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  • September 30, 2016 Kaptain Carbon 0
    Voices From The Past: Conversations with Grimrik
    Grimrik was one, if not the first compatriot I met during my...
    Dungeon Synth Featured 
  • September 27, 2016 Kaptain Carbon 0
    DUNGEONMASTER (1984)
    This article starts my relapse into the world of 80’s fantasy films....
    Featured Film Reviews 
  • September 26, 2016 Kaptain Carbon 0
    INSOMNIUM – Winter’s Gate
    It has not been long since its release but people have already...
    Featured Metal Reviews 
  • September 07, 2016 Kaptain Carbon 0
    DUNGEON SYNTH DIGEST XV
    This is the 15th installment of column series which was originally designed...
    Dungeon Synth Featured 
  • September 06, 2016 Kaptain Carbon 0
    The Lost City (1982)
    This article represents my continuation into the world of old school roleplaying...
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NECROPOLIS

NECROPOLIS

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BEORN – Time to Dare

BEORN – Time to Dare

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Metal Reviews

  • INSOMNIUM – Winter’s Gate
    September 26, 2016 Kaptain Carbon 0

    INSOMNIUM – Winter’s Gate

    It has not been long since its release but people have already lost their damn minds over Insomnium’s 7th album Winter’s Gate. Before we really get into this, let us review that Insomnium is a Finnish melodic death metal band whose albums have been largely popular for people...
    Featured Metal Reviews 
  • Bandcamp Power Metal Roundup #8
    August 29, 2016 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Bandcamp Power Metal Roundup #8

    I started this column in January of 2016, which means by #12 I will be able...
    Featured Metal Reviews 
  • Bandcamp Power Metal Roundup #7
    July 26, 2016 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Bandcamp Power Metal Roundup #7

    Below are a list of unsigned power metal bands. The fact these bands are not signed...
    Featured Metal Reviews 
  • GRAND MAGUS – Sword Songs
    June 24, 2016 Luke Maudsley 0

    GRAND MAGUS – Sword Songs

    When the first thing you see of an album is something so nonsensically brilliant as a...
    Metal Reviews 

Game Reviews

  • BOOK OF DEMONS
    September 03, 2016 Luke Maudsley 0

    BOOK OF DEMONS

    Book of Demons Developer: Thing Trunk Released: July 28th, 2016 Official Website Score: 6/9 Hammers
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  • ORI AND THE BLIND FOREST
    August 10, 2016 Luke Maudsley 0

    ORI AND THE BLIND FOREST

    Ori and the Blind Forest Developer: Moon Studios Publisher: Microsoft Studios Released: March 11th, 2015 Official...
    Game Reviews 
  • DarkMaus
    July 30, 2016 Luke Maudsley 0

    DarkMaus

    DARKMAUS Developer: Daniel Wright Released: Jan 26th, 2016 Official Website Score: 7/9 Hammers
    Game Reviews 
  • TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER
    July 20, 2016 Luke Maudsley 0

    TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER

    Anyone who knows me will know I’m a fan of the Total War games, and have...
    Featured Game Reviews 

Dungeon Synth

  • Voices From The Past: Conversations with Grimrik
    September 30, 2016 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Voices From The Past: Conversations with Grimrik

    Grimrik was one, if not the first compatriot I met during my journeys into dungeon synth. After one of my articles on the history of the first “wave” of dungeon synth, here was a guy who was speaking with authority on a topic I believed to be unknown...
    Dungeon Synth Featured 
  • DUNGEON SYNTH DIGEST XV
    September 07, 2016 Kaptain Carbon 0

    DUNGEON SYNTH DIGEST XV

    This is the 15th installment of column series which was originally designed to help me process...
    Dungeon Synth Featured 
  • The Devout Homage of Chaucerian Myth
    August 19, 2016 Kaptain Carbon 0

    The Devout Homage of Chaucerian Myth

    Ready to start upon my pilgrimage To Canterbury, full of devout homage, There came at nightfall...
    Dungeon Synth Featured 
  • DUNGEON SYNTH DIGEST XIV
    August 02, 2016 Kaptain Carbon 0

    DUNGEON SYNTH DIGEST XIV

    Sometimes my friends come over and marvel at my growing tape collection expecting me to give...
    Dungeon Synth Featured 

Recent Posts

  • Voices From The Past: Conversations with Grimrik
    September 30, 2016 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Voices From The Past: Conversations with Grimrik

    Grimrik was one, if not the first compatriot I met during my journeys into dungeon synth. After one of my articles on the history of the first “wave” of dungeon synth, here was a guy who was speaking with authority on a topic I believed to be unknown...
    Dungeon Synth Featured 
  • DUNGEONMASTER (1984)
    September 27, 2016 Kaptain Carbon 0

    DUNGEONMASTER (1984)

    This article starts my relapse into the world of 80’s fantasy films. Though I seemed to...
    Featured Film Reviews 
  • INSOMNIUM – Winter’s Gate
    September 26, 2016 Kaptain Carbon 0

    INSOMNIUM – Winter’s Gate

    It has not been long since its release but people have already lost their damn minds...
    Featured Metal Reviews 
  • MONARCH WOODS release sci-fi book
    September 24, 2016 admin 0

    MONARCH WOODS release sci-fi book

    In nontraditional metal news, Canadian gothic symphonic metallers MONARCH WOODS have released… a book! Monarch Woods...
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MORE FROM HOLLYWOOD METAL

  • Game Review: FABLE – LOST CHAPTERSGame Review: FABLE – LOST CHAPTERS
    Fable’s are ancient. Fable the video game isn’t all that different. It came out in ye olde 2004, which is long enough ago for me to have played it as a kid, and I remember loving it. And now it’s getting a HD remake, which is what inspired me to take another look at it. I do remember it being so good I bought it twice, once the standard edition and once again with all the extra “lost chapters” stuff. I don’t seem to remember the graphics being particularly bad...

Film Review:

  • Film Review: CLASH OF THE TITANSFilm Review: CLASH OF THE TITANS
    Clash of the Titans. I can do this. I do not think anyone remembered this 1981 film until the recent remake entered it back into cultural consciousness. Up until then I believe most people forgot that this mythological epic was a box office success upon its release and now stands …

Game Review

  • THE BANNER SAGA 2THE BANNER SAGA 2
    The Banner Saga was, and is, one of my favourite games of all time; a strangely poetic experience of a crumbling Nordic world, dead gods and mythic horned giants told almost entirely through the medium of an extensively updated version of the Oregon Trail. Battles are fought, secrets are discovered …

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Comic Review

  • THE WARLORDTHE WARLORD
    Let us just preview what Warlord is all about. Huh. Fighter Pilot gets shot out of the sky. Alright. Plummets through the center of the earth. Sure. Arrives in a mythical land where prehistoric beasts, pirates, half naked women, and wizards all have crazy ass adventures. Yes. I am already …

Metal Review

  • BEHOLD! THE MONOLITH – Architects of the VoidBEHOLD! THE MONOLITH – Architects of the Void

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History

  • THE VARANGIANS
    June 14, 2015 Kaptain Carbon 0

    THE VARANGIANS

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

  • TARZAN (1972)
    June 05, 2016 Kaptain Carbon 0

    TARZAN (1972)

    Okay let us get right down to it. Tarzan has had a lot of comic adaptations...
    Comic Reviews 
  • KULL (2008)
    March 24, 2016 Kaptain Carbon 0

    KULL (2008)

    Okay let us be really honest here. We know that you are here because you like...
    Comic Reviews 
  • GRIMJACK – Omnibus (1983 – 1985)
    January 31, 2016 Kaptain Carbon 0

    GRIMJACK – Omnibus (1983 – 1985)

    I mean, who wouldn’t want to read a comic about a pan-dimensional detective mercenary swashbuckler. That...
    Comic Reviews 

Art

  • Esoteric Affinity: Symbolism and the Fantastic
    August 30, 2016 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Esoteric Affinity: Symbolism and the Fantastic

    In this art, scenes from nature, human activities, and all other real world phenomena will not...
    Art Featured 
  • Fantasy Art and the Pre Raphaelites
    July 03, 2016 Kaptain Carbon 0

    Fantasy Art and the Pre Raphaelites

    Fantasy art has always been an interest of mine in conjunction with, unsurprisingly, fantasy literature. Fantasy...
    Art 
  • THE PHAROS AT ALEXANDRIA (1975) – Roy Krenkel
    April 12, 2014 Kaptain Carbon 0

    THE PHAROS AT ALEXANDRIA (1975) – Roy Krenkel

    Roy Krenkel was an American illustrator who was a contemporary, and colleague of fantasy titan Frank...
    Art 

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