Nox Sinister [https://www.nox-sinister.com/] is hard to pin down into just one subgenre of heavy metal. They use a blend of techniques borrowed from NWOBHM, thrash, progressive, death and even power metal. The members of Sinister pride themselves on marrying aggression with theatricality, often using brutal thrashing riffs to tell complex stories with broad themes. Heavily inspired by the works of Shakespeare, dark fantasy, medieval history, comic book supervillains, and the world of horror movies, Nox Sinister seeks to create a new kind of sound and a new kind of live performance. Often using the phrase they have coined; "violent musical theatre,' Sinister is a force to be reckoned with both in the studio and on the stage.

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NOX SINISTER with Nathan Shapiro 

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Rachael Renae [https://rachaelrenae.com/] 

Rachael Renae is an artist, play enthusiast, and creativity hype gal based in Detroit, MI. She helps people prioritize play to overcome creative blocks, better connect with themselves and their people, and confidently live big, fulfilling lives. When  she’s not facilitating play workshops or co-hosting the Chaotic Creatives podcast, she’s likely gabbing with pals over voice notes and making a papier-mache project.

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Rachael Renae

When a young influencer lands a dog food sponsorship, she recruits her estranged mother to co-star - hoping to turn a work obligation into a chance to reconnect. As she road-trips with her boyfriend toward the visit, anxiety builds while personal and professional pressures blur, culminating in a surreal unravelling. 

Interview with STAR Kenny Sale and Star Director MKL.

Raindance timely info for SHOWING [https://raindance.eventive.org/films/69fb52c9270587a5cd3260f6] Son June 23, 2026 

Matthew Kyle Levine [https://vimeo.com/matthewkylelevine]page

'On the Phone' Film Premiere with Kenny Sale and Matthew Kyle Levine

kgmr is a composer, songwriter, keyboardist, field recorder, sampler, and noise maker. kgmr writes for solo piano, rock trio, larger ensembles, and electronic instrumentation. Her music has been used in films, theater, and radio. She appears elsewhere as a guest keyboardist.kgmr started writing and recording music in elementary school using a Casio keyboard, a Magnus organ, and a tape recorder. Her first compositions were imagined as soundtracks for horror films. Early sampling projects using prank phone calls and the tape recorder were unfortunately stopped by the police. As a child, she formally trained under Mlle. Yvonne Combe at the French School of Music.

The kgmr band is a Portland-based duo made up of kgmr (keyboards, samples, field recordings, noise, vocals) and Bobby Read (guitar, bass, drums, violin, samples, field recordings, noise, vocals). 

They invite collaborators on projects locally, nationally, and internationally. discography: Backlash of the Hunter [https://open.spotify.com/album/2eM1TIVYooahblGICfO3x5?si=_jteN0vlSBm4vl4AKqMC9g] (Live EP), kgmr, 2025 St. Roch [https://open.spotify.com/album/7fnzGbnsy45CnCvfkXIx0A?si=W6BK_ns5R7apVPehI4-S4g] (LP), kgmr, 2025 Keep Going Mystical Rider [https://open.spotify.com/album/0vbBG8YYGrynxJ9fLnNbyU?si=LNB2QhTpTsOa5BXy-fPCwg] (EP), kgmr, 2022Spin Down Night [https://open.spotify.com/album/4287OX4mBT0IigbaXFbH68?si=41rj2HNGTtif2WkcxjRncw] (EP), kgmr, 2021 this happened (LP), Half Ass West Studio Band, 2009evening with fallen tree (LP), kgmr, 2008 migrate to carnivora (LP), kgmr, 2007i nstant confidante [https://open.spotify.com/album/01B7nZhyhY8n7moEncmFw6?si=8DhMdmFDSDqMHdTgzj2VAw] (LP), kgmr, 2005body language (EP), kgmr, 2003

k.g.m.r.  [https://kgmr.bandcamp.com/album/backlash-of-the-hunter-live]

k.g.m.r.

Influenced by bands like Opeth and Cynic, Cryptic Divination is a unique "second generation" of sounds from '90s death metal to '70s prog rock. Utilizing heavy riffs, clean sections and screams, they embody a new wave of pacific-northwest progressive death metal.

Cryptic Divination

April Fox has been teaching yoga in Portland OR since 2014, and running classes to doom metal since 2016. 


🌒Deep Dark Yoga 🌘 is slow, gentle flow to the sludgiest, heaviest tunes you can test your amps to. Great for beginners and “not into yoga” people — perfect for anyone interested in tuning on their mat with an epic soundtrack

April Fox and Deep Dark Yoga

Introduction to Lee Upton: [https://regalhousepublishing.com/lee-upton/] I am a multi-genre author, not because I’m polygamous when it comes to genre, but because each genre is addictive and possibly a bit contagious. Along with The Withers and Tabitha, Get Up, I’ve written seven collections of poetry, two short story collections, a novella, four books of literary criticism, and an essay collection. My poetry has appeared widely, including in The New Yorker, Poetry, and Southern Review, as well as three editions of Best American Poetry. I am the recipient of the Pushcart Prize, Poetry Society of America awards, the Miami University Novella Prize, the Saturnalia Book Prize, and other honors. For over three decades I taught at Lafayette College, where I assumed the title Francis A. March Professor Emerita of English and Writer in Residence when I stepped away from teaching to write full time.

Lee Upton

Caledonia Curry, known as Swoon [https://swoonstudio.org/about], is a contemporary artist and filmmaker recognized around the world for her pioneering vision of public artwork. Through intimate portraits, immersive installations, and multi-year community based projects, she has spent over 20 years exploring the depths of human complexity, and asking how art can fundamentally re-envision the communities we live in towards a more just and equitable world.

She is best known as one of the first women Street Artists to gain international recognition in a male-dominated field, pushing its conceptual limits and paving the way for a generation of women Street Artists. As a classically trained printmaker, she has innovated new approaches to create large-scale relief prints and intricate papercut works. The deep consideration of form is inseparable from Curry’s vision of the transformative role of public art in communities. Her critical engagement with issues of social and environmental justice have positioned her at the forefront of the emergent discourse around socially-engaged art practices. Her commitment to expanding the possibilities of art to repair trauma and foster personal and collective healing continues to drive her substantial contributions to contemporary art through her work with portraiture, sculpture, installation and most recently, stop-motion animation.



SWOON, Caledonia Curry

Darrin Doyle [https://www.darrindoyle.com/] was born in Saginaw, Michigan. He has worked as a paperboy, a janitor, a mover, a telemarketer, a door-to-door salesman, a Kinko's Copy Consultant, a porn store clerk, a pizza delivery guy, a prep cook, a magazine store clerk, a technical writer, a freelance newspaper writer, an English teacher in Japan, and finally, a professor and an author.

Darrin has a brown belt in Tae Kwon Do and wishes he had stuck with it a little longer to get the danged black belt.

Darrin hoards and plays lots of musical instruments: guitar, piano, drums, mandolin, banjo, bass, ukelele, and a diatonic 4-string stick dulcimer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FshiDVafecI].

He lives in Mount Pleasant, Michigan and teaches at Central Michigan University.

He knows what skeletons do.



Darrin Doyle

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