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Today, my Kung Fu freaks and geeks, we are digging into a 1990 classic that is essentially a high-octane love letter written in blood, sweat, and cheap cologne. We are talking about Skinny Tiger, Fatty Dragon. Now, if you’ve been hanging around the Archives for a while, you know I have a deep, borderline obsessive…
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Finnish outfit Segmentia have hit the reset button and come back leaning hard into their homeland’s favourite pastime: making things sound beautiful and quietly devastating at the same time. The band’s new single Before The Dawn lands as the first taste of their upcoming debut album, blending heavy guitar work with slower, more reflective melodic…
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There’s a long gap, and then there’s 29 years. Undercroft just smashed that silence to bits. The band have officially released their new album The Killer Sword via NB Extreme Recordings, and it comes with a pretty big moment baked in, the return of original vocalist Tito MelÃn to a full-length release for the first…
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UK Doom dealers of emotional devastation Godthrymm are back, and they’ve just cracked open another piece of their upcoming third album Projections, due May 29th via Profound Lore Records. The new single, The Sun Never Fell, follows earlier track Truth In My Own, and shifts the focus toward the band’s more expansive side, still heavy…
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Public transport just got a whole lot less boring, and a whole lot more unhinged. Brazil’s Favourite Dealer have dropped a new video for Freak Show, turning one of Curitiba’s iconic bus tubes into something that feels less like a commute and more like a low-budget nightmare you accidentally walked into and can’t leave. Forget…
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It’s 1987 and the slasher genre was already starting to smell a bit like a basement after a flood. We’ve seen enough silent masked guys in the woods to be on the verge of burnout. The ‘Summer of 1984’ was a distant memory, and New Line Cinema was facing a crisis of identity. A Nightmare…
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There is a specific kind of skepticism that usually accompanies the comeback of a band that has been dormant for nearly two decades. In the fast-moving machinery of the Metal world, twenty years is several lifetimes. Trends rise and fall, sub-genres splinter into a thousand niche fragments, and the fire that once fueled a young…
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The newest iteration of The Mummy monster from Universal Pictures comes to us by way of Director Lee Cronin, whose previous works are Evil Dead Rise and The Hole in the Ground, both of which received positive reception. In fact, Evil Dead Rise turned out to be the highest-grossing film in its respective series. The…
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There are good, safe, non-demons eating your face games you can play, and then there’s ‘open the weird cursed card deck and keep filming’ games you can play. Guess which lane Last Look swerves into at full speed. The indie horror project has dropped its first teaser, pitching a mix of supernatural game mechanics and…
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Finnish Death Metal outfit Hautajaisyö are squeezing the life out of their latest release, and doing it the loud, sweaty, ‘someone nearly knocked over the camera’ kinda way. The band dropped their fifth album Surun paino back on March 20th, via Inverse Records, and now they’ve followed it up with their first-ever official live music…