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Blood Chalice
Blood Chalice play a brand of brutal satanic blacked death metal. The band four-piece were formed in 2015 in Pori, Satakunta on the western coast of Finland. The line-up features T-P.I.-Bass,VP.L. Drums H.V.-Guitars, Vocals,P.H.-Vocals. I was rather taken by their second full The Blasphemous Psalms of Cannibalism, which appeared on Werewolf Records this year- as it embraced seared intensity, but also moments of prime-evil atmospherics. I tracked down the band’s vocalist/ guitarist H.V for an email interview.
Best Of 2022
As Covid has lessened its grip on the world in the last year- so creativity in music, sound and film has once more flourished. Below you’ll find our writers best-of lists for 2022- and as always it’s a highly genre-varied mixed selection of titles- highlighting the mission of our site.
Dr Tom Whittaker
Late last year Severin released Eloy de la Iglesia’s Quinqui Collection- a two Blu-ray set bringing together three brutal and provocative Quinqui (delinquent films)- Avajeros (1980), El Pico (1983), and El Pico 2 (1984)- all directed by Basque writer/director Eloy de la Iglesia (video nasty The Cannibal Man). The Spanish Quinqui genre was popular between the late ’70s and mid 80’s- it focused on youth gangs, juvenile crime, and inner-city poverty- with the films featuring liberal (often real) drug use, violence, and sexual content. The pictures often starred non-professional actors picked off the street with a real criminal background. After being intrigued and taken by the set films and its extras- I reached out to Dr Tom Whittaker for an interview- he contributed to the excellent documentary on the set Blood in The Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon. He’s an Associate Professor in Film and Spanish cultural studies at Warwick University, and also wrote the first English book on the genre The Spanish Quinqui Film- Delinquency, Sound, Sensation. The below email interview found us discussing the genre in general, as well as how music & sound is an important part of the genre's makeup.
