There’s Things Worse Than Serpents
Sacrifice - new release on Industrial Coast
Quicker than usual post for me, new album out on Industrial Coast now, available here if it’s not sold out.
Cassette only at present, mastered by Justin Broadrick, cover art by Canopic Ire1
Karkossyn features on one track, I highly recommend his EP Troubled Youth on the consistently excellent UVB76 label
Sacrifice is an internal monologue about what comforts we forgo, or more importantly, what horrors we absorb into ourselves or are absorbed into in order to access knowledge, understanding, experience, or just plain old Gnosis. This is not a new theme in my discography.
Live action 2025
Industrial Coast has me on the bill with JK Flesh in Middlesbrough on June 28th.
July 5th has me back in Bristol, this time with Gorgonn, his Six Paths EP on SVBKVLT was a favourite of mine a couple of years ago.
Last time I was in Bristol the show was in an ancient crypt with a full sound system and parts of the ceiling came down during my soundcheck.
In (a very small part of) Canada catch me on these dates:
July 17 Toronto w/ Delta Kane2 and Doctor Cement
July 18 Kitchener w/ Delta Kane and Doctor Cement
July 19 Hamilton w/ Delta Kane and Doctor Cement
July 24 Peterborough w/ Delta Kane
July 25th Ottawa w/ Delta Kane
I will end it here, currently fostering a very sweet dog until she gets adopted and I can see her pacing and needing some attention/ training.
Recent Listening (today)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Forever to Tell and Danzig - s/t; these records are basically the same thing.
Various smartguy deathcore and slam bands.
Sly & Robbie present Dancehall Killers!
Drawn and Quartered - Extermination Revelry.
Stereolab - Instant Holograms on Metal Film.
Best books I’ve recently read
Robert Aickman - Cold Hand in Mine.
Solomon Kane collection of the 1970s and 1980s Marvel strips.
Department of Truth collection.
Reggie Oliver - This Haunted Heaven.
Nafre - In Blackest Blizzard: Initiating Thyself to Black Metal Necromansie.
Lynda E Rucker - Now it’s Dark.
Singer of the very excellent Unyielding Love and you’ve seen his art on various Isolation Man Tolkien and Elden Ring shirts
Someone once referred to shows I play with Delta Kane as “deconstructed Intensive Care” and they’re weren’t incorrect.
Good to see you do something with Rich/Canopic - Good dude backed hard, as we used to say on the internet, which applies to the rest of UL as well obviously.Wish I'd availed of his tattooing skills more when he lived round the corner.