The Sandman

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_KgRmtlxK8

E.T.A. Hoffmann 250 years.

Music, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä.

https://rintaperala.bandcamp.com/

Revelations of Doom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Zie63dIi0
Exclusive Hellhammer cover.

Music and lyrics by Thomas Fischer and Martin Ain (Prowling Death 1983, Noise / Maldoror 1990.)

Exaltite Ruins, out February 1, 2026.
https://grallochery.bandcamp.com/

The House with Laughing Windows - 50th Anniversary Theme Cover

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F3YGcFIsUc
Music by Amedeo Tommasi.

Two themes that epitomise obsession and death.

The House with Laughing Windows (La casa dalle finestre che ridono, 1976) is an Italian horror classic directed by Pupi Avati.

My audio commentary for the entire film, recorded in 2023:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKjzgnbBJZg

Italian films top 50

New Grallochery album out February 1, 2026

 

The unholy black metal offensive continues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H74-SKTrDyE
Enter the Lightning Pulse Field

Exaltite Ruins is the fifth album and the 44th by Rinta-Perälä.

Written and recorded between November 2024 and January 2026.

https://grallochery.bandcamp.com

Cover photo was taken at the medieval ruins of St. Mary’s Church in Old Vaasa.

Night and Fog 70th anniversary

 

"The prisoners will vanish without a trace. No information may be given as to their whereabouts or their fate."
Chief of the Wehrmacht Wilhelm Keitel, 1942.

Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard / Nacht und Nebel) is a documentary by Alain Resnais. The filmmaker and his crew visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek concentration camps in 1955. The finished film was shown in various French theaters in 1956.

Some of the archive footage shown in this documentary was used to convince people that the Holocaust happened. In just 31 minutes it shows more than I ever wanted to see. Photos of mass graves are nothing like moving images of dead bodies being bulldozed. Their personalities become more visible.

This is one of the best documentaries of all time. The decision not to include any interviews makes it even more powerful.

Night and fog is an old figure of speech that in this case describes the secrecy of extermination operations. The false idea that none of the obsessively recorded details of the Holocaust would ever be publicly available was a characteristic feature of the Nazi regime's delusion.

Broken Mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne7uKN9S2ow

From The Sandman, out January 24, 2026.

https://rintaperala.bandcamp.com/