Monthly Archives: August 2022

movie

(movie) Shudder´s This Is Gwar offers great insight into this special band!

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Good people at Shudder continue to bombard us with great movies, this time a feature length documentary about one of the greatest little bands out there. Gwar never made it to front lines of the scene, but they managed to be a legendary band. This movie offers insight about how they came to be, how they did their art and costumes, creating a gang of misfit monster barbarians from outer space. In fact, they are real life outcast bunch of musicians and artists led by great and unfortunately gone too soon Dave Brockie, aka Oderus Urungus who was a main creative and driving force behind this band. Their shows are legendary, with fountains of fake blood and cum and similar body fluids, theatre, sci fi storytelling and above all, great music. This is a nice chronologically done movie, which through archive footage and interviews delivers insight into all ups and downs, fights, disappointments, deaths and reincarnations of these legends. This one if contender for one of the best music documentaries that came out this year. Go see this one.

8,5/10

Reviews

(review) WarWolf-Necropolis

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WarWolf are hailing from Cologne, Germany and this is their debut full length opus. The band was formerly known as Wolfen from 1994 to 2021. This one contains ten songs. The music of WarWolf can be described as old school Teutonic heavy metal with a steely breath of power metal thrown in the song structures for good measure. If I must describe it and compare it to some band it would be a mixture of Grave Digger and Wizard. The first comparison is in order, because the album is produced by none other than Chris Bolthendal, Grave Digger singer. The music is up tempo, warrior stomping metal, with great melodies and vocals that are not so high and screaming but singing, tough yet melodic. Lyrics deal with vampires and werewolves, kind of Underworld movie thematics with songs like Daywalker, Nosferatu, Clan Of The Undead being highlights of this album for me. The title song, besides being the longest song on this opus is also a bit similar in parts to Sign Of The Cross by Iron Maiden. Maybe it is just me, but I can hear similarities in some parts. In all, this is a decent metal album. Nothing special, but decent.

6/10

books

(book) Dean Koontz´s Winter Moon is not his finest, but it is a decent suspense novel.

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Dean Koontz is probably one of the best known writers of suspense thriller/horror fiction out there and is also one of my personal favorites. I am eager to complete reading of his works, so this one somehow came first into my hands. Story of this novel is about a heroic cop Jack McGarvey who is badly wounded in a shootout with a maniac high on PCP at the gas station. Jack also loses his partner along with couple other civilians and barely escapes with his life.

Second storyline follows Eduardo Fernandez, an old man on his Quatermass(nice homage to Hammer horror) ranch where strange things happen in the woods of snowy Montana. As it goes McGarvey family moves to that ranch and starts fight for their very lives and sanity, but also whole humanity on that little corner of snowy nowhere.

Well, this one was tense, as we are used from Koontz, nice to read and a page turner, especially last ten chapters through which McGarveys struggle to stay alive fighting the enemy. But, the other storyline Koontz somehow started with followers, cult of late maniac director who bother McGarvey family somehow gets lost along the way. As I read this one, I somehow couldn´t escape the fact that Koontz kind of recycles himself and his novels such as Phantoms or Servants of the Twilight, but does not really know which way to take. This is a decent one, but not top of his works.

6/10