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Visage (Arthritic Granny Escape)
Finally, through all the years that have passed us by since the cancelled release of Silent Hill's heavily praised and also terrifying ‘P.T’, something sufficient stepped up to the table, filling the endless void of longing. The games called Visage, and it emerged into life by Indie development team SadSquare Studio in a bold […]
harsh noise \ harsh noise wall \ hnw \ just die now jump off bridge pls \ Michigan \ noise \ Ogre \ suicide
Ogre – When I Land (Isolating Suicidal Noise)
Man, this guy hits hard on so many levels. Aurally, visually, philosophically, mentally, I mean I feel like my soul never existed or was replaced with spider webs covered in wrist blood. I've been trying to dip the site further into noise now and then because it's been so underrepresented, but the problem is […]
Dark Star Pictures \ film \ Oration Films \ sci-fi \ thriller \ Yedidya Gorsetman
Empathy, Inc. (Empathetic Exploitation but in Sci-Fi)
Imagine a virtual reality where you can smell and touch. Commit murder without repercussions, indulge in your deepest fantasies without waking up sore, cleaning up the mess or checking for an STD. Empathy, Inc. is the second film from director Yedidya Gorsetman with writer Mark Leidner, a brilliant sci-fi thriller that takes a look at our obsession with […]
arcade \ first-person shooter \ first-person survival horror \ horror game \ tinyBuild \ video game \ woah rat high \ Zombie Dynamics
Garage Bad Trip (Acidhead VHS Zombie Horror)
Yeah here we go. If there's one thing that's an easy sell in a video game, it's got to be mutated freaks you blast into pieces, but maybe not because WTF no one seems to be playing this. But wait add getting high off of chemically-soaked rats, killing prisoner guards with nail guns, two-headed […]
Ami-Bique \ glitch \ Japan \ noise \ synth \ woah good noise
Ami-Bique – きょむりま (From Japan = Good Always)
I've been begging for some good noise for so long I decided it's not a musical genre anymore. Harsh noise wall, which is what I usually see in the promo emails, also needs to die. It consistently lacks purpose, the stuff children create. Record AM radio static and add some meaningless, deep title to […]
bore \ core \ flesh eating girl cool tho \ Germany \ GrooVenoM \ Out of Line \ Trancecore
GrooVenoM – Wir müssen reden (Lol Trancebore)
Sure formula for destruction is core + anything else. See that core? It will, lol, bore. Metalcore, deathcore, anycore, shed a tear for the human race, and then jump off a bridge. Imagine my suicidal thoughts when I saw this particular German troupe in the promos, who annoyingly spell their name with only some […]
but not enough space \ France \ heavy metal \ melodic metal \ Pitch Black Records \ power metal \ Stan Decker \ Stonecast
Stonecast – I Earther (I Wanter More Space Metal)
Wow, what do you know, I was ripping on power/melodic and whatever else metal a week or so ago and here we are again. Is this the end? The artwork by Stan Decker would seem to suggest so, but I do have some kind words today, at least for Stonecast, and at least a […]
first-person survival horror \ horror game \ Ice-Pick Lodge \ plague \ tinyBuild \ video game \ woah wtf cure that plague
Pathologic 2 (First-Person Suffering Sim)
When I stumbled across this game on Steam, my dumbass dismissed it foolishly quick. “Wow, another generic first-person survival horror shooter.” But this idiotic train of thought couldn’t be further from smart. I anticipated completing it in a few sittings, which slowly descended into a thick, depressing mosh of trial and error as I […]
animation \ anime \ film \ Guillaume Renard \ lol rotten tomatoes is dumb \ Shoujirou Nishimi
MFKZ (GTA San Andreas Goes Sci-Fi)
MFKZ, co-directed by Guillaume Renard and Shoujirou Nishimi, is a lot of things crammed into 90 minutes of kinetic animated insanity. The nod to anime is rather overt, but there’s also an influence of alien sci-fi, call-outs to the GTA games and various elements of hip hop culture with a dose of the sort […]
California \ classic metal \ hair metal \ heavy metal \ hells headbangers \ Marc Schoenbach \ not pussy \ Pounder \ Sadist Art Designs
Pounder – Uncivilized (Badass Period Heavy Metal)
I can't remember the last time I reviewed heavy metal. Unlike thrash, which you still feel totally badass for listening to, heavy metal can lack that effect outside of its original context, that is, the olden times. It has a tendency to feel more dated than Satanic imagery in metal at large. Oh shit […]