Album Review: Slipknot – The End, So Far

"You're the sin that I've been waiting for, the hands around my throat." Slipknot - The End, So FarSeptember 30th, 2022Nu Metal / Alternative MetalRoadrunner RecordsDes Moines, Iowa, USA Legendary nu metal outfit Slipknot are back with their seventh full length record, the curiously titled The End, So Far. Perhaps the title refers to the …

Live from the Pit: Messe Des Morts X

Messe Des Morts @ Theatre ParadoxeNovember 24th, 2022 This past weekend I went to check out the first night of Messe Des Morts, the annual black metal festival that takes place in Montreal and brings some of the biggest black metal names in Canada to play in a repurposed church. I had booked my own …

EP Review: Saccage – Charogne

Saccage - CharogneJuly 29th, 2022Blackened Crust Punk / Death MetalSelfmadegod Records / Viuda Negra Records / Von Frost KoffinQuebec City, Quebec, Canada I've been following Quebec City death crust thrashers Saccage for a few years now. Their 2012 record Death Crust Satanique is one of my favourite heavy records to come out of the province …

EP Review: Spider God – Ett fr​ä​mmande spr​å​k / A Foreign Tongue

Spider God - Ett fr​ä​mmande spr​å​k / A Foreign TongueApril 1st, 2022Melodic Black MetalIndependently ReleasedUnited Kingdom Hailing from the United Kingdom, I first came across Spider God earlier this year thanks to recommendations from folks over on Metal Twitter. Needless to say, as goes their typical flawless streak of suggestions, I was no doubt stunned …

Cult of Classics: The Toxic Avenger [1984]

"I can't take it, Julie, I cannot take it. He is screwin' up my karma. AHHHHHHHHHH. I'M STRESSED!" - Bozo The Toxic AvengerDir. Michael Herz and Lloyd KaufmanMay 1984Superhero / Black Comedy / HorrorTroma EntertainmentUnited States of America What can be said about The Toxic Avenger that hasn't already been said? This film is considered …

Cult of Classics: Frankenhooker [1990]

"Medical school upsets me, mother. I'm anti-social. I'm becoming dangerously amoral." - Jeffrey Franken FrankenhookerDir. Frank HenenlotterApril 1990Horror / ComedyLevins-HenenlotterShapiro-Glickenhouse EntertainmentUnited States of America I've seen Frankenhooker a number of times before and knew that at some point I'd have to introduce my friends in our local movie club to it. As such, one evening …

EP Review: Anna Pest and Colin MacAndrew – A Moor Beneath the Cold Dead Sun

"A vision of the end to come. A moor beneath the cold dead sun." Anna Pest and Colin MacAndrew - A Moor Beneath the Cold Dead SunOctober 28th, 2022Progressive DeathcoreIndependently ReleasedMontreal, Quebec, Canada I've been following the music of Montreal deathcore artist Anna Pest for a few years now. I greatly enjoyed her previous full …

Film Review: Terrifier 2 [2022]

"They never found the body... what if he decides to come back here?" - Jonathan Shaw Terrifier 2Dir. Damien LeoneAugust 29th, 2022HorrorDark Age Cinema / Fuzz on the Lens ProductionsBloody DisgustingUnited States of America When a movie starts being talked about in the news because it allegedly causes people to fain and / or vomit …

Film Review: Terrifier [2016]

"Dead. Dead, all dead. He's killing them one by one by one, like cows." - Cat Lady TerrifierDir. Damien LeoneOctober 2016HorrorEpic Pictures GroupDread CentralUnited States of America The past month has seen everybody I know hyping up Terrifier 2, the sequel to the cult film Terrifier, released in 2016. I'd heard about this movie but …

Series Review: The L Word – Season 2 [2005]

Your lover kisses you, and you feel a tremor in the back of your knees. The synapses fire sending orders, move your legs move your arms... she's the one for you, she's the... girl of your dreams, she's your one and only." - Alice Pieszecki The L Word - Season 2Created by Ilene Chaiken, Michele …