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Some very interesting releases dropping before new year: Hades Almighty - Pyre Era, Black! Hades Almighty's first release since 2001, and Hades/Hades Almighty's first release without Janto Garmanslund who quite earlier this year. Music-wise the continue the proggy black metal of The Pulse of Decay, but some of the melodylines sounds like something from their Hades era. Sounds good. Kampfar - Profan I've heard one song from this and it's easily the best Kampfar song since 1999's Fra underverdenen. Really cool song! Mansion - Altar Sermon A more rocking and heavy metal-esque version of Jex Thoth. This will be their fourth release, and as usual I expect a masterpiece. All three EPs and the single have been brilliant, so my expectations are up high for sure. The title track is nothing short of amazing! Satan's Satyrs - Don't Deliver Us New album coming, and this time the bands sounds even more rocking than before. Much more inspired by Blue Cheer, and I really like the song. Much better than everything on Die Screaming. Bastard Grave - What Lies Beyond The band released a great demo in 2014, so this is an album I really look forward to. The band offers nothing new, just good, old school-sounding swedish death metal. Think Nihilist, Entombed, Grave and Carnage. Varathron - The Confessional of the Black Penitents Varathron are one of the best bands ever in my eyes mainly because of their two first albums and some of their early EPs and demos, and after a few very disappointing albums they hit back hard in 2014 with Untrodden Corridors of Hades, and this new EP seems to follow that in great manner. Sounds very good. Power From Hell - Devil's Whorehouse PFH's debut album is amazing and a must-have for any fan of Bathory, Venom, Sodom and Hellhammer, but they haven't been able to follow up that properly and have gotten more and more uninteresting with each release, just like their cover art. Never bad, just not all that good either. Debut has some amazing cover art, but the rest looks awful. This new album howeer, while having a poor cover art, sounds very good. Easily the best song since their second album. That's a few of the releases I look very much forward to. Will check for more later today.

Frank Watkins, bassist in Obituary between 89-97 and 03-10, died of Cancer recently.

But you are being 100% subjective here. While anything art-related in the end of the day is subjective, it's fully possible to be objective to at least some degree and see the quality of something one didn't like. You don't like Seven Samurai, but that does't take away the fact that it's one of the best directed, written and acted films of all time. Anyone who likes Twilight and disliked Seven Samurai, The Dark Knight, Inception, Goodfellas and Psycho will run around and tell us how Twilight is the better film beause at least she liked it and found it entertaining, and while she has the right to love that films and hate the others it just doesn't change the fact that it isn't a better film in any way. That goes for me as well, while Big Trouble in Little China is my all-time favourite film, I am still fully aware of the fact that it isn't among the best 250 films ever. Yes, it's my personal favourite and I would place it as #1, but objectively it isn't close to the top 250. Simple as that. While I don't fully agree with RT's top 100 or anything like that, I'd say that at least it's much more spot on than IMDB's.

I'm not sure if you're familiar with Leviathan from before, but a few of the albums are totally recommended for fans of Xasthur, Krieg, Twilight, Lurker of Chalice, Draugar, Blut aus Nord and more. The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide and Tentacles of Whorror are USBM classics. Hypnotic, devilish and mean. I think the vocals sounds amazing on both albums. Unholy, possessed, almost schizophrenic in a way. I think the band is at its best when Wrest decides to slow things down a bit. Edit: By the way, Leviathan are one of those bands that seems to grow a lot on people with time. I wasn't a fan to begin with, and most other I know who are into the band wasn't either.

I don't hate Christopher Nolan. I like several of his films including The Prestige, but neither should be on a list like that imo. I find it ridiculous.

I don't pay attention to scores on IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes or any other side like that. Especially not to IMDB. It's complete shit IMO. So many ridiculous cores. A couple of examples: The Dark Knight and Inception are higher rated than One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Goodfellas and Seven Samurai. Interstellar is higher rated than Spirited Away, Psycho and Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Prestige is higher rated than Alien, The Lion King and The Great Dictator. This is only by a little, but come on, let's be honest here: The Dark Knight, Inception, Interstellar and The Prestige got nothing to do on a top 250 list. Not even a top 500. Simple as that. Yeah, I just can't take the scores on IMDB seriously no matter how hard I try. Nah, I'll take recommendations from friends or whatever with similar taste and check out films based on that instead. Or just by the director/poster/genre/acors involved and shit. It's imple.

What? I thought it was a fairly well-recieve film? It holds 79/100 on Rotten Tomatoes, and reviews around the internet seems mostly positive when taking a quick look. Lots of 3/4, 3,5/5 and 4/5 going on. My expectations are quite high to be honest. Exhibit A looks good too. Will take a look someday.

I already watched tomorrows film as I am going away for the weekend. October 17th: Headless - This film is promoted as lost slasher film from 1978 and has the tagline "UNEARTHED, UNCENSORED, UNLEASHED... The most shocking film you've never seen!" so I was really looking forward to this, but man, what a disappointment. It's nt bad, it just didn't do much for me at all. It starts off fairly well and gave me a proper Last House on Dead End Street and two first Guinea Pig feeling, with it's grainy, amateurish filming and desolate feeling. But then the film really starts with lots of dialogue and acting, and that's when it lost me. It gets boring and uninteresting. It's sick and all that, but it just isn't good or bad enough. It's just somewhere inbetween- Shame. 5/10 After watching it I also found out it's a spin-off of the film Found. It's a film within that film which was so popular they decided to make it into a full-lenght.

Yeah, nothing wrong with that. There's plenty of horror without any blood and gore, so being a horror fan without liking blood and gore is OK. I'm a huge fan of blood and gore myself, though. What do you think of other folk horror films like Witchfinder General, The Blood on Satan's Claw, The Devil Rides Out, The Witches, To the Devil a Daughter, The City of the Dead, Mark of the Dead, Onibaba, Kuroneko, Kwaidan, A Field in England, or even TV-series like The Owl Service and Children Of The Stones? Seen any of them? Anyone seen The Borderlands? A found footage folk horror film from 2013. It looks pretty neat.

But that does't mean it can't be mature. Tucker and Evil vs. Evil, Braindead or even Monthy Pyton are all mature films/shows, even though they're silly and over the top as fuck. But Scream is like Gossip Girl gone mystery-thriller. It's "horror" for people who simply don't enjoy horror. It's so obvious that it's not aimed towards Scream fans, or horror fans in general. It's aimed towards mostly female teenagers, and fans of things like Gossip Girl, Twilight, Vampire Diaries and so on. It's serious, but still not very mature in any way. And I hope Scream Queens is something completely different than that. I truly do. I don't mind childish and silly as long as it's mature in a way. As a fan of horror comedies I am sure you know what I mean even thouh it's hard to explain.

October 16th: The Wicker Man - This film isn't just seen as THE folk horror film, it's seen as one of THE horror films ever made, and it's easy to see why. It doesn't offer any gore and very few thrills and chills, but the atmosphere is incredible, the mystery is very intriguing and the plot is fantastic. It's well-directed and superbly acted, and personal favourites like Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland and Ingrid Pitt are all fantastic. And even though it's not a dark film with gore, blood or anything like that, it's a very creepy film, much due to it's mysticism and brilliant characters. It's just unique, and a must-see for any fan of horr, mystery films or thrillers. Yeah, you just gotta see this. I've seen it something like 10 times, and with each watch it just gets better and better, creepier and creepier. Brilliant film, and the ending are one of the geatest one in the history of films. THAT shot is incredible. Breathtaking! 10/10 The soundtrack is amazing too. The soundtrack throughout the entire film just helps set the atmosphere.

If I were to throw a Halloween party these songs would've been cinluded for sure: John Carpenter - Hallowee theme Misfits - Halloween Misfits - Halloween II King Diamond - Halloween Acid Witch - October 31st Fastway - Trick Or Treat Helloween - Halloween Bobby "Boris" Pickett - Monster Mash Blue Öyster Cult - (Don't Fear) THe Reaper Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You Screaming Lord Sutch - Jack The Ripper Michael Jackson - Thriller

That's what I thought, even though I thought it was supossed to be really fucking bloody and brutal. I won't say if The Canal is supernatural or not, because I'd say it would be a pretty big spoiler. Best thing is to just watch it. Yeah, check out A Field in England. But keep in mind that it's a trip. I've never tripped on anything before, but I imagine tripping on mushrooms or something would be much like watching this film. It'll be too slow and weird for most, but I'm under the impression that people who like slow and weird easily fall for the film. These two are great recommendations. I didn't think of romantic horror films. I'll also throw a few more romantic ones to the list, and as with my other post I'll focus on newer horror films: Honeymoon Låt den rätte komma in Retun of the Living Dead III Shaun of the Dead Bram Stoker's Dracula The Fly (1986) Hellraiser A Chinese Ghost Story (I-III) Some of these, like The Fly and Hellraiser, are bleak, gory and disgusting in a lovely way, but romantic nonetheless. And films like A Chinese Ghost Story is just comletely different than anything you've ever seen and will see again. Here and here you can read my thoughts on these fantastic films. These films are a mix of horror, wuxia (Chinese martial arts fantasy films) and romantic comedy. Quite unique, and they've got this amazing dream-like fairytale feeling to them that just drags you in. But the unique blend of genres can also be what turns people off big time. Not everyone is into wuxia and often people find it too god damn stupid. But these films are highly recommended, and I'd say A Chinese Ghost Story are among my favourite films and would be included on my top 10 horror films, top 10 martial arts/wuxia films and top 10 comedy films. What a film! However, if you feel adventurous and don't mind older films you could always try films like Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy (1932), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), King Kong (1933) and more. But these might be too old for you, and a film like The Mummy, while incredible, is very slow. So yeah, not for everyone. But there shoul be something for everyone here. Heh.

As with your girlfriend/boyfriend? It obviously depends on what kind of films you both enjoys. It's hard to recommend anything if one doesn't know anything about the taste of the one you recommend something to. I've decided to focus on rather new films though, as a lot of people don't like very old films. For scares: Alien, The Exorcist, Ringu, The Blair Witch Project For laughs and monsters: Gremlins, Piranha, An American Werewolf in London, Housebound, Tremors, Frankenstein's Army For blood, gore and special effects: The Thing, Zombi 2, Braindead For sick and disturbing: Martyrs, Irreversible, Inside For atmosphere and mood: The House of the Devil, The Conjuring, The Others, Yeah, that's a few ones at least.

I'm planning on it. Should be way better than Screa at least. Is it a more mature series, or is it aimed more towards teens? Scream comes off as a mystery-drama for older teenage girls.

Best thing about bootlegs is the fact that they aren't tempered with before it's release. No guitar/vocal dubs or anything like that. Gotta love that. WHile I do like plenty of live albums, a huge part of them are ruined in the way that they've dubbed it in studio before its release, something wich often removes the feeling of listening to a proper live album. To me at least. Not too keen on live albums myself though even though there's plenty great ones that I'll play every now and then. But a lot of them doesn't feel like proper live albums at all though because of the dubs. I honestly believe that (live)albums like Live and Dangerous, No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith, At Folsom Prison, Made in Japan, Live at the Star Club, Hamburg, MTV Unplugged in New York, Alive!, Live After Death, It's Alive', Minimum Maximum and more are so good that they belong in the record collection of every single fan of music in general. Not kidding. Fantastic albums. Simple as that.

Started on Scream and two episodes in I'm almost provoked by how bad it is. So far it's 90% Gossip Girl, 5% Vampire Diaies and 5% Scream. The characters are too dumb, even for something based on a slasher, they are annoying and they feel so artificial. And this is topped with poor performances from the actors. And the mask looks awful. Looks like a cheap copy ade by some kids. Way too early to judge it completely, but there's nothing here that makes me think of Scream. It's pretty embarrassing to be honest. I feel sorry for every single human being who enjoy this shit.

Started on Scream and two episodes in I'm almost provoked by how bad it is. So far it's 90% Gossip Girl, 5% Vampire Diaies and 5% Scream. The characters are too dumb, even for something based on a slasher, they are annoying and they feel so artificial. And this is topped with poor performances from the actors. And the mask looks awful. Looks like a cheap copy ade by some kids. Way too early to judge it completely, but there's nothing here that makes me think of Scream. It's pretty embarrassing to be honest. I feel sorry for every single human being who enjoy this shit.

October 15th: The Blood on Satan' Claw - Fantastic old school folk horror with a brilliant occult atmoshere from begining to end. The entire film, to me at least, is about the atmosphere which I think is amazing. It's not scary, but it's creepy, much due to Linda Hayden's brilliant performance. But the star of the show? Patrick Wymark. He'll captivate you from the moment you lay eyes upon him. Amazing! Proper underrated film. A film that deserves so much more praise than what it's got. 9/10 It's such a shame that the folk horror boom didn't last any longer. While the first examples of folk horror can be traced back to the early 20's with films such as The Phantom Carriage and Häxan, the early-mid 60's boom would last only for 10-15 years before it would die out again, and that's a shame because the overall feeling to a lot of these films are so awesome. The quality of a lot of these folk horror films were just superb, no matter if they were British, German or Japanese. The Wicker Man, Witchfinder General, The Blood on Satan's Claw, The Devil Rides Out, The Witches, To the Devil a Daughter, The City of the Dead, Mark of the Dead, Onibaba, Kuroneko, Kwaidan and so on. There's something special about these films IMO. Let me end this with one of the coolest doom metal songs ever as it's quite relevant to this post:

There's a new Vehemence album coming, their first since 2004's Helping the World to See, and there's a few of tracks leaked: The production isn't exactly great and the drums sounds like shit, but the songs itself sounds amazing. I like Helping the World to See , but this sounds a lot more similar to the masterpiece that is God Was Created. More complex and challenging, yet catchy. Especially track two sounds great. It's so good to hear melodic death metal bands that plays actual death metal. Lovely!

Now I haven't seen Kill List, but I thought it was a more folk horror-inspired film with clear connections to films like The Wicker Man, Blood on Satan's Claw, Witchfinder General and so on with a touch of Martyrs thrown in? Which wouldn't come as a surprise considering Ben Wheatley, the man behind Kill List, also made the fantastic psychedelic folk horror A Frield in England which is totally recommended by the way. Superb film! Really looking forward to Wheatley's upcoming films High-Rise and Free Fire as well. Should be great. October 13th: The Fly (1958) - As much as I love David Cronenberg remake of this, I just can't help but love the original a lot more. The original is dark, disturbing and got bloody brilliant special effects, but the original has Vincent Price and Patricia Owens who are both just driving this film forward with their brilliant performances, and while I am a huge Vincent Price fan and consider him one of my all-time favourite, it's Patricia Owens who actually steals the show here. And the film's overall tone is, despite the bleakness of it all, magnificently campy, and as a huge fan of camp I just love that. And I feel like this film is a lot more dramatic than the remake, which is more horrific. I also think the fly looks disgusting as fuck, and at the time of the release of this there wasn't many monsters that could compare to this. Magnificent film, and to my eyes better than the remake. 9/10 October the 14th: Santo vs. the She-Wolves - Another Santo film and more of the same. Kind of at least. Well, while it does follow more or less the same formula we've seen in other Santo films, this film's got more of a cheesy, campy exploitation film to it, and I really liked that. It's slow, and considering how little actually happens I am surprised I didn't get bored. But there's something very dream-like over it. It's like having a bad fever and dreaming something bizarre and absurd. It's so weird, but I enjoyed it quite a lot. 7/10

The Canal and Kill List is two very different movies if you ask me. Very, very different.

October 12th Baron of Terror - I think the actual title is The Brainiac, but I prefer Baron of Terror a lot more. The Brainiac makes it sound more like a campy horror comedy. Anyway, Baron of Terror is a Mexican horror film from 1962, and while it isn't a very good film, it's a damn entertaining one. And I think it's a fairly dark and grim film for being made in 1962. The plot is so-so, you've seen it before, but it's engaging and cool and all. The characters isn't given much time to grow, what makes this film so cool is the monster design which is really cool and fascinating, as much as it is ridiculous. The pulsating head comes off as very original considering when it was made, and it's something that makes the clearly fake monster rather creepy. And the monster adds som surrealism to the film. It's so fucking weird. Anyway, it's not a good film per se, but it's a fun one with a great monster and some delicious-looking sets. I totally understand its cult status, and I am sure that with a few more rewatches in the future I will worship its altar as well. 8/10

October 11th: The Editor - I've been waiting for this film to become available since forever now, and I've been probably search for it twice a week for a year now to see if it's available for us mortals. And when I finally found out it was I got quite excited. Now I've had it fo a while but I've just been saving it for the right moment, and the right moment, for me, was yesterday. I'm very familiar with the Astron-6 team and I liked both the good Father's Day (6/10) and the very good Manborg (8/10). But since watching both these I've just had the feeling that they are capable of way more than what they've shown so far, and I was sure The Ediot was the film to prove me right - and it was. The budget is way bigger this time around, having something like $130k to spend on this film which is a lot compared to the $10k for Father's Day and $1k for Manborg. And the increased budget both shows and really pays off in every aspect of the film. The Editor is one big, fat homage and parody to the Italian giallos, and it's really well done. If you are familiar with the Astron-6 team you know that they like it silly and absurd, and while this is still silly as fuck at time, everything way toned down and it's a way more impressive effort. The plot is really nice, the characters lovely, the humor is spot on and the special effects superb. And the film just manage to capture this great, classic giallo feeling. The film is dubbed, and that might come off silly, which is of course is, but I loved it and I understand why they did it this way. And it looks great. It's a rather stylish film in the giallo tradition, but unlike the majority of the giallos I've seen, this blends a huge dose of humor into the mix, and it's fantastic. It's so funny! And the soundtrack is massive as well. Brilliant soundtrack! Hands down, this was a fantastic film. What more can I say? Well, I'll just say that the Astron-6 team finally reched their potential. 9/10

Swallow the Sun is releasing a new album this year, and it's a tripple albu consisting of only, as far as I know at least, original songs. First album will be melodic doom/death metal as usual, the second album will be an acoustic album and the third a funeral doom album. Interesting. From the first album.