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Fedor Kovalevsky \ Hypnotic Dirge Records \ post-apocalyptic funeral doom \ Tunisia
Omination – NGR (Collapsing Cathedral Post-Apocalyptic Funeral Doom)
I wasn’t sure what to think of this one, at first, but I know I needed to listen. We’ve got tons of references built into that cover all under the post-apocalyptic banner: Knights Templar dude (maybe Blind Dead) with anime sword, Mad Max car in Dune sand, some Dark Tower castle, maybe Dracula, four […]
ambient \ Dio Drone \ Dischi Devastanti sulla Faccia \ Ghost City Collective \ ghost pop \ Italy \ Marco Zanella \ Venice
Julinko – no destroyer (Abject Loneliness Ghost Pop)
Ahhh, now I can relax! See, I get tons and tons of metal submissions, little noise (most of that sux), some punk (usually sux), some hardcore (mostly sux), and so forth (most of it truly sux). Rarely do I get anything splendid of the ambient variety, or especially pop that takes the dark style […]
atmospheric sludge metal \ Babylon Doom Cult Records \ Belgium \ Luchtrat
Alkerdeel – Slonk (Sludge Upon Your Sensibilities Since 2005)
Lol these guys. I get an Alkerdeel submission and that’s pretty much what I say to myself, in all sense of veneration, of course. I mean seriously was totally excited to listen this, for more reasons than are necessary to explain. Not only have I been listening to them for nearly as long as […]
Australia \ brutal death metal \ Mitchell Nolte \ Prosthetic Records
Werewolves – What a Time to Be Alive (Actually Brutal Death Metal)
With such a genius cover making every attempt to disturb me (it won’t work, though) I knew Werewolves had only a slight chance to deliver what I wanted. What do I want? Sometimes I have no clue, though now and again I pray to get a good punk or hardcore submission, but if someone […]
Bastian Velásquez \ blackened jazz \ blackened thrash \ blackened thrash jazz \ Chile \ Dissonant Death Records \ Edged Circle Productions \ Suicide Records
Demoniac – So It Goes (Blackened Thrash Jazz Woah)
Ah, here comes a band that’s far more clever than most. Blackened thrash usually has a clear aesthetic, but Chile’s Demoniac abandon the established foundations for something newer. It’s not just the look, though that cover is just sick, nor is it the more philosophical title of So It Goes, Demoniac also incorporates unexpected […]
British Columbia \ Canada \ Fucking Kill Records \ Matt Sidney \ Memento Mori \ rotting death groove \ Victoria
Altered Dead – Returned to Life (Rotting Death Groove)
I have this feeling now when I see a cover like this from any band in the “death metal” party (political reference) that it’s going to be a little unusual, a little against the grain, and also a little enjoyable, for once. Yes, I said it. Anyway, so Canada’s Altered Dead have been but […]
DarkStone Digital \ horror puzzle game \ PC \ Steam
Kohate (Sci-Fi BDSM Horror Puzzle Run)
This game is strikingly similar to The Subject (our first video game review on this site I believe, same company too) but its approach is much different and its storytelling more refined, though that “tie me down you beast” aesthetic is still present (lol). In Kohate you play the roll of an unnamed prisoner […]
blackened death metal \ Helter Skelter Productions \ Portugal \ Regain Records \ Sickness 666
Satanized – Baphomet Altar Worship (Scary Tiki Torch Blackened Death Metal)
This is yet another sick promo from Portugal I’ve received these past few months, though the band photos it came with included one with dude creepily crossing two flaming tiki torches omg so scary. In spite of that silliness, you’d still expect sickness upon looking at the cover by Thailand’s “Sickness 666” with, let’s […]
Canada \ experimental black metal \ industrial black metal \ Werewolf Records
Rvbber VVitch – Mastvrbations Malveillantes MMXVII (Violations of the Pee-Pee Region Industrial Black Metal)
Sometimes you can just tell by a band’s name and the title of an album that you’re in for something not just different, but foul to the extreme. So foul you’re pretty sure fingers have violated your most sensitive areas. This is not so easy to do when going for the u-as-v and w-as-two-vs […]
Chad Ferrin \ Crappy World Films \ horror film \ HP Lovecraft \ Laurelwood Pictures
The Deep Ones (H.P. Lovecraft Lo-Budget Stank Horror by Chad Ferrin)
Ask most horror nerds why there’s never been a truly successful Lovecraft adaptation, and they’ll tell you it’s because Lovecraft never described his monsters, but chose to keep them in the shadows, and once you drag something ineffable into sunlight it loses its power. I call bullshit on that for a few reasons. First, […]
