What’s your favourite scary movie? A straightforward slasher like Halloween? The surrealist headfuckery of Suspiria? Or a gore-streaked but tongue-in-cheek social satire along the lines of Dawn Of The Dead? Video Nasties will take any of the above, just so long as it makes the pulse quicken and the stomach churn. “We want our listeners to feel that anxiety you get with horror movies, that same sense of moral panic,” grins bassist Rick Owen. “It’s about the extremity, the ultra-violence, the sheer naughtiness of it all.” READ THIS: 10 horror movies you need to see in 2020 This fusing of heaviness and horror are at the core of Video Nasties’ mission. Bringing together elements of thrash, doom, hardcore and black metal, there’s also no end of atmospherics indebted to legendary ...
