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Tinokuknoi Arevulopapo is the new project from Lea Cummings (King Futile, Kylie Minoise, Official Music Team, etc) and Sarah Glass, who has collaborated with Lea on a few projects. The project takes its name from a character in a Philip K. Dick short story, and Irata is a single-track affair. The forty-seven-minute instrumental track shifts between droned-out moodiness, ritual alien sound-scaping, tolling ambient industrial, and beyond
Zen As Fuck is release number three from the lo-fi/outsider folk project King Futile. Behind it is Lea Cummings (Kylie Minoise, Official Music Team, etc.). The album takes in eight tracks, featuring basic strummed-yet-enduring structures, with the lyrics being decidedly sweary, morosely comic, and sarcastic.
Paranormal Awakening is a moody & often seared blend of blues-tinged psych rock freakouts, off-kilter to cinematic soundtracking, and atmospheric noise. This project brings together Mitsuru Tabata (The Boredoms) and Tungu, a Ukrainian experimental electronica project.
From the mid-80’s, The Protector was Jackie Chan’s second attempt at breaking into the US market. It’s a speeding bullet-paced buddy cop action movie- with some neat daredevil stunts, more than a few bloody shoot-outs, and towards its end some great martial arts action. The film regards a Hong Kong-born New York-based cop (Chan) returning to his homeland with his NYC partner to track down the kidnapped daughter of a gangster. Here from 88 Films is a deluxe four-disc set- two UHDs & two Blu- Rays- release of the film- it takes in three different cuts of the picture, two commentary tracks, a few extras, and an eighty-page book.
Originally released in 2009, Capri features the prolific act when it was a duo, before Danielle Baquet-Long tragically passed later that year. Light drones create ambient vignettes of nature's ephemeral moments, what we take in daily, not realizing that their impermanence forms the solid foundations of our being. Much of the original material was left off of the 2009 CD release, but Two Acorns and Stephan Mathiew have remastered and released the entirety of the original tapes, expanding this to its complete 2xLP/2CD glory. On the surface, the thirty-six tracks may seem daunting, but their brevity and transience linger on in the background of one's mind, subtly processing subconsciously, getting the body and soul ready for Capri's inevitable next playthrough.
Appearing two years after the first film, Decadent Evil 2 is another slice of vamps ‘n’ pole dancer-focused horror from Charles Band. It sees the return of Marvin, the randy Homunculus. Trying to be a good vamp, Sugar, and her DJ boyfriend Dex- hunting down a king vampire. Once again, it’s a fleshy/ bloody affair- though the latter is calmed down somewhat, with a more mystery/ who is the king vamp vibe going on. Here from Full Moon Features is a Blu-ray release of the film.
When I first heard about this collaboration between The Melvins and Napalm Death, I thought I had a good idea how this was going to sound- but aside from a few tracks, this album sounds nothing like I was expecting. And I think it’s fair to say that for the most part, Savage Imperial Death March is very much a dive into the odd, off-kilter, and downright weird.
After spending the last decade and a half or so trying to expand upon, cross-genre pollinate, and generally do something different with their monolithic sound. This tenth studio album from prime doom droners Sunn O))))))- finds them very much returning to their roots, but with way more layers of guitars and pure crushing weightiness about it.
Ossabaw Island Hog is a twenty-minute slice of choppy and bass-pummelling walling from this Old Town, Maine-based project. Throughout the track has an oddly soothing quality about it, and I could have easily played this for another twenty, thirty, or even forty minutes.
Bruit De Fond is an example of churning walled noise nihilism from Bordeaux’s Raté. It’s a single thirty-four-minute track, which remains terminal hope-battering & unbreakable over its full length.
Here’s seventy-eight minutes’ worth of barrenly searing ‘n’ crudely whizzing HNW from this Hungarian project. Necrotik Fissure has been active since the early 2010’s- been both prolific and unflinchingly extreme in its releasing of the walled noise form.
From the late 60’s, Trace Of Stones is a decidedly serious-toned yet low-key impactful drama set on a socialist-led construction site. It’s a film produced by the DEFA – the state-operated film studio of the German Democratic Republic - and was pulled from theatres or barred from release due to its supposedly anti-socialist themes. The black and white film features some well-realised/nuanced acting, rewarding character arcs, and a look at where the party meets humanity. Here from Eurkea’s Masters of Cinema series is the first ever Blu-ray release of the film, taking in an HD scan, and three archive documentaries.
It’s a star-studded cast to be sure, when Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O’Rourke are invited to make something from the vast archive of field recordings left behind by the erstwhile progenitor of said genre, Luc Ferrari.
French director Jean Rollin is most known for his eerier, erotic and darkly surreal vampire films, such as The Shiver Of Vampires (1971), Lips Of Blood (1975), and Fasciation (1979). Though he did helm a few non-vampiric creations, and one of the most effective/ rewarding of these is The Grapes Of Death. It regards pesticides that are altering the residents of a small rural village- it blends body horror, zombies, folk horror with a keen sense of paranoia and unease throughout, with some moments of brutal gore. Here from Powerhouse, as part of their series of reissues of Rollin’s Back catalogue. Coming as either a UHD or Blu-ray- it features a new 4k scan of the film, a new commentary track, and a selection of new & old extras.
Killer on the Air (2025) is a psychological thriller directed by Haylie Duff (Danger in the Countryside) and produced by Hybrid and Cartel Pictures. The film follows Sarah Williams (Jessica Morris, One Life to Live), a closed-off psychologist turned late-night radio host who receives a chilling on-air call during her broadcast. A man claims that a murder will occur by the end of her shift, forcing Sarah into a race against time to uncover his identity and motive before it's too late.
Blood Bitch Baby is somewhat of a micro low-budget fever dream/ cheapy blood-tinged cinematic trip. It brings together a large-breasted/razor-toothed Elizabeth Bathory, a baby dinosaur demon, creepily awkward/ pushy characters, ranting/paranoid monologues, nudity, and throat ripping ‘n’ eye munching gore. The 2024 production is from long-running US zero-budget horror director Donald Farmer. Here from Blood Sick Productions is a Blu-ray release of the film.
From the early 1960’s, The Ghost is a prime example of Italian Gothic horror. It features a creepy grand house and mausoleum, an eerily building atmosphere & amping it up melodrama. As well as, ghoulish & bloody effects, and last but hardly least, we have Barbara Steel, on top form. Here from those prime cinematic ghouls, Severin- it’s a ltd four-disc release of the film. It takes in a UHD, two Blu-rays, and a CD. It features a new 4k print, four hours of special features, a 2019 doc about Italian Gothic horror, and a seventy-minute CD- bringing together three scores by the film's composer.
Despite its brutish and blunt name, this slasher directed by Marcel Walz is a stylishly photographed affair. As it opens emphatically on “August 19, 1976,” when we catch up with two young women trapped on a roadside who make the mistake of wandering down a mineshaft to an apparently sticky and flesh-ripping end….
Some of the world will look at the periodic table and see dull rows of squares and letters, but others will see inspiration, looking to pull some chaos from its well ordered matrix. Andrew Liles is one that wanted to tap into these elements and let them sing. In Neither Precious Nor Noble, he focuses on twenty different metals, turning them into sound sources, and working his magic on them to create a really cool and very listenable collection of tracks. As each element has different properties from the next, so do the pieces on Precious, with no overlying sound or motif, the elements are interpreted on their own, individually.
Here’s a wall noise split with a rather sacrilegious cover- featuring a perversely altered statue of the Virgin Mary. Featured are two thickly seared example of the wall form- one from Indiana-based Graveyard Witchcraft, and the other from South Carolina's Desecration Altar.
No Such Thing As Love For… is a new around two hour release from Liverpool’s Silver Dove. It offers up a blend/ mix of hazy guitar drone/ ambience, walled/ textured noise, and dreamy/ abstract sound making.
Non-Stop Negative Enforcement presents with two slabs of churning, grinding & weighty wall noise. If your familiar with the euro wall scene of say the 5 or so years, I’m sure you know Damien De Coene name- the Spanish based noise maker who has been behind such projects as, Charles Razeur, Verwelk, Renoffski, and more recently Dod Cathedral.
The Ugly is a late 90’s serail killer drama/ thriller from New Zealand. It regards a female psychologist going to assess a charming, but dangerous killer- who claims he’s been haunted by the sprints of those he’s murdered. The film has a decidedly jarring/ darting structure with some effective moments of building tension, shock, and a general unbalanced vibe. Here from Unearthed Films- those purveyors of extreme & troubling cinema- is a blu ray release of the picture. It takes in a new 4k scan, new commentary track, and a few other extras.
From the late 80’s Innerspace is entertaining/ largely undated blend of sci-fi, physical comedy, romance and action. It regards a washed-up test pilot (Dennis Quiad), getting involved in a secret miniaturization experiment- but instead of been injected into the planned rabbit, he gets shot inside bumbling hypochondriac (Martin Short). Here from Arrow Video, both in the UK and Stateside, is a new either UHD or Blu Ray release of the film. It features a 4k scan, new commentary track, and blend of new/ archive.