Cremationem Jesus Lacrimam [ALBUM REVIEW]
May11

Cremationem Jesus Lacrimam [ALBUM REVIEW]

Forfeit Thee Untrue wield a sprawling arsenal of metallic weaponry with which to combat contemporary complacency, annihilating the false and fake in an effort to striving for the real in every aspect of life.

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Nyctophilian [ALBUM REVIEW]
Feb17

Nyctophilian [ALBUM REVIEW]

Formed in 2012, Then Comes Silence have returned and as suggested by the title of their newest outing, Darkness is again ever present. With Nyctophilian, the Swedish Stockholm quartet debarks from escalating gloomy evil and fear. Production is trimmed of any excess to produce a tight, distorted and crepuscularly devastated postcard of human misery.

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Damnatio Memoriae [ALBUM REVIEW]
Sep04

Damnatio Memoriae [ALBUM REVIEW]

Damnatio Memoriae marks the eighth release for British Gothic doom/death metal band, My Silent Wake. Headed by Ian Arkley (guitars, vocals, keys), the band welcomes new members Addam Westlake (bass) and Gareth Arlett (drums).

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Armada [BOOK REVIEW]
Jul14

Armada [BOOK REVIEW]

In the near future, Zack Lightman is a video game savant at one of the most popular games in the world: ARMADA. Armada allows people with souped up VR control rigs to control flying robots and attempt to fend off an alien invasion. In a case of pop culture déjà vu harkening back to The Last Starfighter and Ender’s Game, Lightman discovers that the game is a training simulator designed to find the best and the brightest pilots on the planet to defend the earth from a real alien invasion. However, after a hurried recruitment, Lightman discovers that deception lurks…

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Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! 3: The Seven Serpents [VIDEO GAME REVIEW]
Apr22

Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! 3: The Seven Serpents [VIDEO GAME REVIEW]

In concluding the last game, Kharé, Cityport of Traps, we unraveled a mystery involving mages and an invasion that permitted our adventurer to escape Kharé with our hide intact and made our way into the forbidding wastelands known as the Baklands. In this new chapter, we find ourselves in the Baklands blazing a trail for the metropolis of Mapang—home to the deadly keep where the Archmage who has taken the stolen crown has fled—only to discover that 7 deadly serpents are hunting us. These serpents are the treacherous servants of the Archmage and, those who don’t kill us, will rush back to…

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Wretched Thoughts: Digging Into Grave Robber [INTERVIEW]
Mar25

Wretched Thoughts: Digging Into Grave Robber [INTERVIEW]

Recently I was able to attend a performance by horror punk band, Grave Robber. Their songs have deep spiritual meanings embedded in imagery of horror, gore, shock value and other things you might find in a Romero flick. The lead singer and “shovel bearer” Wretched was nice enough to give me the pleasure of an interview.

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Morganville Vampires brought to YouTube: Geek & Sundry Attempts Impossible [VIDEO]
Jan14

Morganville Vampires brought to YouTube: Geek & Sundry Attempts Impossible [VIDEO]

If you’ve read Rachel Caine’s interesting and slow-burn developing series, The Morganville Vampires, you probably never thought it could be brought to anything other than network TV. However, Geek & Sundry, after launching other original shows like Spellslingers, TableTop, and the Guild, decided to help bring the kickstarted campaign for film to their YouTube channel through the mini-medium of web-length episodes.

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Gothic Invasion: UK’s ‘Terror and Wonder’ Opens [PRESS RELEASE/EVENT]
Nov12

Gothic Invasion: UK’s ‘Terror and Wonder’ Opens [PRESS RELEASE/EVENT]

Two hundred rare objects trace 250 years of the Gothic tradition, exploring our enduring fascination with the mysterious, the terrifying and the macabre! From Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker to Stanley Kubrick and Alexander McQueen, via posters, books, films – and even a vampire-slaying kit – experience the dark shadow the Gothic imagination has cast across film, art, music, fashion, architecture and our daily lives. Beginning with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, Gothic literature challenged the moral certainties of the 18th century. By exploring the dark romance of the medieval past…

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Stash [FILM REVIEW]
Oct15

Stash [FILM REVIEW]

Ol’ Bud’s a big, burly marijuana farmer from the hills of Eastern Kentucky. While Bud has a growing operation, it’s not his only secret: down in his damp, dark, blood-soaked basement is a more sinister and frightening one.

When two local would-be crooks hear that Bud’s leaving town for a few days, they hatch a plan to relieve him of 20 pounds of homegrown. But before they make off with the stash, Bud catches them red-handed and forces them into a bloody game of life or death…a game where drugs, kidnapping, torture and rape are just the beginning…

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Free Preview for Paper RPG, “Mutant: Year Zero” [GAME PRESS RELEASE]
Sep18

Free Preview for Paper RPG, “Mutant: Year Zero” [GAME PRESS RELEASE]

“Of course the world ends. It was always just a question of time. When it’s all over, Earth is still. Nature invades the ruined cities. Winds sweep through empty streets, turned into graveyards.

Yet life remains. In the Ark, a small settlement on the edge of a dead town, the People live. You are the spawn of humanity, but not human anymore. You are twisted funhouse images, mutated freaks. Your bodies and minds have incredible powers, but you are unstable. Fragile. None of the People are over 30 years old.

Except the Elder…

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Star Realms Deckbuilding Game Now Available for iOS (as well as Android) [GAME PRESS RELEASE]
Jul09

Star Realms Deckbuilding Game Now Available for iOS (as well as Android) [GAME PRESS RELEASE]

Just days after their successful launch on Android, White Wizard Games LLC, the company created by Magic: The Gathering Hall of Famers Darwin Kastle and Rob Dougherty (developer and co-founder of the Ascension deckbuilding game), today announced that they will be releasing the explosively popular Star Realms Deckbuilding Game on iOS, with PC and Mac version to follow shortly. The base game including a tutorial, unlimited solo play and a six mission campaign is FREE. With a $5 in app purchase, players can unlock harder AIs, nine additional campaign missions, pass and play, online play and more.

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