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(album review)Poldur’s Gate Project-“Directions”

Is there such thing as synthesized metal? Yes there is! This is the most unusual thing that I have listened to and reviewed for this zine.

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This is a one man solo vision of Luca Bussolini and it is a concept album featuring two characters called Hanako and Shin. The concept theme is looking for the new objectives and about the failures along the way which help us in understanding the trail of our lives.

What is so new and different? Well, all the music and vocals on this album are synthesized from software, there is no real musicians, singers in a classical sense of band. And it works! The music is melodic power prog metal with nice riffs, melodic guitar hooks and memorable tunes which caught me humming all the time. In my opinion, the only thing which needs to be worked on is that in some songs, the vocals are too monotone, meaning too same sounding. But, that is only my opinion. I must applaud to Luca for having a vision which carries a bit of controversy but is important. Top song on this album for me is “Time for a Will”-

7,5/10

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(horror movie)GET OUT(2017.)-good one but not quite horror

Chris Washington is a man that has everything he desired in his life. He has a beautiful girlfriend and he prepares to meet her family the Armitages for the first time. He is a bit scared what will their reaction be when they see that he is black, although his girlfriend assures him that they are not racist or have no prejudices.

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When they arrive at her parents remote house, everything is nice and seems fun and smalltalk at first. During the dinner Chris realizes something is wrong talking with Allisons parents and her younger brother. Also, two coloured workers at the estate are acting strange. Suddenly, events unfold in fast and unexpected way.

Judging by all hype and media attention that rose around this movie I was determined to watch this one. Some of my friends have told me that its an excellent movie, so let us see how this one went for me.

This movie is placed nonchalantly and nominally under the banner of horror, but I will agree that the movie is more of a politically engaged thriller with racism still lingering in the world as a main theme. Daniel Kaluuya is brilliant as a main character Chris, but all of the cast is great mainly because of the great scenario.  Oh, that dream scare was a bit too much for me, but I love how the first fourty or so minutes of the movie go kinda slow, but then all hell breaks loose. The twist at the ending of the movie was great, but still calling this movie horror is a matter of discussion. This is a great movie, but maybe we should call it supernatural thriller instead.

 

(album review)HORRORSCOPES-“Batkin”

Time for some horrorpunk again! Horrorscopes were formed in 2016.and are coming from Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.

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This zine and I have had our share of good and band and mediocre horrorpunk bands, some being plain clones, some being original and great proving that horrorpunk is a small but great scene made of talented individuals and all of us have some nerdish and freakish line in ourselves but we are proud of it. This album is a strong work made of 8 excellent melodic songs with guts. blood and necrodarkromantic themes. Production is excellent and the guitars and bass are just the way I like them to be. Drumming is tight and the band proves they can play. One more thing that is important in horrorpunk are the vocals and back vocals. This band has great screaming but melodic vocals, with great and harmonised backing vocals to make it stronger. I hate comparisons but they remind me a lot of Japanese legends Blitzkid though not so melodic and the lyrics are sung great minding the fact that English is not the bands native speaking language. Highlight songs: “Dead Love”;”With Your Ghost”.

8/10

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Get the album: https://thehorrorscopes.bandcamp.com/album/batkin