Tag horror
I’m sure we all have those bands where we just can’t understand why they haven’t ever really taken off and one such band for me is Corpsefucking Art. When I first found Brutal Death Metal these guys were always floating… Continue Reading →
Apparently US act Mausoleum are “the infernal purveyors of Zombiecult Death Metal” and one could wonder just where they interred themselves for the last thirteen years after releasing second album ‘Back From The Funeral’ in 2011. Defiling The Decayed is… Continue Reading →
NB: contains descriptions likely to cause offence. Keep repeating, “it’s only a review, it’s only a review!” It probably comes as no surprise to anyone that having previously tackled Zombie Flesh Eaters and City Of The Living Dead, Fulci would… Continue Reading →
Blackpool is a seaside resort town in the Northwest of Lancashire renowned for its annual lighting arrangements known locally as ‘Blackpool Illuminations’ or ‘The Blackpool Lights’, and it also is home to an amusement park and the famous ‘Blackpool Tower’…. Continue Reading →
“It’s Rogga time,” but let’s face it when is it not? With so many bands on the go Mr Johansson is normally kicking about somewhere or the other. I decided due to the ties with Luci Fulci, naming themselves after… Continue Reading →
Romanticism, deathlike fantasies and world collapse – such are the images presented to us of death metal band Nokturnal from Indonesia. The horror element which is paraded conjures up Tribulation, to whose fans Nokturnal are said to appeal. In truth,… Continue Reading →
It’s been 7 long years since this German bands last output. It is hard to compare them to any other band than Mercyful Fate (more so the King Diamond solo material), primarily from the vocal falsetto style and some of… Continue Reading →
It’s been a while since we crept over the crooked, creaky bridge into Creepsylvania, six years in fact. This time we approach the ghoulish sack-clothed faced wearers lair with extreme caution. I nod acknowledgement to the headless horseman on the… Continue Reading →
Earlier this year we got to grips with Argenthorns album ‘The Ravening’ via Avantgarde music and its symphonic black metal took us off into a dark fantasy world and created a real impact. Now Finnish musician Lord Vrăjitor, also of… Continue Reading →
Multi-national horror obsessed Death Metal troupe Heads for the Dead follow up their 2022 album The Great Conjuration with a 5 track E.P paying homage to horror classics. If you have heard the aforementioned long player or any of their… Continue Reading →
I vaguely remember my first encounter with the fantastique world of French director Jean Rollin (1938-2010) being incomprehensibly trimmed, grainy, bootleg VHS tapes of Zombie Lake (1981) and The Living Dead Girl (1982). Wading green zombies and toxic bloodless vampires… Continue Reading →
Until today I never knew that such a thing existed. A perfect melding of 80’s horror synth and grisly Death/Grind that when activated produces one of the silliest and most heart warming spectacles that any self respecting gore fiend could… Continue Reading →