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Brian Evenson \ Coffee House Press \ horror literature \ Reiko Murakami \ short stories
Good Night, Sleep Tight (Childhood Night Terrors Short Horror Stories)
It’s rare for an anthology to leave me thinking about the stories days after completion. However, I’ve found myself thinking about quite a few of the stories from Brian Evenson’s Good Night, Sleep Tight. It’s become almost a nightly routine that, as I’m tucked in and ready to fall asleep, I’m reminded of “The […]
blackened thrash \ death speed \ death thrash \ deathspeedthrash \ Domenicus van Wijnen \ Osmose Productions \ Romania
Ruyned – Profanum Sacrificium (Irrepressible Badboy Death Speed Thrash)
I’ve been looking for something rather irrepressible, and lo and behold Romania has exactly what I needed in recent days, a trio of fresh-out-of-the-womb bad boys looking for love, breaking hearts, and taking virginity through Satanic rites without giving a shit after, leaving unsuspecting egirls in their wake. I believe I’d heard something of […]
blackened death metal \ blackened noise \ blackened powerviolence \ blackened punk \ blackened war metal \ Finland \ Kakografia \ noise \ powerviolence \ Time to Kill Records \ war metal
Hoc Est Bellum – Filth Majesty (Blackened Death Noise)
I didn’t really feel like thinking this week. We’re already halfway through, and that could change, but before it does I need to show you all how to lay out the smash with pure instinct. Finland’s Hoc Est Bellum (Latin for “This is War”) are another gem to add to the ever-growing list of […]
blackened death metal \ blackened punk \ Carbonized Records \ Chris Taylor \ Cris Crude \ death punk \ United States \ Washington DC
Goetia – Mortuary Cult (Savage Blackened Death Punk)
I was at a loss recently, because the majority of promos were just terrible. This might be one of the worst weeks on record for me, but it’s just the luck of the sucky draw. I was down to a few, but in the end the final review we have today to end off […]
Awakening Records \ dark fantasy \ death metal \ experimental death metal \ Germany \ Kazakhstan \ melodic death metal \ Russia \ Technical Death Metal
Cyclopic – Flesh of Chaos (Unequivocally Dark Fantasy Death Metal)
Ah yes. Haven’t had a supergroup in awhile, and Cyclopic consists of members from Germany, Kazakhstan, and Russia. Normally, this kind of mix yields mixed results (lol get it) but here we find something else entirely. Now, looking at info supplied by the label, Awakening Records (who you should really be paying more attention […]
Arrow Video \ Blu-ray \ giallo \ horror \ horror Blu-ray \ Sergio Martino \ slasher \ slasher film
Torso (Giallo Proto-Slasher Lives On)
Now, I’m not a huge slasher fan, especially slashers with non-supernatural villains, but I rather enjoyed Torso (1973, here the Arrow Video 4K special edition with a wealth of valuable, extra features), or, in the original Italian, I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale (The Bodies Show Traces of Carnal Violence). Let me change […]
Danish \ death grind \ Denmark \ Extremely Rotten Productions \ post-grind \ Tue Sprogø
Meltification – S/T (Churlish Death Grind)
Are thee proud enough to go the self-titled route? To do so requires the maximum of unbothered grace, and in the world of anything even remotely adjacent to grind, grace is scarcely known. Churlish perhaps? That’s too Thesauaurs for these parts, I’m afraid, but everyone knows that most bands who even dip a smidgen […]
Finland \ old school black metal \ raw black metal \ Signal Rex \ true black metal \ Vhan Artworks
Riena – Miekka ja Varjo (Truly Raw Black Metal)
It’s been a long time since I reviewed black metal of this type and I’m sticking with what I said about it before. When musicians pray to the gods of “raw” they typically belabor the point. It’s not about the raw, it’s how you use it (sex reference). Lo-fi is not the answer, for […]
Baltimore \ Brad Moore \ death speed \ death thrash \ Maryland \ Rotted Life Records \ speed thrash \ United States
Nuclear Tomb – Epoch Inhumane (Almost Ineffable Death Thrash)
I was the opposite of a fan of Nuclear Tomb when I received their last full-length, Terror Labyrinthian, for review. It was, quite simply, inchoate. Even the art was drab and undeveloped. So imagine my surprise, or perhaps lack thereof, when two years later I find, with Epoch Inhumane, they’re closer to ineffable. I […]
bestial black metal \ bestial death metal \ Oregon \ Portland \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories \ United States
Diabolic Oath – Unholy Barbaric Hymns (Bestial Blackened Death Metal of Pure Beast)
I just love Sentient Ruin Laboratories. Everything dude releases sounds something like this, but it never tires, it never ages, it remains robust in spite of similarities and in spite of continuing, confidently, on the same path. Feeble? Never. For he truly knows how to dig deep into the blackness, pulling out great sources […]
