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Cursed Monk Records \ dark ambient \ dark folk \ drone \ Galway \ Grey Malkin \ haunted folk \ Ireland \ Ruairi O’Baoighill \ Scotland \ Waterford
Haven’t gotten a release like this in awhile. Actually, let’s change that to “a good release.” Folk of the dark variety can be an easy sell, at times, but it’s deceptive. Too folk and it lends itself a childish, “spooky” atmosphere that sounds more like background music during a Ravenloft sesh with only the […]
Ellie Promotion \ epic power metal \ France \ Île-de-France \ Mickey Mythrid \ Paris
Damn it if I don’t like this. Most power metal submissions I receive, well make that probably 99% of them, are passed upon. I can recall maybe 3 or 4 bands tops of this style that we’ve covered over the past decade. No joke. The power metal crowd can yell all it wants, you’re […]
horror RPG \ PC \ RocketBrush Studio \ roguelike \ roguelite \ Steam \ Team17 Digital Ltd
Ah here’s a nice roguelite, provided you’re not a mad sad bad scrub. I wasn’t aware of The Unliving until I saw it pop up on GeForce Now, and I was intrigued by the basic premise, as well as the awesome 16-bit Sqauresoft aesthetic. Be a necromancer? Sure! Who wouldn’t want to summon the […]
brackish death metal \ Helsingborg \ Necromaniac \ Skåne \ Swedeath \ Sweden \ Swedish death metal \ Thomas Westphal
This is the kind of album I’m going to refer to from now on as a “sinker.” It needed to sink on in there before I liked it, because to be honest, at first, it sounded like a million other promos I get every week. Okay so it’s only about 500, but still. That’s […]
barbaric blackened death metal \ Berkati Cakra \ Hells Headbangers \ Ohio \ United States
Any time you see art by Berkati Cakra, you know you’re in for a slammer. And this may be one of the most over-the-top images I’ve seen him craft. Here’s it fits the music so well it might be his best, and trust you me he’s done a lot of blasphemous necroworship. Just look […]
Fauzi Mansur \ gore film \ splatter film \ VHS
Sometimes the shiniest bits of gold are tucked away in the dirtiest pockets of soot and slime. This analogy works with certain gore films, especially the late-80’s work of prolific South American pornographer Fauzi Mansur. Little is known on these shores about Mansur yet the man enjoys a small but fervent cult following to […]
Amor Fati Productions \ blackened death metal \ blackened folk \ blackened folk metal \ Carl Olof Petersen \ Dublin \ Ireland
Uh oh, tis a collab folks. Well this review started out bad, but this particular collab starts, and also ends, well. Consisting of various members of the Irish koovault wvndergrovnd, Verminous Serpent is new to death metal theatre with this first full-length. Whether or not it continues beyond The Malign Convenant is not a […]
Chile \ Francisco Ramírez \ Los Lagos \ Morkt Artist \ Puerto Montt \ spasmodic death metal
You know, I was just talking to someone the other day about how Chilean metal has been blasting away for at least a decade now and keeps getting better! Seriously type in ‘Chile’ in the search bar on this site, hit that Enter button, and look at how much goodness we’ve covered over the […]
Carl John Lee \ gore literature \ horror literature
The title of this book describes exactly what you get. You can’t say you weren’t warned, this time! The story revolves around a girl named Susan, who’s in a coma and uses supernatural powers such as telekinesis and mind control in her destroying of humans. All of the homophobic bullies who put her in […]
cacophonic death metal \ Canada \ Fernando Giotefeli \ Giotefeli Anti Arte \ Me Saco un Ojo Records \ Rotted Life
Well these guys are certainly a spooky mystery. I have no clue where they came from but with the amount of cacophony they wretch I should! I know they’re form Canada, but figuratively speaking with the type of eerie, dragging death metal these guys play it’s only from the ground they could have possibly […]