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  • June 22, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0
    GHOST – Prequelle
    It is difficult to believe that we only four albums into their...
    Featured Metal Reviews 
  • June 21, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0
    Weirding Ways
    Out of the Dungeon I believe it is time to say farewell…...
    Dungeon Synth Featured 
  • June 19, 2018 Luke Maudsley 0
    DARKEST DUNGEON
    Darkest Dungeon appears, at first glance, to be a game so simple...
    Featured Game Reviews 
  • June 19, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0
    The Tomb of Dracula
    Alight, before we begin let our get our bearings of what Dracula...
    Comic Reviews Featured 
  • June 13, 2018 Luke Maudsley 0
    Dark Souls – Remastered
    Dark Souls - Remastered ...A soft and kind game about exploring cool...
    Featured Game Reviews 
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon

Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon

May 29, 2018 0
Casual Magic: Brawl

Casual Magic: Brawl

April 30, 2018 0

Metal Reviews

  • June 22, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    GHOST – Prequelle

    It is difficult to believe that we only four albums into their career. It feels strange as so much has been written on this Swedish heavy metal band that their tenure in the world of heavy metal seems like it should be longer. With so many fans, detractors,...
    Featured Metal Reviews 
  • Watchtower: Bandcamp #1
    May 20, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Watchtower #1

    My relationship with power metal has changed at least when trying to review it for this...
    Featured Metal Reviews 
  • Dimmu Borgir - Eonian
    May 15, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    DIMMU BORGIR – Eonian

    I love Dimmu Borgir but explaining it may take time. For as much as this Norwegian,...
    Featured Metal Reviews 
  • Dark Star - Dark Star 1981
    May 11, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    DARK STAR – Dark Star

    Classic Metal Rewind is a way for me to revisit the past and unearth some heavy...
    Featured Metal Reviews 

Gameplay Videos

  • June 19, 2018 Luke Maudsley 0

    DARKEST DUNGEON

    Darkest Dungeon appears, at first glance, to be a game so simple as to be generic; yet another dungeon-crawler so steeped in simplicity that it’s fucking painted. That’s what I was expecting anyway. What I found, down there in the diseased crypts of the ancestral grounds, changed my...
    Featured Game Reviews 
  • Dark Souls Remastered
    June 13, 2018 Luke Maudsley 0

    Dark Souls – Remastered

    Dark Souls - Remastered ...A soft and kind game about exploring cool ruins and trying to...
    Featured Game Reviews 
  • Bloodstained Curse of the Moon
    May 29, 2018 Luke Maudsley 0

    Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon

    Curse of the Moon is a retro-action monster masher from Koji Igarashi, one of the dudes...
    Featured Game Reviews 
  • Pillars of Eternity II - Deadfire
    May 16, 2018 Luke Maudsley 0

    Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire

    Pillars of Eternity goes down in history as one of the best games i never finished....
    Featured Game Reviews 

Dungeon Synth

  • June 21, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Weirding Ways

    Out of the Dungeon I believe it is time to say farewell… for now. Since the close of the Dungeon Synth Compilation project, I have found myself unable to harbor the same zeal for discovering new projects associated with this scene with the same frequency as before. This...
    Dungeon Synth Featured 
  • Dungeon Synth Digest XXXVI
    May 23, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    DUNGEON SYNTH DIGEST XXXVI

    Yes, I know. That picture is amazing. The above image is from the Basic Dungeons and...
    Dungeon Synth Featured 
  • April 20, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    DUNGEON SYNTH DIGEST XXXV

    BASIC DS. Life on the Frontier I have been trying to come up with a name...
    Dungeon Synth Featured 
  • Dungeon Synth Digest XXXIV
    March 15, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    DUNGEON SYNTH DIGEST XXXIV

    For weeks, you’ve been looking for adventure in this forsaken wilderness, with nothing much to show...
    Dungeon Synth Featured 

Tabletop & RPG

  • May 30, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Casual Magic: The Fate of Brawl

    I wrote the title a few weeks ago after attending the Star City Games Open in Baltimore. The dire title reflected my thoughts when exactly zero events for Brawl fired over the course of the weekend. In fact, Brawl became a lighthearted joke for most of the open...
    Featured Tabletop RPG 
  • Magic the Gathering BRAWL
    April 30, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Casual Magic: Brawl

    Fun VS Function I am struggling to think about what this series is and could be...
    Featured Tabletop RPG 
  • 1d4 Con
    April 18, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Worlds Apart: 1d4 Con

    I believe the final numbers, in terms of attendance for 1d4 Con was 297. This tabletop...
    Featured Tabletop RPG 
  • Temple of Urgathoa
    March 31, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Pathfinder Log (5th Entry): Temple of Disease

    Godslayers Okay, so the temple isn’t called The Temple of Disease. It is actually the Temple...
    Featured Tabletop RPG 

Post Archive

  • Bloodstained: Curse of the MoonBloodstained: Curse of the Moon
    Curse of the Moon is a retro-action monster masher from Koji Igarashi, one of the dudes who helped localize Scribblenauts (as well as produced and wrote for 17 fucking Castlevania's).

Post Archive

  • This Year in Dungeon Synth (2017)This Year in Dungeon Synth (2017)
    “Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead, We’ll wander back and home to bed. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade! Away shall fade!” III by Fief Realms of Magickal Sorrow by OLD SORCERY Myliobatiformes by The House Of The Hidden Light King of Nothing, Slave to No One by Erang Gil-Estel by Thangorodrim March of The Triumphator by Barak Tor Wandering Far...

Post Archive

  • WOLF – Legions Of BastardsWOLF – Legions Of Bastards
    It can sometimes feel like an easy job, being a reviewer. There’s always a temptation to be overly harsh, slipping out of the shadows to smear somebody else’s favorite band with shit before disappearing like a faecally obsessed assassin. It starts to look a little worse when you consider we contribute no more to the world than a couple of interesting euphemisms for shit and the possible salvation of ten dollars. Occasionally it gets so bad that they’ll start thinking themselves important enough to compare themselves to an assassin, deluded...

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    Yes. I know I am still rounding out 90’s fantasy movies but this is different. This is something special. With the release of The Desolation of Smaug, Peter Jackson’s second part in the massive retelling of The Hobbit, I thought it would be fitting to watch the first film, An …

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    I know what you are thinking. Yes, Arion is from Atlantis. Yes Aquaman is also from atlantis. Nom it isn’t as easy as them being in the same Atlantis. That makes things more interesting and more confusing is the magic weilding character of Arion is wrapped up more in the …

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History

  • June 14, 2015 Kaptain Carbon 0

    THE VARANGIANS

    History is filled with tons of drama, blood, gore, and probably more blood. It is no...
    History 
  • April 30, 2015 Kaptain Carbon 0

    BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG

    History is filled with tons of drama, blood, gore, and probably more blood. It is no...
    History 
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    CHARLES XII OF SWEDEN

    History is filled with tons of drama, blood, gore, and probably more blood. It is no...
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Comic Reviews

  • June 19, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    The Tomb of Dracula

    Alight, before we begin let our get our bearings of what Dracula comic we are talking...
    Comic Reviews Featured 
  • Sword of Sorcery
    March 16, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Sword of Sorcery (1973)

    Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser is the name of two characters created by Fritz Leiber as...
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    February 28, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Arion: Lord of Atlantis (1981)

    I know what you are thinking. Yes, Arion is from Atlantis. Yes Aquaman is also from...
    Comic Reviews Featured 

Art

  • February 26, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Weird Stories: The Life and Work of Hannes Bok

    Stumbling on Hannes Bok was much like anyone other random run in with a fantasy artist....
    Art Featured 
  • September 4, 2017 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Diminished by Nightmare: The Phantasmal Architectures of Monsù Desiderio

    Throughout my writing tenure at Hollywood Metal, I have always been into art — specifically fantasy...
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  • May 31, 2017 Kaptain Carbon 0

    A Life Dreaming: The Fantasies of Richard Dadd

    I enjoy fantasy – a lot. Part of my dedications into the idea of fantasy have...
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