Dark Realms – Exploring the Shadows of Art, Music and Culture (issue 19)

By Stefan Isaksson

Dark Realms – Exploring the Shadows of Art, Music and Culture (issue 19)
Mr. Dark (editor)
Monolith Graphics
48 pages
ISBN:

Monolith Graphics, publishers of the brilliant short-story collection Tales From the Dark Tower, various works of art by Joseph Vargo, t-shirts with the clever logo “In Goth We Trust”, and other items also publish the magazine Dark Realms, which is out 4 times/year.

The magazine is dedicated to “Exploring the Shadows of Art, Music, and Culture”, and that’s exactly what they do. And well, too. Each issue offers a few articles about different “dark” aspects of existence, but the great majority is made up of various reviews. Movies, TV-series, books, computer games, artists and their works of art, and more of interest for all you nocturnal creatures out there.

The reviews are very well written, and the layout is beautiful throughout the magazine, and that makes the reading worth while. But, all the information in the magazine can be found elsewhere on the Net (and free, too), and since Dark Realms is “only” published four times every year it’s easy to understand why some people will choose to find the information by themselves instead.

However, let’s say you had a friend who released an album. Wouldn’t it feel wrong to download the songs for free online instead of buying the album in a record store and thus support your friend’s cause? Of course it would, and that’s why all you goths out there better log on to http://www.monolithgraphics.com and order your very own subscription. It’s not expensive at all, even though Monolith is based in the U.S. and we live in Europe.

The verdict: go get it. Right away.