EXTREMES: COUPLES PLAYLIST

Once again, nothing fancy happening here. Since the most this site really gets used for these days is to post news about upcoming or new releases, or playlists for said releases, or even playlists for older books, I may as well go with yet another playlist. This time, it’s going to be what is currently my best-selling and most widely read book, Extremes: Couples.

I actually had a playlist knocked up for the book that just came out the other day, Extremes: No Safety in Numbers when I realised Couples didn’t even have one posted yet.

Therefore, creating one for that seemed to be more prudent than posting one for No Safety as yet, but don’t worry, that one will be going straight up after this one.

Naturally the whole notion of extremes conjures up suitably extreme music, which is generally the way I go with these particular books, and surprise, surprise, that’s the case here too. However, it isn’t just extreme metal at home here, though there were plenty of tracks that could easily have fit the bill in place of those I’ve gone with.

Other forms of extreme music also work for this book and the stories contained within, so consequently that’s what we have. The likes of horrorcore and aggrotech crop up, as well as a handful of other songs that do not at all slot into any of the aforementioned genres, but rather sit at stark odds with most of it.

Unlike previous forays into the Extremes series playlists which just basically listed the songs in recommended order of play, I’ve done something slightly different by breaking the list up into stories. Juxtaposing extreme brands of metal (predominantly death and black) against horrorcore or old school rap, dropping some EBM and hellektro sounds in there, and adding a couple of off-the-wall numbers you might not expect to see stacked up against all that other musical extremity was the name of the game here.

In any case, enough preamble. If you haven’t checked out Extremes: Couples, then maybe it’s time to do just that. Alternatively, if you have, maybe it’s time to revisit it, enhancing the experience by having this recommended playlist cranking in accompaniment.

Go To Extremes. Make sure you do it with a partner though because that’s what this book is all about. Wait for No Safety in Numbers if you need the comfort of a group around you. And if you’re feeling brave enough to go it alone, then rest assured the book for you is coming along in the near future. Extremes: Lone Wolves will investigate just how courageous-or stupid-soul individuals can be when forced to go to extremes.

UNDER THE FLOOR

Under tha Floorboards-KGP

Creepshow-Skid Row

Ghosts-Celestial Shadows

These Ghoulish Things-Impaler

SIXTEEN

Sixteen-The Screaming Wind

Ghetto Neighbour-ABK

Dark Ritual-Bestial Possession

Birth Ritual-Soundgarden

SWEET HITCHHIKER

Sweet Hitchhiker-CCR

Afraid of Me-Twiztid

Clubbers Die Younger-Alien Vampires

Cold Victim-Tactical Sekt

LURKER

Lurker-Optiv and BTK

Neverwhere-Chain Collector

When the Dying Calls-Danzig

The Lurker-Svartkraft

SUBTERRANEAN MONSTROUS

Back to the Cave-Lita Ford

Cave Bitch-Ice Cube

Cave of the Dark Dreams-Behexen

Minions-Lurker of Chalice

FLESHHORDE

Harvesting Humans-Flesh Consumed

The Corpse Came to Dinner-Brotha Lynch Hung

Make them Suffer-Cannibal Corpse

Cannibal Crave-Broken Hope

Coming forth from the shadows is another deranged instalment of the Extremes series, chasing after those that beat a bloody path before it.
This time around it is Couples being driven to all manner of Extremes to contend with a horror show of nightmare situations and circumstances.
Genuine couples, prospective couples, happy couples, unhappy couples. Would-be couples, never will be couples, friends, unusual duos. Good pairings, bad pairings.
All of them are about to be propelled into dark places and horrifying scenarios where calling upon extreme behaviour is the only answer, and even that is no guarantee of survival.
The newest addition to the escalating Extremes universe throws myriad couples into worlds of horror where darkness dwells, pain reigns supreme, and all hope goes to die.
These are tales of bloodshed and brutality, depravity and dread, terror and twisted souls.
After all, what’s better than forcing one character to go to Extremes? Taking Couples and making them go to Extremes together.