For some, role-playing/ cosplaying is their all, making their day-to-day dreary/ drab existence seem barely. Here, from the late 60s, is Negatives- a lightly kinky at points disconcerting arty British drama focusing on one such character- a timid and unsure of himself London antiquarian.  The film is a rather lulling-paced affair, dotted with moments of sly erotica, psychological distress/ unfolding, and jarring moments of intensity- where fantasy and reality collide.   Here, from Severin, as part of their series of reissues of films by Hungarian-born British film director Peter Medak, is a Blu-ray release featuring a new scan, a good selection of extras, including on a second disc another film, 1963 Sparrows Can't Sing, a kitchen sink comedy drama that Medak was the assistant director on.

American-based label Give/Take are doing great things when it comes to dark and heavy music. Based in both LA and Minneapolis, they generally lean towards music produced in the US, but with a roster that includes Justin K Broadrick, Carthage and DB Armitage, it’s clear that they also have a predilection for music made on this side of the water. So, when Hana Piranha and Mishkin Fitzgerald both of longstanding prog-rock outfit Birdeatsbaby and metal combo Crimson Veil launched their side project HVIRESS, Give/Take leapt on board to release their long-awaited debut, BITCHHOUSE.

Marja Ahti is a Swedish/Finnish sound composer working in the electroacoustic domain with a prolific slew of solo and collaborative works in the last 5 years on labels such as Erstwhile and Hallow Ground.

Heart Of Grief is a recent four-track release from Liverpool’s Silver Dove, which finds the project mixing in elements of formal guitar playing, pedals, and field recordings into their walled noise sound.

Here’s a two-way US wall noise split bringing together Cincinnati’s The Perishing Of Faith and South Carolina’s No Fun HNW. Each party offers up their take on searing, nasty, and totally hopeless walling, with each roll-in around the thirty-minute mark.

The Woods is a 1960s-set film regarding an isolated New England girls' school, where things are not what they seem. The early 2000s picture is a mixing cauldron of supernatural thriller & folk horror- with a few twists of teen witchy, mist-shrouded gothic, axe-bound gore, and tree-limp-hugging terror.  Here from Arrow Video is a recent Blu-ray release of the picture, taking in new director's commentary, and a few other new extras.