All posts by vladkraykulla

Active member of alternative underground scene and culture since early 1990-ies. Underground is a way of life!

(recenzija) Dylan Dog Extra 149 – ‘Profesionalci’

Za one koji me poznaju osobno nije čudno, jer uz Star Wars i kolekciju knjiga o SW expanded universeu koju skupljam, Dylan Dog je moja stripovska ljubav i skupljam i njegujem pozamašnu kolekciju izdanja još od bivše države, pa pokušaja Slobodne Dalmacije da ga izdaje ranih 90-ih, pa do sada kada Ludens izdaje Bonellijeva izdanja u Hrvatskoj. Eto, stigao je i novi broj zvan ‘Profesionalci’. Radnja epizode je o dvojici plaćenih killera zvanih Mr.Coke i Mr.Firebrand koji su unajmljeni da ubijaju pripadnike visokog engleskog plemstva oko para vrijednih sto milijuna funti. No, tu se upliće i naš Dylan kojeg bogata plemkinja unajmi. Tada slijedi twist u radnji. Koliko god metaka izbuši naše killere, oni jednostavno ustanu i ne umiru.

Što da velim na epizodu? Crtež kojeg je radio Freghieri je lijep i volim njegov način crtanja Dylana, scenario kojeg je radio De Nardo je solidan i u moru nedavnih loših epizoda, pogotovo redovnih izdanja Dylana, kao i nekih epizoda Old Boy Maxi izdanja, ova epizoda se čak može nazvati i solidnom. Ima nešto smrti i gore scena, ali malo u odnosu kako je nekada bilo u ranim DD epizodama. Valjda su nova vremena donijela i nove prohtjeve da se više ide na neki nadnaravni element, a manje na sam splatter i gore. Uglavnom, ne loša epizoda, nije ajnc a, ali je okej.

(news) Punk rock all-stars Versus The World announce new album!

Post-punk/pop-punk band Versus The World, featuring members of Lagwagon and Good Riddance, announces their new album ‘The Bastards Live Forever’ today.

‘I can’t tell you how much work went into this collection of songs. I was always taught that if what you’re working on isn’t the best, you should start over. You should never put something out there that you’re not absolutely convinced of,’ says vocalist Donald Ashley Spence.  

This perfectly thought-out post-punk album contains 11 anthems and represents a milestone this year for both the band and the punk rock landscape!

(review) Tales Under The Oak – The Toad Folk (Dark Age Productions)

Besides black metal, there is one genre of underground that I love to listen to in the last couple of years, namely dungeon synth and dark ambient. Tales Under The Oak from Berlin, Germany has a new opus out with Dark Age Productions. This is in fact eight epic songs plus four narrated short stories. The music on this opus is dungeon synth, epic and fantasy melodies go throughout the album as a whole, but there is also a healthy mixture of medieval dark ambient describing the concept of swamp kingdom and its denizens. Stories such as Brogg The Builder are interesting, like reading a great written dark heroic fantasy novel. Dreamy epic synth ambient songs like The One Who Carved It All, Bogg The Berry-Belly or The Water Lily Boat are sure to win you over and along with stories take you to other fantasy world in which you can stay for a while, because it is beautiful although a little bit scary. Great chapter in the tale of honor, life and woe.

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