Not one, but two AI slop works on the Book of Soyga have recently appeared. Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for the Clavis/THP edition announced in 2013... 😭

My friend John Godbert published a book of his drawings. John did the art for our Hawthonn album 'Earth Mirror' - as well as The Fall's Live at the Witch Trials & other underground classics. If you fancy a copy, email herbdiamante(at)yahoo dot com

I had a lot of fun over the last few weeks working with Layla on a video for our local eschatological,folk favourites Wire Worms. I think the results are pretty damn good for around five hours of shooting! youtu.be/YnNgo9UkH0U?...

While researching my talk on the Monad, I managed to find an actual picture of Dee writing his masterwork. 9th September, 7:30pm, basement of the Beehive Pub, Shipley!

Putting the last slides on my talk about John Dee's Hieroglyphic Monad together - ending with a short musical excursion... here are some notes from Hesperian Garden, which draws heavily on the harmonics of the Monad. Listen here - download includes detailed PDFs! xetb.bandcamp.com/album/hesper...

Around this time of night, I like to drink from the Holy Grail and read a book of alchemy.* *actually a work on Ars Voarchadumia, which, as its author will tell you, is distinct and probably far superior...

I'm very happy to be revisiting my friends at the Folk, Myth and Magick moot on Tuesday 9th September to talk about one of my favourite subjects: John Dee's Hieroglyphic Monad. The talk is at 7:30pm in the basement of the Beehive Pub in Shipley. All welcome!

A friend has started doing old-school liquid lightshows on an 8' scaffold with squish plates, bubbles and all the rest... so hit this link if you need any such thing in the West Yorkshire area! - www.instagram.com/powerumo #liquidlightshow #psychedelia #leeds

Reminder that this is on Friday!! Blackened doom with a punk attitude from MOLCH, DAWN TERRY does her amazing, dark droning thing, and WIRE WORMS bring the doom-folk. £8 or £6 low/unwaged. Tix OTD or via ra.co/events/2237148

New Instagram post - a slightly melancholic tome. www.instagram.com/p/DNYCQUiMcF...

The Gall - You’re Opening Doors You Don’t Understand #newmusic #goth #deathrock #postpunk #punk #noiserock #industrial shunningground.bandcamp.com/album/youre-opening-doors-you-dont-understand

Advance tickets available for MOLCH / DAWN TERRY / WIRE WORMS next week! 22nd August at Wharf Chambers, Leeds. An evening of dark, doomy musick! ra.co/events/2237148

Bit of a magical wild camp last night. Summoned a glowing mushroom 🍄

Congrats to the ladies tristwch! Also, the only time Hawthonn is ever gonna get mentioned in The Guardian!

This Tuesday at Wharf Chambers, Layla and I are playing with Kar Pouzi (Helen Papaioannou's extraordinary baritone sax and electronics project), and Yexxen - a new group featuring Rob from Guttersnipe and members of Berlin's Cuntroaches!

I think this is destined to be a controversial article, but we should also critically and soberly think about the political entanglements in any field of study we engage with. Julius Strube's 'Esotericism, the New Right, and Academic Scholarship', is open access in Aries: brill.com/view/journal...

We are putting on this show on August 22. The very 'eavy Molch, joined by Dawn Terry and Wire Worms. £8/6 at Wharf Chambers, Leeds!

Another boot for NOX tomorrow. It's gonna be great!

Looking forward to this. Hopefully the next NOX will be as epic as the last... if not more so! 11:30pm to 4am at Wharf Chambers on Saturday! Be there, or lose your goth card.

I've been working on a soundtrack for Twelve Years at Sea: a game by my friend @maxmoon.bsky.social. Only 3 days left on KS! It's an epic seafaring expansion for the game Twelve Years, & adds a huge amount of narrative depth to what was already a fantastic work! www.kickstarter.com/projects/moo...

NOX 3 - A Gothic Discotheque Saturday 19th July 11:30pm to 4am Wharf Chambers, Leeds £8 full privce / £6 low income Advance tickets: ra.co/events/2191999 #goth #leeds #leedsgoth

1994: When Leeds University was stalked by the 'Joint Joker'. (From issues of Leeds Student, March 1994)

We should all aspire to create music so intense that it will turn your eyes into fried eggs.

Leeds' best underground goth club, NOX, returns to Wharf Chambers on July 19th. 70s proto goth, 80s weirdo goth obscurities, darkwave, deathrock and other haunted atmospheric sounds from the crypt. This was SO good last time - be there! ra.co/events/2191999 #goth #noxleeds

New blog post: The futility of constructing a better past & the necessity of imagining a better future www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...

Nice to see that Rupert White has uploaded the second issue of the Museum of Magic and Witchcraft's Enquiring Eye journal. You can read a piece by me therein, about two of my favourite magical seals. Just scroll down on the page to get to the journal itself! www.academia.edu/99653831/The...

#NowPlaying Dark Valley: Through The Cavern Of Night To The Labyrinth Of Light (2025) Dark ambient synthscapes of creeping menace, haunting beauty & ethereal magick, courtesy of Phil Legard (Hawthonn) darkvalleyds.bandcamp.com/album/throug...

Although I still have to finish my ESSWE10 paper (- yikes! -) I'm pleased to have finished this one off today, for the 'Sounding Witchcraft' session of The Interdisciplinary Witch Conference at York on Friday! Hoping to resume Magazine Mondays in July, once this monster of a month is over! :D

Two upcoming events - Hawthonn (Layla and I) are playing in Todmorden on 21st June. Then we've got the third instalment of our gothic discotheque - NOX - on the 19th July. The last two have been amazing!

Today is release day for Dark Valley - World Fades! A few cassette copies remain at negativewingspan.bandcamp.com/album/world-... #dungeonsynth #darkambient #martialindustrial #magicrealm

Going down a nostalgia rabbit hole with this massive list of ZX Spectrum games with songs on the B side of the cassette. And you can listen to them all! (Werewolves of London, fondly remembered!) www.webxprs.com/blogpunisher...

I had a lovely chat on Swailes' Bell Witch Podcast, covering a range of threads: from the history of paganism and chaos magick ion Leeds, to zines and music-making. As a hater of my own voice, even I will say the result is surprisingly listenable: her 'um, you know' filter was working overtime! :D

Pre-orders for Dark Valley's WORLD FADES cassette are now open. Released on June 6th on cassette by @negativewingspan.bsky.social! It's a 35-min album inspired by the 1979 boardgame Magic Realm. You can preview a track and order here: negativewingspan.bandcamp.com/album/world-... #dungeonsynth

Picked this up after seeing a recommendation from @satanicplastic.satan.social - if a book told like an oral history, about kids in a doomed American town smoking a scrying drug called Whorl doesn't immediately go to the top of your reading pile then idk what is wrong with you!

The Eventbrite link for the Interdisciplinary Witch Conference (at @yorkstjohn.bsky.social, on Friday 20th June)—including our panel, Sounding Witchcraft: Sonority and the Occult—is now live. 👇🏻

It was a real pleasure to write this for Dan Harms' book: the grimoire of a magician and Galvanic healer with some strong links to Leeds.

#NowPlaying #StandingStoneSunday Hawthonn: Earth Mirror (2021) A mesmerising record of ethereal, esoteric ambience & occult drone. Hauntingly beautiful & otherwordly... xetb.bandcamp.com/album/earth-...

My PhD thesis ‘The satanic cult conspiracy: how online conspiracy theory discourses construct moral panic’ is now up on WREO: etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/36...

It's Acid Horse this weekend! We're within sight of selling the last of our three day passes but have day tickets, with and without camping. It's going to be magic... see you there! thequietus.com/news/buy-aci...

If anyone wants a free download of my 23-min dungeon synth/dark ambient EP (plus print & play game with illustrations by @chaoclypse.bsky.social) then look no further than the replies to this message for Bandcamp download codes! #dungeonsynth #darkambient #solottrpg

This book on Korm Plastics collects all issues of Just Glittering and Idwal Fisher, two noise zines edited by Mark Wharton. A huge slab of Northern underground culture. The live reviews were a total trip down memory lane for me. www.kormplastics.nl/just-glitter...

This recent Boyd Rice stuff keeps making me think about a post we made on the Hawthonn account back in summer 2018... fixing Rice's 'inequality serpent'.

both tQ (and the recent TENE podcast) have recently covered the current book from Spencer Sunshine on James Mason's SIEGE and finds from a deep dive into Mason's archives that Rice, Parfrey, Moynihan & Schreck actively sought Mason out and were instrumental in revitalising his career.

The Quietus Mk II is a year old this week, and to mark this we're running a sale to offer over a third off our top tier subscriptions. My life is 100% less stressful thanks to the new site, but tQ will die without subscribers (as will most of the media 1/4) thequietus.com/news/the-qui...

... and that was An Old Sad Ghost, by An Old Sad Ghost, from their album An Old Sad Ghost.

Will be good!

A new Magazine Monday - as ever, on a Tuesday! This time I'm looking at an issue of the Talking Stick magazine from 1993. www.instagram.com/p/DJmAw8qs1Li/ #zines #occultzines

Take a listen to the new Dark Valley EP 'Through the Cavern of Night to the Labyrinth of Light' and prepare for the debut full-length album 'WORLD FADES', arriving next month!

A new Dark Valley release: a 23-minute EP w/ print-and-play game (illus. by @chaoclypse.bsky.social). Co-released w/ Mountain Forest Cabin Dweller (@theowlripper.bsky.social). The 16-minute dark ambient track is one of my fave recent recordings. mountainforestcabindweller.bandcamp.com/album/cavern

Hah. Everyone gets to play in the church except Tristwch y Fenywod because the church was worried about them invoking 'false gods' 👿