Jamey Rottencorpse and The Rising Dead are no strangers to the pages of this zine and horrorpunk scene. Hailing from Bremen, Germany, these guys are playing modern metallic version of horrorpunk yet remaining true to the old school horrorpunk roots with lots of melody, singalong parts, harmonies and catchy guitar parts.
Now, with the help of awesome Undead Artists they released brand new e.p. The record contains four songs and what immediately falls to ear is beautiful eerie rendition of Edgar Allan Poe´s poem A Dream Within A Dream with haunting voice and screaming Hell behind all sounds. The Day I Died is a horrorpunk song with metal influences in guitar work and drumming, with awesome chorus making your skin crawl with the feelings only this music can provide. My personal favorite on this record is Flesh And Lust which I listened for many times in a row and I can totally relate to the song, beautiful melodies and vocal lines, along with guitar work. But, the real hit on this record is horror cover of Somewhere Under The Graveyard which would definitely play in my version of Wizard of Oz. This is superb record. Love it all the way!
Dickie Devil and the Deviants are from Pennsylvania and they call their music Munstercore. There are four songs on this new e.p. and the music is somewhere between garage rock, surf, horror punk and rockabilly, of course with horror lyrics and this e.p. varies from song to song. The Undead Wanna Rock n Roll is a more of a classic rock n roll song old school vibe with zombies dancing all around in their rotten clothes and flesh falling off their bodies on the floor. Creatures Pet has more rockabilly sounding guitar and beat while my personal favorite is Queen of Monster High being the most melodic and punk rock sounding song just made for you to sing along and bury your prom date to. Da Humans Run Run is also nice punk rock song and those two mentioned are my favorites. This is a great little record, for all you fiendettes and fiends, go get this one.
I don´t know how I missed this one all these years. This 1932 German horror masterpiece is a classic everyone who is in love with the genre should see. The movie evolves around a drifter who is obsessed with paranormal and supernatural who stumbles upon a lonely inn house and weird things start to happen right there.
Carl Theodor Dreyer and co-wrote this movie based on a book by legendary Sheridan Le Fanu. The movie is heavy with atmosphere of unknown and carrying some ominous and heavy vibe in itself, with our main protagonist wandering around hearing weird sounds at night in the house, meeting all kind of weird persona and the fog and swampy area in which the movie is situated are so gloomy and bleak that they add to the heaviness of the movie. The actors are superb, especially Julian West as the main protagonist and Maurice Schutz as the Lord of the Manor., mainly acting with their face expressions and sometimes you can see pure horror on their faces. Murnau´s Nosferatu is untouchable classic per se, but this one is better in my opinion, although done ten years later than the said movie. The story is full, no fillers there and the ending of the movie is kinda dreamy and poetic adding to the impact this one had one me and left me in awe and thinking about it later, which is not often case with modern horror movies. There are no blood gore baths in this one, there are no spectacular murders, but if you love your horror atmospheric, slow and creepy this one is a classic every collection which respects itself must posses!
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