So my friends, here it is...the very first Wyrd Words & Effigies Yuletide Gift List. We're not an easy lot to buy for, us strange folk, but hopefully this list will lift off some pressure that you may be feeling around this time. I have focused a lot of my attention on small, independent, ethically… Continue reading Wyrd Words & Effigies Dark Yuletide Gift List
Corey Weidmann of Jewelry for the Dead creates wearable, affordable art - jewellery, bags and clothing - inspired by the dark and weird. Every piece available in the Jewelry for the Dead Etsy store has been handmade with materials acquired by searching thoroughly through antique shops and natural resources such as streams, forests and rivers. Here… Continue reading Jewelry For The Dead
Lebensgefahr is a one man black metal project from Sweden which I'm currently listening to obsessively, especially the track En Fäbless För Natten, taken from Nyctophilia, a single released back in August. Featuring the vocals of Sandra Tenwolde, vocalist of the ambient project "Manica," En Fäbless För Nattentrack makes the hairs on the back of my… Continue reading Sound Of The Day : Lebensgefahr
I have known about Burial Ground and their magickal, handsculpted jewellery for quite some time now. Founded by Jamie Mooers and Bill Crisafi, the wares that emerge from Burial Ground are inspired by occultism, spirituality and nostalgia. I would, if I could, own everything they have put out into the world. Despite being aware of… Continue reading The Witches & Wraiths Of Instagram : Burial Ground
Kampfar have stormed back into my consciousnesses of late and I've been gorging on their latest stellar album Profan, specifically the track Daimon. This song has a new kind of power pulsating through it, and the accompanying video...hell, you just have to watch it. Words fucking fail me. Enjoy, and then check out what I… Continue reading Sound Of The Day : Kampfar
So, I'm feeling very strongly that I need to have a pair of felted boots in my life. Feltmaker Jurga lives with her family in the wilderness of Lithuania, and has been working with felt since 2008. Felted from natural wool, Jurga uses just soap and warm water during the felting process. Though they may… Continue reading Jurga Felt Life
Absolutely relishing Raunijar, the powerful and energetic title track from Helheim's up and coming 8th album, to be released on the 4th of December by Dark Essence Records. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1CrnqODfpc
I have such a lot of hair that it's often a real chore to do much with it. So, when I landed upon Catamation and their animal skull hair barrettes, my immediate reaction was 'Fucking NEED!' Available in a choice of skulls - raven, cat, owl or bat, these bartettes come in medium or large… Continue reading Catamation
For a while now I have been quietly moving between the haunting worlds of Polish photographer Laura Makabresku. Her beautiful blog and Tumblr provide seamless, dreamlike journeys....journeys which I am never eager to abandon. My photographies are like screenshots from beautiful but cruel fairy tales. Their narrations are not straight. Images that appear are more… Continue reading Laura Makabresku
I encountered this extraordinary feeling of satisfaction as I listened to Trolldom och Sorg by one man atmospheric black metal project Galdr. It's hard to image just one person behind this impenetrable wall of sound and all consuming atmosphere. Now, don't listen to this track and then leave it at that. Listen and then investigate… Continue reading Sound Of The Day : Galdr
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 