Death By Festival Brings the Horror and Metal for a Good Cause

13 hours of ghoulish cinematic creations

"...run a small fest fusing extreme films and extreme metal: He would call it Housecore Horror, and it would..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Housecore Horror Heavy Metal Festival: Sunday

October 27, 2013. 41 photos.

"...Antone’s headliners Pig Destroyer..."

Oct. 28, 2013 Photo Gallery

Heaven's Metal

Austin Christian metal magazine is a must-read to those moshing for Jesus

"...or Extol -- Christian punk, ska, rap-core, and white metal bands who have recently graced HM's cover. The "sheep"..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

SXSW Music: Must-See Metal

11 headbangers

"...but Denver hardcore trio Muscle Beach flirts with the metal underbelly on 2015's eponymous debut, exploding with hooks on..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by Bryan Rolli

Terror Fest Review: Integrity, Pig Destroyer

First night of ATF opens the pit and nods to Roky Erickson

"...third staging. The long-held judgement that “Austin isn’t a metal town” proved a fallacy...."

June 8, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Black Metal, Gray Skies, Red-Hot Love

Sex, love, and nostalgia – recapping Fun Fun Fun Fest 2015

"...staring over a fearsome mosh pit where certified Angus metalheads tossed each other about. For Venom, the British trio..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

How the Caja China Roasting Box Got Its Nicknames

Hot box cooking method delivers delectable pork

"...as a "Cajun microwave." It's a rectangular wooden or metal box with a tight fitting lid. Smoke and the..."

June 25, 2013 Food Post by Mick Vann

Housecore Horror Live Shot No.4 – Grand Finale

Goblins spook life into a long last day of extremes

"...“Who’s got a hangover?” wondered Pig Destroyer J.R. Hayes with his poker/baby face Sunday at..."

Oct. 28, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Last Housecore on the Left

Horror film fest's extreme metal soundtrack

"...Pig DestroyerSunday, 4:10pm, Antone's..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Music Feature by Luke Winkie

Not Another Teen Movie

"...head, a “hippie albino folk singer,” and a joint-smoking pig. It's most painful to see a likable young actor..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Space Jam

Dexterously mixing live action and animation, Space Jam tosses NBA champ Michael Jordan onto the 2-D court with the entire Looney Tunes gang and the opposing Monstar team of cartoon characters from another planet.

"...here, everyone from Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig to Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd, and Tweety and Sylvester...."

Nov. 15, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

More Gore From Housecore Horror

New film fest adds more classics plus a locally lensed premiere

"...With NoLa metal master Phil Anselmo and Texas true crime writer Corey..."

Sept. 5, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

After a Fashion

It's SXSW all over, especially all over that other acronymically correct paradise, Austin's SoCo, our hallowed South Congress Avenue, south of the river. See what our Style Avatar has been up to and what he recommends.

"...sun. Gomi was busy hanging the art for its Metal Pig show, and Factory People was alive with activity...."

March 18, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Housecore Horror Live Shot: Friday Part 1

Heavy metal parking lot

"...paved over paradise with a parking lot. A heavy metal parking lot...."

Oct. 25, 2014 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Housecore Horror Gets Loud

Music lineup confirms Ansemlo and Goblin double headers

"...Festival, but with Pantera main man Phil Anselmo and metalsucks.net writer Corey Mitchell at the helm, they were also..."

June 7, 2013 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Horror Fans for Harvey Relief

First Death By Festival becomes hurricane fundraiser

"...up to hold Hurricane Harvey fundraisers. Now it's the metal and horror community's turn, as the organizers of the..."

Sept. 9, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Housecore Horror Music Schedule

Full line-ups, plus one-day music passes available now

"...months until Housecore Horror, the new fusion horror film/heavy metal festival from the twisted mind of Phil Anselmo, comes..."

Aug. 12, 2013 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: The Baker Hotel, Mineral Wells

There’s something in the water: The Baker Hotel rises again

"...is where they sandblast layers of old paint off metal fixtures. Rejuvenation Begins..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Death By Festival Counts Down to 10/31

New horror/metal fest finalizes films with anthology premiere

"...Halloween is nearly here, and new hybrid heavy metal/horror film gathering Death By Festival is getting in the..."

Oct. 7, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Southern Front

White-hot metal for your red-hot summer

"...chorus one-half social protest and the other Dada verse, "Pig For Nail" splits the difference with a bloody hatchet...."

Aug. 2, 2013 Music Review by Michael Toland

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...ÜNLOCO: Austin's metal scene mostly keeps to itself in the Back Room,..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Down With the King

Freddie Gibbs scorches the earth as a rapper in touch with the land

"...feature Bob and the Trees) butcher and dress a pig in the barn. And he's into it...."

July 1, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces Midnighters and Shorts

Henry Rollins, Jeremy Sisto join horror lineup

"...Adam Mason is infamous for disturbing underground horrors like Pig, but his surprise collaboration with Suburgatory/Law & Order star..."

Feb. 10, 2015 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Two Actresses, Fat and Thin

Staging Neil LaBute's 'Fat Pig' is a heavy proposition

"...the Theatre En Bloc production of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig, opening this weekend at the Off Center – tells..."

Oct. 2, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Terror Fest Album Reviews

Seven platters spanning the spectrum of extremity

"...Genocide PactOrder of Torment (Relapse) D.C. death metal trio Genocide Pact throws bolts, rolls thunder, and growls..."

June 7, 2019 Music Feature by The Music Staff

In the Blind

A weekend at Dai Due's Hunting School for Women

"...part because of constant reassurance from Jesse. Three more pigs emerged from the dense undergrowth and scurried away when..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Moosehead

Canada gets bigger

"...Nadja: Aidan Baker & Leah Buckareff's ambient, experimental metal...."

Feb. 22, 2008 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Houses of the Unholy

Housecore Horror by the blurb

"...sorceress Jamie Nova straddles whiskey-soaked Southern rock and punishing metal on 2013 sophomore effort Bathed in Blood, Ozzy Osbourne..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Music Feature

Sxsw

"...of her understated but top-notch solo record for Blind Pig, Sayin' What I'm Thinking, bassist Sarah Brown emerges in..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Austin Terror Fest Drops the Big One

Third year comer triples down at Empire & Barracuda June 7-9

"...the 32 names on the poster, the bundling of metal, punk, industrial, experimental, noise – local, national, international –..."

Jan. 23, 2019 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

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