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16-bit \ adventure horror \ Atelier QDB \ East to West Games \ Nintendo Switch \ PC \ Shiro Unlimited \ Steam
Decarnation (Ghastly PTSD Adventure Horror)
You’d think it wasn’t at all possible to bend a genre in a new direction, but here we are, with Decarnation. When I first got a glimpse of the visuals in the promo, I thought immediately of the classic JRPGs and action-adventure titles localized by Square/Square Enix for the SNES back in the 1990s. […]
atmospheric black metal \ Bharatadanu \ Iron Bonehead Productions \ Pennsylvania \ phantasmal black metal \ United States
Luring – Triumphant Fall of the Malignant Christ (Phantasmal Atmospheric Black Metal)
Ahhhh breathe in that atmosphere. I’ve honed my tastes over the past few years and this is proof. Actually, make that a decade or longer. Fact is I receive so much stuff I’ve heard practically everything imaginable. And I’ve said it a number of times, black metal can rarely wake me up, let alone […]
docudrama \ documentary \ drug culture \ drug film \ Lech Kowalski \ Troma Entertainment
Story of a Junkie (IRL Drug Culture Docudrama)
The crown jewel in the paste crown of the Troma Team, Lech Kowalski’s Story of a Junkie (originally filmed as Gringo) is a wild trip through despair and addiction on the sordid streets of the Lower East Side circa 1983. Depressing, exhilarating, refreshing and a marked contrast from the usual Troma swill, Story of […]
Álex Tedín \ ambient funeral doom \ Barcelona \ Catalonia \ Heresie Studio \ orchestral funeral doom \ Personal Records \ Spain
Of Darkness – Missa Tridentina (Orchestral Ambient Funeral Doom)
Pretty sure I know at least one of the guys in this band somehow, digital acquaintance level, but I can’t put my finger on it… Whatever, I’m sure if I took the time to look I’d determine this Spanish outfit has had its hands in a number of disgusting bands in some way, but […]
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes \ France \ Gates of Hell Records \ Ivan Brun \ Lyon \ medieval heavy metal
Meurtrières – Ronde de nuit (French Medieval Heavy Metal)
Well, here’s a band name I had to copy and paste because I couldn’t write it properly! But that’s besides the most important point, which is, sigh, sorry, like, well, you know, I wasn’t entirely sure I even liked this to review it. But, hey, a real critic (ahem, me, not with like 1000 […]
Devolver Digital \ Massive Monster \ Nintendo Switch \ PC \ PlayStation 4 \ PlayStation 5 \ roguelike \ sim management \ Steam \ Xbox One
Cult of the Lamb (Cutesy Cultist Simulation)
Oh Devolver Digital, you will forever be more interesting than any other publisher to date, continuing to release weird, wacky games that beg the question “How cute can we make human sacrifice?” The answer: adorable. From developers Massive Monster, Cult of The Lamb was a game that I thoroughly enjoyed. Not only is it […]
Chaos Records \ Chase Slaker \ existential death metal \ Seattle \ United States \ Washington
Cystic – Palace of Shadows (Existential Death Metal)
I think I encountered this, at least once before, where an album sounds like garbagio on headphones. Perhaps it’s time to realize my Ghostbusters headphones aren’t exactly, well, stereo quality… Anyway, these guys blast on a system, even PC speakers, so we’ll forget about that. Now that we got the dripping death metal out […]
dripping death metal \ old school death metal \ Oregon \ Portland \ Satanik Royalty Records \ T. Kannibalet Hietomaa Art \ Toni Hietomaa \ United States
Dripping Decay – Festering Grotesqueries (Truly Dripping Old School Death Metal)
Not much else to expect from a band naming themselves Dripping Decay, than, well, exactly that! I love it when artists immerse themselves in an idea, and these guys are completely covered in stuff that drips. Their logo drips, their artwork drips, and the music, yes, it drips. Their “mascot” is even named ‘Drippy,’ […]
Daniel J. Volpe \ horror literature \ splatter horror \ splatterpunk
Talia (Supernatural Extreme Splatter Smut)
Talia has been on my radar for a little while now. I’ve seen a few horror friends review it, and it’s featured on many people’s bookshelves. But for some reason, I just hadn’t picked it up, until now. And for the most part, I’m happy I did. Split into two parts, Volpe begins telling the […]
avant garde black metal \ decadent dark metal \ fin de siècle \ Germany \ Käthe Kollwitz \ Koblenz \ Rhineland-Palatinate \ Soulseller Records
Porta Nigra – Weltende (Fin de siècle Black Metal)
Is there another way to say “this one blew me away?” Well that rhymed so start with that, I suppose. No, I shall not! I shall not! Now and again a promo is so accurate in its description of a band it’s immediately obvious you’re about to hit upon something unique. Focusing on fin […]
