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Freedom Games \ Halberd Studios \ Metroidvania \ Nintendo Switch \ PC \ Steam
9 Years of Shadows (Colorful Music and Flying Bear Ghost Metroidvania)
There are a few necessary features for any title claiming the “metroidvania” tag to succeed. Let me lay them all out, alphabetically: difficulty, mechanics, plot, and themes. They need to be challenging, yet not infuriating, feature multiple avenues of development, item unlocks, and non-linear play. a sick good plot, and overreaching themes that give […]
Canada \ death punk \ Lucas Korte \ Montréal \ punkened death metal \ Quebec \ Shoggoth Kinetics \ Temple of Mystery Records
Serpent Corpse – Blood Sabbath (Punkened Death Metal)
A new band with their first full-length? A disaster for some, a past they can never escape for others. “Yeah, but that first album was so good…” For Serpent Corpse, however, this would rather seem to be their advantage since they fit right in there with practically the entire death metal fray of the […]
Boston \ Caligari Records \ Calvin Cushman \ Massachusetts \ oozing death metal \ United States
Grotesqueries – Vile Crematory (Atrocious Oozing Death Metal)
Now it’s time for some ooze. Some rotting carcass ooze. That stuff that leaks out of coffins after so many years and is so completely corrosive it bores a hole in the vault in which the coffin lies to finally poison everything around it. Animals in the soil, insects, your water. Just atrocious. Now […]
Astra United Film Production & Distribution \ Bounty Films \ giallo \ Hedwig Schreck \ slasher film
Manhattan Zodiac ’77 (Modern Giallo Slasher Trashterpiece)
Hell has finally frozen over… The 1970s and 1980s Grindhouse era of exploitation cinema spawned a curious breed of trendy bullshit infesting streaming sites and video shelves. Blame Tarantino and Rodriguez for this, their failed gimmick inspired a phalanx of imitators who couldn’t tell you the difference between Violent Shit and Dawn of the […]
blackened crust \ blackened hardcore \ Deborah Sheedy \ England \ London \ post-black metal \ post-blackened crust \ Prosthetic Records \ Trepanation Recordings \ United Kingdom
Calligram – Position | Momentum (Post-Blackened Crust)
Am I in the mood for post-black metal with a little of that blackened hardcore and a touch of the crust? Sure, why not? I’m in a good mood. Plus, don’t really seem to be easily accessible reviews out there, so let’s start the process for the good boys in Calligram, who appear to […]
Blood Harvest Records \ Canada \ grimy death metal \ Gruesome Graphx \ Nev Michael \ Ontario \ Sewer Rot Records \ Toronto
Pukewraith – Banquet of Scum (Grimy Death Metal)
I frequently misuse the word ‘puke’ and refer to practically everything we review here under that blanket term, as well as probably using ‘filth’ too much, but if it upsets one ex-con Xbox player, eh, who cares? So the great thing about Pukewraith is the word is already covered and I don’t have to […]
horror literature \ Mangkhoe \ Matt Shaw \ psychological horror \ Satanic literature
Channel X (Basically Satanic Streaming Service Horror)
When I see a Matt Shaw book recommended on Kindle, it usually goes straight onto my TBR, or even straight to me reading it. Channel X grabbed my attention and I thought “perhaps some sort of porn channel, with dire consequences?” I, of course, was wrong…as usual. Channel X happens to be something more […]
brutal death metal \ Caleb Diederich \ Italy \ Ivrea \ Piedmont \ Turin \ Willowtip Records
Putridity – Greedy Gory Gluttony (Brutal Death Metal for Modern Sensibilities)
I’ve been neglecting poor old brutal death metal for awhile now, but it’s not my fault, I swear. It’s the fault of the bands! It’s the fault of the labels! Everyone but me! And though the blame-game is everyone’s excuse it’s totally valid here because brutal death metal is actually, not metaphorically, the same […]
blackened death metal \ Flux of Death \ Mexico \ Osmose Productions \ Querétaro \ Vomit Records
Demonized – Abyss Vanguard (Savage Blackened Death Metal)
Now here’s the definition of comeback. I mean wow, exactly two decades have passed since Demonized released anything. After a self-titled that went under everyone’s radar they’re back with an EP. Well, we’ll take it! I’m on a simplicity for simplicity’s sake kick this week, so don’t expect any fluff. Nothing else to say […]
FPS \ HYPERSTRANGE \ Mekworx \ PC \ retro fps \ Sci-fi Horror \ Steam
Supplice (Retro Sci-Fi Horror FPS with Various Monstrosities)
Nothing hits better than a game made by gamers familiar with the game they’re about to make you game. And if there’s one community known for that kind of repetition, it’s the Doom modders. Put a bunch of those people together, tap into that retro 1990s FPS action, pixels and all, mix it up […]
