Skip to content
Latest Content
  • Aquaman (2018)
  • Heavy Metal 2019: Upcoming Releases
  • Stoner Roundup at the New Year Corral
  • The end of an era: ANACHRONAEON - Everyday Chronicles
  • Favorite 18 Metal Albums of 2018
Hollywood Metal Logo
  • About
  • Metal
  • Film
  • Video Games
  • History
  • Comics
  • Dungeon Synth
  • Tabletop & RPG
  • TV
  • Art
  • January 7, 2019 Kaptain Carbon 0
    Aquaman (2018)
    It has been a while since I wrote a movie review to...
    Featured Film Reviews 
  • January 3, 2019 Kaptain Carbon 0
    Heavy Metal 2019: Upcoming Releases
    As we say goodbye to the year 2018 and hopefully now amass...
    Featured Metal Reviews 
  • January 1, 2019 Henrik Thøgersen 0
    Stoner Roundup at the New Year Corral
    Happy New Year to one and all, and welcome to the flipside....
    Featured Metal Reviews 
  • December 30, 2018 Brendan Biryla 0
    The end of an era: ANACHRONAEON – Everyday Chronicles
    In late 2007, around the time that my fiend Damon Wang and...
    Featured Metal Reviews 
  • December 28, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0
    Favorite 18 Metal Albums of 2018
    End of the year time is always strange regarding lists as there...
    Featured Metal Reviews 
Top 25 Albums of 2018

Top 25 Albums of 2018

December 15, 2018 0
Rhapsody in Review: Prelude (1994-1995)

Rhapsody in Review: Prelude (1994-1995)

December 12, 2018 0

Metal Reviews

  • moonglow
    January 3, 2019 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Heavy Metal 2019: Upcoming Releases

    As we say goodbye to the year 2018 and hopefully now amass our actual lists of 2018, it is time to rush ahead and look at all of the awesome albums set to be released in the early part of 2019. This list does not constitute all of...
    Featured Metal Reviews 
  • January 1, 2019 Henrik Thøgersen 0

    Stoner Roundup at the New Year Corral

    Happy New Year to one and all, and welcome to the flipside. Dragging anchor today? No...
    Featured Metal Reviews 
  • Anachronaeon - Everyday Chronicles
    December 30, 2018 Brendan Biryla 0

    The end of an era: ANACHRONAEON – Everyday Chronicles

    In late 2007, around the time that my fiend Damon Wang and I were getting Hollywood...
    Featured Metal Reviews 
  • Top 18 of 2018 by Kaptain Carbon
    December 28, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Favorite 18 Metal Albums of 2018

    End of the year time is always strange regarding lists as there are so many. There...
    Featured Metal Reviews 

Gameplay Videos

  • Below
    December 25, 2018 Luke Maudsley 0

    Below

    Ashen Developer: Capybara Released: Dec 14th 2018 Website: Official BELOW is a game about going BELOW.
    Featured Game Reviews 
  • ashen
    December 25, 2018 Luke Maudsley 0

    Ashen

    Ashen Developer: A44 Released: Dec 2018 (preview) Website: Official Ashen is another indie soulslike, but good...
    Featured Game Reviews 
  • Thronebreaker
    December 6, 2018 Luke Maudsley 0

    Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales

    Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales Developer: CD Projekt Red Released: November 9th, 2018 Thronebreaker is a cardgame...
    Episodes Game Reviews 
  • sinner
    November 4, 2018 Luke Maudsley 0

    Sinner: Sacrifice for Redemption

    Sinner: Sacrifice for Redemption Developer: Dark Star Released: October 22nd, 2018 Sinner is a dark soul’s...
    Featured Game Reviews 

Dungeon Synth

  • Gargoylium
    November 29, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    GARGOYLIUM – Chroniques de la Citadelle

    The title for this review comes from the last of the Gargoylium releases but in reality is about everything released in 2018. Dungeon synth comes as a trickle or flood and the release cycle for artists can be at the whim of its creator. In the absence of...
    Dungeon Synth Featured 
  • The Obsolescent Arborist
    November 26, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    The Obsolescent Arborist – Tree, Timber and Forest

    One of my favorite aspects about dungeon synth was the sense of quiet escapism the genre...
    Dungeon Synth Featured 
  • November 25, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    OLD TOWER – The Rise Of The Spectral Horizons

    “Old Tower is perhaps dungeon synth’s biggest contemporary success story. From playing along aside of Mortiis...
    Dungeon Synth Featured 
  • October 31, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    CHAUCERIAN MYTH – The Faerie Queene

    This is the first article I haven’t written after a brief hiatus from the dungeon synth....
    Dungeon Synth Featured 

Tabletop & RPG

  • Ravnica Island
    November 25, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Life After Brawl and the Birth of Rogue Formats

    I have written a lot about Magic the Gathering and spent a big part of summer focusing on the format known as Brawl. Previous articles followed this new format from rocky beginnings to more rocky endings with the actual state of the format still unknown to the community....
    Featured Tabletop RPG 
  • November 22, 2018 Henrik Thøgersen 0

    Dungeons and Dragons – Art and Arcana: A Visual History

    ”If you thought that was cool, wait till you try the real thing.” A friend told...
    Art Featured Tabletop RPG 
  • October 22, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    D&D and MTG: Ravnica Incoming

    I never really thought this whole D&D/MTG thing would go past the level of novelty but...
    Featured Tabletop RPG 
  • October 7, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    A Brawl in Ravnica (Part 2)

    If you remember my previous article in regards to a Brawl In Ravnica, I was discussing...
    Featured Tabletop RPG 

Post Archive

  • RYSE – SON OF ROMERYSE – SON OF ROME
    First released on the xBone (a few months ago) as an system seller that didn’t sell, Ryse: Son of Rome was developed with the apparent motive to show off just how many sweaty pores and weird, almost-human faces the xBone could render. Bloody loads, it turns out. And now it’s PC’s turn to watch some of the slow-motion arm-severing action. Not much else though, I’m afraid.

Post Archive

  • ENSLAVED – In TimesENSLAVED – In Times
    I imagine am going to be slightly unpopular with two groups in saying that I have a hard time believing that Enslaved is not a logical substitution for the progressive hard rock band Tool. In absence of Tool’s newest album, I would think that the progressive and meditative aspects of Enslaved would compliment a person’s desire for metaphysical metal/rock. Again, I could be slightly unpopular if Tool fans think there is no substitute for their favorite band or Enslaved fans think I am wrong for comparing their favorite to Tool....

Post Archive

  • CONAN THE BARBARIANCONAN THE BARBARIAN
    If you have been a loyal follower of Hollywood Metal, you will remember my review of the of the Savage Tales of Conan, which was a magazine comic run in the mid 70’s by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor Smith. Savage Tales, which would later be Savage Sword, was sort of a party for the two as they were not chained by the comic code authority. Why did they do this? Well, it is hard to say, but it was probably because they spent 5 years prior making the squeaky...

MORE FROM HOLLYWOOD METAL

  • DARK SOULS II – The Crown of the Sunken KingDARK SOULS II – The Crown of the Sunken King
    Does anybody remember expansion packs? Oblivion’s “Shivering isles” comes to mind. A whole new slice of game was standard fare for $15, back in the day, complete with new places to explore, lore to discover and enemies to best. Does anyone remember DLC from the same era? Motherfucking horse armour, a $2.50 packs which included (in its entirety) fucking armour for your fucking horse. It didn’t do a single god-damn thing, including armour your horse. It looked like it did, but as any LARPer will tell you, “Put down the...

Latest Livestream Video

Watch live video from Hollywood_Metal on www.twitch.tv

Film Review:

  • THE MAGIC SWORDTHE MAGIC SWORD
    Looking over the different decades of fantasy films seems to show a pattern. The 1980’s is the decade that usually stands out in people’s mind as the classic period. Personally, I have found the 1980’s, following the success of Conan the Barbarian, to be a fertile ground for both surprising …

Comic Review

  • SpelljammerSpelljammer
    For as unrecognized and obscured as Spelljammer has become, it is a wonderful scale at which to view the cosmography of the Dungeons and Dragons universe. This is, of course, if you want to view the belief structure and technological milestones of a fantasy universe. I will of course be …

Game Review

  • KILLERS AND THIEVESKILLERS AND THIEVES

Metal Review

  • TOP 5 ALBUMS OF 2013 BY KAPTAIN CARBONTOP 5 ALBUMS OF 2013 BY KAPTAIN CARBON

Dungeon Synth

  • DUNGEON SYNTH DIGEST XXDUNGEON SYNTH DIGEST XX

Art & History

  • Artwork 18: The Year in Heavy Metal ArtArtwork 18: The Year in Heavy Metal Art

Editorial

  • DRAGONWOODDRAGONWOOD

Recent Comments

  • Brendan Biryla on Fantasy Art and the Pre Raphaelites
  • Some Guy From Germany on Fantasy Art and the Pre Raphaelites
  • Brendan Biryla on Fantasy Art and the Pre Raphaelites

Links

  • Guitar Shred Show
  • No Clean Singing
  • Nordic Metal
  • ScandiumCold
  • Shreddit
  • Tape Wyrm
  • The Forgotten Scroll

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

  • Spelljammer Comics
    September 30, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Spelljammer

    For as unrecognized and obscured as Spelljammer has become, it is a wonderful scale at which...
    Comic Reviews Featured 
  • 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...
    Comic Reviews Featured 

Art

  • December 17, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Artwork 18: The Year in Heavy Metal Art

    Faster than Sound. I enjoy art. Obviously. I enjoy heavy metal. I enjoy heavy metal art...
    Art Featured 
  • November 22, 2018 Henrik Thøgersen 0

    Dungeons and Dragons – Art and Arcana: A Visual History

    ”If you thought that was cool, wait till you try the real thing.” A friend told...
    Art Featured Tabletop RPG 
  • October 30, 2018 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Quiet Dreams: The Work of Arnold Böcklin

    This article continues my exploration into the use of the supernatural and fantastic within the world...
    Art Featured 

Hollywood Metal © All rights reserved

Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: SuperMag by Acme Themes.