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Digital Cybercherries \ first-person psychological horror \ Joure & Joe \ jumpscare horror \ PC \ psychological horror
Don’t Scream (Literal Title Psychological Horror)
I finally had the opportunity to play Don’t Scream, which I saw snippets of several other gamers playing before I decided to jump in. It’s a walk-or-run horror experience set in the woods in 1993, where your trusty flashlight and video camera go out occasionally (pitch black equates to scary in videogames lol). You have eighteen minutes […]
Billy Tang \ crime Blu-ray \ crime thriller \ Error 4444 \ Hong Kong \ Hong Kong cinema \ horror Blu-ray \ horror comedy
Run and Kill (Infidelity Revenge Extreme Horror Comedy)
For lovers of vintage Hong Kong weirdness, the gang over at Error 4444 have got all bases covered with an eclectic lineup of releases and a future slate of titles that are downright mouth-watering. This month, they truly became my heroes for giving “Bloody” Billy Tang’s Run and Kill the Blu-ray release that it […]
ambient black metal \ black ambient \ black ambient metal \ dark ambient metal \ Maurice De Jong \ Netherlands \ raw ambient
Dodenbezweerder – Als De Hemel Zich Vult Met Apocalyptisch Kopergeschal (Black Ambient Metal)
I was pretty bummed I didn’t receive the new Dodenbezweerder in the promos (it’s technically past release, which you likely know I tend to avoid), but then again Maurice doesn’t need me to know he’s an absolute netherworld deity of dark music. If you’re not familiar with his work, which is unlikely, it’s the […]
Adam Medford \ body horror \ Chaos Records \ crust metal \ d-beat \ Life After Death \ Oregon \ Strange Creature Collages \ United States
Negative Prayer – Self // Wound (Repulsive Body Horror Crust Metal)
Oooo this one has some power behind it. I guess it has to since it fits easily into the crust metal genre but yet… I don’t like dropping tags often, but Portland, Oregon’s Negative Prayer can definitely be rooted in that as well as the tradition of d-beat, yet, hmm, there’s something different here… […]
Conan metal \ epic heavy metal \ epic power metal \ France \ heavy metal \ Mario Lopez \ No Remorse Records \ NWOBHM \ power metal
Nemedian Chronicles – The Savage Sword (Legit Conan Metal)
When a band takes an idea and makes it so blatant in everything they do, most often disaster ensues. Examples aren’t necessary, just trust me on this. But, here, with Nemedian Chronicles we find the standard broken. It’s not going to happen in this case. Conan will never fail us. Even though everything about […]
cute 'em up \ Nintendo Switch \ PC \ shoot 'em up \ Steam \ Xbox One \ XBox Series S \ Xbox Series X
Turnip Boy Robs a Bank (Brutal Vegetable Cute ‘Em Up)
Turnip Boy Robs a Bank (TBRB) is a sequel to Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion (minor spoilers ahead), a self-proclaimed rogue-like for people who hate rogue-likes, and I don’t know of a better way to describe this ball of chaos in video game form than that. After the protagonist Turnip Boy kills god (yes […]
D. W. Hitz \ horror literature \ Maisie Stokely
Stay Out of the Tub!! (OMG It’s a HAUNTED TUB Splatterpunk Horror)
This will be a strange review. It will sound conflicting and possibly like I have no idea why I’m talking about it. Bear with me. I want to start out by saying, I didn’t actually like this book. And I couldn’t explain or articulate why. I just didn’t vibe with it much. So now […]
Far Beyond – The End of My Road (Melodic Symphonic Death Metal to Fell Whole Forests)
Dang, well I ended up really liking this far beyond what I thought I could or was possible for anyone. I see that “symphonic” thing tossed about and I get scared. Oh no, another one of these? Usually ends up being some horrid conglomeration of Goth and power metal that basically eliminates the cultural […]
blackened death metal \ Cold Poison \ Concreto Records \ Mexico \ Odium Records
Black Hate – Vía Purgativa:Qui Spiritu Diaboli Aguntur Hi Filii Satanae Sunt (Spiteful Blackened Death Metal)
Uh oh, they’re back! Black Hate was one of the bands that really set off Deaf Sparrow after the site redesign in 2013 with their incredible, and imo greatly underappreciated Los Tres Mundos. From that point they seemed to constantly break their own boundaries, or rather destroy their own edifices to build something upon […]
dark folk \ dungeon folk \ Italy \ Laura Sans Gassó \ Lay Bare Recordings \ Slovenia \ STRXart
kariti – Dheghom (Dungeon Folk)
I’m not sure if this is a conflict of interest but since I’m not releasing this one I guess not, right? I’m a bit partial to kariti, one reason of which is the fact that I received permission from her and Aural Music to do a co-release of her full-length Covered Mirrors on vinyl, […]
