When people talk about deep obscurities in the early days of heavy metal or punk, it conjures up an image of some anachronistic early madness assailing the chilled out sensibilities of the hippy mo…

[Note from Keeper: This is the first in what I hope to be a somewhat regular column on the early days of heavy metal, punk, and related genres up to 1979 (with both scenes more or less fully establ…

A preoccupation of mine since the days of Haunting the Studio, indeed the motivating impulse of that show, has been teasing out whether there is such a thing as horror music. And, following on from…

We seep like a black bile from the soil of the graveyard. Crawling out of the cemetery again. Coagulating into what we were meant to be. The beginnings of archīvum//oblitus rest in a string of earl…