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September 19, 2025

Alex Maas: Directions To See A Haunted House

By: Laurie Gallardo

Alex Maas of the Black Angels talks about the influence of childhood memories and raising a family during dark times.

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October 3, 2024

L.C. Franke: Soundtrack For These Moments

L.C. Franke talks about embracing the darkness as inspiration, how it’s sparked his own creativity, and how darker things can be more intriguing – for better or worse.

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September 26, 2024

Dawn Okoro: Floating In Portraiture

Dawn Okoro talks about the darkness within, resilience through core beliefs, and the journey of facing your fears – even if it means taking a fall.

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September 19, 2024

Dusty Gannon: Fangoria Fan

Dusty Gannon of Vision Video talks with Laurie about how the darkness of goth music inspires him and how horror films help him deal with his own fears.

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September 12, 2024

Urban Heat: Dark Like Me

Jonathan Horstmann, Kevin Naquin, and Paxel Foley of Urban Heat discuss where the band falls on the light-dark spectrum and finding one’s inner child in the darkness.

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September 5, 2024

Trailer: (SPF 1000) Vampire Sunscreen

In (SPF 1000) Vampire Sunscreen host Laurie Gallardo simply asks one question of her guests: What is the darkness to you? Or, what is dark to you?
The season launches on Thursday, September 12th.

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