Deathgasm was a heavy metal themed horror comedy film from 2015 that has since developed a cult following and the world of Deathgasm is going to be getting even bigger with new projects.
Director Jason Howden’s Metalheads In. is teaming with Bit Bot and FreakZone games to developer a 16 bit 16-bit side-scrolling Deathgasm Video Game, which will be available in both digital and physical form and will be coming to all modern consoles and PC.
The Deathgasm Video Game sees the Black Hymn has unleashed, and Hell bleeding into reality. Players can can take control of Brodie, Zakk, or Medina and fight through nine brutally challenging levels, each of which are inspired by Dante’s Inferno and swarming with demonic horrors and gloriously obscene humor— while being armed with chainsaws, axes, guitars, sex toys, and more to take on the damned and bosses based on the original film’s twisted villains. The game will feature a chiptune Heavy Metal soundtrack, which will delights fans of the film and metal alike.
In addition, Howden, is collaborating with Bit Bot on an all-new graphic novel, Deathgasm 1.5: Director’s Cut, which will feature brief cameos from GWAR and Trivium’s Matt Heafy and will serve as a prelude to the upcoming Deathgasm sequel, Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon.
Deathgasm 1.5: Director’s Cut is an 80-page graphic novel from Howden, writer Peter Bune (Squatch Watch), artist Industrias Lamonicana (Fierro), colorist Zac Atkinson (Farscape, Star Trek), and letterer Jeremiah Lambert (Masters of the Universe, Transformers). The book also features contributions from writers Michael Schwartz (Armored, Zombie Town) and Joshua Viola (True Believers, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver), various hardcover editions with cover art by Skinner (Skin Crawl Magazine), Preston Asevedo (The Exiled), and Matthew Therrien (The Wrath of Becky).
“Between the events of DEATHGASM 1 and DEATHGASM 2 was a story that I needed to tell […] The story was so visually epic, so gory, and so offensive that it could never be filmed without watering it down. Instead, we made it into a graphic novel: DEATHGASM 1.5. We’re stoked for fans to witness Brodie and Medina slashing demons and thrashing metal riffs, meeting old mates and an ageless evil that lurks in the shadows of a heavy metal-hating church!”
