Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Film : The Crow Album : Wildhoney



The Crow is a film that was released in 1994. The film's genre could be classified as a revenge film or a romantic action film. The film uses a good amount a Gothic imagery to enhance the mood of the film. The story is rather touching as well. It is about a man who returns from the grave to avenge his and his lover's death. It is based on The Crow graphic novels. The film is a good watch every once in awhile but don't binge on it. Brando Lee, Bruce Lee's son, was killed on set when a special effect involving a gun went wrong and he had a dummy bullet shot into his abdomen. That only increases the dark atmosphere that the film can contain. Some of the villains are cheesy but that tends to happen in action flicks. A good movie if you miss the 1990's.



Tiamat's Wildhoney was released in the year 1994. Many consider it to be one of the first mixtures of Death Metal and Progressive Rock. Now there aren't any deep growls or lyrics about violence, gore and death on this album. Most of the songs are psychedelic in nature with a few odd ones. There's one about the Pentagram, another about nature, and another about Satan. There's even one about love, though it might be a little bit of odd love. There's a few instrumentals too. You can almost sense all of the drugs these guys were on when the recorded this album due to the massively trippy atmosphere.Some may also describe it as Gothic but if they were to look they would notice that this is vastly different from what was considered goth back then. A good album if you don't mind your music to be mixed with old psychedelic and some harsh-ish vocals.

2 comments:

  1. OK, you are definitely writing to a select audience, Jake. I want you to update/revise your Statement of Purpose and narrow it. Think about the selections you are making. They would be especially suited for what type of viewer/listener?

    Good work on your reviews. I think you've done a good job of writing in your own voice.

    For next week you need to update your blog title (Hampton's Blog) to reflect your theme. It should be catchy, not simply the topic. What would hook your readers and make them want to visit?

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  2. Well I am kind of getting tired of choosing the type of films and albums that I've been choosing. I plan on switching some things up for next Tuesday's blog post.

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