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Bill Skarsgård \ Count Dracula \ Dracula \ Focus Features \ Gothic horror \ Gothic vampire \ Lily-Rose Depp \ Nosferatu \ Robert Eggers \ Universal Pictures \ vampire film \ vampires \ Willem Dafoe
Nosferatu (The Most Perfect of Gothic Vampires)
It’s hard to determine a good starting point for something like this. With the amount of press Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu received pre and post-release, what more can be said? You’d think it’d be pretty easy since I teach a damn class on vampires and know all about this shit, but the real goal here […]
arcane death metal \ Bruja XIII \ Brvja XIII \ eldritch death metal \ Iron Bonehead Productions \ United States \ USDM
Balefire – S/T (Eldritch Death Metal)
I’m gonna start out by saying the only complaint I have with this debut EP, or whatever you want to call it, is it’s too damn short. Goddamn it guys, when you come with this much dark violence I expect longer! I demand more! Continue the beating! Beat me into the ground! Pummel my […]
death metal \ experimental death metal \ Italy \ metaphysical death metal \ Roberto Toderico \ Transcending Obscurity
Shrieking Demons – The Festering Dwellers (Metaphysical Death Metal)
I’ve got to keep giving it to Transcending Obscurity. Guy always drops albums from bands pushing the envelope way past the norm. Though I may only review his stuff here and there, that’s really a standard of greatness I apply to everything. As I always say, if you see it here, you know it’s […]
atmospheric black metal \ atmospheric pagan black metal \ black metal \ dungeon black metal \ dungeon synth \ dungeon synth black metal \ Hammerheart Records \ Italy \ pagan black metal
Hesperia – Fra li Monti Sibillini: Black Medieval Winter over the Sibylline Mounts
I always try to give something a chance even if I think it will kill me. Italy’s Hesperia is an example of this. All the black metal trappings on the damn cover that usually lead to total shitpuke. I’ve seen it too many times. And that’s just the thing. We’ve got boots in snow. […]
dragon metal \ Finland \ melodic power metal \ power metal \ Scarlet Records \ Tommi Aaltonen
Dragonknight – Legions (Melodic Dragon Power Metal)
I am again faced with the power metal conundrum. Namely, what makes the good good? One of the primary issues for the genre is that it relies heavily on classic fantasy tropes that go back to the prehistory of Dungeons & Dragons and earlier literature. To be honest, not much has changed in this […]
blackened heavy metal \ blackened rock \ Dying Victims Productions \ Germany \ giallo \ Solo Macello
Hexenbrett – Dritte Beschwörung: Dem Teufel eine Tochter (Blackened Rock Past Puberty)
Finally! I’ve been waiting for mystery duo Hexenbrett to get their shit together. They definitely had the mystique down. No one really knows where they’re from (most likely Germany, but possibly the United States), but putting this into their particular brand of blackened rock has been largely a miss since their first EP in […]
Adam Medford \ bestial \ deathgrind \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories \ Strange Creature Collages \ United States
Horse Butcher – S/T (Also Under the Name of Bestial Deathgrind)
Oh, God… Now, I’m well aware that Sentient Ruin Laboratories has totally crowned himself king of the darkest of underground vileness, but I don’t think I was entirely prepared for Horse Butcher (featuring members of Hissing) and their debut full-length, also under the name of Horse Butcher. References to Carcass probably seem replete for […]
haunted house \ haunted house game \ haunted house horror \ horror puzzle game \ psychological horror \ puzzle game \ retro horror \ survival horror \ VR game
The 7th Guest VR (First-Person Haunted House Puzzle Horror)
I’ve often found the world of VR gaming is like navigating dusty tomes in a library. Because the market is still, arguably, in its infancy, and perhaps Golden Age, the way information moves is much different. Most VR advertising is done specifically through suggestions within Meta, or whichever device you use, and is not […]
Aesthetic Death \ ambient doom \ Anna Bespalova \ dark ambient \ dark folk \ dark folklore \ drone \ funeral doom \ funeral drone \ Russia
Voidwards – Bagulnik (Dark Ambient Funeral Drone)
I like when an artist forces you to research their creation. This is entirely necessary when they’re obscure and seemingly refuse to provide any clear presence. They live as more of a shade, so deep in the shadows you barely see a glint from their eyes with light shining upon them. In the era […]
ghost film \ haunted house \ haunted house film \ Neon \ Steven Soderbergh
Presence (POV Haunted House in Suburbia with Dark Secrets)
Every time the promo for Presence, by serial formal experimenter Steven Soderbergh, touted its novel conceit – a haunted house story from the ghost’s point of view – I did the old horror nerd scoff. “I guess we already forgot about Beetlejuice, not to mention [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS] and [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS],” I said, […]
