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Join Justin as he chats with Howie K. Bentley and Matthew Knight of Cauldron Born about Sword and Sorcery, films, heavy metal, and what’s on the horizon for the band!

Howie Bentley bio:

"Howie K. Bentley writes sword and sorcery, interplanetary adventure, and dark occult fantasy tales. His influences range from Robert E. Howard, Karl Edward Wagner, and Edgar Rice Burroughs to Arthur Machen, H. P. Lovecraft, and Clive Barker.

Howie is the founder, guitarist, lyricist, and sole composer of two heavy metal bands: Cauldron Born and Briton Rites. So far, four of his novelettes featuring the Cauldron Born mascot, Thorn, have been published.

Thorn is the physical manifestation of the Thorn rune. He is a god-demon figure that appears when the appropriate rites are performed — often involving human sacrifice. Thorn is a god slayer and a witch maker. He made his first appearance in “All Will Be Righted on Samhain” in SWORDS OF STEEL, a paperback anthology of sword-and-sorcery and weird-fiction stories in the grand old pulp tradition, published by DMR Books in 2015.

Another of Howie K. Bentley’s characters is Argantyr Fenris: a barbarian king who transforms into a werewolf. Thorn and Argantyr appear together in “The Heart of the Betrayer” published in DMR Books’s SWORDS OF STEEL II (2016). Howie’s latest Argantyr story is featured in CIRSOVA issue # 4 (Winter 2016)."

Matthew Knight bio:

Matthew is a writer of Sword and Sorcery fiction and vocalist behind heavy metal bands Eternal Winter and Cauldron Born.

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