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Rachel White interviews Alfonso Civile about his work with Heartsick Band and his artistic endeavors.

In this second episode of our dude-only Season 10 of The Skeptical Shaman podcast, host Rachel White (of TOTEM Readings) chats with Alfonso Civile of Heartsick Band: an incredible heavy metal ensemble combining hardcore and metalcore-tinged ferocity with haunting melodies and stunning atmospherics. Alfonso is not only a talented singer, musician, photographer, videographer and multimedia artist, but he generously donated his Zoolander-level Blue Steel modeling skills to our TOTEM + PUCK HCKY ...

People in this episode

Host: Rachel White

Guest: Alfonso Civile

Topics covered

• heavy metal
• music
• art
• interview
• creativity
• multimedia

Keywords

• heavy metal
• music interview
• Alfonso Civile
• Heartsick Band
• multimedia artist

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Heartsick Band, TOTEM Readings, PUCK HCKY

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