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GeForce Now \ Indefatigable \ New Blood Interactive \ Nintendo Switch \ retro fps \ Steam
Amid Evil (Retro Dark Fantasy Literally Slay FPS)
Well now, though I’m technically late on this one, I received it late, because I asked late, and, well, you know how that goes. Yes, I suck. Actually I was interested in checking out another title by New Blood Interactive, their more recent Ultrakill, but once I saw this beauty I said now hold […]
Cosmotropia de Xam \ Eurotrash horror \ Phantasma Disques \ witch house
The Inferno Index (Eurotrash Horror Reborn)
Cosmotropia de Xam is best known for founding music collective Mater Suspiria Vision, pioneers of the witch house genre. It seems de Xam (henceforth CdX) uses the same techniques when making films as when making music: drones, backmasking, sampling, genre-hopping, heavy filters and effects, textures and the ethereal feminine, all adding up to something […]
epic heavy metal \ heavy metal \ New York \ No Remorse Records \ power metal \ Tanya Finder
Shadowland – The Necromancer’s Castle (Heavy Metal Magazine in Metal Form)
Yay, congrats, Shadowland, you have the only album worth listening to that’s dropping this week. Everything else I think I puked all over. And yay, this is another rare instance where I give a positive review to epic heavy metal. But this one comes with more awesome than I could have ever imagined. Lead […]
first-person \ first-person survival horror \ PlayStation 4 \ PlayStation 5 \ Steam \ Turtle Rock Studios \ Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment \ Xbox One \ Xbox Series X
Back 4 Blood (Multiplayer Zombie Slay Game with Cards for Some Reason)
It’s been over ten years since Left 4 Dead (L4D) invaded our homes with multiplayer, team-oriented zombie mayhem. Quite the successful IP, the franchise only had two games before seemingly disappearing forever. Well, if you were a fan, here’s a surprise. While this game technically isn’t Left 4 Dead 3, in spirit it totally […]
death doom \ Desiccated Productions \ Hungary \ Khaos Diktator Design \ Me Saco un Ojo Records \ Stefan Todorović
Rothadás – Kopár hant... az alvilág felé (Eerie Death Doom Aw Man)
Aw man we got some eerie stuff in native Hungarian tongue here, folks, aw man. You know that’s usually always good. Further, I can’t remember the last time I received a submission from a Hungarian act that wowed me to the extent of aw man. Maybe never. Maybe this is the first time, and […]
Andriy Tkalenko \ brutal death metal \ Daemorph Art \ Madrid \ Spain \ Xtreem Music
Putrevore – Miasmal Monstrosity (No Name-Dropping Brutal Death Metal)
This is one of those releases where you could drop a load of names by means of comparison and that would be the review. Hell it has one dude from Avulsed and another from Paganizer so…for fans of… But I’ve never liked that approach because it eschews a discussion of the band itself, in […]
Artem Grigoryev \ blackened death metal \ Canada \ Dark Descent Records \ In Fastu Negas
Azothyst – Blood of Dead God (Poisonous Blackened Death Metal)
Well I knew this one was going to be a poisonous brain melt based on the skewed English in the title, Blood of Dead God. And then there’s the cover, which at once looks like classic etching, but is a conglomerate of disgust, which apparently is developed further in the jacket which is, quote […]
Alberta \ Hoove Child Records \ power metal
Hrom – Legends of Powerheart Part II (Harmony of Harmonies Power Metal)
Hmm it seems I must take a former opinion back, though I think maybe not? I can’t remember much other than the fact that I’ve ripped on power metal for years because few can make it work. The reasons are too varied to consider in full here, but to be brief you’ve got the […]
Adglobe \ Binary Haze Interactive \ Live Wire \ Metroidvania \ Nintendo Switch \ PlayStation 4 \ Steam \ Xbox One
Ender Lilies (Tender Spirit Summoning Metroidvania Game)
Beautiful, just beautiful. I’ve been picking at Ender Lilies for some time now, as I like to get the full feel of this type of game. You never know, they can start out strong, and finish as absolute trash due to weak mechanics and repetitive themes. But I doubted that from the beginning, and […]
California \ Caligari Records \ experimental death metal \ San Francisco \ Stefan Thanneur \ The Flenser
Succumb – XXI (Philosophy Metal)
Oooohhh, tasty, tasty, tasty be this. First thing, released partially by The Flenser. Second thing, wow. To be wowed anymore I need to be challenged and surprised. Well, hard to challenge me so just stick with surprise. Make it a jump scare of riffs. I want riffs to bend mental states, I want the […]
