When I was a hardcore/metal kid growing up back in the nineties my highschool days, I loved Sepultura. Albums like Arise, which I heard first when I was hanging out with my friend at his place, were important parts of my music upbringing. Especially Chaos AD which I knew by heart and know it still. Then came Roots and I felt somehow betrayed with Ratamahatta and all that shit. Afterwards Max Cavalera exited the band, later on also Iggor Cavalera exited so there was no reason for me to follow what they are doing with Derrick Green as new singer and those new drummer(s). After I read this book I will definitely check the newer albums because I think there are couple of really fresh and original ideas on them, or my taste changed with years haha. This book offer insight into respectable career of probably biggest Brazilian metal band ever, from the humble and poor beginnings to biggest success, only to fall down, pick up again, then heartbreak and let down, then picking itself up again like metal Phoenix from the ashes. It is written like a biography but has couple of really great stories in there. I wish there were more interviews and stories from members and less storytelling and pure biography writings, but this is great and interesting book nonetheless. Also, book contains many photographs previously unseen and unreleased from personal collections. A must for every metal fan.
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(book review) Kim Newman´s Video Dungeon: The Collected Reviews
Kim Newman is know for incredible movie review columns in Empire magazine, so these are his reviews collected in giant book 560 pages of movies, b-movies, some trash, lots of gore, blood, weirdness but mostly cult and legendary movies. Being an avid movie fan and watching lots of horror and b movies, I must admit that I have never heard for some of these movies and am glad that I got this book which serves me as guide what to watch in the near or less near future. The book is divided into chapters of found footage, crime, adventure movies, sci fi and fantasy, torture porn and cryptids/animal attack. There are over five hundred reviews for you to read and choose from to put on your watching list, also they are easy and nice to read, so go get this one if you are a movie fan, you will not regret it. I got mine in Rockmark bookstore in Zagreb.
(knjiga) Pustinjska zvijezda
Fibra nastavlja sa izdavanjem samo kvalitetnih stripova kako oni kažu. Pustinjska zvijezda je knjiga 214 u njihovoj ediciji Kolorka, dakle riječ je o western stripu. Matthew Montgomery je na visokom položaju u Ministarstvu obrane, bahat i tvrd, dok jednog dana ne dođe s posla i nađe ženu i kćer masakrirane i jedini trag je zvijezda urezana na tijelo kćeri i ima Cauldroy iz Topeke. Odlazi na Divlji zapad iz Washingtona kako bi pronašao krivce i osvetio se. Ova pomalo noir western priča sa twistom na kraju je osvetnička storija o nasilju, gubitku, prostituciji, iskorištavanju Indijanaca, gradnji željeznice i napretku, kao i o tome da je svaka osveta kopanje dva groba, jednog za neprijatelja, a drugog za sebe. Isto tako, ovo je priča o iskupljenju i pronalaženju novog smisla u životu. Odlično. Pročitati definitvno. Moja preporuka.


