Heavy culture from the dark end.
Everything Went Black Podcast treats heavy culture as one connected underworld: metal, westerns, horror, fantasy, tour life, and odd media obsessions. Its conversations are loose, blunt, and lived-in, with room for grief, absurd dread, and deep dives into dark creators.
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Everything Went Black Podcast is a long-running dark-culture show with one foot in metal and the other in dark storytelling. It is not tidy. The appeal comes from that looseness: solo updates, conversational detours, network shout-outs, road-life interruptions, and extended talks that trust the audience to keep up. Recent episodes show a program concerned with horror, westerns, metal, underground media, and the writers who shaped heavy imagination. The Kill or Be Killed strand brings film criticism into the room. In the Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid episode, the show frames Sam Peckinpah’s western as the kind of classic worth returning to with another voice at the table. The Darkness Weaves material goes deeper into literary darkness. Its Kane discussions track Carl Edward Wagner’s mythical antihero through a world where good has nearly disappeared and power carries a grim, almost cosmic charge. That strand gives the show its densest flavor. The talk can be funny, bleak, nerdy, and intensely specific within the span of a few minutes. Guest episodes broaden the range without softening the atmosphere. The Eric Miller conversation moves through horror affiliation, filmmaking, screenwriting, books, antiheroes, Elric, Conan, Lovecraft, Roger Zelazny, and the Chronicles of Amber. The show clearly values artists who keep making things across different forms. It also keeps close ties to a broader dark-media podcast network, with references to Horror Wolf 666, Into the Necrosphere, Iblis Manifestations, Necromaniacs Horror Podcast, Day One of Soul Knocks, and Spitball Media. That networked feeling matters. Everything Went Black Podcast feels less like a single category show than a clubhouse for people who already live among heavy records, grim fiction, strange films, and macabre jokes. Its register is blunt and informal, but the enthusiasms are serious. It suits listeners who want culture talk with scars, riffs, and shelf-worn paperbacks still in the frame.
Made for: For listeners drawn to metal, horror, film, westerns, and underground art conversations. It especially suits people who enjoy informal long-form talk with bleak humor and deep niche references.
What sets it apart: The show connects metal, tour life, fantasy, horror, and film criticism as one shared dark-culture ecosystem. Its strength is the lived-in continuity of recurring strands like Kill or Be Killed and Darkness Weaves.
Join Mike Hill, musician, world-traveller, appreciator of all things bizarre, as he gets down to the facts and figures with musicians, artists, writers and other forward thinkers.
Like your horror shelf arguing with your record collection, while Gary Oldman waits to cross-examine both.
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Eric Miller's visit turns from genre labels to a fond discussion of the Chronicles of Amber.
Eric Miller arrives as an author, screenwriter, filmmaker and horror fan, but the conversation soon settles into books. A passing point about genre labels brings up Elric as an early antihero, then opens onto the first five Chronicles of Amber books.
The hosts finish their Kane journey with "At First Ghostly" and a conversation about God and the place of good in Wagner's world.
The Everything Went Black hosts finish their chronological run through Carl Edward Wagner's Kane stories with "At First Ghostly." One exchange gives them plenty to talk about: asked where God is, Kane says he killed him.
Ralph Schmidt's New Year catch-up moves from scrolling and comic books to uneasy thoughts about the future.
Ralph Schmidt's New Year catch-up starts with a familiar question: where does he want to put his attention in 2026? He still uses Facebook for show announcements and groups about records and comic books, and Instagram to hear from bands and labels.
Fast movie talk with critical bite.
Horror criticism with jokes, brackets, and blood memory.
Nostalgia reviews with jokes and receipts.
Pop culture with receipts and velocity.
The hosts introduce a new miniseries on neo-noir crime films, starting with Michael Mann's Thief.
An introduction to a Twin Peaks analysis podcast series, including a schedule of related shows from the Horsemen of the Podcasting Apocalypse.
Host announces a two-week break from the Everything Went Black Podcast due to being busy and running out of content, while assuring listeners that everything is fine.
This episode promotes the Everything Went Black podcast and its network of horror and occult-themed shows.
Host introduces guests Will Smith and Rick Habib of the band Wreaking Aura to discuss their new LP Promise of the Moon, then promotes other shows in the podcast network.
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Rennie and I discuss the Sam Peckinpah classic Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid on this episode of Kill or Be Killed.
Eric Miller traces his horror roots to Sammy Terry, Vincent Price, and late-night TV in Indiana and the Midwest.
["Everything Went Black Podcast's \"EWB 428 DARKNESS WEAVES\" closes the Kane chronology with Carl Hikara and the host discussing Carl Edward Wagner's final chronological short story, \"At First Ghostly.\"", "The episode opens with a dedication to Andrew Garrity, a friend from the 2015 1349 tour, and the host says his recent death by natural causes makes the show personal.", "The discussion follows Cody Lennox on a drunken flight to England, a recurring queen of spades card, and a hotel-room encounter with Kane, Klest, and the black-clad woman.", "The co-hosts also unpack the Avengers homage, the trans-time weapon described as \"two black holes locked in anti-matter matrix,\" and the story's evil-only cosmology."]
Everything Went Black Podcast returns to Champ Morgan's projects, including Triage's finished album, the emerging Poacher lineup, and Black Ops' collapse after more than 10 years.
Everything Went Black Podcast examines Peter Medak’s 1994 neo-noir Romeo Is Bleeding, starring Gary Oldman as corrupt cop Jack Grimaldi.
EWB 425 features Evan Hopper discussing Quell's forthcoming Lungs and Ashes record, scheduled for January 21.
Ralph Schmidt discusses New Year's resolutions and personal growth strategies.
This episode introduces a new miniseries deep dive into Twin Peaks' Black Lodge, part of the Everything Went Black podcast network.