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Here we have the fourth in Severin’s celebrated Danza Macabra boxset series, which focuses on European gothic horror cinema- mixing the known with the more obscure pictures.For this set, we return to Italy again- with five films dating from between the mid-sixties and early seventies. Each of the featured pictures is given a sparkling new scan, as well as a hefty selection of largely all-new extras.
15 Jul 2026
Vacant Align Interview
Active since October 2025, Wisconsin’s Vacant Align is one of the more atmospheric and texturally inventive wall noise projects to appear in some time. It’s a project that takes its time in releasing work, and you can certainly hear it, as each of their releases so far is a perfectly crafted blend of expressive and engaging textures. Behind the project is John Engman, who very kindly agreed to give us an email interview
24 Jun 2026
UK underground thrashers, Äxe, have completed their second demo to follow up their recent support tour and festival performances. Autogeddon's appearance on cassette helps to reinforce the old-school sound and aesthetic, bringing their rough and ready metal to the masses (well, thanks to the digital version, that is). Their lo-fi approach furthers their somewhat blackened take on thrash and pumps the underground/DIY blood through the young band's veins.
First released in the late 1970s, this self-titled album is a dense ‘n’ dizzying collision between baying guitar ‘n’ honking horn instrumental music, avant jazz, modern classical music, jamming experimentation, and shifting sample dada derangement.
First released in the year 1989, My Government Is My Soul, was the 11th album from Bourbonese Qualk- the UK-based anarchistic and experimental music collective that existed (on and off) between the early 1980s and the early 2000s. The sixteen-track (plus two bonus tracks) affair found the project mixing often detailed percussion- both electronic & organic- with funky grooves, bright-to-brooding electronics, shouty anarcho-punk vocals, and subtle world music touches. Here, from the fine folks at Austria's Klanggalerie, as part of their series of reissues of the band's back catalogue, is a CD release of the album.
La Tête Contre Les Murs — La Tête Contre Les Murs ( Blu Ray)
10 Jul 2026Half Movement / Sado Rituals — Strategy & Tactics
10 Jul 2026No Fun HNW/ TÔLE-ACHE — Split
10 Jul 2026Romancing In Thin Air — Romancing In Thin Air( Blu Ray)
10 Jul 2026Ain Sof Aur — Theos-Vel-Samae
10 Jul 2026DeepStar Six — DeepStar Six ( Blu Ray)
8 Jul 2026Ava Rabiat — Szał Wirtualnych Cia
8 Jul 2026Aesthetics of a Bullet — Aesthetics of a Bullet ( Blu Ray)
8 Jul 2026
Jasper Sharp interview
In the year 1971, Nikkatsu, the oldest/ at one point, the biggest film production company in Japan. Did something quite daring/ some would say crazy- they completely switched over their production to softcore adult films, which would become known as Roman Porno. Between 1971 and 1988, the company produced around 850 of these titles. The thing that made these films stand out from general softcore films is the often creative & inventive choices made- yes, the films primal focus is sleaze, but great examples of the genre are so much more than that. In the last year or so, there has been a spate of reissues of films in the genre from labels such as 88 Films, Third Window Films, and Klubb Super 8. One of the key figures/contributors behind these releases is Jasper Sharp- one of the world's experts on the genre, and the wider Pink genre it’s connected to. Jasper kindly agreed to give us an email interview discussing his history with the genre, his contributions to releases, and the new/updated edition of his book Behind The Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema on Fab Press.
King Futile Interview
King Futile is the new project from Scotland-based Lea Cummings( Kylie Minoise, Official Music Team, etc), and it’s a big departure from his normal noise or retro sample & electronica sound. It's lo-fi acoustic music, with an outsider feel, and often quite tongue-in-cheek/ sharply sarcastic tone to the lyrics. So far, the project has put out three albums- Casual Misery, How To Have Fun, and Zen As Fuck. I tracked down Lea for an email interview.
Cliff Twemlow On Severin
One of last year’s real big surprises in the world of Blu-ray box sets was Bloody Legend: The Complete Twemlow Collection, as it was a wholly entertaining, fascinating, and at times heart-warming set. The Severin released boxset brought together the work of one of the UK’s unlikeliest movie moguls- Cliff Twemlow, a Mancunian bouncer/ body builder, who went on to write/star in/produce a series of low-budget/ largely SOV films in the early 80s to early 90s- these moved between action, thriller, sci-fi, and horror. His most notable/notorious film was 1983’s G.B.H., which landed on the video nasty list, though he was connected to other ten feature films, many of which got their first real full/proper release on the boxset. Opening up the set was the excellent 2023 documentary Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow, which really pulls you into the set. I caught up with Severn’s David Gregory and Jake West, director of Mancunian Man, to discuss the boxset and all things cliff.
The Fall
MES( Mark E Smith- The Falls main creator) possessed the ability to cram phrases into impossible spaces - “I’m hunting and I’m trying to find” delivered as “hut’na tryna find”; the eight-syllable “mere pseud mag editor’s father” hastily squeezed into a manipulation of time and space, heralded by the prior line “twice each at least”, the latter naturally repeated thrice.
