Andrew Hawnt's Blog, page 17

NEW NOVEL COMING IN OCTOBER

A project I have always wanted to share with you. 

A story that has lived with me for my entire adult life. 

A dark urban fantasy like no other. 

It's time to show the world what I'm really capable of.



October 2014.

DELAIN - 'Stardust' music video

The new DELAIN album, 'The Human Contradiction', is getting some great reviews from around the world, and after a few listens I agree the praise is well deserved. The album isn't very immediate, instead improving with successive plays. 'Stardust' is one of the more versatile cuts from the disc, and proof that symphonic metal continues to evolve.

METAL IS NOT TO BLAME

Following the tragic stabbing of the much loved teacher Anne Maguire at a Leeds high school, many media outlets are picking up on the fact that the boy responsible was both a metal fan and an avid gamer. Since the metal genre was born it has been blamed for all manner of ills in the world, murder, rape, crimes of every description, the warping of youth, the perversion of ideals and possibly

STREAM OF PASSION - "A War Of Our Own" video

Stream of Passion are an interesting band who stick out as one of the best of the whole female fronted symphonic/pseudo gothic metal genre. I've followed them since their first album and have always been impressed. This new material sounds like they have another winner on their hands.

PANELS TO FRAMES: THE END

It is with a heavy heart that I must bring my comic book movie column, PANELS TO FRAMES, to an end for the foreseeable future. Created for the sight LOST IN THE MULTIPLEX, the column has been continuing here since LITM was taken offline for some important maintenance several months ago.

I feel that the column has run its course, especially with its true home out of action for so long. Plus,

VHS ATE MY BRAIN - NOW AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE VIA AMAZON

Following on from the news of VHS ATE MY BRAIN's limited run of signed and numbered paperbacks selling out, I figured I should really post about the standard paperback being available to order NOW from whichever version of Amazon you use! Released through Amazon/Createspace, the 6x9 matte-cover paperback of VHS ATE MY BRAIN is just the thing to quench your thirst for retro/trash/horror video

VHS ATE MY BRAIN – LIMITED EDITION SOLD OUT!

Hey all – big news! The limited edition first run of VHS ATE MY BRAIN has now sold out! All outstanding orders will complete shipping this week. Thank you so much for checking the book out! The experience of putting it together and getting it out there has been an incredible thing to do.

I had no idea that there would be so much interest in such a niche title, so from the bottom of my heart

PANELS TO FRAMES: THE DC TV ONSLAUGHT BEGINS!

PANELS TO FRAMES: THE DC TV ONSLAUGHT BEGINS!



Now this is getting interesting. With official costume photos from WB's pilot for The Flash and NBC's pilot for Constantine surfacing alongside the official logo for the Gotham TV series, it seems that DC Comics (and of course, Vertigo too in the case of Constantine's Hellblazer roots) are finally getting their act together. In tandem with the

VHS ATE MY BRAIN – AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW!

VHS ATE MY BRAIN, my 7th book, is finally available to order! It's taken longer to get this one out than my previous books due to some big life changes since the release of my last book, BAGGED AND BOARDED, but the wait is over and the book can finally be released.

Inspired by the HORROR VHS COLLECTORS UNITE Facebook group and collectors around the world, VHS ATE MY BRAIN is the chronicle of a

Harold Ramis: Rest in peace, Egon

Harold Ramis was one of the architects of my childhood, one of the geniuses who co-wrote and starred in the perfection that was Ghostbusters. The humour and excitement of that film blew my mind as a kid and shaped my creativity in ways I didn't realise for many years.

As I grew up I discovered the other classics he was a part of, Stripes, Caddyshack, National Lampoon's Vacation, Groundhog