When I watched trailers and announcements for this one, I knew this must be a good movie and I was not wrong. Christian Bale leads great actors line-up in this darkened gothic thriller. Bale plays world weary detective Augustus Landor, who is summoned by the army in West Point to investigate the series of gruesome murders. There he finds help of young cadet Edgar Allan Poe(superb Harry Melling – Dudley from Harry Potter serial) who helps him discover dark secrets and uncover the sad and grisly truth about witch hunters, rituals, talk with the dead and the ugly and sad twist at the end of the movie. Besides above mentioned, I must also highlight Gillian Anderson (agent Scully from X-Files) in eerie role of disturbed woman and also Robert Duvall as expert in occult professor Pepe. I don’t know, although this is over two hours long movie, it is not boring for one second and made in nightly darkened tone of gothic like secrets, atmosphere and mood are depressing and sad, from main character to the story itself. Movie is directed by Scott Cooper, known as director of Hostiles, Out Of The Furnace which also featured Christian Bale. Cooper is a co-writer with Louis Bayard and the script is dynamic and well crafted. Murders are grisly and gory, but done in a nice way, so if you are not into gore scenes, do not worry, you will see none of these explicitly in this movie. So, in the end, nice one, but not top of the pops.
Wow! I can easily imagine this one as a soundtrack for some dark dystopian sci fi movie or some eighties twisted darkened horror movie. Ygør Keim released new album and it contains nine songs. The music is dark. It is industrial. It is punk rock. It is rock. All in one, yet the sum of many parts, sounding cold and unforgiving to us as listeners. Vocals are harsh with effects and I always love clever use of samples. Also, besides shouting and singing, there are whispers, there are screams, like horror movie indeed. There is also some punkish, plain yet effective melody underneath the main themes of the songs. Lyrics and themes deal with horror, cosmic and relentless. Songs and heavy hitters like ‘Undead Creatures’, ‘Sickman’ or ‘The Lowly Servant’ are about to win you over and take you to some other dimension of steel grey sky, cold steel taste on your tongue, machines and hopelessness. This is all very beautiful and for me, I love such music and I am so glad I discovered this hidden gem of the underground scene.
Time for another band from great and awesome Italian underground scene to grace the pages of this webzine. Good Morning Černobyl’ are from Milan/Perugia area and this is their debut album containing seven songs. The music of this band is old school punk with rawer sounding songs like ‘Lost in Ghost Party’ which is short but energetic delivering punk bomb. ‘Spike’s Poison’ is mid tempo punk rock song with strong bass melody prevailing in the song and then turning into almost indie influenced punk song. The lyrics are in English, but me personally would like more Italian punk bands singing in their native language because it is such a great language for punk songs, especially on the more melodic side of things. One of my personal favorites is ‘Welcome to the Commonwealth’ being a kind of weird piece of punk rock thrown in my way. I must mention that six of seven songs are bands’ own and there is a GG Allin cover there of ‘Bite it You Scum’ and I can also hear his influence in some of the songwriting by this band. Anyway, this is a strong punk rock debut, so have a listen and enjoy it.
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