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Foreign Film take their name from a song on Will Haven’s 1997 debut “El Diablo”, which gives you most of what you need to know about Jeff Irwin’s intentions for the project.
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Lou Rogai went back to the old tapes and found riffs he had written with Brian Craig on a practice recording from more than 30 years ago. The riffs were incomplete. Craig, Side Over‘s original drummer, had been gone for years. Out of those
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Press play on Agarwaen and the comparisons line up fast: Slipknot in the masks, Stephen King in the long-form appetite for horror, King Diamond in the concept-album discipline, Rob Zombie in the carnival aesthetic. Fair enough. What’s harder to see at a glance is
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