The world of Jason Howden’s heavy metal horror-comedy Deathgasm is about to get bigger, with not one, but two horrifying projects, including a brand new video game for which we've got the details exclusively for you today.
Bit Bot, Howden’s Metalheads Inc., and FreakZone Games are joining forces to develop a retro-style 16-bit side-scrolling Deathgasm Video Game, which will be available in both digital and physical copies for the PS5. Scroll down for an exclusive reveal of the Deathgasm game's gnarly cover.
In the Deathgasm Video Game, the Black Hymn has been unleashed, and Hell is bleeding into reality. Fans can play as Brodie, Zakk, or Medina and fight through nine brutally challenging levels—each inspired by Dante’s Inferno and swarming with demonic horrors and gloriously obscene humor—armed with chainsaws, axes, guitars, sex toys, and more to battle hordes of the damned and take down monstrous bosses based on the original film’s most twisted villains.
The game features a chiptune Heavy Metal soundtrack, presenting fans’ favorite hapless metal heads as they’ve never seen them before.
Howden teases that the Deathgasm game is “packed with gore, humor, and demonic insanity that couldn’t be contained in a film,” with designer Sam Beddoes adding that its “faithful to the source material with a fresh, unique experience for players.”
As well as the Deathgasm video game, in collaboration with Howden, Bit Bot is creating 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).
Here's what Howden has to say about Deathgasm 1.5:
“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!”
Click here to learn more about the Deathgasm video game and support the project via Kickstarter.
