Night of the Living Dead (1968)

George Romero's masterpiece as an independent young filmmaker. He created the concept of virus-infected zombies invading our streets haunting the living, but in all reality he did it to criticize our social groups and describe what humans are capable of once law and order are not a thing. People value him for this idea until his death, mediocre directors did their own versions of the undead attacking the living but plot-driven by sopa operas and glorifying the killing of soulless sacks of meat without realising they were becoming the thing the pioneer writer wanted to critique. When these directors got their chance to meet their idol and ask him about their creation, Romero was bold with them and told them straightforwardly how they didn't get his piece and were pretty distasteful as film directors.

Romero was influenced by horror/science fiction novel I am a Legend written by Richard Mathesdon, he didn't understand why the writer chose to start an apocalyptic scenario in the middle of it when everyone is already dead or infected with only one survivor left.

Until this movie the MPAA film rating system didn't exist so the children and teens who went to watch it got a little surprise. Sure, they were used to some horror movies but they had never saw something so eerie like this. Critics stated it to be a "unrelieved orgy of sadism" thinking that was a bad critic. Feminists were offended that the blonde was helpless and "virtually catatonic". Audience were stunned and completely in silence at the perfect panic being portrayed by the actors.

There's s much depth in this film and how it was made, I suggest you to do your own research and watch some analysis videos.

https://infogalactic.com/info/Night_of_the_Living_Dead

Since the When the Kite String Pops (1994) was the album that got more attention, I'll upload this underground gem from Dax Riggs and Jimmy Kyle before they became Acid Bath. Golgotha was their band and they would soon merge with another Lousinana band called Dark Karnival which featured Audie Pitre and Sammy Duet. Apart from the low quality garage sound from the early 90's, this one will surprise you with either fast-paced or heavily bluesy riffs and ground-breaking breakdowns that would soon translate to the sludge present in Acid Bath's records. Moreover, there's a demo version of the well known 'Finger Paintings Of The Insane' track.
Even though Apartment 13 and Love Eats It's Own should've been studio released later, the poor quality shouldn't be a problem for you.

(Uploader's note: I'll try to upload regularly this year. I will also upload a classic horror movie on the 31th for those fascinated with the perturbed.)

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Golgotha
Louisiana, USA

Wet Dreams of the Insane
1991

Dax Riggs - Lead Vocals
Mike Sanchez - Guitar
Jerry "Boon" Businelli - Guitar
Chad Pierce - Bass
Jimmy Kyle - Drums

1. Apartment 13
2. Apocalyptic Sunshine
3. Reactor Number 4
4. Cradled in the Arms of Death
5. Fingerpaintings of the Insane
6. Love Eats It's Own
7. Blood of God
8. Generation of the Zombie
9. Generation of the Zombie II (Dax's Poem)
10. Nothingness
11. The Mortician's Flame
12. What Color is Death?

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Lyrics from Track 4, Cradled in the Arms of Death, sound almost prophetic since we're getting closer to 2025.

In the year 2025
Only the rich can afford to be alive
The poor suffocate under polluted skies
Rollin' through the smoke just waiting there to die
You can all make it, weaken the fall
Kill for yourselves all hope is gone
Gone

I support this engage

The rich build a mountain from their ears
Bend over weight from dying stares
The future is now there is no relief
The abortionists suffocate on their own greed
Besides being bleeding and poor
Humanity is an open sore

Cradled warm as death goes on
Ghost behind me insects hum
Hungry with a million eyes
Always filed away your own demise

Watch me how you're broke into this liquid world of me
Swim with me until the moon unhaunts the death of me
Cradled in the arms of death for all eternity
Kill me, feel this ___

Incinerated burned bodies fill the night
All trespassers will be shot on sight
Self mutilation is such a scream
Is this really the American dream
Assassinate the president take control
The nation has grown a new counter of souls

Cradled warm as death goes on
Ghost behind me insects hum
Hungry with a million eyes
Always filed away your own demise

Written by Dax Riggs

https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Golgotha/Wet_Dreams_of_the_Insane/155983

"There are two types of human being - those who succeed and those who fail. you are a failure, so you shouldn't make this film."

Kazuo Tsukamoto, Shinya Tsukamoto's father regarding the movie.

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Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) by Shinya Tsukamoto
Industrial Music by Chu Ishikawa

Tetsuo's new world - the marriage of Man and metal
An Eraserman in steroids for the JG Ballard's Crash cultists.
my favorite satire about the working class, a cyberpunk bleak masterpiece.
A image of salarymen that, due to anxiety, can't even enjoy sex properly and reject their freedom becoming himself the iron man. After being rejected by his parents and quitting his advertisement career, Shinya Tsukamoto launched his movie and afterwards many japanese working men started quitting their jobs and evading their metal fetishism - in my eyes, this makes him a honorable hero

Cast
Tomorowo Taguchi as Man (Salaryman)
Kei Fujiwara as Woman (Girlfriend)
Nobu Kanaoka as Woman in Glasses
Shinya Tsukamoto as Guy (Metal Fetishist)[a]
Naomasa Musaka as Doctor
Renji Ishibashi as Tramp

https://infogalactic.com/info/Tetsuo:_The_Iron_Man

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Tetsuo: The Dead Man
by Jackson Thompson and Brandon Gillichbauer

Eyes glare at the screen
Self obsessed magazine
It couldn't hurt to turn you off
Pretend that this cord has an end

Appliance built on alibis
Wake up, watch your family die
One picture at a time,
We're creating the final lullaby
Listen, it's the slow steady hum of destruction

Power cord creates a noose
Eat the forbidden fruit
Void receipt for a wireless heart
Children manifest into plastic

Window panes kept so dry
No one sees the frame inside
Holding cell for our apathy
Connect me to the quiet humble earth

Maybe it's true, I'm just like you,
I just have less to say, I just have less to prove
There's a virus growing in me

All fantasies catered to me, high-res social sodomy
Infinite files. A resignation to empathy

Full of shit patriots
Found the book and rendered it
Leave an impression on your broth
And forget why we lost our jobs

Stare down at your hands,
Watch the keyboard grow within
The creases skin can't cave in

Birth all over again
Become this gargantuan we've created:
Mortal machines

Our DNA has been replaced with binary code
Wake up in space, the world's a hard drive
Crashing, breaking, faking dead energies

Potential got the best of us
We advanced too far past Darwin
And left holes in our humanity

They're full of promises we made before we hated god

Another EP compilation, this time from the band Dystopia which has every merit to have their name carved on the crust and sludge stone.
One of the greats from the attitude 90's era, they bring the realism that people usually call pessimism - misanthropy sound samples, haunting bass lines, aggression within the vocals and guitars. Their split with Grief in '93 came with razor blades, some distros removed them to avoid lawsuits/ being sued.
In Crust we Trust lml

Photos stolen from psychology and medical books, newspapers and trash cans.

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Dystopia
Oakland, California

Human = Garbage (1994)

Todd Kiessling - Bass, Vocals
Dino Sommese - Drums, Vocals, Lyrics
Matt Parrillo - Guitars, Vocals, Lyrics

1. Stress Builds Character
2. Hands That Mold
3. Sanctity
4. Ignorance of Pride
5. Love / Hate
6. The Middle
7. Slaved Chains
8. Ruptured Silence
9. Green Destroyed
10. Broken Shell
11. Weed of Wisdom
12. Sleep

Tracks 1-5 taken from Human = Garbage EP. Recorded in February 1994.
Tracks 6-11 taken from Dystopia/Embittered split EP. Recorded September to December 1992.
Track 12 taken from Dystopia/Grief split EP. Recorded September to December 1992.

https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Dystopia/Human_%3D_Garbage/730471

A vintage sludge earpiece from the members who later became forefathers of the weedian doom metal. Harsh and brutal, dusty guitars with a destructive attitude, the EP collection one wishes to hear while descending the hell's elevators.

...Asbestos Death formed in the late 80's with Al Cisneros, bass/vocals, Chris Hakius, drums and Tom Choi, Guitar. They later added Matt Pike on guitar and released 2 Eps. "Dejection" was released on Profane Existance, and "Unclean" was released in a DIY manner by the band. Choi then departed the band, (he would later form Operator Generator) and was replaced by Justin Marler as the band changed their name to Sleep...
Hail the Sleep Strain

From the EPs Unclean and Dejection
Southern Lord Recordings

1. Nail
2. Scourge
3. Anguish
4. The Suffering

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Asbestosdeath/97829

Heavier than Black Sabbath, as impactful as Hitchcock's horrors, a grimy earthquake for the Frank Zappas in methaqualone pills.
The album contains no commercials, because no one wanted their product to be related to this transgressive masterpiece, no consumer would smile after hearing it.
Hail to the Melvins for the late 80's punch of a metal album. Due to making one of the first big steps of sludge and grundge they should've been treated with the same respect that is given to bands like Metallica or Led Zeppelin.

"Leeech" was originally by the proto-grunge act Green River (as "Leech"). It was later given to the Melvins when Green River realized that it had little value in their live set. Mark Arm has jokingly criticized their claim of ownership of it, simpler times.

Buzz Osborne; Vocals, Guitars
Matt Lukin; Bass, Back Vocals
Dale Crover; Drums

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Melvins
Montesano, Washington

Gluey Porch Treatments
1987

Side A - This Side
1. Eye Flys
2. Echo Head
3. Don't Piece Me
4. Heater Moves and Eyes
5. Steve Instant Newman
6. Influence of Atmosphere
7. Exact Paperbacks
8. Happy Grey or Black
9. Leeech
Side B - That Side
10. Glow God
11. Big as a Mountain
12. Heaviness of the Load
13. Flex with You
14. Bitten into Sympathy
15. Gluey Porch Treatments
16. Clipping Roses
17. As Was It
18. Over from Under the Excrement

https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Melvins/Gluey_Porch_Treatments/11709

From start to finish, a masterpiece. Every member makes this band a supergroup, you hear everyone being independent and in sync at the same time. The doom blues hit you immediately.
I think the world would be a better place if Acid Bath had had the overhype that Nirvana somehow got.
Doom, Sludge, Blackened, Grundge, even some Crust-Punk, all in one LP covered with honeyed dust from the 90's.

The cover art ("Pogo the Clown #15" / "Skull Clown #171") was painted by infamous serial killer-cannibal-pedophile-necrophile John Wayne Gacy while he was in prison.

Dax Riggs - the darkest themed poet with a voice that mastered both in harshness and in tune.
Sammy Pierre Duet - Riffs, riffs and riffs, all catchy and heavy - the hand of doom from Goatwhore lml
Jimmy Kyle - beast of a drummer, tight as a motherfucker.
Audie Pitre - RIP 1997 - killed in a car crash. The drunk driver that hit him head on was convicted of three counts of vehicular manslaughter. The parents were also in that car. Only Audie's brother survived.
Unfortunately and comprehensively, the band split-up after this incident.
He sure was a hell of a bassist

Fuck Rotten Records .I.

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Acid Bath
Houma/Morgan City, Louisiana

When the Kite String Pops
August 8th 1994

1. The Blue
2. Tranquilized
3. Cheap Vodka
4. Finger Paintings of the Insane
5. Jezebel
6. Scream of the Butterfly
7. Dr. Seuss Is Dead
8. Dope Fiend
9. Toubabo Koomi
10. God Machine
11. The Mortician's Flame
12. What Color Is Death
13. The Bones of Baby Dolls
14. Cassie Eats Cockroaches

https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Acid_Bath/When_the_Kite_String_Pops/65