New Music from The Hives!

 

Yesterday the world got an absolutely KILLER new track from The Hives, whose last proper record, Lex Hives, was eleven years ago!!! What a comeback, though. This track rocks and the video is a glorious homage to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead.

The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons is out August 11th; pre-order HERE.

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Play:

Bloody Disgusting ran a short story about Armor Games Studio's announcement for their new first-person Horror/Mystery game The Tartarus Key. After watching the trailer, I am one hundred percent in on this one:

 

Being that I've only come back to playing video games in the last year with my purchase of a Switch, I don't know that much about what's out there. I'm sure there are more of these - Nun Massacre is my current obsession, and while I wait for more Puppet Combo games to eventually become available on Switch, I've been wanting to find more of these. 

I think my love for this type of game goes back to the original Shadow Gate, which I played on a friend's PC in the 80s, then on the original Nintendo system later in that same decade. That game always gave me such a wonderfully immersive effect, and Nun Massacre gives me the same effect, except amplified by about 1000.

 

The Tartarus Key is out May 31st on a bunch of platforms, and I'm just happy one of those is Switch.
 

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Playlist:

Witchfinder - Forgotten Mansion

The Sword - Age of Winters

Wolfpack - Lycanthro Punk

Karl Casey - XX EP

The Hives - Bogus Operandi

The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives

Sleep - The Sciences

Locrian - Return to Annihilation

Windhand - Eternal Return

Blackbraid - Blackbraid I

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I Hate to Say My Heart is a Chainsaw, But I Told You So

 

Here's a group I had all but forgot about. A big name to me in the early 2000s, The Hives still sound great today, and I was excited to hear this track at the end of Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley's Invincible. It put the band back on my radar and I'm excited to go through their albums for the first time in probably a decade.

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Read:

The new Stephen Graham Jones novel is out today. I had completely forgotten about this until, just before bed last night, I read an article SGJ contributed to the most recent issue of Fangoria, wherein he offers some pretty interesting theoretical methods to fix three problematic Slasher films from the past (Shocker, F13 V and Nightmare on Elm Street 2). Anyway, I grabbed this on Kindle (despite my growing dislike for the device) because I read both of Jones's novels last year and both blew me away. Here's to hoping that this one - with such an awesome title - will do the same. I have every reason to believe it will.

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Watch:

So, yeah, K and I finally finished the first season of Invincible. Initially, the first episode had a huge effect on me - it was engineered to do so - but then my interest tapered off. It's this thing I have about pretty much all animation sans Cowboy Bebop, 80s Transformers and... well, that's about it. I don't know why, I just don't connect with it, and I find it hard to finish any series. It was that way with Castlevania - made it up to about halfway through the third season and stopped, and even that took multiple attempts and a couple of years to do. Same with Trese, which I made it about halfway through. Anyway, if you haven't watched it, here's a trailer. However, I think it shows way too much, so maybe just go watch the first episode all the way through. In most cases, that should be enough. Unless you're like me.

 

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Playlist:

Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum

The Jesus Lizard - Liar

The Birthday Party - Mutiny/The Bad Seed

Grinderman - Eponymous

Gesaffelstein - Aleph

Old Blood - Acid Doom

Slipknot - We Are Not your Kind

Code Orange - Underneath

Type O Negative - Life is Killing Me

Sturgil Simpson - Sound and Fury

Metallica - ... And Justice For All

The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious

The Afghan Whigs - 1965

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Card:

I feel like this is referencing something bigger than me, something I'm hopelessly caught in a repetitive dance with. I'm just not sure what that is.