'The Retaliators' (2021) Movie Review

You have to love a good rock and roll vanity project. Usually in these situations, a single band or musician is the driving force, but in the case of The Retaliators, it’s financed by a record-label-turned-film-producers and serving largely as a vehicle for their roster of recording artists. The movie is, as one might expect, kind of a mess, but also kind of fun sometimes. But despite all the chaos and pitfalls and head-scratching moments, this is still pretty damn fun to watch and builds to an unhinged, gore-soaked climax that’s worth the wait.

NBFF 2022: 'Sirens' Movie Review

I’m a sucker for documentaries about punk, metal, or really any other musical genre popping up in places you don’t normally expect. Death Metal Angola, Los Ultimos Frikis, A Band Called Death, among others come to mind. Fitting nicely into this specific niche is Rita Baghdadi’s documentary Sirens, which chronicles Lebanon’s first all-female heavy metal band, Slave to Sirens. 

'We Summon The Darkness' (2019) Movie Review

Ah, the Satanic Panic. That sweet, sweet era of the 1980s when the whole country was worried about devil-worshipping metalheads performing ritual sacrifices to appease their dark lord. Good times. (Unless you were on the receiving end of the widespread harassment, which sucked.) Anyway, such is the setting for We Summon the Darkness, the latest horror offering from My Friend Dahmer director Marc Meyers.

'We Summon The Darkness' Trailer Delivers Heavy Metal And Horror

I love a good heavy metal horror movie. From Rock ‘N Roll Nightmare, Blood Tracks, and Black Roses to Wild Zero, Deathgasm, and The Devil’s Candy, they run the gamut, but they always make me happy. And now we can add We Summon the Darkness to the canon. Check out the new trailer below. 

'Lords Of Chaos' Trailer: Black Metal, Church Burnings, And Murder, Oh My

Oh, black metal, you so silly. While it’s been in the works for something absurd like ten years, the most notorious chapter of the niche extreme metal subgenre is finally set to make its big screen debut as Jonas Akerlund’s Lords of Chaos gets a release next month. Check out the trailer below.

'Heavy Trip' (2018) Movie Review

Because your movie watching doesn’t contain nearly enough “symphonic post-apocalyptic reindeer-grinding Christ-abusing extreme war pagan Fennoscandian metal,” Finnish import Heavy Trip is here to rectify that glaring oversight.

'Heavy Trip' Trailer: The Heavy Metal Road Trip Comedy You've Been Waiting For

It’s been a couple years since the last good heavy metal comedy. Deathgasm is the last I recall, though if Heavy Trip has anything to say about it, 2018 will not pass without one. Check out this trailer to see what I mean.

'Pyewacket' Trailer: Heavy Metal, Horror, And Satanic Panic!

I don’t know writer/director Adam MacDonald (Backcountry) personally, but I can say with relative certainty that he made his new movie, Pyewacket, just for me. Okay, maybe not, but we’re talking about an occult, heavy metal, satanic panic horror movie, so he may as well have titled it Movie for Brent. Check out this trailer if you’re picking up what I’m putting down.

'The Devil's Candy' Trailer Is Full Of Heavy Metal, Creepiness, And Satan

It’s been a long time coming, but Sean Byrne’s follow-up to The Loved Ones is almost here. That movie hit in 2009, but it’s also been two years since his latest, The Devil’s Candy, debuted. For those of us who didn’t catch it on the festival circuit in 2015, we finally get our chance next month, and to celebrate, IFC dropped a new trailer full of Satan and creepiness.

This 'Deathgasm' Poster Is The Most Metal Thing You've Ever Seen

I could talk all day about how fucking great the New Zealand heavy metal horror flick Deathgasm is, and in fact I have shouted my love for this film from every mountain top I can climb. (Cards on the table, I’m in bad shape, so any real mountains I climbe are not particularly tall or numerous, but metaphorically, there are many.) If you want to know my thoughts, read my review here. With a theatrical release on the horizon, there is a new poster making the rounds that perfectly encapsulates what the film is all about. Take a look below.

Motörhead's Lemmy And Slayer's Tom Araya Join Silent Supernatural German Western

The German movie Gutterdämmerung is being billed as “the loudest silent movie on Earth,” and the batshit crazy sounding supernatural western fairy tale—yes, you read that right—just got way louder, adding Lemmy Kilmister from Motörhead and Tom Araya from Slayer.

Blu-Ray Review: 'Decline Of Western Civilization' Box Set

Growing up a punk rock kid in a small or at least smallish town, Penelope Spheeris’ 1981 documentary The Decline of Western Civilization, chronicling the early Los Angeles scene, served as a de facto history text book. You poured over the footage of The Germs, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, and more, noting how they lived, how they dressed, the fuck you attitude they flaunted by their very existence. This was your primer, your roadmap to being an outsider.

'Deathgasm' Movie Review: This Is The Demonic Heavy Metal Horror Film You've Been Waiting For

Deathgasm is the demonic, heavy mental horror film you didn’t even know you wanted. Okay, I knew this is exactly what I wanted, but the likes of Wild Zero, Black Roses, and Rock and Roll Nightmare are all personal favorites. It’s like this movie was made specifically for me, which was quite nice of writer/director Jason Lei Howden. When you hear a title like Deathgasm, odds are it conjures up some particular, rather vivid imagery, and that’s exactly the movie you see on screen. And it’s fucking awesome: funny, gore-soaked, and actually a bit touching.