Tag Fantasy
The mid 70’s were a great time for experimentation and radical ideas and when you mixed dystopian fantasy and a shed load of psychedelic pharmaceuticals the results for film goers could often send them on a right old trip in… Continue Reading →
Following Immoral Tales Borowczyk delivered a fairy tale like no other that had ever been imagined. He somewhat contemptuously mentions Disney quite a bit in some of the features seen accompanying Blanche but this was a version that old Walt… Continue Reading →
Shiny Realistic Plastic Sword…CHECK Painted Wooden Shield….CHECK Denim Jacket with patches and the sleeves cut off…CHECK Tight Leather Trousers…CH…Nope…hang on…damn things must have shrunk somehow…hnnnnnggg…CH….E…CK 24 Bottles of Lager…CHECK (…and there goes the top button on the trousers….) Martina… Continue Reading →
There are few power metal bands with a signature sound quite like Falconer. The unholy spiritual union of black metal, European speed metal and folk melodies all rolled tightly around the honeyed tones of Mathias Blad. Ok there are plenty… Continue Reading →
Ah, Conan. Lords of heaviness and thunder. With Blood Eagle still pounding in our ears, and gigs on the way, we managed to grab a little email time with guitarist/vocalist Jon Davis and took stock of what the view looks… Continue Reading →
1985 was one of those golden years for genre titles and saw the release of some of the films that would remain firm favourites to this day. Day Of The Dead, Return Of The Living Dead, Re-Animator, Lifeforce, Demons and… Continue Reading →
The world needs mavericks… nay, eccentrics like Slough Feg (ne The Lord Weird Slough Feg). If you have never heard them an off the cuff one liner is difficult: There be a bit of a Celtic folk influence somewhere for… Continue Reading →
Summoning more than any other band underline my theory that, far from being misanthropic scions of anti-human violence, the vast majority of black metal enthusiasts are Tolkien-obsessed, multi-sided-dice rolling geeks. This is NOT meant as a slur – after all,… Continue Reading →
Aquilus is a one man band from Australia, comprising of Waldorf taking care of all instruments and vocals. Now this doesn’t sound like home produced drivel, but rather a black metal band with a full orchestra when heaviest or a… Continue Reading →
Want to see a scary movie? Well let’s face it there simply are not many that are genuinely frightening in the supernatural sense around anymore. Back when the likes of this writer was young, movies did have the scope to… Continue Reading →