Formative Forge: Alice: Madness Returns [2011]

"Is it mad to pray for better hallucinations?" - Alice Liddell Alice: Madness ReturnsJune 14th, 2011Action AdventureGothic Fantasy / HorrorSpicy HorseElectronic ArtsPC / Xbox 360 / PlayStation 3 I remember the first time I picked up this game I was uncertain as to how I would feel about it. The trope of making Alice's Adventures …

Album Review: The Black Dahlia Murder – Nocturnal

"Crawling the walls, through every crack and crevice teems, blackness washing over the windowpanes, painting the buildings in between." The Black Dahlia Murder - NocturnalSeptember 18th, 2007Melodic Death MetalMetal Blade RecordsDetroit, Michigan, USA Here it is. This is the album, the album, that did it for me with extreme music. I still remember the first …

Album Review: High on Fire – Death is this Communion

"Now you realize, DEATH IS THIS COMMUNION!" High on Fire - Death is this CommunionSeptember 18th, 2007Sludge MetalRelapse RecordsOakland, California, USA And so here it is. We have come to the penultimate review in this month's edition of Discography Deep Dive and what is, in my opinion, the best gosh darned record in High on …

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 …