gone... 






I have used that dream story as the basis for a creepy song I will be playing at the Sonic Pop-Up at Dublin Contemporary on Oct 22nd.. Unusual subject for a song - I am curious to see if people pick up on it when I sing it or subconsciously ignore the story of it because it's too gross/weird. 
We'll see.

Murderous Love #3

Murderous Love is a collection of songs inspired by, and written, during the dark winter months. While I was snowed in for almost a week during the big freeze last January, I wrote and recorded most of these songs - alone in my tiny bedsit. At the time I felt like I was in some sort of a cocoon, while the harsh elements threatened at my window I was safe and comforted, surrounded by the sounds I was making. 
As the months grew warmer and my album took priority over finishing these songs, I knew I would have to wait until the weather grew cold again before releasing this collection and here we are!


Once I began working towards finalising Murderous Love, some new (EP completing) songs came to the surface and I decided to include them so now it has become more of a 9 track album than an EP, but what the hell.. it was meant to be an EP so I'm going to call it an EP.


Since I am releasing this EP as a download and not getting a run of CD's pressed, I have been nusy making some hard-copy physicals for the real music lovers out there. I have completed two hard-copy options. 


The first is a 7"x 7" mounted print of the EP cover image (pictured below) accompanied by a CD-r containing the 9 EP tracks (3 of which are hidden from the public stream)

The second is a tri-fold CD package that I have carefully designed and handmade to include a detachable mounted print of the cover, a cd-r with the 3 bonus tracks and also 3 music videos and an Illustrated lyric book (illustrations by me).

Both packages and of course the download itself are now available to pre-order from my bancamp page. ENJOY!

Murderous Love #2

Some stills from the video I am in the process of making for

 Oh, How The World Changed

from my forthcoming EP

 Murderous Love

Release date 28th October 2011

Maeve & The Monster Are In Love

Halloween is coming...

That moment of panic when you realise someone else is in your house

I've been on my own in the house for a week, I leave to go to a meeting and on my way home I pick up some taco fries for dinner. I close the door behind me when I enter my flat, leave my food on the table and get a proper fork and plate from the kitchen. I notice there is light glowing from the hallway, I'm sure I turned all the lights off before I left the house.... I dig into the taco fries - nom nom nom! Quick trip to the loo.. the toilet seat is up, I'm sure I left it down last time! I hear a rustle coming from my bedroom.... my heart starts pounding.... too scared to look, I can't even scream, my heart is pounding too fast. There is a man in the house! I look for a weapon, anything to defend myself if I am attacked. The fork, I have a fucking FORK! Better than nothing I guess.. The door creaks and I can see the shadow of a man appearing from behind the bedroom door. 

"HEY BABE!"

Ahh... it's Marc 'suprising' me by coming home early after a week away recording the new Bellx1 album. And I thought I was about to lose my life! He's lucky he didn't lose his, I was so ready to pounce with my fork! :P

Anton Semenov

Look at the great illustrations I found from a very talented artist ANTON SEMENOV

Frustration Prayer

Calling Fellow Horror-ers

I have been scanning the internet to try and stumble across like-minded folk who may also be running 'horror-blogs' like myself. I am yet to find one.. plenty of horror FORUMS, but no blogs.

Can anyone point me in the direction of some?

I have signed up here: http://www.horror.com/

to offer my services as a horror music writer for independent horror films and also to try and find some other horror blogs!

there must be thousands out there... but where are they?

Frankenstein In Love

BUBBLEGUM GOTH

Dreams of You by Frankenstein in Love

Inside your Shadow by Frankenstein in Love

Vampires Dream by Frankenstein in Love

BELLE GUNNESS - first female serial killer?

Concrete