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Stuporous – Asylum’s Lament (Grandiloquent Gothic Doom)

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Stuporous – Asylum’s Lament (Grandiloquent Gothic Doom)

  Ready to get stupefied? Ready to feel stupid? Well this Dutch blackened doom outfit, Stuporous, will leave you feeling just such a way. Uncertain, confused, not smart enough, overwhelmed perhaps, but certainly interested. It took me a few listens to really feel what these multi-instrument masters were doing, but I still felt stupid listening […]

No Son of Mine (Shovel to the Head Unwanted Child Horror)

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No Son of Mine (Shovel to the Head Unwanted Child Horror)

  I apologize to the dev for sitting on this one for so long but I was swamped. Ugh. Anyway, it never ceases to amaze me how often indie horror games smash the big names into the ground like so many unwanted children with shovels. If you haven’t figured out yet that’s going to be […]

Dipygus – S/T (Devonian Beast Sludge Death)

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Dipygus – S/T (Devonian Beast Sludge Death)

  This is one of the few bands that came in the promos in the past year that really nails their themes and aesthetic to a degree that deserves attention alone. I’m not sure entirely how to define what you’re about to get out of this, either, but it’s a mixture of center of the […]

Horror Vacui – S/T (Post-Goth Punk Goth)

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Horror Vacui – S/T (Post-Goth Punk Goth)

  Yes, Goth stuff. I’ve been making more of an effort to find such things for review, because I just don’t get enough. When’s the word going to get out there already that this site covers all things dark? Maybe Goth labels are simply not as proactive with publicity? That would fit the aesthetic more, […]

Cemetery Man (Grotesque and Sublime Zombie Horror Comedy)

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Cemetery Man (Grotesque and Sublime Zombie Horror Comedy)

  The last great hope for Italian genre cinema, Michele Soavi’s Dellamorte Dellmore (christened Cemetery Man by October Films upon it’s US release in 1996) feels like the end of an era on celluloid. This beautiful, haunting and elegiac story of love and loss in land haunted by the undead has been tough to find […]

Funeral Vomit – Monumental Putrescence (Molten Puke Death Metal)

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Funeral Vomit – Monumental Putrescence (Molten Puke Death Metal)

  You ever wonder what it would be like to vomit at a funeral? Or is this a question about a funeral for vomit? Can one grieve over vomit? Or, rather, is it perhaps that the entire cortège is releasing vomit at a funeral? These are only some of the questions that come to mind. […]

Phantom – Handed to Execution (Neck-Wrecking Witch Metal)

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Phantom – Handed to Execution (Neck-Wrecking Witch Metal)

  As before, let me say it, I usually don’t review an album after release except in rare cases where something moves me enough. Mexico’s Phantom is just such a rarity. Now, that might be a bit deceptive since there’s nothing entirely new here, this is speed and thrash metal, after all, but the rare […]

Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle (Self-Aware Area 51 Sci-Fi Horror)

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Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle (Self-Aware Area 51 Sci-Fi Horror)

  Having played the original, Daymare 1998, I was pretty stoked to hear about a sequel, or rather prequel since this is taking place four years prior. If you’re not familiar with its predecessor, it was a homage to the Resident Evil series, taking many of its ideas, purposefully, from the franchise, equaling what is […]

Ensuring Your Place in Hell (Splatploitation Horror Literature)

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Ensuring Your Place in Hell (Splatploitation Horror Literature)

  I’m going to be honest, this kind of pushed some boundaries for me, and that says a lot. I’m phased by very little, nothing much bothers me in terms of heavy description or squeamishness or violence. My avid reading of extreme horror of all kinds has completely desensitized me to the majority of things. […]

Suitable Flesh (Sexy Kinky Lovecraftian Body Swap Horror)

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Suitable Flesh (Sexy Kinky Lovecraftian Body Swap Horror)

  With the passing of director Stuart Gordon and the unwarranted attention paid to the grossly overrated Color Out of Space, we as an audience are experiencing an outrageous resurgence in the proliferation of H.P. Lovecraft adaptations. Written by Re-Animator scribe Dennis Paoli, Suitable Flesh would be the last film Lovecraft would be caught dead […]