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Casket Cassette – Love Letters to Ghosts (Nighttime High School Basketball Court Cold Wave)
I tell you what here’s another shat week for promos. I had only a single submission I wanted to review (already done before this one) and in desperation I thought “hey, been awhile since I heard some good Goth licks.” Search a tag and sometimes you come upon gold, this time under the moniker […]
Australia \ death doom \ Headsplit Records \ Me Saco un Ojo Records \ Melbourne \ Necro Frost \ Victoria
Carcinoid – Encomium to Extinction (Smarty Pants Grave-Splitting Death Doom)
Well this one surprised me now, didn’t it? Just the other day I was saying how Australia’s Werewolves pretty much satisfies everything you’d need in death metal from the country, but now I decided to add to the list Carcinoid, which opts for the death doom angle, with some cocky smartypants attitude. On the […]
Amazon Digital Services \ extreme horror fiction \ gore literature \ Harrison Phillips \ horror literature \ Insan Kamil \ insanecamel
Superfan (Boy Band Revenge Gore Fiction)
Parasocial relationships with bands have been a thing since the dawn of time, I’m pretty sure. For young teenagers who love boy bands this is a huge thing; girls love their favorite member, fantasize about them, dream of meeting them, and just breathing the same air. But they always say don’t meet your heroes […]
20 Buck Spin \ California \ Daniel Butler \ erotic death metal \ San Francisco \ United States
Vastum – Inward to Gethsemane (Shameful Death Metal Eroticism)
For some bizarre reason it took me some time to get into this one, but don’t let that fool you, it’s an absolute ripper. I’ll blame the weather or something, because clearly my mind just wasn’t ready for it. Again, strange, because I find a certain site rating this much lower than would I, […]
brutish war metal \ Duje Aljinovic \ nasty war metal \ Profound Lore Records \ Richmond \ Stygian Black Hand \ United States \ Virginia \ war metal
Left Cross – Upon Desecrated Altars (Nasty, Brutish, and Short War Metal)
Here’s a band I knew nothing about until I came across this in the promos. At first I thought it was some bro metal band obsessed with punching (see their name), and then I found out it was actually murderous war metal (redundant, I know) band from Richmond, Virginia, which is quite close to […]
Bret McCormick \ splatter horror \ Visual Vengeance
The Abomination (Cancerous Death Lump Splatter Horror)
I have been fascinated by Bret McCormick’s The Abomination ever since I first saw a truly hideous poster for it (see above) in John McCarty’s indispensable book The Sleaze Merchants. Something about the sly smile on the bloody teenager in the Izod and Ray Bans intrigued me and I knew I had to see this […]
Bergen \ bestial black metal \ bestial death metal \ bestial war metal \ Iron Bonehead Productions \ Norway \ primitive death metal
Goatkraft – Prophet of Eternal Damnation (Exorcistic Bestial Black Metal)
Now, before you get mad at me, let me explain. Normally, a plain old skull on a cover with a simplistic background is a sure pass for me. So what about this one? Firstly, scope it, it’s different. The empty, black space makes it more oppressive, and it’s not just any skull, it’s a […]
blackened noise metal \ India \ Iron Bonehead Productions \ Kolkata \ Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule \ West Bengal
Tetragrammacide – Typho-Tantric Aphorisms from the Arachneophidian Qur’an (Esoteric Blackened Noise Metal)
I knew these guys would come of age eventually, much like a sad review I wrote about an album drop they did in 2015 (the last EP before this latest full-length, actually). I can’t even believe I’m the same person, so pathetic are the words. But, hey, the best things grow, right? Other than […]
CD PROJEKT RED \ cyberpunk \ DLC \ expansion \ open world \ PC \ PlayStation 4 \ PlayStation 5 \ Steam \ XBox Series S \ Xbox Series X
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty (The Game Actually Released Complete This Time)
I loved Cyberpunk 2077 when it came out. Controversies aside, the prospect of (minor spoilers ahead) a stowaway in your head trying to change who you are really intrigues me. Even the ideas of just cyberpunk in general, installing augmentations to your body, and everything a mess of wires and bootleg technology. Now though, […]
ambient black metal \ Bent Window Records \ dungeon synth \ experimental black metal \ Lisbon \ Portugal
Miserable Abyss – Subaquatic Corporeal Rot (Blackened Experimental Dungeon Synth)
It takes a lot to scare me. In fact, at times, I’m pretty sure I can’t be scared anymore. Then I came across this extremely obscure release by Lisbon’s Miserable Abyss and it scared the shit out of me. I’m actually scared of this. What subhuman soil creature made this? What kind of depraved […]
