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Album Review: Twitch The Ripper ‘Bodiless’

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Twitch the Ripper have been making waves lately in the electronic world, doing several dates with The Birthday Massacre as well as an upcoming show with Combichrist. Jon Dobyns (vocals, synth, guitars) sent us a Top 10 Horror Movie list, which was a huge hit with you readers. Now, with their debut album, ‘Bodiless’, about to be released, we bring you our review. Is the album worth picking up? Is their music as good as their taste in horror? Find out after the jump!

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The album kicks off with ‘Disconnected’, a song that is definitely more energetic than much of the rest of the album. It’s a song that sounds like something you would hear in your local goth/industrial club. There are fat analog textures mixed with atmospheric guitars. Very good use of panning makes the song feel spacious. The only thing that hinders this song a little bit is some of the vocals are a bit off-key, which comes up now and again through the rest of the album. 
The production on ‘Bodiless’ is very solid, especially for a self-produced, self-recorded album. There could stand to be a bit more in the low-end register, especially for this genre of music. Also, as mentioned before, some of the vocals aren’t spot on tune, but those moments are few and far between and nowhere near crippling to the overall experience. 
Two songs I especially enjoyed were ‘Never Got You Anywhere’ and ‘A Place For Polaris’. Both tracks had interesting patches and textures that grabbed me. ‘Never Got You Anywhere’ had some great vocal harmonies and ‘A Place For Polaris’ built steadily to a very satisfying conclusion, doubling as a great way to end ‘Bodiless’. 
The Final Word: Don’t expect the ‘dance’ feeling of Depeche Mode but also don’t go into this expecting Aphex Twin’s Ambient Works. ‘Bodiless’ treads the line between both to deliver something that makes you alternately want to tap your foot and sit back and reflect as the music washes over you. As debut albums go, Twitch The Ripper are off to a great start. 
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‘The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only Live’ Concert Event to Make Streaming Debut Next Month

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July 14, 2026

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The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only Live

AMC has announced that The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE, the standing-room-only performance celebrating AMC’s premiere of its newly-released The Vampire Lestat at New York City’s iconic Beacon Theatre last month, will debut on streaming.

The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE begins streaming on AMC+ on August 23.

Ahead of its streaming premiere, fans can preview the concert event, featuring original songs from series composer Daniel Hart and performed by Sam Reid, in Hall H at Comic Con International on July 24. 

Our own Daniel Kurland attended the special event, highlighting how electric the Immortal Vampire is on stage: “It’s clear in this season of television that Reid was born to be a rock star, but it’s surreal to see him effortlessly command the stage — and the audience — at every step of the concert. He recites Shakespeare monologues and bitches out Armand between songs, all while the audience screams in support. For the duration of this concert, Reid is Lestat, and he’s given thousands of fans a memory that’s as immortal as any vampire.”

Based on Anne Rice‘s The Vampire Chronicles book series, The Vampire Lestat is the rock and roll-centric third season of AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire” created by showrunner Rolin Jones.

The Vampire Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rises, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population.

Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle star with Reid. Executive producers include Jones, Mark Johnson, Hannah Moscovitch, the late Anne Rice, and her son Christopher Rice.

The series finale airs this Sunday, July 19, on AMC and AMC+.

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