by Sebastian Kluth
Dear readers of my blog! Here comes a rare review of Ningen-Isu's latest full length record "Burai Houjou". The band name of this legendary Japanese heavy metal trio can be translated as "The Human Chair" while their eighteenth record since 1987 is entitled...
"John Wick" is another fast-paced and graphic revenge movie with some entertaining action and black humour, a fitting soundtrack and the usual stereotypical characters from the Russian mafia. When it comes to gripping revenge flicks, you should rather...
The Chinese action-drama "The White Storm" took me completely by surprise and I consider it even as the best movie of the year 2013. It's an emotional and almost epic movie about anger, betrayal, despair, forgiveness, friendship, loneliness, loss, love,...
Edguy was one of those bands that introduced me to metal music one decade ago and I consider myself a big fan of the band who has purchased not only all their regular studio albums but also all live records and numerous EPs. I must though admit that I...
Ningen-Isu (The Human Chair) is a criminally underrated doom metal band from Aomori in Japan. The tight trio has a very dynamical sound that also ventures into the heavy metal and progressive rock genres here and there. Imagine a mixture of Black Sabbath...
"Amsterdam" is a quite unusual but promising movie from Quebec. The film starts as a comedy flick. Three quite different childhood friends want to escape from their everyday lives. They tell their wives or girlfriends that they would go on a hunting trip...
Sebastian Kluth: “Hello and thank you a lot for taking some of your precious time for this interview occasion. Black Infinity is a modern metal band that came together in Saigon back in 2006. Please tell us more about the formation of your band. How did...
"The After-Dinner Mysteries" is apparently a quite popular Japanese series but you don't need to know that to enjoy this vivid movie. This very Japanese over-the-top film mixes elements of different genres such as dramas, slapstick comedies or old-fashioned...
This movie is a loose continuation of the remake "The Housemaid" and received negative critics at Cannes Festival. Director Im Sang-Soo regretted for having presented this movie and said that it could only be understood by Korean people. Of course, this...
Spring Autumn is a Beijing-based heavy metal band with progressive tendencies and Chinese folk influences. The band is especially known thanks to its American born guitar player Kaiser Kuo who has already been involved in the Chinese pioneer Heavy Metal...
"Lee Daniels' The Butler" is a detailed drama about the modern history of the Afro-American people from the dark years of slavery in the beginning of the twentieth century over the revolutions around historical characters like Martin Luther King and Malcolm...
Nine Treasures is one of many recent Chinese folk metal bands that are influenced by Mongolian culture, history, and language. The band is clearly heavier than Hanggan, a little bit more accessible and joyful than Tengger Cavalry, and more traditional...
In Extremo is not only the most famous medieval rock outfit but also one of Germany’s most spectacular live bands. It’s impressive to see the seven members on a well decorated stage while they perform exotic instruments such as davuls, harps, mandolin,...
Il est fort possible que vous soyez récemment tombés sur des affiches annonçant les «Jeux du Québec» un peu partout dans la ville de Saguenay, notamment dans les secteurs de Jonquière et de Chicoutimi depuis quelques semaines. Si vous vous posez des questions...
"Kuchisake-onna 2" is often seen as a prequel to the first part but this is wrong. The story line and even the genre are completely different and there is almost no connection between both movies. Instead of a possessed mother that tortures her own children...
This film is by far the best comedy movie of the year so far. It includes completely ridiculous and exaggerated action scenes that can last for overlong ten minutes or more and involved hundreds of cars destroyed in a city centre by only a few guys. It...
This is the first relevant "Kuchisake-Onna" movie. It's a dark slasher vaguely inspired by true events that hit Japan back in the seventies. Several pupils are kidnapped on their way home. Soon rumours are spread about a possessed woman with a long trench...
Teenie and high school horror movies were quite popular in North America during the nineties and that vague somehow hit the Asian continent one decade later and many amazing but sometimes also redundant twisted supernatural movies flooded the market....
Holy Dragons is a power metal band from Almaty, Kazakhstan that is a lot better than its cheesy band name might suggest you at first sight. The band plays in fact power metal with grounded vocals and guts. They skip all unnecessary stuff such as narrations...
Asian metal music gets more and more popular these days as leading countries such as Japan are now rejoined by China, Taiwan or Vietnam that all have a very diversified metal scene. Bangladesh has a smaller metal community but was in fact one of the first...
Baroness have been one of the most discussed bands of the year 2012 among metal fans even though this band has not much to do with this genre anymore in my humble opinion. What they play is nothing more or less than psychedelic progressive rock with a...
Usually I’m not the biggest fan of old school thrash black metal in the key of early Bathory, Celtic Frost or Venom and prefer more progressive stuff like Absu, for example. This first demo recording from a young band hailing from Israel is though actually...
It took a full decade for the the People's Republic of China's pioneer heavy metal band to come around with a third and until now last album. While their first record was groundbreaking with its fusion of Western rock music and Chinese folk sounds and...
After the somewhat lovelessly compilated "Home At Last" EP that featured three rehashed live songs, a good title track and two rather generic and powerless songs, I was a little bit secptical concerning the release of this new full length album that mostly...
Cet article parlera d’un sport que j’adore autant que le hockey sur glace, mais qui est quelque peu négligé au Canada et au Québec: le soccer. Pourtant, depuis cette année, ce sport mondial a connu une importante montée en qualité et en visibilité au...
