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Bret McCormick \ splatter horror \ Visual Vengeance
The Abomination (Cancerous Death Lump Splatter Horror)
I have been fascinated by Bret McCormick’s The Abomination ever since I first saw a truly hideous poster for it (see above) in John McCarty’s indispensable book The Sleaze Merchants. Something about the sly smile on the bloody teenager in the Izod and Ray Bans intrigued me and I knew I had to see this […]
Bergen \ bestial black metal \ bestial death metal \ bestial war metal \ Iron Bonehead Productions \ Norway \ primitive death metal
Goatkraft – Prophet of Eternal Damnation (Exorcistic Bestial Black Metal)
Now, before you get mad at me, let me explain. Normally, a plain old skull on a cover with a simplistic background is a sure pass for me. So what about this one? Firstly, scope it, it’s different. The empty, black space makes it more oppressive, and it’s not just any skull, it’s a […]
blackened noise metal \ India \ Iron Bonehead Productions \ Kolkata \ Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule \ West Bengal
Tetragrammacide – Typho-Tantric Aphorisms from the Arachneophidian Qur’an (Esoteric Blackened Noise Metal)
I knew these guys would come of age eventually, much like a sad review I wrote about an album drop they did in 2015 (the last EP before this latest full-length, actually). I can’t even believe I’m the same person, so pathetic are the words. But, hey, the best things grow, right? Other than […]
CD PROJEKT RED \ cyberpunk \ DLC \ expansion \ open world \ PC \ PlayStation 4 \ PlayStation 5 \ Steam \ XBox Series S \ Xbox Series X
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty (The Game Actually Released Complete This Time)
I loved Cyberpunk 2077 when it came out. Controversies aside, the prospect of (minor spoilers ahead) a stowaway in your head trying to change who you are really intrigues me. Even the ideas of just cyberpunk in general, installing augmentations to your body, and everything a mess of wires and bootleg technology. Now though, […]
ambient black metal \ Bent Window Records \ dungeon synth \ experimental black metal \ Lisbon \ Portugal
Miserable Abyss – Subaquatic Corporeal Rot (Blackened Experimental Dungeon Synth)
It takes a lot to scare me. In fact, at times, I’m pretty sure I can’t be scared anymore. Then I came across this extremely obscure release by Lisbon’s Miserable Abyss and it scared the shit out of me. I’m actually scared of this. What subhuman soil creature made this? What kind of depraved […]
Finland \ geriatric rock \ noise Goth \ noise rock \ Svart Records \ Turku
Throat – We Must Leave You (Geriatric Noise Goth)
Well this is perfect. Tis that season, right? Trees look dead. Leaves collapse as floating corpses. Grass is brown and dormant. Cold is rising and getting under the skin. Ahhh, just love it. So we need at least one Goth-styled release to make it feel complete. Unfortunately, the majority has straight up sucked until […]
death doom \ Masovia \ Memento Mori \ Poland \ Ryszard Wojtyński \ Warsaw
Martyrdoom – As Torment Prevails (Pneumoniac Death Doom)
For a name that sounds like a poor play on words at first, these guys can bring it. And talk about a comeback, phew! Having been absent from the scene for roughly six years, it’s almost as though they were reborn to reclaim the glory that was lost. I’ve heard some good death doom […]
Aramos Cine \ Argentina \ Demián Rugna \ Machaco Films \ possession film \ possession horror \ Shudder
When Evil Lurks (Bloody Mess Argentine Possession Film)
There’s been a veritable buttload of hype about this When Evil Lurks flick swarming out of Fantastic Fest. Normally, my bullshit detector goes off whenever these dorks go all gushy for the latest dose of grossolalia. Well, I’ve never been happier to eat some crow than now because When Evil Lurks is not just […]
Anaïs Chareyre-Méjan \ atmospheric black metal \ Belfast \ blackened shoegaze \ blackgaze \ Ireland \ Northern Ireland \ post-blackgaze \ post-shoegaze \ These Hands Melt \ United Kingdom
Domhain – Nimue (Blackgaze Dirges for the Sullen)
This is a debut? Amazing. It almost seems not in the realm of possibilities. I’ve heard many attempts at this kind of thing, and I hate genre-tagging criticism, but man there’s a lot of stuff in here. Shoegaze, blackgaze, blackmetal, atmospheric metal, post-metal, doom metal, folk metal, dark folk, post-shoegaze, damn it almost sounds […]
blackened hardcore punk \ blackened punk \ blackened rock \ blackened thrash \ Dahmer Art \ Hells Headbangers \ Japan \ Karl Dahmer \ Oregon \ Portland \ Tokyo \ United States
Abigail / Nekrofilth – Fuck in Hell’s Evil Bitches (Incorrect Grammar Blackened Thrash / Hardcore Punk)
I usually complain about splits, primarily because one band outweighs the other, but let’s forget about that today because this is not such a case. This is Abigail fools! The rulers of splits! The kings of splits! The god emperors of splits! The demiurges of splits! Say it how you want, but these guys […]
