Neuraxis/Emmure reviews!

Neuraxis and Emmure's latest albums reviewed! One was decent, the other not so much...

Two new interviews!

My first interviews ever... One really good one with Jonne from Korpiklaani, and another semi-good one with Frankie from Emmure!

The Warriors/Dr. Acula review!

The Warriors' See How You Are was impressive, but Dr. Acula's Slander was dull as dish-water.

Total Recall

It's pretty safe to say that no-one's ever hired Ahhnold Schwarzenegger to play a leading role in a high budget film for his acting abilities. Nope, the only thing you'll get from Arnie is terrible/awesome one-liners, garbled dialogue and general buffness, which Total Recall has in spades. However, what Total Recall does boast is an impressive story line which is both unique and somewhat complex - but the main issues are these; Arnie probably isn't that suited for the film, which contains a large amount a dialogue compared to his past roles, and the laughably outdated 'future' technology is ridiculous. However, with a re-boot apparently in works (starring Colin Farrell), a less gung-ho, more dark, updated version might give the story the film it finally deserves.

The Haunted/Scale The Summit/Tesseract/Turisas reviews up!

Each album was great! Not a weak release in the bunch!

The Haunted - 'Unseen'
Scale The Summit - 'The Collective'
Turisas - 'Stand Up and Fight'
Tesseract - 'One'

Mystic River

Directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, Mystic River is simply an outstanding film with an ensemble cast acting at their collective peaks. A film adaption of the novel by the same by Dennis Lehane, the emotional picture that this film paints is both vivid and dark, with the tale of lost innocence and lost love bringing out exceptional performances from Sean Penn and Tim Robbins, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively for their roles in the film. An outstanding film from a hugely talented director and an equally talented group of actors.

Widow the Sea "Novella of the Ocean" review!

Awesome band from the Gold Coast, check out my review of their debut EP Novella of the Ocean and then see 'em live next time they're in your neck of the woods!

Deicide/Primordial reviews

Two new reviews online! One is of the new Deicide album To Hell With God , and the other is a re-issue of Primordial's Storm Before Calm

The Road vs The Book of Eli

The Road, to put it simply, is an awesome film - just such raw emotion, with the recurring theme of suicide adding to the bleakness of the whole thing. Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Boy) is almost amazing enough to steal the film away from Viggo Mortensen, who everyone should know by is a pretty shit-hot actor (hire out Eastern Promises). I wouldn't be surprised if people compared The Road to The Book of Eli (starring Denzel Washington), and while it is a bit similar in the fact that they are both set in post-apocalyptic America and that there is a lot of walking involved, Eli's overt pro-Christian overtones put me off a bit, as did the average ending twist. The fact that The Road more or less avoided violence throughout a large majority of the film helped kept the plot solely focused on the human relationships, as opposed to descending into Mad Max styled action (which somewhat weighed Eli down). Check out both though, but for my money The Road takes the cake by quite a bit.