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Adam Burke \ Century Media \ Italy \ Nightjar Illustrations \ Technical Death Metal
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. […]
dark folk \ dungeon folk \ Italy \ Laura Sans Gassó \ Lay Bare Recordings \ Slovenia \ STRXart
kariti – Dheghom (Dungeon Folk)
I’m not sure if this is a conflict of interest but since I’m not releasing this one I guess not, right? I’m a bit partial to kariti, one reason of which is the fact that I received permission from her and Aural Music to do a co-release of her full-length Covered Mirrors on vinyl, […]
Agipunk Records \ Bologna \ darkwave \ Goth \ Italy \ Liz Van Der Nüll \ post-goth \ post-punk \ vampire punk
Horror Vacui – S/T (Post-Goth Punk Goth)
Yes, Goth stuff. I’ve been making more of an effort to find such things for review, because I just don’t get enough. When’s the word going to get out there already that this site covers all things dark? Maybe Goth labels are simply not as proactive with publicity? That would fit the aesthetic more, […]
blackened death rock \ Claudio Elias Scialabba \ death rock \ Dying Victims Productions \ Italy \ Messina \ Sicily
Bunker 66 – Portraits of Dismay (Blackened Autobiographical Death Rock)
Normally, I avoid compilations. I get the point, but I don’t like them, I want something new. Okay, so the way around that is typically a band or label will add new tracks or something, but they’re most often covers so why TF bother? But, when you put in there rarity whether early demos […]
brutal death metal \ Caleb Diederich \ Italy \ Ivrea \ Piedmont \ Turin \ Willowtip Records
Putridity – Greedy Gory Gluttony (Brutal Death Metal for Modern Sensibilities)
I’ve been neglecting poor old brutal death metal for awhile now, but it’s not my fault, I swear. It’s the fault of the bands! It’s the fault of the labels! Everyone but me! And though the blame-game is everyone’s excuse it’s totally valid here because brutal death metal is actually, not metaphorically, the same […]
Blu-ray \ Dario Argento \ Italian horror \ Italy \ Synapse Films
Phenomena (Italian Psychic Power Insect Horror)
Dario Argento is a legend for many reasons, a director with a body of work most directors would kill for. While his work of recent memory has been scattershot at best, there’s no denying that he was on a tear from Deep Red until possibly The Stendhal Syndrome (some would say Opera). Today, we’re […]
Italy \ Margherita Petrucci \ mathcore \ post-hardcore \ post-mathcore \ Prosthetic Records
Stormo – Endocannibalismo (Italian Post-Mathcore)
I been bumming cuz I haven’t had any good hardcore in awhile. Actually, is there any lol? Most of those old bands are running on farts at this point (translation: old and uninterested in change). That’s why the whole post-(insert genre) thing gained headway about a decade ago, or was it two? Like, get […]
Artoffact Records \ death industrial \ drone \ Italy \ raw black metal \ Ruco \ sludge metal
OvO – Ignoto (Antideluvian Industrial Black Metal Sludge Drone HS)
Holy shit. Sometimes I wonder why I continue to curate promos, but I must remind myself it’s simple. One, not enough time to do everything, and two, most of what I receive is B average at best. Why bother? But, now and then I get something like OvO here and just have to say […]
Hells Headbangers \ Italy \ regressive metal \ retro thrash metal \ thrash metal \ Tuscany \ Velio Josto
Barbarian – Viperface (Regressive to the Core but Not a Bore Thrash Metal)
I like the way these guys play, on two counts. One, the literally playing of the music, and two, the playing with the audience. Not so easy a task when you be playing that retro type of thrash, which can sink into its own past too often and lose the listener in bygone eras, […]
Ascent Film \ Croatia \ Dalibor Matanić \ drama \ Italy \ Kinorama \ RAI Cinema \ symbolism
Dalibor Matanić – Zora / The Dawn (Nightmarish Trauma Symbol Film)
I’ve seen some deep films over the years, but I’m not sure I was expecting something quite like what I got out of The Dawn. Croatian film has been largely under the radar after the end of the Yugoslav “Black Wave” movement, the echoes of which continue to reverberate internationally. With the fall of […]
