Film Review: Slender Man

He's like a virus, but instead of spreading through a computer, it spreads through our bodies ... By reading that quote you may understand why I don't even want to review this fucking movie. Slender Man is a travesty of horror cinema, or maybe just cinema as a whole. Going into the theater this past …

Formative Forge: Mastodon – Crack the Skye

Mastodon - Crack the Skye March 24th, 2009 Progressive Metal / Sludge Metal Atlanta, Georgia, USA Reprise Records Welcome to the first edition of a new segment I'm doing on this blog, entitled Formative Forge. In this segment I'm going to doing a retrospective of a bunch of older albums that had a tremendous impact on …

Film Review: Lords of Chaos

Based on Truth and Lies Last night I had the pleasure of seeing Lords of Chaos, Jonas Akerlund's headbanging biopic about the infamous Norwegian black metal scene of the early 90s, at its Canadian debut as part of the Fantasia International Film Festival. Leading up to the film's release, fans of seminal black metal legends …