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Twenty years and a million miles from their 2006 debut, Genghis Tron returns to Relapse with their fourth full-length, Signal Fire. Although the band has changed direction quite a bit from their earlier works, this latest continues the style debuted on 2021's Dream Weapon, and once again featuring Nick Yacyshyn on drums. Genghis Tron's shift to post-apocalyptic synthwave/industrial infused with streaks of chaotic metal provides an engaging template for Signal Fire's dystopian view of an amoral, warfare-filled future.
1 Jul 2026
Vacant Align Interview
Active since October 2025, Wisconsin’s Vacant Align is one of the more atmospheric and texturally inventive wall noise projects to appear in some time. It’s a project that takes its time in releasing work, and you can certainly hear it, as each of their releases so far is a perfectly crafted blend of expressive and engaging textures. Behind the project is John Engman, who very kindly agreed to give us an email interview
24 Jun 2026
Macabre is an early 80’s mix of dark psychological thriller and ghoulish horror. It’s the first official credit from Lamberto Bava (Demons, Body Puzzle, Blade In The Dark). It concerns a middle-aged woman moving into a boarding house after getting out of a psych ward to recover from the drowning of her son, and the death of her love via decapitation during a car accident. For the most part, the film is a very slow-paced affair, focusing on atmosphere, drama, and building suspense, though in the last quarter, it kicks in with a highly troubling reveal, OTT performances, and psycho-fuelled action. Here from Powerhouse as either a UHD or Blu-ray, taking in a new 4k scan, three versions of the film, a new commentary track, and a good selection of new/ archive extras. The US version of the release is on Vinegar Syndrome.
Gobblefoot is a US low-budget horror film from last year. It mixes eerie atmospherics, neat enough creature design, lo-fi splatter gore, quirky characters, with touches of awkward humour. The film follows the titular creature going on a killing spree in a village, with an ageing & troubled academic trying to find out what’s going on/ track down the creature. Here from SRS Cinema is a DVD release of the film, featuring a director's commentary track and a few other things.
Thin Mountain — Ten Steps to Thin Mountain Steps 4-5
30 Jun 2026Vacant Align — 62526
30 Jun 2026Oren Ambarchi and Will Guthrie — Cold Shoulder
30 Jun 2026Last Foxtrot In Burbank — Last Foxtrot In Burbank( Blu Ray)
30 Jun 2026Madhouse — Madhouse (Blu Ray)
25 Jun 2026The Empire Of The Ants — The Empire Of The Ants(Blu Ray)
25 Jun 2026Sex & Zen II — Sex & Zen II( Blu Ray)
25 Jun 2026The Cars That Ate Paris/ The Plumber — The Cars That Ate Paris/ The Plumber ( Blu Ray)
24 Jun 2026
Jasper Sharp interview
In the year 1971, Nikkatsu, the oldest/ at one point, the biggest film production company in Japan. Did something quite daring/ some would say crazy- they completely switched over their production to softcore adult films, which would become known as Roman Porno. Between 1971 and 1988, the company produced around 850 of these titles. The thing that made these films stand out from general softcore films is the often creative & inventive choices made- yes, the films primal focus is sleaze, but great examples of the genre are so much more than that. In the last year or so, there has been a spate of reissues of films in the genre from labels such as 88 Films, Third Window Films, and Klubb Super 8. One of the key figures/contributors behind these releases is Jasper Sharp- one of the world's experts on the genre, and the wider Pink genre it’s connected to. Jasper kindly agreed to give us an email interview discussing his history with the genre, his contributions to releases, and the new/updated edition of his book Behind The Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema on Fab Press.
King Futile Interview
King Futile is the new project from Scotland-based Lea Cummings( Kylie Minoise, Official Music Team, etc), and it’s a big departure from his normal noise or retro sample & electronica sound. It's lo-fi acoustic music, with an outsider feel, and often quite tongue-in-cheek/ sharply sarcastic tone to the lyrics. So far, the project has put out three albums- Casual Misery, How To Have Fun, and Zen As Fuck. I tracked down Lea for an email interview.
Cliff Twemlow On Severin
One of last year’s real big surprises in the world of Blu-ray box sets was Bloody Legend: The Complete Twemlow Collection, as it was a wholly entertaining, fascinating, and at times heart-warming set. The Severin released boxset brought together the work of one of the UK’s unlikeliest movie moguls- Cliff Twemlow, a Mancunian bouncer/ body builder, who went on to write/star in/produce a series of low-budget/ largely SOV films in the early 80s to early 90s- these moved between action, thriller, sci-fi, and horror. His most notable/notorious film was 1983’s G.B.H., which landed on the video nasty list, though he was connected to other ten feature films, many of which got their first real full/proper release on the boxset. Opening up the set was the excellent 2023 documentary Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow, which really pulls you into the set. I caught up with Severn’s David Gregory and Jake West, director of Mancunian Man, to discuss the boxset and all things cliff.
The Fall
MES( Mark E Smith- The Falls main creator) possessed the ability to cram phrases into impossible spaces - “I’m hunting and I’m trying to find” delivered as “hut’na tryna find”; the eight-syllable “mere pseud mag editor’s father” hastily squeezed into a manipulation of time and space, heralded by the prior line “twice each at least”, the latter naturally repeated thrice.
