On Friday's "Stay or Go" segment of KLOS' (95.5 FM)The Heidi and Frank Show, there was a big surprise when power duo and twin sisters Dianthvs (dianthvsmusic.net, pronounced /die-ann-tuss/) broke out with a mash of grindcore and Evanescence vocals. One sister plays the guitar, the other is a drum impresario, and both sing. It's hard to believe so much sound and noise are coming from two dainty gals from Riverside. They will be playing at Revelry Brewing in Temecula on Aug. 1, 2026.
Dianthvs is a Southern California progressive metalcore band led by twin sisters Jessica and Jackie Parry. They fuse classical piano roots, moody atmospherics, and crushing heaviness (drums and metal guitar) into a sound that blurs beauty and brutality. Jackie is on lead vocals and guitar, while percussionist Jessica holds down the backing vocals and drumming duties.
(BBC) Hidden mere meters under Mexico's modern capital, a series of temples, royal palaces, and mysterious artifacts from an ancient kingdom are being unearthed.
As we descended 7 meters (21 feet) below Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral, I could feel my heart race. I had heard whisperings about the temples buried under this iconic cathedral – one of the largest and oldest in Latin America – but since their discovery in the 1970s, it had not been possible to see them.
We the Mexica [of Mexico] are not "Aztecs"
Now, I was part of a public tour that lets visitors explore the ancient secrets that lie just below this [Catholic] church’s depths.
The Spanish [invaders from Spain] started building the Metropolitan [Catholic] Cathedral in 1573 above on top of the sacred Aztec (the “Mexica” as they called themselves) temples as a symbol of conquest. More
Grimly I dig up the turfs/To remove the corrupted stiffs/Trying to contain my excitement/As I desecrate graveolent crypts.../Fingers claw at coffin lids/Eager festal exhumation/Hugging your wry, festered remains/With posthumous joy and elation.../Body snatched, freshly interred/Whatever takes my fancy/To satisfy my gratuitous pica/My culinary necromancy.../Scrutinized then brutalized/My forensic inquisition is fulfilled/My recipe is now your epitaph/Be it fried, boiled, or grilled...//I devour the pediculus corpse/Whetting my palate as I exhume/The festering stench of rotting flesh/Makes me drool as I consume...//CHORUS: Caskets I grate/My larder's a grave/I'm sickly obsessed (with the badly decomposed)/Rotten remains I eat/Purulent meat/What a funeral feast (putrid reek)//Weeping tissue is stripped/Pus dribbles from my lips/Pulverizing this pustular chaff/Butchering up morgue's makes me laugh...//Ulcerated flesh I munch/Rotting corpses are my lunch/On bones I love to crunch (on the badly decomposed)/Shriveled innards I lick/The corpse's head I kick/Crumbling shreds I pick (eat the stiffs)//[Guitar solo: morbid melody for the deceased with salt to taste]//Rancid flesh, slaughter the dead/--Caskets exhumed.../Corpses disinterred, graves disturbed/--To consume...//Bereaved relatives are not amused/As on their dear departed I feverishly consume...//Slavering worms, decomposure burns/Corrosion born, as bacteria gnaw//Desecrate.../Precipitate....(from the muddy grave)/Macerate.../Eviscerate...//Caskets I grate/My larder's a grave/I'm sickly obsessed (with the badly decomposed)/Rotten remains I eat/Purulent meat/What a funeral feast (putrid reek)//Saponified fats, nibbled by rats/--freshly exhumed.../Deep down six feet is where I like to eat/--Human flesh to consume...
White American pervert digs up corpses
For sale online from "deadshitdaddy" Gerlach
(BorisT.) Metalhead Jonathan Gerlach, 34, from Ephrata, Pennsylvania, arrested for stealing more than 100 human remains in repeated burglaries from a historical graveyard named Mount Moriah Cemetery in Yeadon Borough and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Yuck! Did he also listen to pop or rap or ska?
Metal leads to madness and disinterring corpses? It might for some given the lyrics of such bands as Cannibal Corpse, Carcass, Exhumed, Avenged Sevenfold, Septic Flesh, and even old-time punk rockers T.S.O.L. It may start as a joke -- or hardcore fandom/fanaticism about horror movies -- but who knows who might take it literally or as a suggestion?
Gerlach, as passionate as a ghoul about death
WIKI: In January 2026, Jonathan Gerlach of Ephrata, Pennsylvania, was arrested and charged with burglary, abuse of a corpse, and the desecration and theft of venerated objects stolen from Mount Moriah Cemetery. Authorities had been investigating vandalism and theft of 26 mausoleums and underground vaults from the cemetery that began in fall 2025. Gerlach was caught leaving the cemetery at night with a sack containing the mummified remains of two children, three skulls, and various loose bones. An investigation of his house in Ephrata revealed over 100 pieces of human bones stolen from the cemetery (Source: Man stole hundreds of skulls and bones from Mount Moriah Cemetery, authorities say).
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