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Author Luci Herbert

With no musical talent and a complete lack of interest in the real world, I found my way into the industry via promotions. Soon realising it was not for me, I regrouped my efforts into creating a webzine to promote the music I love and discovered that words came easier to me than the patience to deal with band egos. I have a really useful degree in media and journalism from the University Of Huddersfield (where I specialised in film censorship in my final year), and as well as being editor of Ave Noctum, I write for Zero Tolerance magazine and previously introduced extreme metal to Teletext before the recession hit.
I am drawn towards music with atmosphere, whether that be black metal, gothic rock, doom, industrial, dubstep or psychedelic trance, and have a soft spot for old school thrash metal. Aside from music, I enjoy seeking out the sickest, vilest offerings of cinematic filth known to man, skulking around forests and cemeteries in the dark and usually with my camera…or an axe, sticking pieces of metal through my skin, eating human flesh and generally being the sickest, vilest misanthropic c*** I can be.

Enslaved – Yggdrasill (Peaceville)

So you’ve got into Enslaved fairly recently, you have the past four or five albums they have done and you are at that point of thinking you really ought to delve into their earlier back catalogue. Well if you are… Continue Reading →

BirdEatsBaby and She Makes War at Hoxton Underbelly, 18/02/12

While I suspect many of our London readers had ventured into Camden to watch Alcest play to a sell-out crowd of beard-stroking, black-rimmed glasses wearing hipsters who read about them in the Guardian, I had to go one better. I… Continue Reading →

So Much For Nothing – Livsgnist (My Kingdom Music)

This album has been hyped up for a while as being another project to feature the talents of one Mr Kvaforth (Shining). While it can’t quite accurately be described as a black metal supergroup, it does play out rather like… Continue Reading →

Film Review – Wound (David Blyth) 2010

This film came to my attention through a worthwhile facebook group dedicated to promoting the sickest films from around the world (link at bottom for those who are interested), and as the Australasian continent seems to be doing some interesting… Continue Reading →

Swallow The Sun – Emerald Forest & The Blackbird (Spinefarm)

Now on their fifth full-length album, Swallow The Sun have quickly become one of the most respectable names in Finnish doom, not to mention one of the most consistent acts around. In their twelve year career they have managed to… Continue Reading →

Skepticism & Pantheist at St Giles In The Fields Church, London – 28/01/12

The last gig I attended in a church so I recall was when I sang in my junior school choir. Yes, houses of worship are not places I usually frequent and I never thought I would be seeing a band… Continue Reading →

Gone Til Winter – The First Season (Self Release)

Having reviewed a self-titled EP from this Manchester-based female fronted quintet via Casket back in 2009, I had a good idea what to expect. Now, when a band signs to Casket it always looks like a plea of desperation from… Continue Reading →

One From The Vault: Calvaire Film Review

Film: Calvaire Director: Fabrice Du Welz Year: 2004 There have been some great French language films in recent years and Fabrice Du Welz’s feature length debut is no exception (despite being Belgian!). The setting here is one you’ll probably be… Continue Reading →

Alcest – Les Voyages Des L’Ame

 Artist: Alcest Title: Les Voyages De L’Ame Type: Album Label: Prophecy Productions Alcest are a band that divides opinions, and let’s face it; they are about as threatening as a sheepskin rug. They are the cuddly toy of the metal… Continue Reading →

Todesstoss – S/T and Sauglingshangwerk Aushilfsheins

Artist: Todesstoss Title: S/T and Sauglingshangwerk Aushilfsheins Type: 2x albums Label: Traumorgane   Despite a string of past releases, German surrealist depressive black mentalists Todesstoss have previously slipped me by until these two albums landed in my post-box. The first… Continue Reading →

The Clinic Film Review

Film: The Clinic Director: James Rabbitts   Some 18 months ago I watched a film by the name of The Horseman, and being too drunk to follow it, dismissed it as horse poop. A month back I finally got around… Continue Reading →

The Woman Film Review

Film: The Woman Director: Lucky McGee Distribution: Revolver Entertainment   The Woman is not the first Jack Ketchum novel to be transferred to screen and if you have seen The Lost (2006) and the particularly harrowing The Girl Next Door… Continue Reading →

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