Cold Prey Trilogy — Cold Prey Trilogy ( Blu Ray boxset)

The Slasher genre’s true home is the USA, as most of its key developments have occurred there, along with many of its most notable films & franchises. But other countries have also made stabs at the genre too, and I’d say Norway's Cold Prey trilogy is one of the most known/ effective of these. Here from Second Sight is a classy/ definitive reissue of the trilogy. The three-disc Blu-ray set comes presented in a rigid slipcase with new artwork by James Neal. It features a one hundred and twenty-one-page book with new essays by Matt Donato, JA Kerswell, Justin LaLiberty, Paul Lé’s Ariel Power-Schaub and Nathaniel Thompson. As well as five collectors' art cards. Each film gets a new commentary track, and a decent selection of extras too.

Nonturn — Repeating Town

Life is full of repeating patterns and cycles, be they from the Earth and Moon, our natural beings, or those we create in our day-to-day. Extend this out, and one can see a city come to life, following its own patterns and cycles, built upon thousands (or more) simultaneously running and moving cycles of its denizens. Nonturn takes these repetitive city cycles, repurposes their sounds, and structures them into a new, 96 BPM cycle for Repeating Town. Capturing the machines, footsteps, sounds, and rhythms of Koenji, Tokyo, Nonturn builds an intriguing new city life via experimental electronic music. Rearranging the recorded sounds to form something musical from nothing, this dada-esque reconstruction makes art from the repetitive chaos of the city routine

Adrien Griveau-Hue — Enlightened Depths

Enlightened Depths is a one-hour slab of rolling bass- boil and tumbling static-based wall noise from this French noise maker. The digital release appears on Poland’s Gates Of Hypos.

Norfolk Trotter — Gritcore

Gritcore is a new two-track HNW release from Norfolk Trotter- aka Norwich’s Michael Ridge (Acerbitas, Zebra Mu, Dial-Up Summer Breeze). Each ‘wall’ runs between thirty and forty minutes, and has been created by playing sandpaper on a modified turntable.

Walls For Eerie, Haunted, & Darkly Hopeless Vistas

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

Creative ‘n’ Inventive sleaze- The world of Roman Porno

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.