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Look at the cover!, 17 Jan 2010

I have waited a long time to own this awesome film, but I never imagined that when the day came for it to be re-released, it would be given this sort of treatment! As with other recent Arrow releases, you get a nifty white box, a flip-cover (new art and original cover), a poster and an interview booklet.

The film is pretty much in the mid-80s Troma vein, though I rate it higher than any Troma film as the comedy is less spoof and the gore and acting is more accomplished. There are real characters in this film; notably the vietnam-vet king of the junkyard and the hard as nails detective assigned to the melting-tramps case and it is performances like these which really push the… Read more

Masterpiece, 9 Aug 2009

What happens here is as simple as this: Something vast is in stasis, when suddenly power surges through its being. It growls and threatens for several minutes and then launches into deeper and unknown space at unfathomable speeds, before coming to rest again somewhere that is likely barren. I think it devours this place. It then growls again, preparing to launch, but something has changed. Never mind, back into nothingness at warp speed, contaminated and panicked.

Or at least that is what it sounds like. Darkspace II is split into three chapters (Raging BM/Noise and ambience/Raging BM) and is thick, oppressive, cold, ambient and mysterious black metal from outer-space… Read more

Pretty good, 9 Aug 2009

Benediction- The Grand Leveller. Old school Death Metal that reminds me of 'Harmony Corruption' without the blasting! There are some pretty good riffs here and plenty of d-beat and mid-paced sections, but the greatest thing about it all for me is Dave Ingram's vocals. They are pretty guttural, but not so low that they sound like wind and not so aggressive that they are shouty, just beasty and sort of like a less enraged early-nineties Barney Greenway. Cracking!

A particular highlight is the Celtic Frost cover right at the end- "UGH!"- ace.

3.5 stars of doom.