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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.

BLOODSTOCK 2012: A ROUGH GUIDE

Stage Times Announced FRIDAY 10TH AUGUST RONNIE JAMES DIO STAGE Start End Band Name 11.00 11.30 MALEFICE 11.50 12.30 FREEDOM CALL 12.55 13.35 GRAND MAGUS 14.00 14.45 MOONSORROW 15.15 16.15 ICED EARTH 16.45 17.30 SEPULTURA 18.00 19.00 DIO DISCIPLES 19.35… Continue Reading →

Interview – So Much For Nothing

Probably best known as the latest project featuring the talents of Nik Kvaforth, So Much For Nothing burst onto the scene earlier in 2012 with their debut album ‘Livsgnist’. When I reviewed it I stated it as a “downright exceptional… Continue Reading →

Never To Arise – Hacked To Perfection (badGod Music)

I’m not what you’d call a hardened death-head, but when a disc arrives with a booklet filled with grainy images of mutilated women and crude drawings of snuff-film scenarios one’s interest was definitely piqued. Of course you will have read… Continue Reading →

King Fear – S/T (Quality Steel Records)

Despite the fact I have always found Shakespeare about as appealing as a holiday in Ethiopia, a misreading of this band name automatically drew word associations to a similarly titled play. This duo is based in Hamburg according to their… Continue Reading →

BirdEatsBaby – Feast Of Hammers (Self Released)

I’ve followed this quirky alt quartet since their debut album release landed on my doorstep back in 2009 and I straight away saw they had something special about them. It’s been good to see them progress through an EP and… Continue Reading →

Interview – Todesstoss

Some time ago now I was sent two albums by mysterious German surrealist black mentalist Martin Lang for his project Todesstoss. There certainly seemed to be a lot more beneath the music worth exploring and with that I was keen… Continue Reading →

The Great Old Ones – Al Azif (LADLO Productions)

If you know your H.P. Lovecraft then there’s a good chance you’ll be au fait with most of the themes referred to on this album. The Great Old Ones are a kind of ancient deity in the Cthulu Mythos, whom… Continue Reading →

The Bunny Game (Adam Rehmeier)

The good folks at the British Board Of Film Classification (BBFC) must really love directors such as Adam Rehmeier. A micro budget horror film like The Bunny Game is just the kind of easy target the board needs to show… Continue Reading →

Interview – Wound (2010) director David Blyth

 Wound is a film I recently reviewed on this site; an independent film from New Zealand that can best be described as psychological surrealist art-horror. It’s a film that leaves the viewer with more questions than answers, and thankfully director… Continue Reading →

Interview – Vacantfield

                        Vacantfield came to my attention late on in 2011, when their 3-track EP really stood out as something quite special. Despite these Greek avant-garde black metalists having formed… Continue Reading →

MURDER MOST REAL – Snuff-themed films to see before you die (in a damp basement at the hands of a deranged psycho with a super-8)

When it comes to modern film audiences, there is very little capable of shocking. Sure, you get the stray straight chick dragged in to watch Last House On The Left with her boyfriend who walks out in disgust, but by… Continue Reading →

Deuxvolt – Union Of Opposites (Self-Released)

First up, this Italian lot have released this debut album under the “social pay model”; that is, you can download it for free under the condition that you spread the word via Twitter, Facebook or some sort of social network…. Continue Reading →

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