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Ghoul – Noxious Concoctions (Tankcrimes)

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 →

Vrajitor’s Tenebrarium – E.N.L.D. (Avantgarde Music)

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 →

Heads For the Dead – In the Absence of Faith (Pulverised Records)

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 →

Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin – Dima Ballin & Kat Ellinger (Arrow)

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 →

VHS – Deep Gashes and Long Lashes (HPGD)

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 →

Anima Morte – Serpents In The Fields Of Sleep (Cadabra Records)

Blimey, it’s been a while since we faced the sea of darkness that is Anima Morte. 2014 to be precise with 3rd album ‘Upon Darkened Stains.’ I have actually been playing their older discs recently, well it’s that time of… Continue Reading →

The Scary Of Sixty-First – Dasha Nekrasova (Fractured Visions)

The premise of this new fright-flick might be a well-worn one but it takes a bit of a gamble by making its theme both contemporary and highly contentious. On the one hand we have an apartment in New York which… Continue Reading →

The Necromancers Union – Flesh Of The Dead (Petrichor)

Billy Idol, Glenn Danzig, The Sisters of Mercy, Ghost and a huge offering of 80’s goth, punk and B-Movie horror. These things on their own are (mostly) great, so what happens when you mix them all together? You get The… Continue Reading →

Heads For The Dead – Slash ‘n Roll (Transcending Obscurity)

International death metal outfit (UK, Germany, Netherlands) have released two previous full lengths of horror based metal but this here short sharp EP I guess is a happy little Halloween film tie in which I got to a little late…. Continue Reading →

Fulci – Exhumed Information (Time To Kill Records)

I recently watched the Gates Of Hell trilogy from the mental gore obsessed Horror director Lucio Fulci and damn was I impressed, well aside from maybe House By The Cemetery (well, apart from the bat scene maybe). None the less… Continue Reading →

Video Nasty – Video Nasty (Petrichor)

Utilising gruesome film sound bites, Canadian death thrashers Video Nasty have concocted a brutal blast of old school thrash metal that crosses over into hardcore punk and death metal ugliness. This self titled EP is the bands first outing and… Continue Reading →

The Day Of The Beast – Indisputably Carnivorous (Prosthetic)

This was a bit of an omen really, sitting there patiently, waiting for a forever home and some petting on our review list, this album was calling out for me to pick it up. This was in no small part… Continue Reading →

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