![]() Lennon is a quiet and unassuming person that really doesn’t stand out anywhere that she goes and just sort of blends into the background of all these events. Something about the way that she meticulously curates her collection of voyeuristic media reminds me a lot of the title character of Patrick Kack-Brice’s Creep. She records it all digitally, but to her analog just sounds better, so she then re-records it all onto cassette and catalogs it in her home. While attending indie art shows and concerts at unconventional music venues, she records things from the events that she finds interesting on her phone. Lennon Gates (Sylvie Mix) works a pretty mundane job in the service industry, but her passion lies in the underground art and music scene. Just one step to either side of the spectrum could easily push this film into the same realm as films like Lucky Mckee’s May, or Barbet Schroeder’s classic Single White Female. While it is not an overt horror film, the voyeuristic nature of the main character and the mood that the directing duo creates definitely flirt with the boundaries of psychological horror. In Poser, the debut feature from filmmakers Noah Dixon and Ori Segev, we delve deep into the underground art and music scene of Columbus, Ohio to explore the story of a twenty-something woman who desperately wants to fit in and discovers just how far she will go in order to do so. ‘ MCLXXX‘ will be released 27th January 2023.Finding a sense of belonging is built into the core of human existence. ![]() King Kraken has delivered one of the best metal underground debut albums heard in recent times and it won’t go unnoticed by the metal masses. Intriguing, tantalising and provocative, in equal measure, ‘ MCLXXX‘ will set the bar high for new metal releases in 2023. There’s everything from crushing heavy metal to more measured, blues-influenced hard rock, all served with an originality that is both old school and refreshingly contemporary. Be in no doubt true believers, there’s a monster musical mash here that will excite and infuse the listener with a retrospective sonic familiarity, but with a fresh bite that will take head’s off. The new LP is a mixing bowl of hefty reprehensible rhythm guitars, battering yet eloquent drum patterns, pounding bass lines, raw and robust vocals, and acrobatic guitar solos. ‘ MCLXXX’ wildly elaborate collection of songs has inspiration from a famous list of horror and sci-fi movies that had an early impact on the band’s vocalist and main wordsmith, Mark Donoghue. With the one, two turn of the screw album closers, ‘ Chaos Engine’ and ‘Castle of Bone’, the Welsh warriors relish every bite of this new 10 track long player and it’s difficult not to bang your head to. Check out the cephalopod-like sonics of ‘ Green Terror’, ‘ Veins’, and ‘ Man Made Monster’, alongside the undeniable terrifying Halloween tribute of new single ‘ Haddonfield ’78’. The result is a heavy, groove orientated, melodic collection of songs that takes the listener on a profound journey through a multitude of texture and inspiration. With the album title alone bearing enough weight to see off Titans in their droves (MCLXXX is the year that the mythological creature, ‘ The Kraken‘, was first recorded as being seen in the flesh), King Kraken delivers on the promise of their 2020 debut EP. However, l since titling the song there is no question as to what the track is about.“, Donoghue concludes. The title came some weeks later and therefore some lyrics adapted, however, the only reference directly to the film would be Michael’s knife in the line ‘shining silver is the last thing you’ll see today’. “ I was conscious not to mention the film or the character in the lyrics so that upon hearing it, the listener could decide for themselves who the song is about. “ Being a huge horror fan I knew I wanted to write about fictional serial killers (I’ve always veered towards movies as opposed to true crime)“, reveals lyricist and King Kraken vocalist Mark Donoghue. Inspired by monstrous fictitious villains of the highest order, ‘ Haddonfield ’78‘s chilling music video leaves no stone unturned as its storyline reveals the dark undertones of the lyrics.
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