Markisan Naso
@markisan.bsky.social
RINGO NOMINATED writer of the comic book series BY THE HORNS. Grilled dinosaurs in VORACIOUS. Editor. Journalist. Host on the Metalheads Podcast and the Endless Metal Podcast. Chicago. https://linktr.ee/markisan
My TOP 5 ROCK ALBUMS OF 2025!
These LPs thrill me every time I spin them, especially Private Music by #Deftones, who somehow crafted a vital & immersive triumph 30+ yrs into the game.
Listen to me & the boys talk all things Deftones on the Endless Metal Podcast!
open.spotify.com/episode/0SjP...
These LPs thrill me every time I spin them, especially Private Music by #Deftones, who somehow crafted a vital & immersive triumph 30+ yrs into the game.
Listen to me & the boys talk all things Deftones on the Endless Metal Podcast!
open.spotify.com/episode/0SjP...
January 4, 2026 at 5:45 PM
My TOP 5 ROCK ALBUMS OF 2025!
These LPs thrill me every time I spin them, especially Private Music by #Deftones, who somehow crafted a vital & immersive triumph 30+ yrs into the game.
Listen to me & the boys talk all things Deftones on the Endless Metal Podcast!
open.spotify.com/episode/0SjP...
These LPs thrill me every time I spin them, especially Private Music by #Deftones, who somehow crafted a vital & immersive triumph 30+ yrs into the game.
Listen to me & the boys talk all things Deftones on the Endless Metal Podcast!
open.spotify.com/episode/0SjP...
Today I present my TOP 5 METAL EPs OF 2025!
I’ve grown to love short form #metal again. Reminds me of the old days when I’d grab tapes & 7 inchers at hardcore shows. Today they’re perfect for when life gets a busy or I’m just in the mood for a quick burst of audio fire 🔥.
@deadyellow.bsky.social
I’ve grown to love short form #metal again. Reminds me of the old days when I’d grab tapes & 7 inchers at hardcore shows. Today they’re perfect for when life gets a busy or I’m just in the mood for a quick burst of audio fire 🔥.
@deadyellow.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Today I present my TOP 5 METAL EPs OF 2025!
I’ve grown to love short form #metal again. Reminds me of the old days when I’d grab tapes & 7 inchers at hardcore shows. Today they’re perfect for when life gets a busy or I’m just in the mood for a quick burst of audio fire 🔥.
@deadyellow.bsky.social
I’ve grown to love short form #metal again. Reminds me of the old days when I’d grab tapes & 7 inchers at hardcore shows. Today they’re perfect for when life gets a busy or I’m just in the mood for a quick burst of audio fire 🔥.
@deadyellow.bsky.social
It's time to reveal my fav #metal albums of 2025! My written Top 25 feature is NOW up on my website. It includes a 2025 summary & my thoughts on each LP, plus covers & #Bandcamp links.
The epic Metalheads Podcast Top 25 ep is also available on all the #podcast apps.
markisan.com/2026/01/02/m...
The epic Metalheads Podcast Top 25 ep is also available on all the #podcast apps.
markisan.com/2026/01/02/m...
MARKISAN’S TOP 25 METAL ALBUMS OF 2025
Markisan’s Top 25 Metal Albums of 2025.
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January 2, 2026 at 10:23 PM
It's time to reveal my fav #metal albums of 2025! My written Top 25 feature is NOW up on my website. It includes a 2025 summary & my thoughts on each LP, plus covers & #Bandcamp links.
The epic Metalheads Podcast Top 25 ep is also available on all the #podcast apps.
markisan.com/2026/01/02/m...
The epic Metalheads Podcast Top 25 ep is also available on all the #podcast apps.
markisan.com/2026/01/02/m...
The HOLIDAY SPIRITS: Monsters Special is now LIVE on #kickstarter! I wrote a Grendel tale for the book and @jasonmuhr.bsky.social drew the absolute %$¥& out of it. Help make this awesome anthology a reality by backing it today! 🎄👹 #crowdfunding #monsters #holidayhorror
Do you like UNIVERSAL MONSTERS?? Check out HOLIDAY SPIRITS - MONSTERS SPECIAL
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ora...
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HOLIDAY SPIRITS - MONSTERS SPECIAL
How does DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN, GRIM REAPER, SPRING HEEL JACK, BIGFOOT, LOCH NESS, MOTHMAN, MEDUSA and more celebrate the holidays.
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December 31, 2025 at 4:59 AM
The HOLIDAY SPIRITS: Monsters Special is now LIVE on #kickstarter! I wrote a Grendel tale for the book and @jasonmuhr.bsky.social drew the absolute %$¥& out of it. Help make this awesome anthology a reality by backing it today! 🎄👹 #crowdfunding #monsters #holidayhorror
Christmas vacation in #paris with Tracy was beautiful. Au revoir, City of Light. ✨🎄🥐🧀🍷✨#christmasinparis #christmas #happyholidays #goodbyeparis
December 31, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Christmas vacation in #paris with Tracy was beautiful. Au revoir, City of Light. ✨🎄🥐🧀🍷✨#christmasinparis #christmas #happyholidays #goodbyeparis
I wrote a Grendel story for this upcoming HOLIDAY SPIRITS: MONSTERS SPECIAL! AND even more importantly, @jasonmuhr.bsky.social drew it! This book is guaranteed to bring the big beast fire. 🔥👹🔥 Sign up now to be notified when it launches on #Kickstarter!
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Coming soon: HOLIDAY SPIRITS - MONSTERS SPECIAL
How does DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN, GRIM REAPER, SPRING HEEL JACK, BIGFOOT, LOCH NESS, MOTHMAN, MEDUSA and more celebrate the holidays.
www.kickstarter.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I wrote a Grendel story for this upcoming HOLIDAY SPIRITS: MONSTERS SPECIAL! AND even more importantly, @jasonmuhr.bsky.social drew it! This book is guaranteed to bring the big beast fire. 🔥👹🔥 Sign up now to be notified when it launches on #Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ora...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ora...
I love this book! Great to see the original series get the HC treatment and I’m excited for the next chapter. Plus, @davedwonch.bsky.social is a gem. Check it out on #kickstarter!
#comics #indiecomics #crowdfunding #supportindiecomics
#comics #indiecomics #crowdfunding #supportindiecomics
We are LIVE! Head over to @kickstarter to get your copy of Cyrus Perkins!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...
The Return of Cyrus Perkins
Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the original series with the Haunted Taxi Cab Hardcover and Cyrus' return in The Death Brigade #1!
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October 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I love this book! Great to see the original series get the HC treatment and I’m excited for the next chapter. Plus, @davedwonch.bsky.social is a gem. Check it out on #kickstarter!
#comics #indiecomics #crowdfunding #supportindiecomics
#comics #indiecomics #crowdfunding #supportindiecomics
New #EndlessMetal #podcast is up & it’s all about #Deftones! We celebrate 30 yrs of Adrenaline, review the new LP, Private Music, discuss how they broke free of nu-metal & dissect the strength & influence of their catalog. + #metal adjacent album recommendations!
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October 20, 2025 at 5:23 AM
New #EndlessMetal #podcast is up & it’s all about #Deftones! We celebrate 30 yrs of Adrenaline, review the new LP, Private Music, discuss how they broke free of nu-metal & dissect the strength & influence of their catalog. + #metal adjacent album recommendations!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
An estimated 200 to 250,000 people traveled downtown Saturday for the Chicago #NoKings protest in Grant Park. Via @cbschicago.bsky.social
Chicago "No Kings" protest draws thousands to Grant Park before marching through Loop
Thousands of people traveled downtown Saturday for the Chicago "No Kings" protest in Grant Park.
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October 20, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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If you're headed to @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social pick up the limited edition Mass Appeal x @marvelcomicshqs.bsky.social Legend Has It #1 book at The Whatnot Booth #1000. I drew the second half of the oversized issue!
October 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
If you're headed to @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social pick up the limited edition Mass Appeal x @marvelcomicshqs.bsky.social Legend Has It #1 book at The Whatnot Booth #1000. I drew the second half of the oversized issue!
New ENDLESS METAL Podcast! I hosted this ep solo and talked with Jason Roberts of @breaths.bsky.social. We chatted about the new album “Death Can Wait,” plus, Top 10 90s Albums We Still Listen To! Had a lot of fun on this one.
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#breaths #metal #90s #podcast
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#breaths #metal #90s #podcast
Death Can Wait: The Gift of Breaths
Podcast Episode · Endless Metal Podcast - We're constantly listening to metal in all its glorious forms ! · 09/15/2025 · 2h 16m
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September 16, 2025 at 2:38 AM
New ENDLESS METAL Podcast! I hosted this ep solo and talked with Jason Roberts of @breaths.bsky.social. We chatted about the new album “Death Can Wait,” plus, Top 10 90s Albums We Still Listen To! Had a lot of fun on this one.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
#breaths #metal #90s #podcast
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
#breaths #metal #90s #podcast
My parents sent me this #samuraicat shirt just because. 🐈⬛⚔️❤️ I feel grateful and lucky to have such amazing, loving folks who really get me. Love you, Pop. Love you, Mama. 🥰 #lovemyparents❤️💙 #cats #samurai
August 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
My parents sent me this #samuraicat shirt just because. 🐈⬛⚔️❤️ I feel grateful and lucky to have such amazing, loving folks who really get me. Love you, Pop. Love you, Mama. 🥰 #lovemyparents❤️💙 #cats #samurai
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Necropolitan #1-3, first time in physical form! It’s Gangs of New York meets Highlander in Hell! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...
August 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Necropolitan #1-3, first time in physical form! It’s Gangs of New York meets Highlander in Hell! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...
Saw It’s Never Over tonight and it’s a mesmerizing, moving tribute to the brief but dazzling flame 🔥 that was #jeffbuckley. Beautifully directed with stunning footage & heartfelt reflections that don’t shy away from showing how legacy, fame and depression affected Jeff and the people who loved him.
August 20, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Saw It’s Never Over tonight and it’s a mesmerizing, moving tribute to the brief but dazzling flame 🔥 that was #jeffbuckley. Beautifully directed with stunning footage & heartfelt reflections that don’t shy away from showing how legacy, fame and depression affected Jeff and the people who loved him.
August 6, 2025 at 5:33 AM
This Saturday, I'll be at Comic Book Mania! I had a lot of fun at this show last year, so I'm looking forward to doing it again. I'll have the BY THE HORNS Vol. 2 HC, copies of the anthologies I contributed to over the last year, the final copies of the VORACIOUS books and more.
July 31, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This Saturday, I'll be at Comic Book Mania! I had a lot of fun at this show last year, so I'm looking forward to doing it again. I'll have the BY THE HORNS Vol. 2 HC, copies of the anthologies I contributed to over the last year, the final copies of the VORACIOUS books and more.
Ozzy Osbourne was and always will be the Godfather of #Metal. He was the first and the face of all things heavy.
Goodnight, Prince of Darkness. Thank you forever. 🤘🏽
#ripozzy #blacksabbath #ozzy #ozzyosbourne #heavymetal
Goodnight, Prince of Darkness. Thank you forever. 🤘🏽
#ripozzy #blacksabbath #ozzy #ozzyosbourne #heavymetal
July 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Ozzy Osbourne was and always will be the Godfather of #Metal. He was the first and the face of all things heavy.
Goodnight, Prince of Darkness. Thank you forever. 🤘🏽
#ripozzy #blacksabbath #ozzy #ozzyosbourne #heavymetal
Goodnight, Prince of Darkness. Thank you forever. 🤘🏽
#ripozzy #blacksabbath #ozzy #ozzyosbourne #heavymetal
On this, the day of our deity of reciprocity, we gather to give special thanks to our treasured Midyear Sun. ☀️ As an offering for our Podfather, we will today surrender 20 #metal albums. As Metalheads take, so Metalheads also give.
wearemetalheads.com/podcasts/met...
#MetalheadsPodcast #midsommar
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#MetalheadsPodcast #midsommar
Metalheads Podcast Episode #161: 2025 Midyear Top 20 — METALHEADS
On this, the day of our deity of reciprocity, we gather to give special thanks to our treasured Midyear Sun. As an offering for our Podfather, we will today surrender 20 heavy metal albums. As Metalhe...
wearemetalheads.com
July 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
On this, the day of our deity of reciprocity, we gather to give special thanks to our treasured Midyear Sun. ☀️ As an offering for our Podfather, we will today surrender 20 #metal albums. As Metalheads take, so Metalheads also give.
wearemetalheads.com/podcasts/met...
#MetalheadsPodcast #midsommar
wearemetalheads.com/podcasts/met...
#MetalheadsPodcast #midsommar
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SO excited for SDCC next week. We printed up 100 copies of a foil-stamped version of our annual featuring covers by @conorhughes.bsky.social & @daileyart.bsky.social You can pick it up & get it signed at Booth 2202 (and find a few copies on our Kickstarter here -- www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...
July 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
SO excited for SDCC next week. We printed up 100 copies of a foil-stamped version of our annual featuring covers by @conorhughes.bsky.social & @daileyart.bsky.social You can pick it up & get it signed at Booth 2202 (and find a few copies on our Kickstarter here -- www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...
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Just announced from #Massivepublishing and #devilsduecomics the disavowed #1 comes out in stores October 1st! Preorder my cover for issue 1 at your local shop! It's an homage to Darick Robertson and Tony Avina's #theboys cover.
July 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Just announced from #Massivepublishing and #devilsduecomics the disavowed #1 comes out in stores October 1st! Preorder my cover for issue 1 at your local shop! It's an homage to Darick Robertson and Tony Avina's #theboys cover.
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I will always recommend you check out a new White Ash book from Charlie and co, but this also has a 10 page story drawn by me and colored by my pal
@stevecanon.bsky.social !
@stevecanon.bsky.social !
July 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I will always recommend you check out a new White Ash book from Charlie and co, but this also has a 10 page story drawn by me and colored by my pal
@stevecanon.bsky.social !
@stevecanon.bsky.social !
Anytime I get to talk for 3 hrs about one of my all-time favorite #metal bands it’s a good day. LOVED discussing the mighty #Incantation discography with my friend Ben. Check out this epic ep of the #EndlessMetalPodcast. 💥🤘🏽🍻✨
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#podcast #newepisode #deathmetal
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#podcast #newepisode #deathmetal
INCANTACAST!
Podcast Episode · Endless Metal Podcast - We're constantly listening to metal in all its glorious forms ! · 07/18/2025 · 3h 6m
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July 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Anytime I get to talk for 3 hrs about one of my all-time favorite #metal bands it’s a good day. LOVED discussing the mighty #Incantation discography with my friend Ben. Check out this epic ep of the #EndlessMetalPodcast. 💥🤘🏽🍻✨
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
#podcast #newepisode #deathmetal
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
#podcast #newepisode #deathmetal
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One Minute Review talking unicorns with By The Horns by Markisan Naso & Jason Muhr
#bythehorns #unicorn #unicorns #comics #comicbook #comicbookreviews #oneminutereview #comicsfm @jasonmuhr.bsky.social @bythehornscomic.bsky.social @markisan.bsky.social
#bythehorns #unicorn #unicorns #comics #comicbook #comicbookreviews #oneminutereview #comicsfm @jasonmuhr.bsky.social @bythehornscomic.bsky.social @markisan.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
One Minute Review talking unicorns with By The Horns by Markisan Naso & Jason Muhr
#bythehorns #unicorn #unicorns #comics #comicbook #comicbookreviews #oneminutereview #comicsfm @jasonmuhr.bsky.social @bythehornscomic.bsky.social @markisan.bsky.social
#bythehorns #unicorn #unicorns #comics #comicbook #comicbookreviews #oneminutereview #comicsfm @jasonmuhr.bsky.social @bythehornscomic.bsky.social @markisan.bsky.social
The #MetalheadsPodcast May Albums of the Month have been revealed & I chose Coltsblood - Obscured Into Nebulous Dusk. Wait until night falls, throw on some headphones & plunge into an ancient world of #doom.
coltsblood.bandcamp.com/album/obscur...
#coltsblood #aotm #metal #translationlossrecords
coltsblood.bandcamp.com/album/obscur...
#coltsblood #aotm #metal #translationlossrecords
Obscured Into Nebulous Dusk, by Coltsblood
4 track album
coltsblood.bandcamp.com
June 3, 2025 at 5:16 AM
The #MetalheadsPodcast May Albums of the Month have been revealed & I chose Coltsblood - Obscured Into Nebulous Dusk. Wait until night falls, throw on some headphones & plunge into an ancient world of #doom.
coltsblood.bandcamp.com/album/obscur...
#coltsblood #aotm #metal #translationlossrecords
coltsblood.bandcamp.com/album/obscur...
#coltsblood #aotm #metal #translationlossrecords