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blackened heavy metal \ blackened power metal \ blackened speed metal \ Dying Victims Productions \ France \ Jon Whiplash Illustrations
Hexecutor – …Where Spirit Withers in Its Flesh Constraint (Hauntingly Ethereal Blackened Heavy Metal)
Are the French coming up to overtake the Finns in weirdness? Also the ghostly and ethereal? Might happen, at this rate. I really needed to listen to the latest from Hexecutor several times to get what they were doing. Even after that I’m not sure I’m in the “get it” crowd yet. Maybe I […]
first-person shooter \ FPS \ horror FPS \ HYPERSTRANGE \ New Blood Interactive \ retro fps \ stealth FPS \ Western FPS
Blood West (Horrifying Yee Haw Stealth FPS)
Gold dang got another rootin’, tootin’, retro FPS shootin’ title from the masters at New Blood Interactive! I’m a little late on this, but as I usually say videogames take a lot more time and energy to review. You can’t just sit through it, you have to take the time to really get into […]
body horror \ Coralie Fargeat \ rape revenge \ Rezo Films
Revenge (I Spit on Your Male Gaze)
Revenge is a 2017 outing from The Substance director Coralie Fargeat. If the latter was riffing on Cronenberg body horror, this is an elevated I Spit on Your Grave sequel starring a female Mike Danton (or you could go with John Rambo if that’s your taste, it’s not mine). This movie takes forever to get […]
Amor Fati Productions \ arcane black metal \ arcane blackened death metal \ arcane death metal
Osgraef – Reveries of the Arcane Eye (Arcane Death Metal of the Void)
A band so obscure it’s not even on Encylopaedia Metallum yet? Then you know it’s elite. Another hint of greatness here is I can’t find a lick of fucking information about these guys. Are they guys? Are they human? Probably no to the second question. They’re probably not even physical beings. Black metal or […]
Antônio Leal \ Brazil \ necro-punk \ necrohardcore \ necropunk \ nekro-punk \ nekropunk \ nerkohardcore \ Sentient Ruin
Clan Dos Mortos – Técnicas de Morte (Hardcore Nekropunk)
Horror punk is for the weak, do you hear me? What was once a scene of tongue-in-cheek scares that was kind of real scary now just looks like it’s for pussies. Stupid makeup, stupid Elvis lip shit, stupid hair, stupid Frankenstein references without knowing it’s the name of the student who isn’t even a […]
barbaric black metal \ barbaric death metal \ bestial black metal \ bestial death metal \ bestial war metal \ Detroit \ Hells Headbangers \ Jenglot Hitam \ Michigan \ Ohio \ United States \ war metal
Genocidal Rites – Genocidal Upheaval of Subservient Abrahamic Law (Barbaric Bestial Black Metal of Death)
I try my best to balance out labels I review, but, damn it, some of them are just so good I can’t but review whatever they send me. How many reviews for Hells Headbangers have I done so far? I don’t even know, but it’s probably embarrassing. Even more revealing (laying myself bare here), […]
Broken River Books \ cyberpunk \ dark fantasy \ gutterpunk \ Kelby Losack \ post-apocalyptic
Mercy (Post-Apocalyptic Western Gutter Cyberpunk)
I had heard of hoodrat Kelby Losack somewhere before, can’t remember where, but happened upon this gem of novelette while taking a trip to a weird fiction con in 2024. Actually bought my copy from Baltimore’s resident spook master David Simmons (look him up), but I sat on it for awhile until I decided […]
Drecom Co. Ltd. \ dungeon crawl \ fantasy role-playing \ Japan \ role-playing game \ RPG
Wizardry Variants Daphne (GOAT RPG Series Returns to Glory)
I think it’s hilarious that no one has a clue why this game is called Wizardry Variants Daphne. I’ve seen various theories and explanations, but the mystery about it is such a troll move. And, to be honest, it’s part of the mystique of this awesome game, my current vote for best phone game […]
Canada \ Chris Kiesling \ Dark Descent Records \ Invictus Productions \ lurking death metal \ Misanthropic Art
Grave Infestation – Carnage Gathers (Lurking Death Metal)
Hmm best death metal band from Canada currently? Probably, yeah. I’ve been on a real fix for this specific type, too: the eerie, lurking kind. It doesn’t pummel, it slowly degrades. It comes from all the dark spaces you dread like a sticky mold, touching all over your skin until it rots away. There’s […]
Natalie Erika James \ possession film \ possession horror \ possession thriller
Apartment 7A (Underappreciated Possession Horror)
At first glance, Rosemary’s Baby prequel Apartment 7A looks identical to The First Omen: period legacy prequels to classic demon child movies, set six years apart; both by female directors, dealing with unwanted occultist-engineered pregnancies. They may walk the same path, but The First Omen stumbles, clumsy and shouting, while James’s film dances with […]
