Sam Richard
@sammytotep.bsky.social
Widower | Owner Weirdpunk Books | Author | Wonderland & Lit Nasties Award-Winner | BNW & Splatterpunk Award-Nominee | Anarchist | Aging Punk | Bi | He/Him | 'Saddest Man in Indie Horror' | Void Collective | Zinester | MPLS
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All crowned in butts and glory.
October 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
All crowned in butts and glory.
Tellyouwhatboutthatspiderland
October 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Tellyouwhatboutthatspiderland
Bracing for the storm. Good luck, Mpls!
July 29, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Bracing for the storm. Good luck, Mpls!
I feel like I have done 1000 things today and im split between the need/desire to do more and the need/desire to take a 3 hour nap.
July 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I feel like I have done 1000 things today and im split between the need/desire to do more and the need/desire to take a 3 hour nap.
Out at the MN State Fair Grounds (Education Building) for InBound Brewing Co's Bookfair for Grown Ups today (Saturday the 12th).
Come say hi and pick up some weird horror! 12-7.
Come say hi and pick up some weird horror! 12-7.
July 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Out at the MN State Fair Grounds (Education Building) for InBound Brewing Co's Bookfair for Grown Ups today (Saturday the 12th).
Come say hi and pick up some weird horror! 12-7.
Come say hi and pick up some weird horror! 12-7.
Got another Fright Night Market coming up on Saturday! Love doing these. If you're around Minneapolis, come hang out at Falling Knife for one of the best events in town!
June 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Got another Fright Night Market coming up on Saturday! Love doing these. If you're around Minneapolis, come hang out at Falling Knife for one of the best events in town!
Mark Jaskowski's Beneath the Swimming Pools, the Teeth! is out today! Shit rips. Body horror weirdness wrapped in a 'what happened last night' mystery involving desperate folks doing low-level crimes.
Get it from Weirdpunk or wherever.
www.weirdpunkbooks.com
Get it from Weirdpunk or wherever.
www.weirdpunkbooks.com
June 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Mark Jaskowski's Beneath the Swimming Pools, the Teeth! is out today! Shit rips. Body horror weirdness wrapped in a 'what happened last night' mystery involving desperate folks doing low-level crimes.
Get it from Weirdpunk or wherever.
www.weirdpunkbooks.com
Get it from Weirdpunk or wherever.
www.weirdpunkbooks.com
Joliet Jake and Elwood Blues are antifa and acab. Never forget.
June 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Joliet Jake and Elwood Blues are antifa and acab. Never forget.
A view from the office.
June 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A view from the office.
Here at Utepils for their pride event. If you're around Mpls, stop by for the best beer in town or a thc drink or one of the many delicious n/a options. There's gonna be a dj. It's gorgeous outside. Also red rocket pizza is here, legit the best kept secret for pizza in the Twin Cities.
Come say hi!
Come say hi!
June 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Here at Utepils for their pride event. If you're around Mpls, stop by for the best beer in town or a thc drink or one of the many delicious n/a options. There's gonna be a dj. It's gorgeous outside. Also red rocket pizza is here, legit the best kept secret for pizza in the Twin Cities.
Come say hi!
Come say hi!
He's right behind me, isn't he?
At OddMart with a bunch of horror writers until 5! Come hang out!
At OddMart with a bunch of horror writers until 5! Come hang out!
May 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
He's right behind me, isn't he?
At OddMart with a bunch of horror writers until 5! Come hang out!
At OddMart with a bunch of horror writers until 5! Come hang out!
Every single day we gradually forget what really matters most.
May 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Every single day we gradually forget what really matters most.
Dead Can Dance did something special with In the Realm of a Dying Sun. Gone is the Bauhaus tradition. Enter a wider array of instruments, approaches, and sounds. It's like a worship service for a religion that existed pre-history. This is gothy post-punk all grown up and fully realized.
May 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Dead Can Dance did something special with In the Realm of a Dying Sun. Gone is the Bauhaus tradition. Enter a wider array of instruments, approaches, and sounds. It's like a worship service for a religion that existed pre-history. This is gothy post-punk all grown up and fully realized.
What can even be said about this. 36 Chambers is Wu-Tang right out the gate going for the throat. Shit rips so hard. Classic after classic after classic. Layered production, dynamic rapping, clever as fuck lyrics. A true original in every way. An essential album in every possible way. Untouchable.
May 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
What can even be said about this. 36 Chambers is Wu-Tang right out the gate going for the throat. Shit rips so hard. Classic after classic after classic. Layered production, dynamic rapping, clever as fuck lyrics. A true original in every way. An essential album in every possible way. Untouchable.
I love much of Sunn O)))'s discography, but other than the Boris collab, the one I constantly return to is Black One. Ominous, harsh, unrelenting. Bizarre to realize this album is 20 years old. Set a new standard for drone as a genre of metal. Heavy in a way few ever achieve. Sonic evil.
May 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I love much of Sunn O)))'s discography, but other than the Boris collab, the one I constantly return to is Black One. Ominous, harsh, unrelenting. Bizarre to realize this album is 20 years old. Set a new standard for drone as a genre of metal. Heavy in a way few ever achieve. Sonic evil.
Censored cover for the homies. Pissgrave are another contemporary death metal band who are doing it just right. Gnarly and mean as hell in a way that conjures warmetal and grind vibes, yet remains fully in the old school death metal. Ultimate feel bad material and also fucking fun as hell somehow.
May 22, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Censored cover for the homies. Pissgrave are another contemporary death metal band who are doing it just right. Gnarly and mean as hell in a way that conjures warmetal and grind vibes, yet remains fully in the old school death metal. Ultimate feel bad material and also fucking fun as hell somehow.
Hard to pick a favorite with Necrot, but so many of the tracks on Blood Offerings get stuck in loops in my head.
This is the kind of death metal I always want more of. Swampy, unpretentious, raw, and crusty. Punks playing death metal at its fucking best. Unique despite the fairly common dna.
This is the kind of death metal I always want more of. Swampy, unpretentious, raw, and crusty. Punks playing death metal at its fucking best. Unique despite the fairly common dna.
May 22, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Hard to pick a favorite with Necrot, but so many of the tracks on Blood Offerings get stuck in loops in my head.
This is the kind of death metal I always want more of. Swampy, unpretentious, raw, and crusty. Punks playing death metal at its fucking best. Unique despite the fairly common dna.
This is the kind of death metal I always want more of. Swampy, unpretentious, raw, and crusty. Punks playing death metal at its fucking best. Unique despite the fairly common dna.
Pissed off, confrontational, smart, off-kilter, Born Against broke the fucking gate with Nine Patriotic Hymns for Children. Another band with a ton of biters who never manage to capture what makes Born Against so special. Or so good. Or so weird. Feels like a sweaty basement in the best way.
May 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Pissed off, confrontational, smart, off-kilter, Born Against broke the fucking gate with Nine Patriotic Hymns for Children. Another band with a ton of biters who never manage to capture what makes Born Against so special. Or so good. Or so weird. Feels like a sweaty basement in the best way.
Few albums are as guaranteed to move me to tears as the Smithsonian Folkways Classic Labor Songs album. Paul Robeson's Joe Hill, Woody Guthries's 1913 Massacre, Peggy Seeger's Aragon Mill, Florence Reece's Which Side Are You On are all certified classics of heartbreak, anger, and hope.
May 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Few albums are as guaranteed to move me to tears as the Smithsonian Folkways Classic Labor Songs album. Paul Robeson's Joe Hill, Woody Guthries's 1913 Massacre, Peggy Seeger's Aragon Mill, Florence Reece's Which Side Are You On are all certified classics of heartbreak, anger, and hope.
I hate live albums. Amenra is a post-metal band who I love. And yet my favorite (I think) album of theirs is Alive, an acoustic live album. Endlessly listenable. Just drips vibes. Several of these songs are from their album Afterlife. Alive has a little more energy. Either way, killer acoustic work.
May 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I hate live albums. Amenra is a post-metal band who I love. And yet my favorite (I think) album of theirs is Alive, an acoustic live album. Endlessly listenable. Just drips vibes. Several of these songs are from their album Afterlife. Alive has a little more energy. Either way, killer acoustic work.
Influenced by 70s horror soundtracks Black Mountain Transmitter manages to both hit the prompt and also bring it to new places with Black Goat of the Woods. A perfect writing soundtrack. Eerie, etherial, and verging on psychedelia. This feels like the score to a doomed film that was never released.
May 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Influenced by 70s horror soundtracks Black Mountain Transmitter manages to both hit the prompt and also bring it to new places with Black Goat of the Woods. A perfect writing soundtrack. Eerie, etherial, and verging on psychedelia. This feels like the score to a doomed film that was never released.
Australian atmospheric death metal weirdos Portal perfected the cavernous, surreal craft started by Demilich by pushing it further and making it more sonically unsettling. Seepia could be any of their first 4 albums really but it sits here because it's the one I listen to the most. Seriously so good
May 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Australian atmospheric death metal weirdos Portal perfected the cavernous, surreal craft started by Demilich by pushing it further and making it more sonically unsettling. Seepia could be any of their first 4 albums really but it sits here because it's the one I listen to the most. Seriously so good
Yes, another Michael Gira/Jarboe album. World of Skin was a side project that doesn't get enough acknowledgement. Shit's great. Haunting, strange. At times it feels like an inbetween of Swans and Angels of Light. Other times it feels unlike anything else, though clearly always Gira and Jarboe.
May 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Yes, another Michael Gira/Jarboe album. World of Skin was a side project that doesn't get enough acknowledgement. Shit's great. Haunting, strange. At times it feels like an inbetween of Swans and Angels of Light. Other times it feels unlike anything else, though clearly always Gira and Jarboe.