Mirror Emperor ChristmasinJuly Sporting a clever Travis Smith

Sporting a clever Travis Smith cover-replete with inside jokes and a nod to King Diamond-a masterful Park Studios (The Hellacopters

Curtis Fuller on trombone

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The album debuted at #3 on the US Billboard 200

Mirror Emperor ChristmasinJuly Sporting a clever Travis SmithSure, every thing is ending, but not yet. Ever since David Tibet's Current 93 sung it's birth canal blues back in the early 1980s, there's been a smell of apocalypse in the air. As the American author of horror novels Thomas Ligotti put it, Tibet has over the years presented us with words and images that are "portentous in a literal and most poetic sense."* No matter how great or small, Tibet's visions have sustained a sense of urgency throughout his