Cruel Tales Of The Bohachi — Cruel Tales Of The Bohachi( UHD & Blu Ray)

From Eureka Entertainment, Cruel Tales Of The Bohachi is dual UHD/ Blu Ray set, bringing together two blood spurting ‘n’ fleshy samurai films from the mid 70’s- which sit with-in the Pinky violence genre. They are both based on the popular manga by Lone Wolf and Cub creators Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, and focus on nihilistic/ high amoral ronin in the Edo period. Both pictures are OTT Japanese exploitation films- high with both gory slashings and sleaze- with side roads in torture and rope bondage. Each film recives a new HD scan bold with fleshy & blood red tones. With commentary tracks, and a mix of new & old extras

Magick Mtn. — Magick Mtn. (DVD)

Magick Mtn. is a 2026 film that is desperately trying to be as mysterious, uneasy, and intriguingly cryptic as possible. But sadly, it largely comes off as badly amateurish, pretentious, and at points an out & out frustrating mess. Filmed in black & white- the film sits somewhere between fantasy and horror with mumblecore dialogue and darting occultic imagery- mixing together three rather vague stories set in Laurel Canyon. Here from Cleopatra Entertainment is a DVD release of the film- taking in a director’s/ actors commentary and a few other things.

Alive With Static

Olion Interview

Active since the early 2020’s, Olion is one of the key projects within the euro wall-noise scene. To date, it’s put out around seventy releases- taking in both physical and digital form- with stand-alone releases, splits, and collaborations. Sound-wise, their output moves between pummelling, thick-yet oddly soothing. To more texturally layered, and forays into ANW. Behind the project is Olek Browiński from Olsztyn in northern Poland, and he kindly agreed to give us an email interview

Won’t You Ragnarok with Me?

A Julian Cope Primmer

Erupting into the mainstream on February 19th 1981, The Teardrop Explodes’ debut ‘Top of the Pops’ television performance featuring their brassy, bouncy hit ‘Reward’ is to this day probably the moment from which most people recall Julian Cope. If your image of Julian remains that of an earnest young budding pop star sporting a fleece-collared flying jacket and a shaggy bowlcut of shoulder-length tresses, if you failed to maintain pace with his entry into the cosmos, if you dismissively describe him (as I’ve seen thereabouts) as “a Smash Hits pin-up”, you have one hell of a lot of catching up to do. Musique Machine have tasked me with leading their readers through the psychedelic jungle and beyond, here, and I have to say that Julian probably merits the ‘beginners’ guide to’ / ‘recommended records’ treatment more than just about any other artist in the music sphere, at least in terms of how public perception and the ‘reality’ (if such a word is appropriate in this extreme case) have a near-unbridgeable gulf.