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Chadwick St. John \ Inferna Profundus Records \ Ingrian Black Metal \ Inkshadows \ like get with it \ Russia \ St. Petersburg \ Ulvdalir
Ulvdalir – Hunger for the Cursed Knowledge (Ingrian Black Metal Duh)
Did you even, like, know what “Ingrian Black Metal” was before this review? I know I didn’t, lol. I had heard something of the region of Ingria, but I didn’t realize there was this thing with black metal there until I heard Ulvdalir. I won’t even get into the complex ethnic background of it […]
Canada \ Mario Lopez \ Ontario \ sword guy is cool though \ thrash metal
Raider – Guardian of Fire (Forged in a Meek Spark Thrash)
I like sword guy. I thought sword guy would bring me some thrash fire. But he brings more of a spark that could, some day, ignite into bigger flames of thrash. That requires hands willing to work for it, however, and the work needs to be personal. It is necessary to grind the thrash […]
animation \ Lorenz Wunderle \ LSD stuff \ Pentagram sucks \ YK Animation
Coyote (LSD Animal Death Revenge by Lorenz Wunderle)
Yeah where to begin with this? I feel like it’s the kind of thing from which you draw your own conclusions. Is there a point? I don’t care, because Coyote, with its vivid, 90s gross-out style is primarily a hallucinatory splendor for only the hardcore. But like is there a point (asks a provincial)? […]
bleedy girl \ Discos Macarras \ Fátima Ruiz Photography \ La Rubia Producciones \ Lay Bare Recordings \ real pain \ sludge metal \ Spain \ Spinda Records
Rosy Finch – Scarlet (Real Pain Sludge Metal)
I had my doubts about this one at first. I saw the band drop references to 90s grunge acts I’d rather forget, except in a nightmare, and anyone running that kind of line of defense is usually eliminated in a few riffs. Don’t show your age too much, you know? But Rosy Finch are […]
blackened death rock \ Caligari Records \ Dave Varney \ plant metal \ Tennessee
Muscipula – Little Chasm of Horrors (Plant Metal)
Man what a slay this is. There’s almost nothing about these filth clowns, Muscipula, anywhere on the Internets. That’s cool, because I guess it makes it more like dark web metal or something. Actually in this case plant metal. To further that theory the band names themselves off of an obsession over Venus flytraps […]
All in! Games \ Destructive Creations \ Invader Studios \ remember the late 90s? \ survival horror \ third-person survival horror \ zombies
Daymare: 1998 (Deliberate Zombie Horror Homage)
Ugh another “zombies are everywhere I must run and shoot them to survive” game? Yes, there are zombies and yes you will be running and, wait, yes you will be shooting at them, but there’s more to Daymare: 1998 than rebooting the past. Everything about it sounds typical, but it’s entirely intentional. Taking its […]
anime \ electronic \ electronica \ Francesca Landi \ Germany \ Grime \ Infinite Machine \ MMO
SWAN MEAT – FLESH WORLD (MMO and Anime Music But Cool)
Man that’s a great cover. It’s like totally anime and MMO or something, but the good stuff only. So that’s one-line intro, or two-line rather, for today because combining anime and MMO music into something worthy of transcending background music is exactly what FLESH WORLD is about. SWAN MEAT I’ve known for some years […]
beast attack \ Iron Bonehead Productions \ kuroccult \ Portugal \ war metal \ zombie metal
Necrobode – Sob o Feitiço do Necrobode (WARsome Metal)
I’m either going through a phase or this type metal is just always good. I know you all call it “war metal” but since it’s so awesome I like to call it “warsome metal.” The term will never stick, but I can claim it as my own. So Necrobode I’ve heard, and they’ve screamed […]
animation \ Czech Republic \ Daria Kashcheeva \ MAUR film \ Miyu Distribution \ poor daddy heart
Daughter (Stab in the Daddy Heart by Daria Kashcheeva)
Here’s one that stabs deep in the daddy heart. I love Eastern European animation. These days everyone’s about anime, and I get it, but before Japan came Eastern Europe. The Czech animation machine was legendary. Old Czech Legends (1953) or Fantastic Planet (1973, lol some people think it’s French), being two choice cuts. Since […]
Greece \ Lifeforce Records \ melodic death metal \ melodic doom metal \ melodideathdoom \ Revolver Design \ Vagelis Petikas
On Thorns I Lay – Threnos (Melodideathdoom Lol I’m a Writer)
I’m starting to realize Lifeforce Records has this “thing” with melodic metal bands who absolutely kill in the production and presentation. Sometimes setting a niche for yourself is good, except with pornogrind. Just let those fools have their netlabels and their weird community of drum machine, family-in-the-audience shows. So back to melodic metal, in […]
