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Welcome back to this weeks round up of all the new album, EP, and single releases from the past seven days. Oh… and there’s a little, possibly horrific, surprise at the end of this weeks piece. Albums The 38th Division by Iselder “Iselder return with The 38th Division, a new black metal album built around…
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Filmed under a title that defies the basic laws of English syntax because Golden Harvest executives were genuinely superstitious about their previous box-office flops starting with the letter ‘M’ (hence Wheels on Meals instead of Meals on Wheels), this movie is an absolute high-water mark of action cinema. By the mid-1980s, the old-school, costume-heavy studio…
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There is a moment during the early 1960s where science fiction cinema abandoned all remaining pretenses of middle-class respectability and plunged headfirst into a subterranean pool of pure madness, and that moment is Joseph Green’s The Brain That Wouldn’t Die. Filmed under the significantly more honest title The Head That Wouldn’t Die in 1959 but…
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There are a lot of ways to tell people what kind of movies matter to you. You can fill shelves with Blu-rays, spend years writing about cinema, or bore your friends senseless by explaining why a particular fight scene from 1978 is better than everything Hollywood produced last summer. I took a slightly more permanent…
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Watching the 1975 Ho Meng-hua classic The Flying Guillotine, is watching the exact moment Shaw Brothers realized that the traditional, honorable swordplay of the 1960s was dead, buried, and ready to be replaced by something deeply cynical and explicitly weaponized. Before this film, the studio’s output under directors like Chang Cheh or King Hu usually…
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If you want to talk about the absolute apex of Taiwanese independent chop-socky cinema, the conversation starts and ends with Lee Tso-nam’s Shaolin vs. Lama. By the early 1980s, the traditional kung fu movie was supposed to be dead and buried. Golden Harvest was leaning hard into urban stunt-spectacles with Jackie Chan, and the big…
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After some much needed rest, for my damn sanity if nothing else, I returned to work this morning with some brand new plans for The Cult Archives. The first one being this what you are now reading what I wrote (to paraphrase the great Ernie Wise). The fact is I receive a metric-fuck-ton (an official…
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Belgian Heavy Metal pioneers Drakkar have returned with Invasion, a fast-paced speed and heavy metal anthem built on a relentless rhythmic foundation. Layered with vivid battlefield imagery, the new single channels the raw chaos and forward momentum of a seaborne raid and its immediate aftermath through sharp guitar riffs, driving percussion, and commanding vocals. Crafted…
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Finnish modern Melodic Metal unit Northern Genocide have released their brand new single Epilogi through Inverse Records, offering a first taste of their upcoming, as-yet-untitled third studio album slated for release later this year. The band says that the track centers heavily on the theme of total renewal, describing it as an aggressive, fiery purging…
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Following the September 2025 arrival of their sophomore studio album, Prophets of the Void, melodic death metal outfit Progeny of Sun have returned with a brand new single titled Unified Light. Accompanied by an official music video, the track serves as an early preview of the band’s next chapter while their third full-length album continues…