Author: David Jón Fuller

• October 15, 2012

  Metal Monday, Music

  Fake metal bands that should have existed

  They’re too good to be true (or too awful) and sometimes they’re hilarious because they don’t need to inhabit the real world. Imaginary musicians, faux songs or flat-out spoofs, here are my favourite fake metal bands.
• October 10, 2012

  Werewolf Wednesday

  What’s next for the lowly werewolf?

  Horror, like anything else, has its trends. Vampires have gone mainstream thanks to Anne Rice and Stephanie Meyer; zombies are the new vampires, if 28 Days Later and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies are any indication; and ghosts, while they haven’t made waves since movies such as  The Sixth Sense and The Others more than…
• October 8, 2012

  Book review, Metal Monday, Music

  Metal Monday: Chuck Klosterman’s Fargo Rock City

  One of the virtues of Chuck Klosterman’s take on 1980s heavy metal in Fargo Rock City is that, once you’ve read it, you’ll never look at metal the same way again. Born and raised in Wyndmere, N.D., Klosterman had already covered music for the Fargo Forum and the Akron Beacon Journal before writing it, and has…
• October 3, 2012

  Book review, Werewolf Wednesday

  Werewolf Wednesday: David Wellington’s Frostbite

  If revenge is a dish best served cold, then what better place for it than the Canadian North? In the bizarre landscape of the Arctic’s “drunken forest” and forsaken settlements such as Port Radium, David Wellington crafts an intriguing, original take on the werewolf mythos in Frostbite. Wellington had already shown his taste for revamping…
• October 1, 2012

  Metal Monday, Music

  Metal Monday: KISS’s Destroyer (Resurrected)

  Downloading KISS’s Destroyer (Resurrected) marks the fourth time  in my life I’ve paid full price for this album, but the first time I’m not sure it’s worth it. Destroyer is the album every other studio effort by the band is measured. Given Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley’s penchant for self-hype, it’s become something of a tradition…
• September 28, 2012

  Feature Friday, Movies

  Feature Friday: Jón Gustafsson’s Wrath of Gods

   Filmmaking is never easy. But when a perfect storm of financial and weather trouble hit Sturla Gunnarsson’s Beowulf and Grendel, the production took on a heroic scale that rivalled the plot of the movie itself. Jón Gustafsson brought it to life in his documentary Wrath of Gods.   Terry Gilliam once attempted to film an adaptation of Don Quixote. It was a notoriously…