Word: dark
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From the cover, the name and the fact that he also released his previous album around Halloween, you might wonder whether Glampire might be some rip-off of the original glam scene. Glampire's third full album, The Heraldic Universe, walks the line between dark pop and post-teenage angst. The music is a mixture of goth, synth, perky rock beats, and tinges of NIN tonalities. Unfortunately, you'll have to deal with the cheesy '80s-style electric guitar in the opening tracks. Add in Glampire's androgynous voice to the back-to-back songs "Super Sad" and "Happy Again...
...there pouting about rampant female exploitation, the plotbegan to take some rather bizarre twists. Little Lucha, it turned out was actually the reincarnation of a badass sorcerer known as "Dark Schneider," who, with a mere kiss from Yoko was unleashed from his pubescent body, ready to conquer the world. After an impressive tour de force, where Dark Schneider proved his might to Yoko's father, a head priest, another kiss from Yoko returned him to his diminutive state...
...Soon, a ninja master entered the picture. He confiscated Yoko one evening, as she lay in sublime calm next to her child lover. Soon, I began to learn of the deep historical ties between Dark Schneider and this new ninja-kidnapper figure, Gara. Gara had spent the past five years working on his own objective to conquer the world, but he continued to be haunted by a defeat he suffered years ago at the hands of the formidable Dark Schneider. Although he knew that Dark Schneider could be a valuable asset to his campaign, Gara's own personal ambition demanded...
...most to the film was its surprisingly reflective nature. This wasn't a foray of pointless, indescretionary violence like we see in so many films today, but rather violence calculated to prove a point about ambition and the power of evil. And as Gara stood over a dead Dark Schneider, tears welled in my eyes as he criticized his own inability to work with his former enemy. The emotionally ravaged Gara seemed more like a modern-day Hamlet than a silly cartoon character...
...center of the dining hall while leaving them surrounded by several square feet of unused floor. Trapping them in from above is the vacuum of dead space between the tops of their heads and the ceiling--a nothing-space accentuated by the barrenness of the undecorated walls of oppressive, dark wood...