'The Dictator' (UK Release: 16 May '12) // Words: Saam Das Sasha Baron Cohen rose to fame with his man(dem) of the people interviewer Ali G, following up with the increasingly controversial Borat and Bruno, each of which spawned their own feature films. Cohen has returned with a new character, the charmless leader of a fictional North African state, Admiral General Aladeen, in 'The Dictator' - a comedy filled with crass humour, occasionally poignant political satire and dubious romantic subplot. For his latest feature film outing, Baron Cohen has once again teamed up with 'Borat' and 'Bruno' director Larry Charles . While ...

Let's set the sceptre rolling with a pithy adherence to the cult of celebrity. Who would you deem more famed: Jay-Z or Kanye West ? About which would you rather read stories of fabricated salaciousness? Would you sooner christen your offspring Shawn or Kanye? Would you care? Indeed does anyone care? To quote Mr. West, "Do anybody make real shit anymore?" Watch The Throne was arguably, to clumsily paraphrase, really quite shit in places. Fanciful inquisitions aside however, if this uniting to tour the record aforesaid ought to celebrate the coming together of two contemporary hip hop titans, this one ...

(Sometimes a band hits the Ripple Staff so hard that two writers want to review it.  Check here for Odin's review.  Here's Big's) A two man Death Metal band from Pinellas County Florida who couldn't care less about being trendy.  With an album titled “Hacked to Perfection”, you are initially interested to see if it a Death Metal masterpiece or, just a piece.  A quick look at the song titles will read like a mad man that has unleashed his hatred of women onto society at large, for reasons that appear lack of date related.  The ...

Dew-Scented, which recently posted a teaser trailer for the new album "Icarus," has announced the band&aposs; new line-up (re-)introduces Marvin Vriesde (Torture">Severe Torture, ex-Blo.Torch) as main guitarist and songwriter. Not a stranger to Dew-Scented?s path of life, Vriesde?s ties with the band go as far as back as 1996, when he played lead guitars for ... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

You stepped up with more songs on Torture than on previous albums. Why is that? Rob Barrett: The original plan was that each of us to write four or five songs, but we decided to stop writing several weeks before going into the studio to concentrate on the 12 songs that were already written. I [...]

3/13 maggio 2012 – Teatro Vascello Roma Scritto e diretto da Marco Calvani 2.5 out of 5 stars Il titolo dello spettacolo è sicuramente evocativo: Penelope che tesse la tela aspettando il suo amato Ulisse, non ad Itaca ma in Groznyj. Groznyj, capitale della Cecenia, sede delle torture perpetrate dai Russi sotto il velo di [...]

For most viewers, there's no way to take a look at that Twisted Pictures logo and feel at ease. Sure, it's intimidating all on it's own -- dark lowercase lettering separated by barbed-wire, inky shadows. But it's an entirely different sort of fear that emerges from the house that James Wan built. The company piggybacked off three "Saw" films before it decided to expand into other hoary, blood-soaked horror cheapies, most of them in the direct-to-video realm. With "Saw" over, however, Twisted Pictures still has a few leftovers from the torture porn trend, and one is 2010 ...

Having just ended their first US tour for their newly-released 12th studio album, "Torture" (reviewed here), the members of Cannibal Corpse aren?t planning on resting long before touring again. MetalUnderground.com was on site for a show report on the band?s stop in Nashville, TN on April 30th and to catch up with drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz, who not... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

While listening to this new, typically idiosyncratic single by cosmic eccentrics Super Best Friends Club, I found myself split down the centre, psychologically speaking, until the two predominant aspects of my personality were standing in the middle of the room, facing one another down and shouting. Well. One of them was shouting. 'It's just a bunch of ridiculous pseudo-psychedelic nonsense bullshit rubbish perpetrated by drug-addled hippie fuckwits!' yelled the loud, cynical half of me, the half that likes horribly loud bass and thinks Jack Bauer should be allowed to torture whoever he wants.... Read more..

Just because Brooklyn Decker is incredibly gorgeous and a one-time Sports Illustrated model doesn't mean that things come easy to her, especially not things like her lead role in the movie Battleship . VIDEO: Brooklyn Decker Is Hot & Messy In The May Issue Of GQ The blonde beauty was up bright and early this morning to hit the rainy streets of New York City for her appearance on the Today show. PHOTOS: Brooklyn Decker: "I Want To Adopt A Special Needs Child!" The actress may have been dressed in all blue, but during her interview she revealed that it took ...

Cannibal Corpse, the gorefathers of death metal, will be returning to Europe in June for the band&aposs; first European tour in support of latest album "Torture" (reviewed here). To find out what you are in for, you can also check out our recent show report of Cannibal Corpse&aposs; appearance in Nashville. Comments bassist Alex Webster: "We are very exci... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

Cannibal Corpse is like a peanut butter & jelly sandwich if you think about it. I don?t mean literally, of course. The band has been around for 24 years with largely the same consistent sound. Every one of the records has been consistently outselling the one before it without the band ever selling out to be more commercially viable. The tours have ... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

People from outside Tennessee often link Nashville and Memphis together, which leads me to quickly reminding them that there are numerous differences between the two Volunteer State cities. M-town’s crime [...]

Artist: Cannibal Corpse Album: Torture Released: 2012 Style: Death metal Format: MP3 320Kbps / FLAC Size: 123+18 Mb Tracklist: 01 – Demented Aggression 02 – Sarcophagic Frenzy 03 – Scourge Of Iron 04 – Encased In Concrete 05 – As Deep As The Knife Will Go 06 – Intestinal Crank 07 – Followed Home Then Killed 08 – The Strangulation Chair 09 – Caged…Contorted 10 – Crucifier Avenged 11 – [...]

In my never humble opinion, one of the true joys of music is that no matter how many songs you’ve heard, no matter how many bands you’ve seen, no matter how much you think it’s all been done before, it never fails that you hear a new album or you see a new band perform live, and they grab you by the throat and don’t let go.  Sometimes it’s the energy of the performance, sometimes it’s the sheer brilliance of the songs, but whatever it is, it happens often enough that it makes you ...