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(review) A Dance in Yellow – Madness and Blood

A Dance in Yellow is a one man band or project if you want, hailing from Germany. This opus is the second full length and it contains intro and outro plus nine more stories told as songs. The music of A Dance in Yellow is basically melodic death black metal with lost of prog metal influences here and there and impressive musicianship, especially guitar work and vocals which range from death metal growling to black metal extreme singing and screeching, also some almost gothic singing I can hear in some song parts. Lyrical side of things is somehwere in Robert W.Chambers and H.P.Lovecraft influenced atmosphere of horror and listening to this one almost made me physically feel the cosmic horror and ancient ones lurking upon mankind. Atmosphere is vital with endeavors like this opus and here A Dance in Yellow manage to create a horror like prey upon unsuspecting individual listening to this opus. So, close your eyes, open your darkened hearts and souls, look to the sky, see the stars aligned and enter the world of bleak darkness and pain, but also enlightenment. Personal favorites: Fire and Steel, Born of the Ancients, Torn Apart.

8/10

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(movie) Soaring Highs and Brutal Lows – The Voices of Women in Metal (2015)

I recently found this documentary and since I am a sucker for music documentaries, I said, let´s watch this one and see what this is about. Like in hardcore punk scene, metal scene is, I dare say even more sexist and misoginistic towards women and girls really had a hard time through couple of decades to succeed and be respected and recognized as artists equal and even better than their male counterparts.

This documentary talks about women, to be more precise women metal singers who talk bout their experiences and their accomplishments in the scene with their stories which are in many ways similar, yet different and inspiring, also beautiful. This one features Floor Jansen(After Forever,Nightwish,ReVamp), Alissa White-Gluz(Arch Enemy, Kamelot), Simone Simons(Epica), Doro Pesch(Doro, Warlock), Kobra Paige(Kobra and the Lotus)…What I love about this movie that it is told thematically telling basically same story from different angles or points of view at the same time creating similar story but told through the eyes of women who became such undivided part of the scene. I especially love the emotional part of Floor Jansen having suffered from burnout because I experienced something similar a while ago. Also, Alissa White-Gluz is one of my favorite singers, so hearing her story made me happy. What I always hated in the scene were flyers and adds or gigs which advertized ‘female fronted metal band’ or ‘female fronted hardcore band’-I mean, what the fuck is that? I always, always hated that syntagm which I find diminishing and sexist and I hope no one will ever use that again. Anyway, this movie was inspiring and fun to watch. So, if you have a chance, see it!

(review) Cancerslug – Full Term Abortions

Long time no horrorpunk forya in this zine, so it is time to correct that mistake. Horrorpunk legends Cancerslug released this sweet opus couple of months ago with fifteen new songs to please you gorehounds with. This band is fascinating how it evolves around metal, horrorpunk, than back to more doo wop and fifties more melodic approach to songwriting and creating gore and black sarcastic lyrics with superb voice by main man Alex Wolfman who also contributes vocals for Doyle on his two studio albums. This album evolves more on melodic, at times also blues influenced approach almost fifties and doo wop at the times, with such sweet and sing along melodies to songs like Cum Rag, Warlord, Death Of A Fallen Angel and many other tunes that are sure to become your favorites. Go get this one and delve into magical darkness of Cancerslug.