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  • Pioneering instrumental post-rockers Del Rey are still at it. For an indie band, you could say they’ve been at it since time immemorial, but that would be silly. Good thing...

    Del Rey – Immemorial

    Pioneering instrumental post-rockers Del Rey are still at it. For an indie band, you could say they’ve been at it since time immemorial, but that would be silly. Good thing...

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  • Epic-sounding black metal that manages to be both spacious and dense, a thick yet porous wall of black metal mania. Tightly controlled but hardly lacking in fury. Shredding mid-range black...

    Watain – Lawless Darkness

    Epic-sounding black metal that manages to be both spacious and dense, a thick yet porous wall of black metal mania. Tightly controlled but hardly lacking in fury. Shredding mid-range black...

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  • War of Ages “Eternal” is a rollicking, hot and blistering headpunch fusion of metalcore, screamo, hardcore and white-knuckle melodic metal. Packed with emotion but way beyond emo stereotypes, melodic but...

    War of Ages – Eternal

    War of Ages “Eternal” is a rollicking, hot and blistering headpunch fusion of metalcore, screamo, hardcore and white-knuckle melodic metal. Packed with emotion but way beyond emo stereotypes, melodic but...

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  • A Plea for Purging’s “Marriage of Heaven and Hell” sounds just like that. It’s a spiritually but brilliantly brutal slab of metallic intensity. Fearlessly fusing metalcore, tinges of technical death...

    A Plea for Purging – Marriage of Heaven and Hell

    A Plea for Purging’s “Marriage of Heaven and Hell” sounds just like that. It’s a spiritually but brilliantly brutal slab of metallic intensity. Fearlessly fusing metalcore, tinges of technical death...

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  • The film Gold, to my way of thinking, has two major facets of interest: (A) as a bit of cinematic archaeology, and (B) insight into a different-than-usual take on surrealist...

    Gold -

    The film Gold, to my way of thinking, has two major facets of interest: (A) as a bit of cinematic archaeology, and (B) insight into a different-than-usual take on surrealist...

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  • Boris Karloff’s last picture, and boy is it a hit or miss affair. There are some dashes of psychedelic horror amidst all the frivolity and blandness, not to mention a...

    Cauldron of Blood – DVD review

    Boris Karloff’s last picture, and boy is it a hit or miss affair. There are some dashes of psychedelic horror amidst all the frivolity and blandness, not to mention a...

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  • This peculiar zombie movie is a helluva head-scratcher and a bizarre mix of silliness and atmosphere with a dash of originality, believe it or not. I can’t say I’ve ever...

    Garden of the Dead – DVD review

    This peculiar zombie movie is a helluva head-scratcher and a bizarre mix of silliness and atmosphere with a dash of originality, believe it or not. I can’t say I’ve ever...

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  • Snuff is such an odd film and for more reason than one. If you start watching this (and keep watching this), you’re going to really wonder why it was called...

    Snuff (Super Strange Video) – DVD review

    Snuff is such an odd film and for more reason than one. If you start watching this (and keep watching this), you’re going to really wonder why it was called...

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  • Heavy, gritty and hooky, this metal-filled doom rock explosion is big and brawny and knows the right fusion of melodicism and rock balls with metal fist-making. Throaty raw vox, humongous...

    Dusted Angel – Earth Sick Mind

    Heavy, gritty and hooky, this metal-filled doom rock explosion is big and brawny and knows the right fusion of melodicism and rock balls with metal fist-making. Throaty raw vox, humongous...

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  • From epic marches of melodic occultic direness to pulse-pounding black metal shredding, “Thy Will Be Done …” by Artep is a versatile and simultaneously raw/grim and melodic/hypnotic effort. The percussion...

    Artep – Thy Will Be Done on Earth As Is In Hell

    From epic marches of melodic occultic direness to pulse-pounding black metal shredding, “Thy Will Be Done …” by Artep is a versatile and simultaneously raw/grim and melodic/hypnotic effort. The percussion...

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