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Everhood (Retro Weirdo Boss Battle RPG)

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Everhood (Retro Weirdo Boss Battle RPG)

  Everhood is what happens when you bottle up an acid-trip run through Beatmania in a smoke-filled basement arcade and manufacture an NES cartridge out of the bottled essence. You take on the role of a one-armed doll engaging in dance battles with toads and ATMs that spit out little guitar hero buttons to dodge. […]

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Loneliness Creepypasta Glitch Horror Film)

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We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Loneliness Creepypasta Glitch Horror Film)

  The avenue connecting horror cinema and creepypasta culture has generally been a one-way street. Creepypastas take plenty of influence from horror films, but the only mainstream stabs at adapting them are Sony’s 2018 Slender Man and Syfy’s Channel Zero series. There’s assorted indie Youtubers, exploitation mockbusters, and scaremongering docudramas, but We’re All Going to […]

Medieval Demon – Arcadian Witchcraft (Ancient B00bs Black Metal)

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Medieval Demon – Arcadian Witchcraft (Ancient B00bs Black Metal)

  Now here’s a band that can get people into trouble. Well, specifically me. And to be more specific it’s because many of their band photos include female booby slaves and social media doesn’t like the reality of the human body. Therefore… I mean the aesthetic is ace and somehow makes corpse paint look cool […]

Pupil Slicer – Mirrors (Powerviolence Mathcore and Grind with a Purpose)

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Pupil Slicer – Mirrors (Powerviolence Mathcore and Grind with a Purpose)

  Ah so glad I received this so everyone can STFU that I don’t review music of this type. I just rarely get the good stuff. How many times do I have to say that? I guess every time since people tend to stop here once in their life for that one thing they heard […]

Wÿntër Ärvń – Abysses (Black Metal Folk Stuff)

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Wÿntër Ärvń – Abysses (Black Metal Folk Stuff)

  A little late on this review, but I wanted to let Wÿntër Ärvń sink into my being more before I made my final decision. It was necessary, for I rarely receive folk that truly captures my attention, dark folk probably least of all. Not familiar sir, you think? Never, most of it simply fails […]

Exanimis – Marionnettiste (Orchestral Steam Punk Death Metal)

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Exanimis – Marionnettiste (Orchestral Steam Punk Death Metal)

  So I was thoroughly surprised by this one and now I have a deep-seated craving for orchestral death metal with steam punk stuff going on. Not black metal, I get a bit of that, like I want more bands to do this kind of thing but perhaps it’s just too hard for the provincials, […]

Sadistic Drive – Anthropophagy (Dirty Finnish Depraved Metal)

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Sadistic Drive – Anthropophagy (Dirty Finnish Depraved Metal)

  Let’s end this week (I think I’m ending it) with some depraved metal ye fools. I was hit with at least one other Finnish band of this style, more on the grind side, this past month, and man did they suck. You can almost tell immediately by the art whether a band of this […]

Chainsword – Blightmarch (Dakka Dakka Metal)

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Chainsword – Blightmarch (Dakka Dakka Metal)

  Ooooh those angry, angry Poles playing their video games. Still getting out that war angst I suppose. It’s understandable, the country was wrecked by subjugation and terror for like five-hundred years until the end of WWII, so I’d be pretty pissed too. But hey, I’ll allow it for at least one reason, that being […]

Violation (Naturalistic Rape Revenge Film)

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Violation (Naturalistic Rape Revenge Film)

  With a few isolated exceptions (1986’s The Ladies Club), throughout the 20th century the rape-revenge subgenre was the exclusive province of male filmmakers. But since the Soska sisters threw open the doors in 2012 with American Mary, a wave of female-directed reimagined rape-revenge films has touched every corner of the cinemaverse, from New French […]

Socioclast – S/T (Bittersweet Grindcore)

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Socioclast – S/T (Bittersweet Grindcore)

  Well this was surprisingly enjoyable for an album that first appears to be a rip off of some Teitanblood shit, but not nearly as long. In fact it’s not even half of that or so. Albums that deliver in such a short span of time are amazing to me when they work. Most bands […]