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dreadful black metal \ Lieve Verschuier \ Norway \ Purity Through Fire
Unholy Craft – Naar All Tid er Omme (Good Dreadful Norwegian Black Metal)
Black metal + Norway = banal banalities? I feel like the genre’s particular focus on Norway during the 1990s led to a later “ugh” reaction towards anything from that region, except from those who know little. Even the “greats” we pretend were or still are “good” seem to fail miserably every time they reappear. […]
Alvar Baptist \ blackened crust \ Germany \ Giessen \ Hesse \ Lifeforce Records
Depravation – IV:LETVM (Such a Good German Blackened Crust)
Yesssssss. Gimmie some of that blackened crust yo. This might be a first actually… A first in the sense of this site reviewing such a band, and a first in the sense of such a band being such a good. It might seem like an easy formula since crust is close to death metal […]
Australia \ Camera Obscura \ Dark Star \ Mario Andreacchio \ ozploitation \ rape revenge \ survival horror \ Vinegar Syndrome
Fair Game (Ozploitation Survival Revenge Film
Ozsploitation (or the rough and tumble flicks that came out of the Land Down Under as a result of the worldwide success of both George Miller’s Mad Max films and the Aussie New Wave of directors like Peter Weir) has experienced a frightening new surge in popularity thanks to doyens of culture like Quentin […]
KRAFTON Inc. \ PC \ PlayStation 4 \ PlayStation 5 \ Steam \ Striking Distance Studios \ survival horror \ Xbox One \ XBox Series S \ Xbox Series X
The Callisto Protocol (Alien Crunching Workplace Hazard Survival Horror)
Crunchy. The Callisto Protocol is the crunchiest game of 2022. Your protagonist’s head (Jacob) will go crunch. The enemies limbs, head, and torsos will go crunch after beating them with a stun baton. Your controller will go crunch after being thrown on the ground of one of the most frustrating dodge mechanics in a video […]
horror puzzle game \ psychological horror \ survival horror \ Wolf Escape Games
Hallows Hill (Fin de siècle Dead Ghost Girl Escape Room Game)
Well, here’s a concept I’m now totally sold on. Most of what I receive for video games is through Epic or Steam, with the occasional console tossed in if we feel like it, because, let’s face it, PC ubermensch is a real thing. Console fools and Xbox douchebags (that’s a true fact, they’re all […]
blackened doom metal \ Chile \ Santiago \ Tatiana Lebedeva \ Tragedy Productions
Winds of Tragedy – Hating Life (Splendid Chilean Blackened Doom Metal)
I really wasn’t expecting anything from this one. Winds of Tragedy? Album titled Hating Life? Get over yourself son. That’s all I could think. You see that doom thing and words like that, with sadgurl on the cover, and you’re ready to puke (not in a good way). Yep, here we go with this… […]
Italy \ Margherita Petrucci \ mathcore \ post-hardcore \ post-mathcore \ Prosthetic Records
Stormo – Endocannibalismo (Italian Post-Mathcore)
I been bumming cuz I haven’t had any good hardcore in awhile. Actually, is there any lol? Most of those old bands are running on farts at this point (translation: old and uninterested in change). That’s why the whole post-(insert genre) thing gained headway about a decade ago, or was it two? Like, get […]
horror film \ Joe Begos \ RLJE Films \ Sci-fi Horror \ Shudder
Christmas Bloody Christmas (Terminator Santa Murder Film)
Is Joe Begos the future of horror? I’ve had this conversation more than once after seeing the masterful and exhilarating VFW and taking a deeper dive into his work on films like Bliss, I’m truly convinced that Mr. Begos is the guy. Like the masters of yore, he sneaks in some of his own […]
Beatrice Eversholt \ Helter Skelter Productions \ Landskrona \ Skåne \ STDeath metal \ Swedeath \ Sweden \ Swedish death metal
Funereality – Til Death (STDeath Metal)
Well isn’t this fun? I’m probably going to far with my chosen fake genre for today, but it’s just how I’m feeling, okay?! After the downfall of Pungent Stench and a more recent release of an album stuck in production hell for years that was a general blah, I really missed that filthy groove […]
blackened death metal \ Chaos Records \ death doom \ Maurice De Jong \ Netherlands
Cadaver Shrine – Benighted Desecration (Blackened Death Doom of the Funereal Quality)
I sometimes wonder if Maurice de Jong, known primarily for his project Gnaw Their Tongues, is like superhuman or something. The number of notable bands he’s constructed, all of a dark and experimental style, would practically be a review in itself. Simply writing them all down would achieve the word count I prefer, but […]
