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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...
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 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...
A long, long time ago, in a land far, far away, a film was made about a war between rebels and the evil empire. It was a very special film that has since been a great addition to film history. It was special in many ways, but what I want to get to here and now is that it was a film that started in the middle of the action. The film was called Star...
The Cathedral of Pain follows pretty much where the first film left off. Frank Zimosa is now dead, as he is the main character, and through whose eyes we see the events unfold—that means we, the audience, are also dead. We are now in hell, and it doesn’t take a long time to place us in utter chaos. The Cathedral of Pain doesn’t shy away from blood, guts, and intestines. On the contrary, it embraces...
11-11-11 has a special place in my heart due to its supernatural story that manages to weave in religion and occultism. 11-11-11 even has some pretty decent effects to boast about—not on par with blockbuster films with hundreds of millions in budget, perhaps, but still quite respectable considering what kind of film it is and how these usually tend to look. In short, it’s about Joseph, who starts noticing the number 11:11 everywhere. His wife...
It’s Woe Time is an album from Woe Gothenburg. You might ask, why does so much music come from Gothenburg? There are so many bands from Sweden’s second largest city. It’s certainly an interesting question to research, but it might not belong in a review of a debut album. Not that it has anything else to do with it, but I assume that Woe has been confused with other bands and then added Gothenburg to...
First Steps is the latest adaption about Fantastic Four. None of them has been successful in the past, but I must commend the studios for not giving up trying. Unfortunately, First Steps isn’t a very good adaptation either. There is part of it a really like. I think Galactus is nicely portrayed as an eternal superbeing, or whatever he is. It is made clear that he’s billions of years older than our universe at the...
Now You See Me, Now You Don’t is the third film in the Now You See Me universe. I enjoyed the first two, but I can’t say that I remember them on a detailed level. Hence, I can’t really tell if the storyline parts that are a continuation of the previous movies are really accurate. But on the other hand, it really doesn’t matter that much. I think this movie can stand on its own...
The Running Man is a new adaptation of Stephen King’s novel from 1982. It was written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was filmed in 1987 as an action hero flick starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, and for a long time, that version is what was found in my memory banks. Now, they have made a new version. Did they have to? Couldn’t we have settled with the existing version? I suppose we could, but why should...
Cause for Conflict is the seventh studio album by Kreator. Like their previous album Renewal, Cause for Conflict doesn’t seem to be very popular among fans and critics. I think it’s a step back to the more “pure” Thrash Metal the band made in their previous albums. Obviously there’s still Industrial elements in there too. I don’t think they’re as prominent as in the previous album though. There’s speed, Thrash, Industry and some more mature...
The Last Days – 2013 – modern post apocalypse
Nuclear Assault – Third World Genoside – 2005
Texas Hippie Coalition – Dark Side of Black – 2016
Megadeth – Dystopia – 2016
John Mellencamp – Other People’s Stuff – 2018
Alice Cooper – Pretties For You – 1969
Morbid Saint – Spectrum of Death (extended edition) – 2014
Act of Defiance – Old Scars New Wounds – 2017
