RICHARD E. ROCK

In my debut horror novel DEEP LEVEL published by darkstroke books, four friends set out to explore a network of forgotten train tunnels beneath the streets of London. The network in my story was built in secret to serve the superrich of Victorian society, but the Low Level Station in Glasgow was no secret and…

If you like your thrillers brutal and uncompromising as well as tense and exciting, welcome to the world of Nick Sullivan. Nick is a high-flying banker with a beautiful wife, big house, nice car and a boat. Yes, he has it all, until he and his best friend stumble into the path of three psychos…

People often ask what attracts me to the extreme metal scene. Quite simply, it’s because that’s where all the innovation is, and a fine case in point would be Enslaved. Enslaved’s entire career in music has been a journey, beginning in the frosty, twilit Norwegian Black Metal scene of the early 90s and culminating here…

It all started with a nightmare. It was still there, raw and vivid, when I opened my eyes in the morning, and I knew it was too good to let fade. I knew that there was a story in it. And so I dragged my weary frame out of bed, staggered into the spare room…

I couldn’t help noticing that horror streaming service Shudder has been shouting about the fact they now have VEROTIKA available, so I thought now might be a good time to take another look at it. In case you are unaware, VEROTIKA is a horror anthology movie directed by Glenn Danzig, vocalist of the hugely influential…

The sound of sirens filled the valley and, high in the overlooking hills, the idyllic peace was shattered. My first thought was that it was an air-raid warning. Then I realised that I was thinking as a Brit, and I wasn’t in Britain now. No, that piercing wail had nothing to do with air raids,…

In writing, you will often hear talk of “The Voice”. For the uninitiated, The Voice basically means the tone or style of the narration. Is it formal? Is it short and snappy? Is it ponderous? Does it engage you? Does it leave you cold? You get the idea. However, whenever I consider Stephen King, I…

Now and again I am asked by someone to define Black Metal, and I always give the same answer: Black Metal is a blasphemous shriek through a frozen forest in the dead of night. From the tempestuous soundscape that announces this record to the bells of doom that herald its end, Ávitun by Sárr lives…

Ah, the San Francisco Bay Area. To metalheads the world over this means just one thing: Thrash Fucking Metal! The Bay Area was the petri dish in which this musical blitzkrieg fermented and evolved, forming an unstoppable momentum that would go on to take over the whole world. Sounds hyperbolic? Dude, Metallica. Nuff said. Murder…

It is to my shame that I have, up until now, been unaware of the Norwegian Black Metal band ARVAS. ARVAS is the creative outlet of vocalist and multi-instrumentalist V-Rex, and Equanimity is his seventh release (or eighth, if you want to include Nocturno Inferno, which was recorded under the band name Örth). From the…