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  • August 15, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0
    Sand Castles: Adventures in Design
    I really couldn’t come up with a snappy title for this article...
    Featured Tabletop RPG 
  • July 31, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0
    Casual Magic: The Summer of Brawl
    If you have been following any of my recent articles on casual...
    Featured Tabletop RPG 
  • July 30, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0
    IMMORTAL – Northern Chaos Gods
    Immortal. Okay, we can do this. If you have not heard of...
    Featured Metal Reviews 
  • July 25, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0
    Baahubali: The Beginning
    Okay, there is a lot to talk about. Even though Indian action...
    Featured Film Reviews 
  • July 18, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0
    Watchtower III
    Watchtower is a monthly digest compiling interesting developments in speed, heavy, and...
    Featured Metal Reviews 
Watchtower III

Watchtower III

July 18, 2018 0
The Tomb of Dracula

The Tomb of Dracula

June 19, 2018 0

Metal Reviews

  • Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods
    July 30, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    IMMORTAL – Northern Chaos Gods

    Immortal. Okay, we can do this. If you have not heard of Immortal before then you most certainly have seen pictures of their members in some fantastic pose in the woods. The band's face paint has become almost iconic in the realm of heavy metal and the name...
    Featured Metal Reviews 
  • Viktor Mukhin Final Land
    July 18, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Watchtower III

    Watchtower is a monthly digest compiling interesting developments in speed, heavy, and doom albums on Bandcamp....
    Featured Metal Reviews 
  • July 11, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    BONGRIPPER – Terminal

    I know I say a lot that these metal reviews are not fitting of the site...
    Featured Metal Reviews 
  • July 3, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    OBSCURA – Diluvium

    Oh Obscura. Why are you so entertaining? It was in 2011 when I really got into...
    Featured Metal Reviews 

Gameplay Videos

  • Vampyr
    June 28, 2018 Luke Maudsley 0

    Vampyr

    Join the hosts of the night in Vampyr and watch as we play with our food.
    Featured Game Reviews 
  • June 19, 2018 Luke Maudsley 0

    DARKEST DUNGEON

    Darkest Dungeon appears, at first glance, to be a game so simple as to be generic;...
    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 

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

  • August 15, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Sand Castles: Adventures in Design

    I really couldn’t come up with a snappy title for this article so we are going with Sand Castles. I believe it works for now but I could change it in the future. “Sandbox” games are a term which describes open ended tabletop adventuring where the players make...
    Featured Tabletop RPG 
  • Magic the Gathering: BRAWL
    July 31, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Casual Magic: The Summer of Brawl

    If you have been following any of my recent articles on casual Magic, you have seen...
    Featured Tabletop RPG 
  • July 4, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Casual Magic: The Philosophy of Group Hug

    This is perhaps one of the first deck explorations I have written for this site and...
    Featured Tabletop RPG 
  • June 27, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    MTG / D&D: The Ruins of Zendikar

    Zendikar is a dangerous world of lethal risks and priceless rewards. From the perspective of its...
    Featured Tabletop RPG 

Post Archive

  • EUROPE – War of KingsEUROPE – War of Kings
    When thinking about a band like Europe, it can perhaps be easy to forget they had a career outside the ten minutes it took them to record “The Final Countdown”. It’s almost as though they existed just long enough to get it down before skulking back into their home dimension where somehow “seen us” is a better rhyme than “penis” for “Venus”. Honestly, I’ve never been into them as a band. I couldn’t name one other album of theirs in their 36 year career. Obviously, I assume they’ve got other...

Post Archive

  • Light of the Fire: An Interview with the Dungeon Lore FoundationLight of the Fire: An Interview with the Dungeon Lore Foundation
    Me suddenly owning 65 dungeon synth recordings from one obscure Russian label was an accident. I do not know if Bandcamp was having a sale but there was an option of owning everything released by Dungeon Lore Foundation (DLF) for the modest price of 15 dollars. If you had been following any of my fanaticism on dungeon synth, you would figure that this was the deal of the year. It was. 15 dollars is sometimes the price of one record so having 65 of the same thing seemed to be...

Post Archive

  • THE SWORD AND THE SORCERERTHE SWORD AND THE SORCERER
    Well, it looks like I have a long line of sword and sorcery films from the 1980’s so let us pray that one of them is halfway decent. This is why I am reviewing the 1982 American fantasy film The Sword and the Sorcerer rather than the 1983 Argentinian film Deathstalker. I have been to dark places with 80’s fantasy films and some of the places are filled with things I’d rather not write about that are covered in mud. Albert Pyun is an American director best known for his...

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  • HAWK THE SLAYERHAWK THE SLAYER
    Did everyone have fun with the surprisingly dense Dragonslayer? Good because we are not stopping for awhile. I do not plan on resting until I can speak, with great confidence, on the state of fantasy films in the 1980’s. Did you enjoy Dragonslayer? Good because in the place of thoughtfulness and paced out narrative which plays on fantasy archetypes, we are now given Hawk the Slayer, a movie that desperately tries to be a part of those same archetypes. Holy fuck 1980, what in the world did you make? Before...

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  • DUNGEONMASTER (1984)DUNGEONMASTER (1984)
    This article starts my relapse into the world of 80’s fantasy films. Though I seemed to have covered a broad range of classics like Fire and Ice, Conan The Barbarian, and Highlander, there exists a wider landscape of movies that all are either terrible or wonderful or both. Whether nostalgic …

Comic Review

  • TARZAN (1972)TARZAN (1972)
    Okay let us get right down to it. Tarzan has had a lot of comic adaptations and the one I will be talking about is, perhaps, the most famous but it is one of the hardest to find. Aside from comic strips, Tarzan in comics began with Tarzan #1-131 running …

Game Review

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Metal Review

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Dungeon Synth

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Art & History

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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 
  • March 13, 2015 Kaptain Carbon 1

    CHARLES XII OF SWEDEN

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

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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  • arion lord of atlantis
    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

  • John Bauer Dwarf
    July 10, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Life Beyond The Real: The Legacy of John Bauer

    If you have paid attention to the Dungeon Synth scene within the last few years, you...
    Art Featured 
  • 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...
    Art Featured 

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