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Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden (Emotional Supernatural Dark Fantasy)

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Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden (Emotional Supernatural Dark Fantasy)

  Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden was one of my most anticipated games of 2023. Like many other video games, it never releases on the initial date and was delayed until this February of 2024. The wait was well worth it. Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden has not disappointed. The game is a story-intensive action-RPG heavily focused on […]

Silent Night, Deadly Night (Childhood Ruined Again by Cheap Transgressiveness)

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Silent Night, Deadly Night (Childhood Ruined Again by Cheap Transgressiveness)

  Something is awful rotten in Denmark, folks. Apparently, Stop The Killer Press (a subsidiary of the Stop The Killer board game company) has gone into the business of publishing limited edition novelizations of classic slasher films such as My Bloody Valentine and Happy Birthday to Me. Normally I would have no interest in such chicanery, […]

Tombs of the Blind Dead (Spanish Zombie Templar Horror)

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Tombs of the Blind Dead (Spanish Zombie Templar Horror)

  Long may they ride! The jewel in the paste crown of Amando De Ossorio’s erratic career, Tombs of the Blind Dead is a minor masterpiece of Spanish Gothic Horror that has finally been lovingly restored by Synapse Films in time for its 4K UHD debut. Does this movie deserve the reputation it has? Let’s find […]

Hideous Divinity – Unextinct (They’re Good Technical Death Metal)

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Hideous Divinity – Unextinct (They’re Good Technical Death Metal)

  Here’s one of those bands I seem to recall scanning through at some point, but quickly forgot for unknown reasons. Big names I tend to avoid because they already have substantial fanbases and it maintains my false belief that I’m totally vndergrovnd by just not paying attention to them. New Cannibal Corpse album? Deleted. […]

Molten – Malicide (Archaic Heretical Death Thrash)

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Molten – Malicide (Archaic Heretical Death Thrash)

  Goddamn. Listen, for the millionth time, cover art is so important in selling a band, a book, practically everything. Get a good artist! Case in point here’s Malicide, the latest full-length from San Francisco’s Molten. A little surprised this hasn’t received much press as of yet. Death thrash can be a generally easy sell […]

Psychic Teenage Bloodbath II (Sexy Insanity Psychic Ultra-Violence)

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Psychic Teenage Bloodbath II (Sexy Insanity Psychic Ultra-Violence)

  What another wild ride from Carl John Lee. A 10-year gap between the first book and this one, Charlie finds herself with Lynette, although it just…isn’t her. Susan, her ex-psychic girlfriend, who caused a massacre years before, now occupies the mind of Lynette. And she makes no effort to hide it anymore. Still bitter […]

Don’t Scream (Literal Title Psychological Horror)

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Don’t Scream (Literal Title Psychological Horror)

  I finally had the opportunity to play Don’t Scream, which I saw snippets of several other gamers playing before I decided to jump in. It’s a walk-or-run horror experience set in the woods in 1993, where your trusty flashlight and video camera go out occasionally (pitch black equates to scary in videogames lol). You have eighteen minutes […]

Run and Kill (Infidelity Revenge Extreme Horror Comedy)

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Run and Kill (Infidelity Revenge Extreme Horror Comedy)

  For lovers of vintage Hong Kong weirdness, the gang over at Error 4444 have got all bases covered with an eclectic lineup of releases and a future slate of titles that are downright mouth-watering. This month, they truly became my heroes for giving “Bloody” Billy Tang’s Run and Kill the Blu-ray release that it […]

Dodenbezweerder – Als De Hemel Zich Vult Met Apocalyptisch Kopergeschal (Black Ambient Metal)

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Dodenbezweerder – Als De Hemel Zich Vult Met Apocalyptisch Kopergeschal (Black Ambient Metal)

  I was pretty bummed I didn’t receive the new Dodenbezweerder in the promos (it’s technically past release, which you likely know I tend to avoid), but then again Maurice doesn’t need me to know he’s an absolute netherworld deity of dark music. If you’re not familiar with his work, which is unlikely, it’s the […]

Negative Prayer – Self // Wound (Repulsive Body Horror Crust Metal)

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Negative Prayer – Self // Wound (Repulsive Body Horror Crust Metal)

  Oooo this one has some power behind it. I guess it has to since it fits easily into the crust metal genre but yet… I don’t like dropping tags often, but Portland, Oregon’s Negative Prayer can definitely be rooted in that as well as the tradition of d-beat, yet, hmm, there’s something different here… […]

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