Pretty Hate Machine Nine Inch Nails
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: pop for rockers, 28 Jul 2007 this is where industrial music first entered the mainstream....yes it is a dark and nasty piece of pop music but it is still effectively an 80's electro pop record with a dark heart beating away at its core. the depeche mode references abound all over the album except instead of dave gahan's pained croon you have trents anguished screams. its a very good album that cannot be denied..the guitars are low in the mix and seem to serve only to flesh out the angry bits.the real secret to this album are the beats and the goove of the album..its very dancable and very very catchy....quite possibly the most catchy depressing album ever made!!! the stand outs are head like a hole..a great song that still gets aired in rock clubs to this day and the mighty sin...a much faster up beat song and then quite possibly one of the most depressing songs ever written something i can never have...a beautiful and haunting song!!! overall a very good album..a few dull songs that can get a bit repetitive but the stand out songs outnumber the poor death metal
				Broken EP Nine Inch Nails
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: the best that they have done, 28 Jul 2007 ok then this is the best thing bearing the NIN logo and its depressing because its soooooo short!!! i mean its like 6 proper full songs and 2 small odd little instrumental thingys!!!! this is also the heaviest thing that NIN have released and again is frustrating because it shows that trent can do heavy but he just doesnt seem to do elsewhere!!! half of me hates this album because its almost as if they are tainting us by making such a brilliant album thats sooo different to the rest and keeping it so short. the songs are great...they almost sound like actual metal songs...the guitars are alot bigger and the beats are alot heavier...its like everything has been turned up...alot!!!!!!!! the rythm of the songs are soooo off kilter to that its almost impossible to dance to!!! nasty piece of work!!! but tooo short hence only 4 stars! death metal
				Ginger Snaps [2001] Dvd ~ Emily Perkins
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: good fun, 28 Jul 2007 ok so what goes down? well the film is about two sisters, who are depressed and are thinking about honouring their suicide pact they made when they were younger until one of them gets bitten by a werewolf and slowly but surely starts to change. the other one then decides to try and fix the scenario as her sister starts to become more the beast and less her sister. thats pretty much it. its good fun as it doesnt muck about to much...the scenes all fill a purpose there isnt much filler and the film moves along nicely. the actin is pretty dammed good,the direction is snappy and the film looks fantastic. the script is very clever in its twisting of the lycan ideas and relating it teenage awakenings. the girls look good..especially katherine isabelle and the boys similarly look handsome. every box is ticked to make this film well worth a look! death metal
				Dirt Alice In Chains
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful: wow, 28 Jul 2007 this is the best grunge album ever made....and quite possibly one the best rock/metal albums ever made it really is that simple. this is a towering masterpiece of rock music. the production and mix of the album is similarly fautless making sure that you dont miss a sinlge beat or cymbal tap. the riffs are brilliantly matched to layne stayley's anguished howl. this is effectively the diary of a drug addict and there are very few other albums that come close to scratching the surface of the emotional out pourings layered in this album. the tracks arent as heavy as the follow up album and have a darker feel than the previous album....but it is a masterpiece. the star is layne...the man cant sing...but his voice perfectly fits this band and there are very few other performances by anyone that i have heard that can match the emotional effec of his performance on this album. this album can make you want to bang your head and cry usually within about 30 seconds of each other. a complex myriad of emotions and feelings will engulf you on this album. absolutley faultless. death metal
				The Great Milenko Insane Clown Posse
the one that hooked me, 28 Jul 2007 this is the first ICP album that i got and it got me hooked and into the whole psychopathic family...i now have stuff by all of them and i feel better for it as they opened up a huge door with this genre defining album for horror rap...and to some extent set the measuring mark for everyone else to aim for. yes it really is that good. so onto the material...its mainly hip hop based with some small rock elements and the huge influence of the carnival and horror films all blended into the melting pot with ease as the themes and sounds all seem to flow together exceptionally well! for those who dont know expect alot of harsh language mixed with very violent images!!!! its great and there isnt a single track to skip on the album...but for me the stand outs are "halls of illusions" and "the neden game"....very funny stuff!!! a great place to start as it displays pretty much everything that the clowns have to offer death metal
				Ghost In The Shell [1995] Dvd ~ Atsuko Tanaka
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: mind blowing, 26 Jul 2007 this film looks absolutely phenominal. it would take a fool to deny that. the plot is a bit of a mess about cyborgs and mans obsession with technology and it goes slightly off the rails when it gets a little too profound for its own good in the middle half hour of the film and feels a little preachy for my liking. but it looks soo good that you dont tend to notice as you just want to soak all the detail and atmosphere of the screen into your being!! approach with an open mind and i think you will enjoy this creative masterpiece death metal
				Die Hard [1989] Dvd ~ Bruce Willis
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: classic, 26 Jul 2007 ok then so then its christmas and john mclaine is off to meet his ex wife at her very flashy new office building. all is going well until some european terrorists show up and take over the building and try to break into the buildings vault. this is where it gets interesting as they hadnt counted on one man army john mclaine to still be running around and over the building picking them off one by one. and thats pretty much it!!! bruce willis gets the best lines and gets to be very heroic in his dirty vest blowing stuff up shooting at villains and throwing in random bits of harsh language. alan rickman gets to personify evil as the leader of the terrorists and chews up the screen as hans gruber this is quite easily one of the best action thrillers ever made as the set pieces just seem to get bigger and bigger as the film carries on. yes ok is was never gonna win any oscars but it grabs you by the short and curlies and doesnt let you go until the final credits. ok its not gonna be for everyone as the bodycount is pretty high but it just rolls on through like a steamroller. brilliant film...faultlessly executed
				BRINGER OF BLOOD Six Feet Under
something a little different, 25 Jul 2007 so then the history is well charted that chris barnes was sacked/left cannibal corpse and then began to focus solely on SFU...some see this as good and others not so good. personally i always thought the rest of the SFU catologue was quite dull in comparison to cannibal corpse and morbid angel...the sound was very dull..blast beats ahoy,unrecognizable vocals and a terrible guitar sound. so what is different here then...well pretty much about everything...for a start you can understand what barnes is saying!!! there is alot more variety to the pace and structure of the songs...the guitars sound thicker and the drums sound similarly thicker and well just bigger. i think that is where this album will split the fans as it is alot...i really mean ALOT slower than most death metal that is being produced these days...but for me that is not always a bad thing as it stops it from becoming dull and they prove they can still rip it up on songs like "murdered in the basement" and "ugly". i think the thing is that this is where devildriver are going and they are being hailed for it as they are pushing their way in but SFU are drifting away from their death roots by bringing more groove to their sound and personally i think it works...but i think that the purists will hate it! death metal
				The Deadlights The Deadlights
where did they go?, 25 Jul 2007 the deadlights were great...but they vanished without a trace and only left this cracking first album for us to hear. its a shame really!! the music on offer hear is mainly nu metal tinged punk i would say...the thinking being that the riffs are punky but the drums and the slappy sloppy sounding bass is straight out of the nu metal sound. but the saving grace is the singer duke who can growl scream and sing with the best of them. the lyrics are great...nice and thoughtful..not just whinning about being depressed or that mummy loved you too little or too much!! i have had this album for years and still go back to it time and again because it sounds different and very unique through its blending of sounds the only downside i can see is that there isnt much variety to the songs,there are three slow songs set at nice spots in the album to break it up but the rest can get a bit one dimensional that said i still think this album is great because the songs are great,but it wont be to everyones taste..i would say download some first to see if you like the sound
				Mortal Kombat [1995] Dvd ~ Christopher Lambert
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful: dumb fun, 25 Jul 2007 right then this film doesnt mess about. the acting is awful and the plot is wafer thin but it makes up for it with fast and frantic fights set against a thumping industrial metal soundtrack by the likes of KMFDM and fear fatory and lunatic calm. the pace is fast and it doesnt outstay its welcome. brainless fun for all the family alsong as you dont take it too seriously!!