Sunday, March 1, 2026

 Deliberalize - The Allure of Deceit. (2025) Iron Fortress Records.

'A sinister salvo of morbidly efficient, thrillingly intense Chuck Shuldiner-inflected skull battery! Absolutely alluring, evilly riff-centric metal mayhem, US DM berserkers Deliberalize The Allure of Deceit album ably provides Death Metal maniacs a ferociously unfiltered thrash grenade of neck-rupturing euphoria!'



 Gruesome - 'Silent Echoes'  Relapse. (2025)


'Silent Echoes is certainly no less emphatic a mortal head-crusher than a sky-plummeting safe, brutally decimating your skull into ruinous clots of shattered bone and grisly-looking goo!'


 Repligator (1996) – Bret McCormick.


It is not unfeasible to imagine that a micro-budgeted 90s creature feature, concerning a fubar'd experiment in teleportation/brain washing, producing the unexpectedly voluptuous effect of transmuting G.I.s into hyper-sexual reptoids might yield a lark, or two? Repligator is a brilliantly inane, triumphantly silly Sci-schlocker, and only the most callow oaf might refute the innate value of a divinely doofoid B-Flick with Gunnar Hansen, Brinke Stevens, and a bouncing bevvy of bikini'd babegators gone berserk! If a competent film-maker had gone through the replicator, they shall return with all logic and subtle reasoning excised, their refried cerebrum now terrifyingly engorged to an elephantine, Ed Woodized lizard brain, capable of little more than crudely exaggerating the lowest denominators of B-Movie lore, lewdly fixating upon gratuitous, but not entirely unwelcome shots of silicone-stuffed breasts! Like some poor, unthinking mackerel, I was dumbly hooked in by the titillatingly transhumanist cover art, and, quite frankly, by watching Repligator in its entirety, I frequently got precisely what I deserved! I do think it's fair to say, should you be in the wrong frame of mind (sober), Repligator might often appear asinine, but viewed in the right frame of mind (loaded), the plentifully exposed chests, retro rayguns, cheapnis sets, and a weirdly replicated scene with Dr. Goodbody (Brinke Stevens) MAY seem pretty darn righteous!




 Deliberalize - The Allure of Deceit. (2025) Iron Fortress Records. 'A sinister salvo of morbidly efficient, thrillingly intense Chuck ...