Aeternam: Heir of the Rising Sun [ALBUM REVIEW]

Posted By Kastrophylax on May 19, 2023 in Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Music, Reviews

Band/Artist: Aeternam Release House: Rockmark Records Genre: Symphonic Death Metal One Sentence Synopsis: The new full-length album from Canadian symphonic death metal band Aeternam. Series: Standalone Single/EP/Album: Album Release Date: September 2, 2022 Estimated Length: 47 minutes MSRP: $10 (digital); €14,90 (CD) Website: Click Here Music Video: Click Here Purchase Site: Click Here Reviewed By: Kastrophylax Final Score: 5.0 Moons...

Candlemass: Epicus Doomicus Metallicus [RETRO REVIEW]

Posted By Reverend Leviathan on May 12, 2023 in Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Music, Reviews, User Submitted Reviews

  Band/Artist: Candlemass Release House: Black Dragon Records Genre: Doom Metal One Sentence Synopsis: Debut album of doom metal pioneers, Candlemass Series: Standalone Single/EP/Album: Album Release Date: 6-10-1986 Running Time: 43 Min MSRP: $10.29 Discount Link: Click Here Website: Click Here Sample/Music Video: Click Here Purchase Site: Click Here Reviewed by: Reverend Leviathan Final Score: 5.0 Moons (Out of 5.0)  ...

The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook For Surviving Medieval England [BOOK REVIEW]

Posted By JT Hanke on May 5, 2023 in Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Books, Reviews

The book starts off with a bang as our amnesia-riddled protagonist finds himself in a field with a flaming outline of his body behind him and the burned remnants of a book scattered to the four winds. As he tries to figure out how he got to wherever this is, he realizes he knows things about the world and time he comes from, but nothing specific about himself. For some reason, he has a great desire to review everything around him in multiple-Star ratings, including trees, rivers, and forts. For example, after hiding behind a tree to evade ominous looking thugs, our protagonist mentally…

Haken: Fauna [ALBUM REVIEW]

Posted By Kastrophylax on Apr 28, 2023 in Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Music, Reviews

Although Haken started their recording career in 2010, they demonstrated their full potential with the musical diversity, complex arrangements, and storytelling power of Visions (2011).  With The Mountain (2013), Haken truly took the progressive music scene by storm and earned the attention of fans worldwide.  In that recording they also developed musical themes and characters (the “Cockroach King,” for example) that they would continue to weave creatively through the music of their next three albums.  In this trilogy of albums, Haken would add heavier, djenty riffs, experiment with complex ti

Grief Collector: In Times of Woe [ALBUM REVIEW]

Posted By Reverend Leviathan on Apr 21, 2023 in Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Reviews

Doom metal band Grief Collector began in 2017, originally with Robert Lowe (known for Candlemass and Solitude Aeturnus) on vocals. After releasing two amazing albums (From Dissension to Avowal and En Delirium) they parted ways, and In Times of Woe will be Grief Collector’s third album, and their first album with new vocalist Julian Küster.

The Last of Us [CLASSIC VIDEO GAME REVIEW]

Posted By JT Hanke on Feb 24, 2023 in Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Classic Video Games, Review: Games, Review: Video Games, Reviews

In an alternate 2013, a mutated Cordyceps fungus begins to infest human hosts and turn them into violent, zombie-like monsters called “the infected.”  As the apocalypse comes upon Austin, Texas, our protagonist, Joel (Troy Baker) and his brother, Tommy (Jeffrey Pierce), try to flee with Joel’s daughter, Sara (Hana Hayes).  In the flight, a soldier shoots Sara and she dies in Joel’s arms. Twenty years later, as society has almost been obliterated by the infection and people live in controlled quarantine zones, Joel and his partner, Tess (Annie Wersching), serve as smugglers in the remnants…

Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands [VIDEO GAME REVIEW]

Posted By JT Hanke on Feb 17, 2023 in Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Games, Review: Video Games, Reviews

What happens when you allow Tiny Tina to take over an entire video game?  Come with me and find out!

You play the Newbie, a character that has crash landed in Borderlands along with your shipmates, human pilot Valentine, played by Andy Samberg from SNL/Lonely Island, and self-absorbed robot Frette, who is voiced by consummate comedienne Wanda Sykes.  While your ship is being repaired, Tiny Tina approaches you and asks you to play her favorite game, Bunkers & Badasses.  When you all agree, she takes over as Bunkermaster and tells you a terrifying tale of the Dragon Lord…

Tress of the Emerald Sea [BOOK REVIEW]

Posted By JT Hanke on Jan 27, 2023 in Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Books, Reviews

Tress of the Emerald Sea is the first of Brandon Sanderson’s Four Mystery novels that broke kickstarter in March of 2022. (As of the writing of this review, the campaign received a staggering $41.8 million dollars, the largest campaign in Kickstarter history.) Tress is the tale of a poor housekeeper and cook who falls into a semi-relationship with Charlie, the Duke’s son—who pretends to be a groundskeeper whenever Tress is around. Tress lives on a remote island on the Emerald Sea—a sea the color of grass due to the type of dangerous spores that fall from one of 12 orbiting moons…

SCARY MOVIE NIGHT: Twilight Zone: The Movie [DVD/BLURAY REVIEW]

Posted By Karen "Neckromance" St. Claire on Dec 11, 2020 in Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Blu-Ray, Review: DVDs, Reviews

Director: John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, George Miller Production Company: Warner Bros Genre: Sci-Fi Horror Anthology One Sentence Synopsis: Based on Rod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone” television series Series: Standalone Release Date: June 24, 1983 Running Time: 101 min Reviewed by: Karen “Nekcromance” St. Claire Final Score: 5.0 Moons  (Out of 5) Step into the otherworldly 5th dimension, a place that lies between time and...

Peace on Another’s Terms [BOOK REVIEW]

Posted By William Kilpatrick on Nov 20, 2020 in Featured, Origin: Official Contributor, Review: Books, Reviews

Ardenai Morning Star, the Thirteenth Dragonhorse and his fleet arrive on the doorstep of Lebonath Jas, a planet on the teetering edge of extinction, poisoned and polluted by its own inhabitants. The Lebonathis sought an alliance with the Affined Equi Worlds and now have the full attention of the Dragonhorse and the Seventh Galactic Alliance. The Lebonathi elite quickly realize entering into such an agreement comes with privileges whether they want them or not. A struggle for the hearts and minds of the Lebonathi citizens challenges the Dragonhorse to walk a very fine line between oppression an

Scary Movie Night: Rob Zombie’s Halloween [DVD/BLU-RAY REVIEW]

Posted By Karen "Neckromance" St. Claire on Oct 30, 2020 in Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Blu-Ray, Review: DVDs, Review: Films, Review: Multimedia, Review: Scary Movie Night, Review: Theatrical Release Films, Reviews, User Submitted Reviews

Director: Rob Zombie Production Companies: Dimension Films, Nightfall Productions, Spectacle Entertainment Group, Trancas International Distribution Company: The Weinstein Company Genre: Horror Series: Based on Halloween by John Carpenter and Debra Hill which created a huge series as the saga continues MPAA: R Music: Tyler Bates / John Carpenter (film score) Soundtrack Credits: Click Here Release Date: August 31, 2007 Purchase: Click...