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We are Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life, GBHBL for short. We write/talk about music, horror, and games.
The words of this account come from Carl and if you know GBHBL, you know me. I love many things and if you hang here, you’ll hear about them!
The words of this account come from Carl and if you know GBHBL, you know me. I love many things and if you hang here, you’ll hear about them!
When it’s good, it’s as good as anything else Lord of the Lost have put out there, but when it’s not, it’s so damn forgettable and that is something this band should never be.
Album Review: Lord of the Lost – OPVS NOIR Vol. 2 (Napalm Records)
Lord of the Lost will release OPVS NOIR Vol. 2, the second part of the trilogy, on December 12th, 2025, via Napalm Records.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
When it’s good, it’s as good as anything else Lord of the Lost have put out there, but when it’s not, it’s so damn forgettable and that is something this band should never be.
Brighton’s industrial post-hardcore quartet Tribe Of Ghosts have released their new single,'Corroded Gold', and the final installment of 'Open Wounds' today, Wednesday 10th December. Out now via all major streaming platforms and Bandcamp.
Tribe Of Ghosts Release New Single and Visualiser ‘Corroded Gold’ – The Final Installment of the ‘Open Wounds’ EP
Brighton’s industrial post-hardcore quartet Tribe Of Ghosts have released their new single,'Corroded Gold', and the final installment of 'Open Wounds' today, Wednesday 10th December. Out now via all major streaming platforms and Bandcamp.
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December 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Brighton’s industrial post-hardcore quartet Tribe Of Ghosts have released their new single,'Corroded Gold', and the final installment of 'Open Wounds' today, Wednesday 10th December. Out now via all major streaming platforms and Bandcamp.
Nordic misery, delivered with passion and with an emphasis on melancholic heaviness.
EP Review: The Harbinger – Gates of Hell (Inverse Records)
The Harbinger have arrived and the new EP ‘Gates of Hell’ is set to be released on December 12th, 2025, via Inverse Records.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Nordic misery, delivered with passion and with an emphasis on melancholic heaviness.
Back with focused aggression, intensity, and passion, Pincer+’s evolution hasn’t come easy, but as 2025 draws to a close, the modern genre-bending metallised unit aim to ensure it goes out with a bang.
Album Review: Pincer+ – Who Are You When No One’s Around (Greyscale Records)
Digging into themes of isolation, guilt, anger and that space between feeling everything and feeling nothing, Pincer+'s upcoming album, ‘Who Are You When No One's Around’ is about what's left when the noise stops and you're stuck with yourself. The album will be released on December 12th, 2025.
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December 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Back with focused aggression, intensity, and passion, Pincer+’s evolution hasn’t come easy, but as 2025 draws to a close, the modern genre-bending metallised unit aim to ensure it goes out with a bang.
You get bang for your buck, and the overall thing is a glowing tribute to one of metal’s most iconic albums. Long live the death trip.
Album Review: Static-X – Wisconsin Death Trip (25th Anniversary Corrosive Edition) (Otsego Entertainment Group)
On December 12th, 2025, metal icons Static-X are releasing a 25th anniversary edition of their legendary debut album, ‘Wisconsin Death Trip’.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
You get bang for your buck, and the overall thing is a glowing tribute to one of metal’s most iconic albums. Long live the death trip.
So, Cell Games have fully arrived now, and I think a lot of people will like what they hear. The EP shows variety and enough unique elements to make them more memorable.
EP Review: Cell Games – The Redux: You Have (Not) Heard These Songs Before (Self Released)
Dublin alt-rock band Cell Games are set to release their debut EP, ‘The Redux: You Have (Not) Heard These Songs Before’, recorded and produced by Josh Sid Robinson (JSR Audio) in Belfast. The EP is out on the 12th of December 2025.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
So, Cell Games have fully arrived now, and I think a lot of people will like what they hear. The EP shows variety and enough unique elements to make them more memorable.
With passion, power, and poise, Sacred Leather are turning back the clock… again, and giving listeners something that sounds ripped straight from the heyday of hair-raising, head-banging, and horn-throwing heavy metal.
Album Review: Sacred Leather – Keep The Fire Burning (King Volume Records / Wise Blood Records)
Sacred Leather return with their long-awaited sophomore album ‘Keep the Fire Burning’, due December 12th, 2025, through King Volume Records and Wise Blood Records.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
With passion, power, and poise, Sacred Leather are turning back the clock… again, and giving listeners something that sounds ripped straight from the heyday of hair-raising, head-banging, and horn-throwing heavy metal.
No festive horror, no matter how bad it is, should make you angry, but that’s what Christmas Bloodbath manages to achieve.
Horror Movie Review: Christmas Bloodbath (2024)
No festive horror, no matter how bad it is, should make you angry, but that’s what Christmas Bloodbath manages to achieve.
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December 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
No festive horror, no matter how bad it is, should make you angry, but that’s what Christmas Bloodbath manages to achieve.
A career best Lowen show. One filled with atmosphere, mystical vibes, and haunting intensity, and one that features dancers, props to emphasis story content, and guest cellist Arianna Mahsayeh.
Live Review: Lowen at The Underworld, London (04/12/25)
A career best Lowen show. One filled with atmosphere, mystical vibes, and haunting intensity, and one that features dancers, props to emphasis story content, and guest cellist Arianna Mahsayeh.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A career best Lowen show. One filled with atmosphere, mystical vibes, and haunting intensity, and one that features dancers, props to emphasis story content, and guest cellist Arianna Mahsayeh.
It's been a while since we spoke with progressive rock and punk band, Monkey Intrusion. In this interview, we catch up with them to see what's been going on since.
Interview: Catching Up With Monkey Intrusion
It's been a while since we spoke with progressive rock and punk band, Monkey Intrusion. In this interview, we catch up with them to see what's been going on since.
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December 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
It's been a while since we spoke with progressive rock and punk band, Monkey Intrusion. In this interview, we catch up with them to see what's been going on since.
It’s a relentless, groove-infused blast of death metal, setting a high bar for vitriolic and visceral heaviness.
Album Review: House by the Cemetary – Disturbing the Cenotaph (Pulverised Records)
House By the Cemetary, the death metal ‘supergroup’, are back with their third full-length, ‘Disturbing the Cenotaph’. Out on the 12th of December 2025, via Pulverised Records.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
It’s a relentless, groove-infused blast of death metal, setting a high bar for vitriolic and visceral heaviness.
Merry Christmas! It’s the most wonderful time of the year unless you’ve ended up on Santa’s naughty list!
Horror Short Review: Santa’s Curse: Christmas Eve Turns Deadly (2024)
Merry Christmas! It’s the most wonderful time of the year unless you’ve ended up on Santa’s naughty list!
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December 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Merry Christmas! It’s the most wonderful time of the year unless you’ve ended up on Santa’s naughty list!
Album Review: Chaos Over Cosmos – The Hypercosmic Paradox (Self Released)
Releasing December 15th, 2025, The Hypercosmic Paradox sees Chaos Over Cosmos push technical and progressive metal into cosmic territory.
Releasing December 15th, 2025, The Hypercosmic Paradox sees Chaos Over Cosmos push technical and progressive metal into cosmic territory.
Album Review: Chaos Over Cosmos – The Hypercosmic Paradox (Self Released)
Releasing December 15th, 2025, The Hypercosmic Paradox sees Chaos Over Cosmos push technical and progressive metal into cosmic territory.
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December 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Album Review: Chaos Over Cosmos – The Hypercosmic Paradox (Self Released)
Releasing December 15th, 2025, The Hypercosmic Paradox sees Chaos Over Cosmos push technical and progressive metal into cosmic territory.
Releasing December 15th, 2025, The Hypercosmic Paradox sees Chaos Over Cosmos push technical and progressive metal into cosmic territory.
Directed by Dusty Austen, who also co-wrote the story with Athena Murzda, The Beast of Walton St. is a werewolf horror film set around the festive period with potent underlying messages about how the homeless are treated and how little value human life has to those in positions of power.
Horror Movie Review: The Beast of Walton St. (2024)
Directed by Dusty Austen, who also co-wrote the story with Athena Murzda, The Beast of Walton St. is a werewolf horror film set around the festive period with potent underlying messages about how the homeless are treated and how little value human life has to those in positions of power.
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December 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Directed by Dusty Austen, who also co-wrote the story with Athena Murzda, The Beast of Walton St. is a werewolf horror film set around the festive period with potent underlying messages about how the homeless are treated and how little value human life has to those in positions of power.
It gives me no pleasure to say this, and it does make me a bit of a Grinch, but this is a really bad short.
Horror Short Review: SANTA – The Pizza Delivery (2025)
There have been good shorts and bad shorts, but nothing quite like Santa – The Pizza Delivery, which I am convinced is joke film. How else can the lack of effort be explained?
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December 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
It gives me no pleasure to say this, and it does make me a bit of a Grinch, but this is a really bad short.
Album Review: Dimholt – MetaForm (Self Released)
Bulgarian black metal band Dimholt release MetaForm on 13th Dec, merging raw aggression with atmospheric depth.
Bulgarian black metal band Dimholt release MetaForm on 13th Dec, merging raw aggression with atmospheric depth.
Album Review: Dimholt – MetaForm (Self Released)
Bulgarian black metal band Dimholt release MetaForm on 13th Dec, merging raw aggression with atmospheric depth.
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December 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Album Review: Dimholt – MetaForm (Self Released)
Bulgarian black metal band Dimholt release MetaForm on 13th Dec, merging raw aggression with atmospheric depth.
Bulgarian black metal band Dimholt release MetaForm on 13th Dec, merging raw aggression with atmospheric depth.
Today’s single slam features Paleface Swiss, Krooked Tongue, Crystal Lake, Divine Chaos, Coagulating, Scratch One Grub, Unburier, Roman Candle, Ov Sulfur, Textures, Atlas, No Murder No Moustache, JustSkye, and Lord of the Lost.
Single Slam: Paleface Swiss, Krooked Tongue, Crystal Lake, Divine Chaos, Coagulating, Scratch One Grub, Unburier, Roman Candle, Ov Sulfur, Textures, Atlas, No Murder No Moustache, JustSkye, and Lord of the Lost!
Today’s single slam features Paleface Swiss, Krooked Tongue, Crystal Lake, Divine Chaos, Coagulating, Scratch One Grub, Unburier, Roman Candle, Ov Sulfur, Textures, Atlas, No Murder No Moustache, JustSkye, and Lord of the Lost.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Today’s single slam features Paleface Swiss, Krooked Tongue, Crystal Lake, Divine Chaos, Coagulating, Scratch One Grub, Unburier, Roman Candle, Ov Sulfur, Textures, Atlas, No Murder No Moustache, JustSkye, and Lord of the Lost.
Britain’s energetic metallers, Premier Jester, continue their meteoric rise with the release of their brand new single and video, 'Slow Dance'. In this interview, we get to know them a little better.
Interview: Getting to Know Premier Jester
Britain’s energetic metallers, Premier Jester, continue their meteoric rise with the release of their brand new single and video, 'Slow Dance'. In this interview, we get to know them a little better.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Britain’s energetic metallers, Premier Jester, continue their meteoric rise with the release of their brand new single and video, 'Slow Dance'. In this interview, we get to know them a little better.
From potent black metal, to thought-provoking hard rock and expressive melodic death metal, to ugly sludge and nasty punk, and big progressive rock sounds, we’ve reviewed some great releases this week, and here’s our weekly reminder of what was covered. All these releases are out now!
Weekly Review Roundup: Monday 1st December 2025 – Friday 5th December 2025
From potent black metal, to thought-provoking hard rock and expressive melodic death metal, to ugly sludge and nasty punk, and big progressive rock sounds, we’ve reviewed some great releases this week, and here’s our weekly reminder of what was covered. All these releases are out now!
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December 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
From potent black metal, to thought-provoking hard rock and expressive melodic death metal, to ugly sludge and nasty punk, and big progressive rock sounds, we’ve reviewed some great releases this week, and here’s our weekly reminder of what was covered. All these releases are out now!
I’m counting down 10 of the cosiest modern games to play this winter. From heartfelt adventures that tug at your emotions, to charming sims that let you slow down and breathe, these titles are all about warmth, comfort, and connection.
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10 Cosiest Games To Play This Winter ❄️
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December 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I’m counting down 10 of the cosiest modern games to play this winter. From heartfelt adventures that tug at your emotions, to charming sims that let you slow down and breathe, these titles are all about warmth, comfort, and connection.
youtu.be/h5Pyd2BcUNM?...
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Come for the fights, stay for the story, and then get into even more fights. BROK: The Brawl Bar isn’t a complex game, but it is an enjoyable one.
Game Review: BROK: The Brawl Bar (Xbox Series X)
Come for the fights, stay for the story, and then get into even more fights. BROK: The Brawl Bar isn’t a complex game, but it is an enjoyable one.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Come for the fights, stay for the story, and then get into even more fights. BROK: The Brawl Bar isn’t a complex game, but it is an enjoyable one.
Alt-rock phenom TX2 has announced his long-awaited and highly anticipated debut album ‘End Of Us’, set for release on February 13, 2026 via Hopeless Records.
TX2 Announces Debut Album – End Of Us | New Single Feat. Black Veil Brides – Out Now
Alt-rock phenom TX2 has announced his long-awaited and highly anticipated debut album ‘End Of Us’, set for release on February 13, 2026 via Hopeless Records.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Alt-rock phenom TX2 has announced his long-awaited and highly anticipated debut album ‘End Of Us’, set for release on February 13, 2026 via Hopeless Records.
Swiss modern metallers Ophelia’s Eye return with a vengeance, announcing the release of their towering new EP, Severance, arriving Friday, 12th December. Leading the charge is the title track, Severance, which is out now. In this interview, we get to know them a little better.
Interview: Getting to Know Ophelia’s Eye
Swiss modern metallers Ophelia’s Eye return with a vengeance, announcing the release of their towering new EP, Severance, arriving Friday, 12th December. Leading the charge is the title track, Severance, which is out now. In this interview, we get to know them a little better.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Swiss modern metallers Ophelia’s Eye return with a vengeance, announcing the release of their towering new EP, Severance, arriving Friday, 12th December. Leading the charge is the title track, Severance, which is out now. In this interview, we get to know them a little better.
Super satisfying stuff, even if you probably need to have an ear for the extreme, a corrupted soul, and a sickened mind to get the most out of it.
Album Review: Lust Of Decay – Entombed In Sewage (Comatose Music)
Old school brutal death metal band, Lust of Decay have returned to release their first new album since 2006. It’s called ‘Entombed in Sewage’ and it spews out into the world on December 12th, 2025, via Comatose Music.
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December 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Super satisfying stuff, even if you probably need to have an ear for the extreme, a corrupted soul, and a sickened mind to get the most out of it.