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No CommentsKarbach Brewing Company – Crawford Bock (2025)
Another one of those nice 1980s American adjunct beers, Karbach Crawford Bock tastes like old school Budweiser complete with faint overtones of squash decay and vinegar bitterness, but mostly a sweetness and easy of consumption that makes it hard to choke down like Coke or Sprite.
No CommentsTags: beer, karbach brewing company
When We Went MAD (2025)
Few entities have been as metal as Mad Magazine, which started with the notion that most people are insane and in denial, which makes for absurd comedy as humanity collides with reality. Although this came about seventeen years before Black Sabbath, it shared a sensibility.
2 CommentsTags: documentary, film, mad magazine
Karbach Brewing Company – Love Street Blonde (2025)
Famous for its bitter hipster IPAs, Karbach Brewing Company attempts something slightly different with this beer, a wheat and barley based adjunct beer that like Modelo Especial, delivers a thin but pleasant taste, although in this case, without undo sweetness, fermentation artifacts, or bitterness.
10 CommentsRealm of Satan (2024)
Imagine an entire documentary dedicated to trolling its audience into considering that human drama is trivial, through the assertion of quirky human drama, in the context of a dark lord who exemplifies what terrifies normies.
17 CommentsSaint Arnold – Citrus Boom Imperial IPA (2025)
We try to review only the relevant around here and dismiss the bad with short reviews, but this may be the worst beer I have ever tasted. Short review: bitter IPA with pineapple and soap flavors and undertones of perfume that makes this more vomitous than the cheapest Pabst clone.
1 CommentTags: imperial IPA, st arnold
New Belgium Voodoo Ranger: Imperial IPA (2025)
Upon first taste, 1980s Michelob; middle-taste is a little bit sweeter; finishing taste has more citrus and a fizzy, spicy lingering hybrid of aroma and flavor. This beer goes down easy because nothing in its taste profile conflicts with the rest of its flavor edifice.
1 CommentTags: beer, imperial IPA, IPA, new belgium brewery, voodoo ranger
The Real Spies Among Friends (2022)
If you want a gentle introduction to the Cambridge Five spy scandal which effectively gutted the upper classes of Britain and savaged the faith of its ordinary citizens in the Establishment, consider The Real Spies Among Friends, a documentary of psychology as much as spycraft.
76 CommentsTags: cambridge five, documentary, espionage, film
Thaumaturgy – Pestilential Hymns (2025)
Pursuing a precipice between cavernous death metal and uptempo technical death metal, Thaumaturgy fuses an Immolation sense of harmony with the raw chromatic rushing power of an Incantation or Obituary, tunneling deep into a density of sound with multiple internal breaks creating a running dialogue.
10 CommentsCryoxyd – …This World We Live In (2025)
On the surface very much in love with the Testimony of the Ancients era Pestilence, this band injects a sensibility of moods more like the technical albums from Immolation and Gorguts, replacing a frenetic urgency with more varied tempi and therefore, more adaptive riffing.
3 CommentsTags: cryoxyd, death metal, Progressive Death Metal, progressive metal, Technical Death Metal
