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Violent Revolution is the first studio album of the 2000s from Kreator, their tenth in total. Without having all of Kreators discography in fresh memory I think it seems like they make every other record really great and something less than perfect in between. Violent Revolution is one of the really good ones! It has just the elements I’m looking for when it comes to Kreator. It’s aggressive, not too technically as far as the...
The Woman in the Yard is a psychological horror film from 2025. It starts of with a woman in grief taking car of her two children. She has just lost her husband and the children’s father in a car accident. Exactly how recently is hard to say. But since she’s still walking on crutches it can’t be that long ago. Life goes on, even if it’s hard and she tries her best to keep her...
Hardwired…to Self-Destruct is a Metallica album from 2016. It is their tenth studio album. At this point the band had existed for about 35 years; the first album was made in 1983, which means that they’ve done a new album on average every 3.3 years. Yet the last few albums have had at least five years between them. The album before this, Death Magnetic, was made 8 (!) years before. You could say that they...
Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre, is also known as Men Behind the Sun 4, but it really has nothing to do with the other movies. In fact, even the three other films have little to do with each other depending on which perspective you chose to see it from. It is, however, also based on true events and Japanese war crimes, just like in Men Behind the Sun. In the Case of Black Sun it...
Mr Buzzkill is a slasher from 2025. As all good slashers, well many of them anyway, it has a cool masked killer. But it all begins with a campfire and somebody is telling a story about the massacre and the infamous “Mr Buzzkill”. Apparently it took place just about on the location where they are right now, what a shocker! (the irony, oh, the irony!) As the story is told we are shown the told...
It didn’t take me very many seconds to realize that I would be bothered by the stilted dialogue for 3 hours. The dialogue is really beyond criticism if you count naturally delivered dialogue as something positive. There is nothing natural about the way the actors deliver their lines and I can’t believe anything other than that it is meant to sound like theatrical Swedish. That is the only possibility I can see. All other alternatives...
Awqanákuy is a Hardrock band from Argentina. That means that the lyrics is in Spanish? I actually have no idea since I don’t speak or understand it. But I did a quick search and came up with that Latin Spanish spoken in South America is quite different from Spanish spoken in Spain. And, apparently, Spanish in Argentina is even more different. Already in the first song I’m confused, as the riff seems heavily influenced by...
I got some feeling and uploaded a new video to youtube yesterday. You might like it. Give it some love 🙂
Endorama is the ninth studio album by Kreator. There appears to be a little less aggression on this one, and it’s not as fast as some of their earlier albums. I would almost call it kind of melodic! It’s not Thrash, but it’s certainly Metal, and there are elements that are both beautiful and soothing, as well as the hard and heavy guitars, bass, and drums. It might be both a blessing and a curse...
Like Trailerpark Idler’s previous album Meanwhile in Dogpatch, this one was going to pass me by unnoticed. A note to those of you who send downloadable albums for review, be clear! Also be patient because I will give an opinion, sometimes it just takes a little extra time. This album is a bit more homogeneous than the last one was. Then they would have taken the turns among the genres and mixed them fresh. Here,...
It’s getting really hard to write about Melissa Etheridge’s albums these days.She keeps an incredibly high minimum standard and even though she doesn’t really present any direct news, her albums are fantastically good to listen to. If you expect innovation, you should probably stay away, but that’s what they are about, you know what you’re getting from the start, the rest is really just a nuance. On this album, she succeeds superbly. The first half...
It’s just that,either I’m too old to know all these Marvel characters,or DC Comics was more my thing. My acquaintance with the original Ant-man is microscopic at best. Somewhere in the back of my mind I think I recognize a figure who rides an ant and commands other ants, but that’s all. On the other hand, I’m sure that I’ve seen a comic strip about it. Little did I know that he was actually such...
When Metallica released Death Magnetic in 2008, they selected the best of the 14 songs that were available. The rest were saved, and they have now been released on this EP – Beyond Magnetic. So it’s four songs and by no means a full-length album! However, it should be added that the shortest of them is only under 7 minutes and a couple of seconds. Overall, you get quite a lot of music for your...
Witchtrap – 1989 – The lost film of Kevin Tenney
Final Destination 2 – 2003 – Ali Larter returns
Asphalt Valentine – 2009 – Strip Rock Roll
George Thorogood – Party of One – 2017
Morbid Saint – Spectrum of Death (extended edition) – 2014
Ancient Bards – A New Dawn Ending – 2014
