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Dawnbreed Records \ Florida \ Florida death metal \ gruesomegraphx \ Gurgling Gore \ Nev Michael \ Personal Records \ United States
Plasmodulated – An Ocean ov Putrid, Stinky, Vile, Disgusting Hell (Human Filth Metal for the New Florida)
Let the official proclamation hereby be stated: the Florida death metal scene may be undergoing a renaissance. Death metal in the region has simmered with a familiar, if potent, consistency for years now, trapped in the amber of its 1990s progressive death metal glory. And while some may raise fists in my presence, the […]
dark folk \ Fiadh Productions \ freshappetizers \ post-black metal \ post-doom \ post-goth \ Seattle \ trauma metal \ Washington
Tylo – Of Rot and Rebirth (Trauma Metal)
I had to stop and think about this one more than the usual. There’s something different about this I could only fully explain by making up a term. I could try what what others have failed at by saying post-Goth, post-doom, etc. but such an approach is lacking. Tylo Gardner, who’s done work as […]
extreme horror \ extreme horror films \ Filthy Loot \ horror films \ Ira Rat \ Jon Steffens \ nonfiction
A Beginner’s Guide to Extreme Horror (Gross Introduction for Horror Scrubs)
I think this is a first in my Deaf Sparrow history. This is not a grisly tale for gruesome kids, there’s no plot or any characters to love or hate. Jon Steffens and Ira Rat have written the ultimate A-Z guide of extreme horror movies, with their own 1-5 rating sick-o-meter, each bite-sized review has […]
arcade shooter \ boomer shooter \ Devolver Digital \ first-person shooter \ FPS \ FPS challenge \ Free Lives
Anger Foot (Not an FPS Arcade Killing for Skilling)
As usual I waited awhile before I dropped a review for this, but, also like usual, it deserved the time. Anger Foot is not what it seems at first, in fact it will blow your sensibilities out of your comfort zone with a big kick to the balls up into your brains in a […]
Amazon Prime Video \ indie slasher \ Michael Donovan Horn \ slasher film \ tubi
Bone Face (Self-Reflective Indie Slasher)
To normal people, the horror nerd urge to scrape Tubi’s dregs and plumb dollar store DVD bins is inexplicable. But I pity them, because they don’t know the nat-20 dice-roll thrill of the pleasant surprise. It’s what keeps us returning to bargain baskets and back pages. Bone Face had nothing to recommend it. A […]
blackened speed metal \ blackened speed punk \ Hells Headbangers \ Japan \ metalpunk \ speed metal \ speed punk \ Velio Josto
Verdalack – Force from the Grave (Vampiric Blackened Speed Punk)
Uh oh we got a band using a vampire term for their name. That could be bad… But, lol, hey, they’re from Japan, so trust me, you’ve got nothing to worry about. Any band from Japan can take any genre and make it better than it ever was, especially when it comes to metal. […]
Cavan Rian Hoover \ Funeror \ New Jersey \ Profound Lore Records \ Rotten Reign \ United States \ Washington DC
Kontusion – Insatiable Lust for Death (Manly Death Metal for Real Men)
Now here’s an interesting development. I’ve seen bands evolve, or grow, as it were to some. That’s pretty easy I’d say. But what if a band remains stagnant, can that be a good thing? When I previously encountered Kontusion their sound was a bleeding type of death punk, in a sense, corrupted to its […]
Chad Keith \ Cleaveland \ deathspeed \ deaththrash \ Ohio \ Redefining Darkness Records \ speedthrash \ United States
Atomic Witch – Death Etiquette (Blackened Speed Thrash with Grave Mist)
My glowing review of Atomic Witch’s last effort now feels insufficient. Death Etiquette utterly obliterates Crypt of Sleepless Malice, sorry. Where its predecessor hammered with raw, crushing deaththrash, infused with a dose of speed, this album reveals a band far more skilled, artistic, and atmospheric, weaving a richer, more evolved narrative. Three years in the lab clearly […]
Angel Gasm \ Chicago \ cyber metal \ cybergrind \ glitch metal \ Illinois \ Paris Shadrovovstov \ post-cybergrind \ post-goth \ Prosthetic Records \ screamo \ United States
Blind Equation – A Funeral in Purgatory (Post-Cybergrind Glitch Goth)
The album’s visuals were my initial lifeline: a haunting blend of dark anime, raw glitch, and a somber, dripping grey palette that perfectly shrouded the band’s identity. But the moment the music hit, I was at an immediate impasse. This wasn’t a “grower”; it was an instant gauntlet, demanding a total reevaluation of music […]
Fabio Frizzi \ giallo \ gore film \ Italian horror \ Lucio Fulci \ zombie film
City of the Living Dead (Evil Zombies 4K Slop)
Haunted by the absence of a reliable film critic, I finally swiped the cozy couch of fate myself and dove back into pure cinema trash. Not for enlightenment, but to waste my own time rather than delegate the job and pay for it. Still, unlike music, movies present their own unique difficulty in critique: […]
