I am a self-described underground horror fan, foodie, craft beer enthusiast and death metal freak, so I was thrilled beyond imagining when I got the chance to interview Mike Hochins from Canadian metal band Violent Homicidal Slasher (AKA V.H.S. – check out my review of their album, A Very Merry …

Bursting out from the gore-crusted seams of Toronto comes the pulsating feast of death/gore/grind, Human Compost, who have just released a compilation on Horror Pain Gore Death Productions titled Exhumations Of Death And Horror featuring all of the band’s EP material dating back to 2013. Included are the EPs Degradation Of …

Filmmaker Olaf Ittenbach is praised by gore fans all over the world for his own films such as Burning Moon, Black Past, Premutos, Dard Divorce, Garden Of Love, Beyond The Limits, House Of Blood, No Reason and also his effects work on countless films such as la petite mort, Mutation …

All hail the first feature zombie film from Belgium! Proprietor of TerrorVisions Productions Rob Ceus (Freak In the Basement 2018) is putting the finishing touches on his underground indie production, Zombies From Sector 9, and aiming with sniper precision for an early 2019 release. Also known as Ceus Rob, the filmmaker …

Italian director Davide Pesca returns to deliver another collection of tales of the deranged, artistic and gore-riddled. The last film I had the pleasure of watching from Pesca was Tales From Deep Hell, a ride through a gory and macabre Hades where the devil is the least of your worries. …

Prolific Italian filmmaker Domiziano Cristopharo (you can read our interview with him here) is back with the third installment in the Trilogy Of Death called Xpiation, with the first two installments being Torment and American Guinea Pig: Sacrifice. Cristopharo has this brilliant artistry to his film work. It has a very …

Three man wrecking crew Diphenylchloroarsine from Norway/Czech Republic are back with their first full length following up after their EP, The 6 Level Purge, in 2015. They take their name from a deadly organoarsenic chemical compound and play a style self-described as “biochemical sludge slam.” The newest album, Post Apocalyptic Human Annihilation, …

This practically unheard of Canadian gem from 1983 is a prime example of how bold and adventurous northern indie cinema was in this era. Enter production company Salter Street Films from Nova Scotia, along with Director Paul Donovan (Def Con 4 1985) and his brother and lawyer, Michael Donovan, who ran …

Chicago death metal outfit Broken Hope have been around since the early nineties. Before the internet surfaced, the only way to hear about different underground metal bands was by print. I actually heard about Broken Hope in the pages of Metal Maniacs Magazine and the writers had barely anything good …

Filmmaker Alex Wesley (AKA Alexander Sharoglazov) has been on the movie industry scene for a while, scraping up budgets in his homeland of Russia to pull off his innovative films. To underground horror fans, Wesley has a number of flicks under his belt, including the impressive Zombie Infection (2011) and Demon …