Combichrist, May 25th, The Independent, Sunderland

Tonight was my first experience of the compact, but comfortable Independent in Sunderland. Amidst homeland cries of towns such as Billingham, woefully confusing american act  aesthetic perfection during a slight technical difficulty, there was a spirit of eagerness to the crowd.
First band Uberbyte performed with satisfying force and didn’t round too bad either. The uniformed [...]

Whitby Goth Weekend

The powers that be at WGW HQ have recently announced the full line up for their october fest.
This Whitby Goth Weekend, The first to take place over Halloween itself for a number of years features the full 8 band bill over 2 days as per usual, as well as a number of fringe events.

The Line [...]

Introducing Turbowolf.

After two years in their current line up, after tireless touring including several large UK festivals still to come this year, and just weeks before their new single Read And Write is released, Turbowolf got the Necromag treatment.
We had the great  pleasure of interviewing singer Chris Georgiadis a few days ago, fresh from a performance [...]

Aesthetic Perfection

Wedging themselves somewhere between emotronic and aggro-tech, the violently emotional Aesthetic Perfection are an American Industrial act working their way across Europe in the wake of giants Combichrist, with support slots confirmed for all UK dates of the “We Are All Demons Tour”.
Formed by Daniel Graves in 2000, Aesthetic Perfection is described as without form, [...]

Flesh Eating Foundation – Purging EP

This latest release from the group possesses all the industrial fury you’ve grown to expect of the group, last seen on the previous album Seethe. The 8 track EP does not disappoint, though coming off to a slow start with 3 versions of Godless taking up most of the playtime, though the digicore mix has [...]

Coraline

On the big screen we see the work of Neil Gaiman once again flying off the page with the animated adaptation of Coraline. Staying true to his tradition of hidden worlds, Coraline discovers a portal to what seems to be a better life by traveling through a tiny door in her wall and getting more [...]

Drag me to hell

Drag me to hell sees the welcome return of Sam Raimi to his horror directing roots in this upcoming feature after such a long time in the spandex clad directing chair of the Spiderman films.
Drag me to hell follows the tale of Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) an ambitious L.A. loan officer with a charming boyfriend, [...]