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Bloober Team \ horror game \ Poland \ post-apocalyptic horror \ post-apocalyptic shooter \ post-Soviet horror \ psychological horror \ survival horror \ survival shooter \ third-person shooter
Cronos: The New Dawn (Soviet Christmas Post-Apocalyptic Monster Shooter)
I was excited when the details of this game were dropped by Polish dev masters Bloober Team, especially since the setting was Poland in the 1980s during the Soviet period, incorporating cultural scars into the landscape of a post-apocalyptic world where time travel is real, future humans are fucked up nonentities that probably don’t […]
Alex Shadrin \ Colombia \ Colombian death metal \ death metal \ Nether Temple Design \ puke metal \ Xtreem Music
Funeral Vomit – Upheaval of Necromancy (Devitrified Spew Metal)
I feel like I’m metaphorically friends with these guys now, my bros from Colombia, Funeral Vomit. I’ll pretend we’re close. Now then, some would probably call this release a slab of old-school brutality, something like that, but I’m going to first reference the original way I referred to these guys, and then flip it, […]
Antiq Label \ Antiq Records \ Canada \ France \ melodic black metal \ poetic black metal \ Veneden Art
Morte France – Hesperia (Historical Poetical Melodic Black Metal)
Tis the season for black metal of all forms (it’s cold out there and always in our hearts), but only a few can make it to the Deaf Sparrow ranks of “reviewed.” Remember, I don’t bother unless I’d give it at least a 4/5, plus the art has to catch the attention. So obviously […]
behemoth \ giant monster \ kaiju \ Meta Quest \ PC \ Steam \ VR
Behemoth (Hideous Colossal Beast Slaying Dark Fantasy VR)
VR still remains an interesting market that’s largely niche in spite of big pushes by companies like Meta over the past five years. The reason for this currently seems to be the cost, firstly, but also the uncertainty surrounding the experience. Trust me, it’s weird at first until your brain adjusts. As games like […]
giallo \ giallo metal \ gore metal \ Italian gore metal \ Italy \ Julian F. Mora \ Julián Felipe Mora Ibáñez \ Lucio Fulci \ Mario Bava \ Time to Kill Records
Tenebro – Una Lama D’Argento (Giallo Metal)
This one came in the promos late, but boy am I happy it did. I was familiar with the work of Italy’s Tenebro and their characteristic approach to gore metal through the lens of Italian horror, but even that understanding of their work couldn’t prepare me for the crowning achievement that is Una Lama […]
bestial black metal \ bestial death metal \ bestial metal \ bestial war metal \ blackened death metal \ Godz Ov War Productions \ Mar.A Artworks \ Mara Artworks \ Poland \ war metal
Upon the Altar – Profanation’s Vapor (Battalious Blackened Death Metal)
I usually think I’m prepared to withstand any battering after all these years listening to stuff like this, but Poland’s Upon the Altar had other plans for my mind this week (and my body). In spite of a fairly short career, not including other projects they’ve all been involved in, this trio have been […]
Edinburgh \ graybeard \ Kris Glennon \ mathcore \ post-hardcore \ post-mathcore \ Ripcord Records \ United Kingdom
Kakihara – Love Songs Part 2 (Graybeard Post-Mathcore)
I haven’t had something like this in awhile, at least that I enjoyed, to be specific. But it’s a hard market to really catch attention in the post-hardcore, post-mathcore, post-whatevercore swamp. I guess that’s the case with any genre, but metalheads seem more willing to permit experimentation and at least try to accept it, […]
death metal \ Romantic death metal \ Romanticism \ Spain \ Spanish death metal
Sepulchral – Beneath the Shroud (Romantic Spanish Death Metal)
Man, that Spanish metal has got me loving. Just search for “Spain” in the box on the right there and you’ll find some of the juiciest releases in any metal from the past few years that I covered. I have no idea what’s happening over there but the amount of creativity, with what feels […]
1960s horror \ Blu-ray \ Dracula \ folk horror \ folklore \ horror Blu-ray \ Mexican horror \ Mexican horror film \ Mexploitation \ Powerhouse Films \ Rafael Baledón \ vampire film \ vintage horror
The Curse of the Crying Woman (Mexican Folklore Turned Vampire Nostalgia)
Something about Lucha Libre (AAA in particular), got me into diving further into Mexican horror over the past few years. I was acutely aware of it already, primarily because of the great overview by Doyle Green in Mexploitation Cinema. Now, guy got the release date on The Curse of the Crying Woman (La maldición […]
adventurous black metal \ Antiq Records \ dungeon black metal \ dungeon synth \ dungeon synth black metal \ fantasy black metal \ Flamberge Illustrations \ France \ RPG black metal
Hyver – Shaâtaunoâr: An Album in Which You Are the Hero (Choose Your Own Dungeon Black Metal)
I forget when I first heard Hyver, but I can tell you from experience this type of sound only seems to be properly done in the hands of the French. No one else has the poetic nature in their soul to pull off dungeon synth black metal of the fantasy role-play variety. But this […]
