About
Heavy metal and the occult through a horror lens. A Soda and Telepaths show.
Some records come with liner notes. Others come with curses, court cases, burned churches and rumours that refuse to die. My Kind of Weird lives in that second pile.
Every week, we dig into the darkest corners of heavy music and the occult. The albums people swear are haunted, the bands whose real stories are stranger than their lyrics, and the horror films whose soundtracks did half the scaring. If it’s strange, sinister or criminally underrated, it belongs here.
What You’ll Find Here
Cursed albums. Records with a reputation that follows them around. We separate what actually happened from what fans want to believe, and figure out why the legend stuck.
Black and death metal history. The scenes, the feuds, the basement tape-trading and the moments that turned underground noise into something the world couldn’t ignore.
Horror soundtrack history. The composers, synths and scores that made horror films unforgettable, and the metal bands who borrowed from them.
Occult mysteries and true crime. Where music, belief and real-world crime collide. These stories involve real people, so we tell them with care and without glorifying the harm.
Metal band mysteries. Vanished members, lost recordings, unexplained deaths and the questions that never got answered.
Why Horror and Metal?
Because they’ve been feeding off each other from the very start. Black Sabbath took their name from a Boris Karloff horror film, and the genre has been raiding the crypt ever since.
Both were built by outsiders. Both get blamed for corrupting the youth. Both understand that fear can be thrilling, cathartic and strangely comforting when the real world is worse.
My Kind of Weird sits right where the two overlap. It treats a riff and a ritual with the same curiosity, and asks the questions most channels skip.
Who’s Behind It
My Kind of Weird is hosted by Anthony Pollock, a metalhead who likes horror. On a good day, that’s the right order.
Anthony is the founder of Soda and Telepaths, where he writes about comics, film and music. He also hosts List of the Damned, our show about comics that are weird, bizarre or tainted with horror.
Part of the Soda and Telepaths Family
Soda and Telepaths is your independent guide to dark pop culture worth giving a F about. My Kind of Weird is our music and occult show, and the video side of our Audio coverage.
If comics are more your poison, head to List of the Damned for deep dives and listicles on the strangest and scariest comics out there.
- My Kind of Weird on YouTube
- List of the Damned on YouTube
- List of the Damned on Substack
- More music coverage on Soda and Telepaths
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