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Error 4444 \ HK horror \ Hong Kong \ Hong Kong cinema \ Hong Kong horror \ Titus Ho
Red Spell Spells Red (Scorpion Black Magic Hong Kong Horror)
Being a fan of Hong Kong horror from the 1980s has always required a certain amount of effort. The footprint is small, everything’s been relegated to expensive video tapes, 480p YouTube videos, bootlegs and/or DVD’s that went OOP when HKflix.com was still a thing. Thank God for this current wave of boutique Blu-ray labels […]
Baltimore \ Bruiser Mag \ David Simmons \ eldritch horror \ true crime \ United States \ weird fiction \ weird literature
Foul Black Rookeries (Modern Weird in Darkest Baltimore)
I was lucky enough to see David Simmons read, or rather perform, one of his short stories at VoidCon 2024 and was instantly impressed by his delivery and enthusiasm, but don’t let that grill fool you because underneath the shimmer is a twisted energy that will change your perception of reading entirely. While talking […]
Antiq Records \ atmospheric black metal \ France \ Lilas Dupont \ Ondine
Silhouette – Les Dires de l’Âme (Ghostly Black Metal)
Sometimes I lean towards bands too easily, perhaps, but in the case of France’s Silhouette I couldn’t help but with their mostly ghostly style. I reviewed their EP Les Retranchements when it dropped about two years ago, and it hit right in the emotional core more than most bands attempting the atmospheric route, but […]
experimental death metal \ Florida \ kaiju \ Max Winter \ progressive death metal \ Technical Death Metal \ Teratogen \ United States \ Willowtip Records
Gigan – Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus (Technical Kaiju Death Metal)
I find it hard to believe there wasn’t another band named Gigan out there. The likely reason for this, outside of bands so minor they have 0 online presence, is likely anyone who thought of it quickly rethought the situation as “well, someone already picked that I bet,” leaving this Floridian death metal trio […]
Chase Will \ Don Noble \ horror literature \ Mental Anarchy Press \ psychological horror \ psychological literature
Where Dreams are En2mbed: Abstraction (Martyr as Art Horror)
To begin, this book is actually a sequel. I went into it knowing this, but was told that it reads equally well as a standalone. It most definitely lived up to that!! I really enjoy authors who try to have series that can be standalones, as usually if a reader likes one or two […]
Andrii Vintsevych \ first-person survival horror \ Gua \ Native American folklore \ Native American mythos \ PC \ Steam
Skinwalker Hunt (Native American First-Person Supernatural Horror)
How did I miss this one?!!! I hate myself. Some years ago I reviewed a game, in fact it was one of the first videogame reviews I did, for indie cult hit Witch Hunt by one-man Ukrainian dev Andrii Vintsevych. It was an incredible, and challenging, 18th century first-person survival horror terror hunt for […]
death punk \ death rock \ Germany \ horror punk \ Into Endless Chaos Records \ Rotting Reign
Deathrite – Flames Licking Fever (Eerie Death Punk)
Nice. Needed something to mix things up around here! Plus, I received so much garbage these past months it’s been tough whittling it down to anything good, let alone something that rawks as much as Flames Licking Fever, the latest full-length from Germany’s Deathrite (capitalized or no?). There are a number of acts out […]
blackened grind \ blackened war metal \ Brian Paulin \ Chile \ Godz Ov War Productions \ Morbid Vision Films \ war metal
Onslaught Kommand – Malignancy (Blackened Chilean War Grind)
Almost two years ago I reviewed the demo by Chile’s Onslaught Kommand, and even before I remembered their Nunslaughterish logo I knew by the cover of Malignancy, with its more brutal and visceral approach to gore, I was going to be slewn asunder. I like the hand saw there too, very nice, because whatever […]
Amor Fati Productions \ atmospheric black metal \ dungeon black metal \ dungeon synth \ experimental black metal \ Germany \ Karmazid \ Patrick Zöller
Häxenzijrkell – Portal (Atmospheric Dungeon Metal)
It’s been four years since me and my good friends (in spirit) in Häxenzijrkell traded words. Last time around I tossed out a pleasant 4.5/5 for Die Nachseite, referring to it as “Halloween black metal.” This does not apply this time around and I need to be more serious. Showing a surprising ability to […]
first-person survival horror \ Hitori De Productions \ horror puzzle game \ PC \ Steam \ survival horror
Supernatural (Killer Housemaid Survival Puzzle Horror)
First and foremost, I have to give my respects to the lone developer who made a game that had me jumping like a grasshopper trying not to be squished. Whew, Steam reviews can be deadly. For a one-person operation, this game really brings the jump scare. But you have to actually pay attention for […]
