The Sanctuary Gazette

CrAwE released the album “Torc Bound Ley Lines (Music For Flat Horizons And Celestial Shires)” on 8 October 2026 on Triple Moon Records, a French label founded in 2014. The project is that of Adam Colman, based in Norwich, who works alone with guitars, effects pedals and electronics to compose entirely instrumental dark ambient and drone pieces.

The nine tracks are built on processed guitar drones. Their titles draw on the places and folklore of East Anglia: a Norfolk wormhole, the Iceni goddess Andraste, the A47 bypass, or a Tesco in Downham Market, alongside references to ley lines and an equinox ritual. The label describes the sound as moving between deep audio, guitar drones and cinematic dark ambient.

Colman previously released “AlgorithmicEthics”, a CD of about 58 minutes limited to 42 copies, and “PrimalStar”, a 3-inch mini CD also limited to 42 copies, on Inner Demons Records. The album is available digitally on Bandcamp.

Écran Large has put its review of Vermines back in the spotlight for the film’s TV broadcast on 11 October. Released in 2023, it is Sébastien Vaniček’s first feature, co-written with Florent Bernard. The cast includes Théo Christine, Sofia Lesaffre, Lisa Nyarko, Jérôme Niel and Finnegan Oldfield.

The premise fits in a sentence: an apartment block overrun by killer spiders, where a group of friends looks for a way out. Geoffrey Crété sees a frontal horror film that genuinely wants to scare and stands apart from much of French genre cinema. He compares it to the pharmacy scene in The Mist more than to classics like Tarantula or Arachnophobia, and notes that the spiders multiply too fast to give the humans a chance.

The film is also about the people who live in this suburban building: the “vermin” of the title also refers to the residents, as seen by law enforcement. The critic points to the echo with La Tour by Guillaume Nicloux, another 2023 film in a similar setting, but its opposite in how it looks at its characters. In Vaniček’s film, the main character is driven by curiosity and respect for the spiders, which matters in the outcome.