As to whether his former friend could return to Haunted Mound, Sematary wasn’t bullish: “I think we’re both too proud for that to ever happen.” But after a three-and-a-half-year hiatus ...

I had the thought last spring, watching the swarm of teens in black and RealTree camo camp out hours before the doors opened for the all-ages Haunted Mound show at Chicago’s Vic Theatre.

In 2019, two young rappers equally inspired by the influential Chicago drill rapper Chief Keef and black metal acts like Darkthrone formed the underground experimental rap collective Haunted Mound.