CD Review: Satan-Life Sentence(Releases May 21, 2013)Listenable Records

(Band's Bio)

Satan are a heavy metal band originating from Newcastle, England in 1980, known as part of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal movement. Though generally obscure throughout their career, the band is considered influential for playing a form of proto thrash metal that was fairly advanced by the standards of the early 1980s.

Because this is a band from that time when there was some great metal acts appearing not just from Europe but from around the globe, this has that classic feel to the music. The vocal styling is clear listenable metal, guitars and drums well played all around this band is tight.

The songs are strongly written and the band shows it's true place in the genre of metal. Sad that some will not listen to this band just for the bands name would invoke the thought that this is satanic music this is some great music not really heavy but more of classic rock sound.


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Little Shop Movie Review: Mama, The Last Stand & Texas Chainsaw 3D

The film opens with us panning upon a parked car with the drivers side open and the news playing on the radio telling us that there has been a shooting and that the man has fled the scene. As it turns the owner of the car is the man from the shooting he had shot two of his co-workers and he has fled to his estranged wifes home to do the same to her. He then flees with his two daughters Victoria & Lilly. He heads to the highway and drives quickly out of town.
They have an accident and he takes them to an old abandoned house in the middle of the woods, he plans to kill his daughters then without warning something attacks him and takes him away, from the darkness--Mama.

The children are found (Five years later)by some searchers hired by their uncle and to make this a bit quicker for you folks and less of a giveaway of the film they are sent to live with their uncle and his girlfriend. This instills anger in Mama and she comes looking for them and has some real rath.

The whole premise of the film is original and the pacing had me and my wife being shocked and horrified by the things that Mama did at the same time loving it as we are huge horror fans and this was the best ghost story I have seen in recent memory.

Mama is not all about revenge she was a woman that was locked up because she was sick and put in a state mental hospital and she broke out and stole her child back in her escape the child died and it is about her getting that lost child back.
There are some real goosebump scenes and some where I was just in awe of the awesomeness of the story so simple yet so well told and played out.

In the end this is a story of a mothers love for her child and what she will do to get that child back and with that loss maybe take care of some children that got lost along the way, great classic storytelling this is easily one of the best horror films I have ever seen. A true pleasure to watch for me as it is nice that some people still know how to truly tell a good story.

Below is the short film that inspired the making of the feature film.
Then following that is the trailer right after in the same little window below.

If you like your action like I do a knock down, drag out, not so worried about a solid plot but enough of a story to keep you interested then The Last Stand is for you.
Returning to his real chair of being the action hero Arnold does not miss a beat here as a local sheriff that has some drug cartel that wants to pass through his small town on his way out of the country to Mexico. He is not convinced by his deputy to sit this one out and look the other way-never not Arnold.

This very simular story to  that of High Noon with Gary Cooper where the bad gang was passing through, this is no High Noon but it is a good vehicle to an aging star.

The action was well done and the lines that you would expect from Arnold are here and he delivers quite well on all accounts.

Forest Whittaker is one of those actors you always know even if the film is just ok his performance will stand out, he does not dissapoint here as the lead FBI agent after the drug cartel as he did escape from FBI hands.

For what it is worth this film starts with highlights from the original horror classic, for those newbies that probably have not even seen the classic film. Where that film leaves off this follows and very convincingly however I just felt it another trap for horror fans knowing that the ever loving horror fan(myself included)would see it hoping for something new and fresh but as the film progresses we are shown the same thing-leatherface captures and kills -wow, really?

There is some originality in this film where we first pick up, but the standard carnage takes over and this is tiring and ruined the film for me. The scene that did bother me is where Leatherface sews the new mask onto his face.

Once again this becomes more about family than most of the other films in this series but overall this has been done one to many times already -this series needs to die.


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Anthony Nadeau

The Asylum Movie Review: 40 Days & Nights

Picture modified from an image from the internet, posters belonging to The Asylum and the water image from the internet-all compiled by Anthony Nadeau

So with an open mind to the disaster that was to appear before me I knew this would be cheezy but did not know what kind of cheeze.
Much to my surprise it was not of any cheeze brand at all well done little disaster flick, however we are just speaking of the storm it was the only convincing aspect of the film.

We start off with some friends going for a drive that encounter the storm with demise and then we are shifted to a bunker where John(Alex Carter)(above)is making a habitat that will hold 50, 000 people.

His fiance is Tessa(Monica Kenna)(above)and she is microbiologist that needs to collect certain DNA to keep the population in check if the storm should destroy us all.

The situations are the same in every disaster film there are those that are only in it for themselves and others that are willing to save everyone. Either way it does not hold water with all the stiff acting with the exception of a few of the actors most notably Alex Carter he seems like an Academy award winner amongst this group.

The storm is done well for this studio a number of people panned this only for the special effects but the studio is smaller than most studios remember that smaller studios do not have the Dennis Murens of the world and if they do they are surely limited to the funds available as well to make those really expensive shots.

For what it's worth the effects here were better than Super Cyclone.There is a painstaking part near the end that seems to go on forever when the crew of the vessel are staring out of the window and the camera pans left to right and right to left the crew says absolutely nothing for about 30 seconds yet we are not shown anything they see just the camera panning back and forth.

Pathetic and boring.

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Anthony Nadeau

EP Review: False Flag-False Flag(Self Released)2013

Russ Gauthier Guitarist/singer of the band contacted me through Facebook and asked me to review their album, very pleased to do so Russ.

With guns blaring False Flag has nothing false about their approach to heavy metal this is no holds barred metal, guttural singing -bitchin' bass lines, great guitar riffs and demonic drumming this is a case of great metal folks!

I cannot say what is my favorite track but if I had to it would be "Consequence" for sure this is killer stuff.

False Flag on Bandcamp(click here)

(Bio from ReverbNation)
Low Tuned Heavy Metal from Calgary, Alberta. Canada.
Formed in late 2012, consisting of 8 String Guitarist/Vocalist Russ Gauthier, Drummer Nick Purdy, and Garrett McElroy on Bass. False Flag has since written and recorded the 4 song EP entitled "Orobas" (2013) Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by their own bassist. Taking influences from bands like Pantera, Meshuggah and The Acacia Strain, False Flag is designed for sonic destruction of the senses. The heaviest 3 piece band around. Period.

The more I listen to this album the better it gets even though it is only a 4 song EP this is just a teaser for those that love Heavy Metal, hope they have a full record out soon.


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Anthony Nadeau