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Eight things to buy your geek this Christmas
By Jake Rivett Christmas is a wonderful time for everyone, but it’s an especially awesome time for geeks. They can hide themselves away with their new Blu – Ray box sets, computer games or ignore the whole happy family whilst reading their new comic book! So what do you buy a nerd? Are you stuck [...]
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Zeros and ones – the lost passion for collecting music
By Vernon Tart Remember the days of the record store, when you could take a walk down memory lane just by looking at the incredible array of album covers on the shelves. Along came compact discs with an improvement in sound quality. For most vinyl collectors that has not proven to be the case and [...]
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Reviews: Edit Contact Lenses
By Kayleigh Herbertson Coloured contacts are a simple and effective accessory to instantly change the colour of you eyes and are sold in many gothic and alternative boutiques. Edit pride themselves in being the premier provider of fashion lenses in Europe and they have more than enough selection for you to choose from!
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The journey into straight edge
By Neil Thomason I’ve been asked to talk about straight edge by Culture Bomb, which is cool, but I guess I should preface this first: I am not immersed in the straight edge culture – I don’t listen to a lot of ‘edge’ bands as they tend to suck and be pretty one note in my opinion – and my [...]
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Profiling xMore Than Inkx
By Georgi Bomb “The inspiration was a pretty simple thing really. I noticed the lack of clothing lines in Europe aimed at straight edge/hardcore kids. I’ve never been about making money, I’m just proud that there are people out there wearing my clothing, not many people can say that. Plus I’ve always wanted to be in [...]
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Rat kings and goat rulers
By Adam Smyth As You Drown are a five-headed, ten-legged extreme death metal outfit from Sweden. As well as being able to brag about touring with the likes of Entombed and Vader, they’re signed to the mighy Metal Blade Records and have recently released their second album Rat King. With the band drawing influence from noisemakers Anaal Nathrakh, [...]
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An Evening with Dimmu Borgir
By Georgi Bomb Interrupting one of the founding members of Dimmu Borgir, the biggest black metal band to come from Norway, as he is eating his takeaway dinner is not the best way to start an interview. But thankfully, guitarist/songwriter Silenoz is pleasant enough, scoffing down the final remains of his food and commenting on the [...]
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The Misrepresented Morality of Modern Warfare
By Robert Bayley With the recent release of the final instalment of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare trilogy, the promotional blitz seems to have taken over most of the British countryside. Game franchises don’t come much bigger than the blockbuster series and with the amount of adverts dotting television, websites and billboards you’d be forgiven for thinking [...]
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Culture Bomb’s Halloween shopping guide for the fashion conscious
By Celeste Carrigan Often described as the goth’s Christmas, Halloween is that time of year where the leaves fall from the trees and the ghost and ghouls come out to play. But what will you go as? No longer is it just about being a witch or a devil on auld Hallow’s Eve, there is [...]
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Alternative ideas for Halloween
By Georgi Bomb Halloween is fast approaching so now is the time to think about what to do this Hallow’s Eve? Getting dressed up as Edward Scissorhands, a cat or something slutty is getting a bit dated these days so how about trying something a bit different? Culture Bomb has come up with some rather [...]
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Top ten most underrated horror movies EVER!
By Robert Bayley The Exorcist, Frankenstein, Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre; all movies that rightly deserve their place as pinnacles of filmmaking. Even those that aren’t considered classics of their form are considered classics of their genre; think of the likes of Friday the 13th, The Last House on the Left and I Walked With [...]
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Gorelesque performer – Violet Eyes
By Jake Rivett Violet Eyes is a bubbly, down-to-earth performer, constantly pimping out Catalyst Latex, who she is the current main model for. Using Twitter, she loves to chat to her fans and other models. Violet took ten minutes out of her busy schedule to talk to Jake Rivett.
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You know when you’ve been thrashed – Onslaught
By Adam Smyth Some say that musical styles seem to run in cycles and that possibly may be the case with thrash. In just the past two or three years, the metal sub genre has been reinvigorated and revitalised. With the Big Four – Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax, who were notorious for their rivalry [...]
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Reviews: Download Festival 2011
By Robert Bayley Now the dust has settled and the tents have been abandoned; sufficient time has passed to properly digest and ruminate on the events of this year’s Download Festival.
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Into the deep – an interview with Robin Staps from The Ocean
By Georgi Bomb The Ocean are a band who delve more into the musical creative pit than a lot of metal bands around these days. Not content with falling into a standard band category, there is so much more to the collective than first glance. Self-designed lighting,thought-provoking lyrics, members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and a live [...]
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