“Save me from the ghosts of shadows, before they eat my soul!” Over the course of their last three albums, Muse morphed in my eyes from an occasional listen into an essential face of rock, their sound consistently sleek, ear-catching,
Star Fox Zero review
Sometimes the best way to put things in context is to run down a little history lesson. But if you just want to skip to the stuff specifically about SFZ, CTRL+F “Zero review time!” Star Fox’s history of turbulence began
Hoth – Oathbreaker review
In honour of The Force Awakens, I wanted a Star Wars-themed article, but also wanted something a little different and unique. So here’s a concept album about Darth Vader, by a melodic-extreme metal band called Hoth, whose logo is in
Bloodborne: The Old Hunters review
The Old Hunters is awesome. Bloodborne is the game that began my love for the Souls series, and of From Software as a developer. Admittedly, there’s less of it than its predecessors: the Dark Souls games have a wider variety
1984 review: We Are The Dead
You’re watching a film or playing a game, or reading a book, and the villain’s motives are laid out. Perhaps they’re the kind of villain who lusts after power and little else, who want to reign at the top of
MinstreliX – Through The Gates Of Splendor and Through The Gates Of Death: Review
What we’ve got here from this Japanese band is two CD singles, three songs apiece, released a month apart from each other, meant to be viewed as a Yin-Yang: one release that lyrically focuses on the glory of life, and
Until Dawn review: Choose Your Own Nightmare
Just how many layers of cultural nostalgia are we peeling back with this one? Fans of slasher movies will be overjoyed to find that Until Dawn takes part-and-parcel from the trope pool of Freddy, Michael, Jason, Evil Dead, et al.
Keldian – Outbound review
In their third album, these Nordic melodic-metallers have taken the sci-fi potpourri of their previous two albums Heaven’s Gate and Journey Of Souls, and consolidated it into something much more cohesive and firm: a unified mission statement. You can spot
Amazing Spider-Man: Graveyard Shift review
(Cross-posted from Goodreads!) What a fitting title: the Graveyard Shift trade paperback collects what would be the final issues of Amazing Spider-Man before Marvel decided to revamp their entire canon with Secret Wars, the event that collapsed the Marvel Multiverse
Mad Max: Fury Road Review: Who Killed The World?
(Updated for 2016 at the bottom!) You don’t often hear the term ‘word-of-mouth success story’ when it comes to triple-A Hollywood blockbusters, because films of that budget and caliber are typically promoted to high heaven anyway – but the buzz