The Sanctuary Gazette

In an interview with Side-Line, David Thrussell, a key figure of Snog and Black Lung, looks back on a 2026 in which his projects overlap. Under his own name, he released the ritual recording The Reign Of Dead Matter, captured live at the Melbourne Lodge of the Theosophical Society. With Darrin Verhagen of Shinjuku Thief, he made The Call Of Cthulhu, a spoken and sonic interpretation of H.P. Lovecraft. A new Black Lung album, Ordo Ab Chao, recorded live in Paris for a Masonic soundscape commission, is imminent.

Thrussell says he is wary of digital technology. He puts forward a theory: that it behaves like a life form seeking territory and resources, a parasite on a humanity that serves as its host. He also observes that subversion is now treated as a consumer product, and judges that the healthiest course is to deny this machine the attention it demands.

No full Snog album has appeared since Eight Offerings For The Undead. He says the band makes a record when the songs come, and he sees no point in forcing things.

To mark the 45th anniversary of Dare, the synthpop album by The Human League, God Is In The TV is republishing the review Luke Langlands wrote of it. The text dates from the week of 19 October 2026.

Before the album's release, singers Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley had to choose: leave the band to go to university, or commit to it full time. They put their studies on hold. Dare gave the band its first major commercial success, with Don't You Want Me as the album's last single.

Langlands points out that The Human League was looking for lyrics that make people think, at a time when electronic bands were mostly instrumental. The Sound of the Crowd is the track where Catherall and Sulley appear on record for the first time, with the alternation of male and female voices that became the band's trademark. On Darkness, melancholic synthesizers evoke the fear and helplessness of a sleepless night.

FX has confirmed the renewal of American Horror Story for a fourteenth season. Ryan Murphy’s anthology is picked up before the current season has even ended.

Season thirteen, starring Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates and Jessica Lange, wraps on October 29, with episodes streaming on Hulu. It reunites the original headliners in a nostalgic vein. The renewal is presented as accompanying the series’ biggest premiere on Hulu and Disney+, figures that Rue Morgue has not independently verified.

American Horror Story is FX’s longest-running series and has won seventeen Emmys. It was renewed in a block in 2020, with three seasons ordered at once: a single season therefore marks a change of pace. No theme, location or era has been announced for the fourteenth.