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An Entertaining Investigative Comedy Misused as a Radical Piece of Propaganda - A Review of Detective Chinatown 1900

An Entertaining Investigative Comedy Misused as a Radical Piece of Propaganda - A Review of Detective Chinatown 1900

Detective Chinatown 1900, originally known as Tang Ren Jie Tan an 1900, is the fourth entry in the commercially successful comedic investigative franchise. The story takes place in San Francisco's Chinatown where a young Caucasian woman and an elderly...

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Out of the Box and Spiralling out of Control - A Review of Avatar's Dance Devil Dance

Out of the Box and Spiralling out of Control - A Review of Avatar's Dance Devil Dance

Avatar is a Swedish quintet that has been around for more than two decades by now and Dance Devil Dance is already the band's ninth regular full length record. Personally, I have heard rock and metal fans talking about this band before but I have only...

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Old School Death Metal That Only Sounds Interesting on Paper - A Review of Gokseong's Whispers from the Haunted Shadows

Old School Death Metal That Only Sounds Interesting on Paper - A Review of Gokseong's Whispers from the Haunted Shadows

Gokseong sounds quite interesting on paper: a South-Korean death and thrash metal band focusing on lyrics based upon Korean horror tales. A closer look however reveals that the initiative premise is a lot less intriguing than it seems to be. The duo plays...

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Still Rocking Out Strongly with an Enthusiastic Mindset - A Review of Bonfire's Higher Ground

Still Rocking Out Strongly with an Enthusiastic Mindset - A Review of Bonfire's Higher Ground

While mellow heavy metal bands such as Axxis claim to be legends, German quintet Bonfire actually deserves to be called this way. If we combine the years when the band has been active under the Cacumen banner as well as under the Bonfire name, then the...

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Devilish Promotion of the Next Full Length Record - A Review of Destruction's Birth of Malice Extended Play

Devilish Promotion of the Next Full Length Record - A Review of Destruction's Birth of Malice Extended Play

Destruction has become an international thrash metal quartet with members from Germany, Switzerland, Canada and Argentina that has been going through ups and downs for forty-two remarkable years. Birth of Malice EP is an extended play being released by...

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No Error to Be Detected on This Beautiful Day - A Review of Nemophila's Apple of My Eye

No Error to Be Detected on This Beautiful Day - A Review of Nemophila's Apple of My Eye

Nemophila is hard-working female metalcore quartet from Japan and Apple of My Eye is the band's fourth full length effort in just above three years. Most bands end up stuttering and lacking quality with such a phenomenal release rhythm but Nemophila has...

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Kluth - Best of January 2025: A Spotify Playlist

Dear readers, The month of January has blessed us with many excellent but also a few disappointing musical releases. In order to keep track of what is good, what can be ignored and what shouldn't be listened to again, here is my personal playlist of my...

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Z Japan - A Review of Matenrou Opera's Six Flowers

Z Japan - A Review of Matenrou Opera's Six Flowers

Matenrou Opera is a quintet whose star has slowly been rising in the coveted Japanese symphonic power metal genre throughout the past few years. With the band's tenth studio record Six Flowers, the group might have the potential to finally ascend the...

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Roaring Leaders - A Review of Ex Deo's Year of the Four Emperors

Roaring Leaders - A Review of Ex Deo's Year of the Four Emperors

Years sixty-eight and sixty-nine were particularly complicated in Ancient Rome and already foreshadowed the incoming downfall of the gigantic empire. Roman emperor Nero committed suicide after a reign of thirteen years after being deserted by the Praetorian...

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2024 Sebastian Kluth Awards

2024 Sebastian Kluth Awards

Dear visitors of my blog! Inspired by the annual Academy Awards, here are my personal choices for the different categories regarding movies, television series and video games released in 2024: Best Picture: Cabrini Best Television Series: Alex Rider Best...

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