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blackened death metal \ Finland \ Helsinki \ Sepulchral Voice Records \ Uusimaa
Concrete Winds – Nerve Butcherer (Death Metal by Half-Beings)
Goddamn I love this messy ass cover. You can’t tell what the hell you’re looking at from any angle. The band logo is like a collection of broken hypodermics, the album title will give you a seizure, and they’re both laid on top of a bizarre gathering of nonsensical, yet somehow frightening shapes and […]
France \ Montpellier \ Occitanie \ occult black metal \ Osmose Productions \ Rats
Morguiliath – Occult Sins New Unholy Dimension (Okkvlt French Black Metal)
You can usually tell when a black metal band is about to go in a different direction. Let’s see what we’ve got here, superficially speaking, to explain what I mean. Almost illegible logo, not one, but two upside-down crosses, Old English Gothic font, black and white aesthetic, uh oh… What was I saying before? […]
Nintendo Switch \ PlayStation 4 \ Puppet Combo \ retro survival horror \ Steam \ Xbox One \ XBox Series S \ Xbox Series X
Murder House (Retro Survival Horror)
Harkening back to the days of the original Sony PlayStation (PS1), Murder House lets you relive the glory days of survival horror titles like Clock Tower with its polygonal graphics, cheesy dialogue, and tank style controls. Where it surpasses its predecessors is in the sheer amount of violence/gore and its attention to detail within […]
Chaos Records \ Påhl Sundström \ Sweden \ Swedish death metal
Gold Spire – S/T (Let’s Toss in Some Sax Swedish Death Metal)
I was pretty sure I was probably going to like this, so imagine my surprise when I really didn’t. Bummer. Gold Spire consists of members of some pretty important Swedeath bands, most importantly Usurpress. Swedish death metal has, simply put, been known for bending the rules, or outright discarding them. This one I saw […]
Canada \ Matthew Carr \ Putrid Matt \ Quebec \ Quebec City \ raw death metal \ Temple of Mystery Records
Outre-Tombe – Abysse Mortifère (Halloween Candy Death Metal)
You know even though I see these guys categorized as osdm, really there’s more to them than that. Down with genre tags I say! This is the official end, I swear. Never going to tag again. F preconceptions. This is the future. Now then, Outre-Tombe, which come to me at a perfect time of […]
death noise \ glitch \ Olympia \ United States \ Washington
Depressive – We R Fuk”d (Updated Xerox Death Noise)
Whoah boiiii I’ve been waiting for a good release of this type for far too long damn. Noise albums have slammed now and then in the past year, don’t mistake my meaning, but they always suck at the art, stuck in some sort of old school Xerox aesthetic that honestly should die already. More […]
GeForce Now \ Indefatigable \ New Blood Interactive \ Nintendo Switch \ retro fps \ Steam
Amid Evil (Retro Dark Fantasy Literally Slay FPS)
Well now, though I’m technically late on this one, I received it late, because I asked late, and, well, you know how that goes. Yes, I suck. Actually I was interested in checking out another title by New Blood Interactive, their more recent Ultrakill, but once I saw this beauty I said now hold […]
Cosmotropia de Xam \ Eurotrash horror \ Phantasma Disques \ witch house
The Inferno Index (Eurotrash Horror Reborn)
Cosmotropia de Xam is best known for founding music collective Mater Suspiria Vision, pioneers of the witch house genre. It seems de Xam (henceforth CdX) uses the same techniques when making films as when making music: drones, backmasking, sampling, genre-hopping, heavy filters and effects, textures and the ethereal feminine, all adding up to something […]
epic heavy metal \ heavy metal \ New York \ No Remorse Records \ power metal \ Tanya Finder
Shadowland – The Necromancer’s Castle (Heavy Metal Magazine in Metal Form)
Yay, congrats, Shadowland, you have the only album worth listening to that’s dropping this week. Everything else I think I puked all over. And yay, this is another rare instance where I give a positive review to epic heavy metal. But this one comes with more awesome than I could have ever imagined. Lead […]
first-person \ first-person survival horror \ PlayStation 4 \ PlayStation 5 \ Steam \ Turtle Rock Studios \ Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment \ Xbox One \ Xbox Series X
Back 4 Blood (Multiplayer Zombie Slay Game with Cards for Some Reason)
It’s been over ten years since Left 4 Dead (L4D) invaded our homes with multiplayer, team-oriented zombie mayhem. Quite the successful IP, the franchise only had two games before seemingly disappearing forever. Well, if you were a fan, here’s a surprise. While this game technically isn’t Left 4 Dead 3, in spirit it totally […]
