I'm still trying to make up my mind about USBM project Howls Of Ebb... But they're intrigued me enough with this track from their 2016 album Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows (it was the album art which drew me to it initially) to want to check out the rest of their discography. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HB1xleU6Gc
As I mentioned in my last post, I was going to start a little project this week where I stitched one Swedish word a day. And today, to my own shock and disbelief, I actually managed to start it. Before I got stitching today though, I headed out into the cold with a goal -… Continue reading Stitching In The Dark : A Week Of Swedish Words
From a photoshoot I did this afternoon with @erzabethbathory. https://www.instagram.com/p/BPQauvLhmOn/?taken-by=katiemariemetcalfe&hl=en
My time management skills used to be phenomenal. I don't mean to brag, but really, they were. However, following my 'breakdown' last year (when I came off my medication and was hardly functioning for months), I've struggled to claw back my time, and now it seems like I have less of it than ever before.… Continue reading Stitching In The Dark : Stitching Into 2017
Listened to Leonard Cohen's final album You Want It Darker today. Bowled. The fuck. Away. Here's my favourite track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nmHymgM7Y
I'm writing like a mad woman in the hope that, come February when Kat Von D's Everlasting Liquid Lip Shades collection is updated with 25 new shades, I'll be able to invest and 'witch up' my lips. I'm especially obsessed with XO, Zero, Dagger Haze, Lovecraft, Sanctuary. https://www.instagram.com/p/BOnSL30B08k/?taken-by=thekatvond https://www.instagram.com/p/BOnUGL5BZ_P/?taken-by=thekatvond https://www.instagram.com/p/BOnQVtSh70t/?taken-by=thekatvond
Swedish black metal outfit Grift can do no wrong in my world, and his Samhain Celebration is another addition to his already exquisite discography. I have my muse Mlle Ghoul to thank for alerting me to this beautiful release. Enjoy.
For this second post in my new Instagram series, I want to focus on, and celebrate Hord an account which brings memories of my Yorkshire homeland back to me in droves. "BORN IN THE BLEAK, ROLLING MOORS OF YORKSHIRE, HÔRD ECHOES THE COLD, BRAZEN LANDSCAPE AND COMBINES IT WITH THE WARMTH AND WELCOMING FEEL OF… Continue reading Intriguing Instas : Hord
Going through some of the predominant lists of the best black metal from 2016 has led me to make some exciting discoveries, including Lascar, a band hailing from Chili. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rgB94jWvgY
Despite being extremely over my budget, I'm still swooning over the Handwoven collection by Ovate, especially the Handwoven Headscarf in black wool and grey alpaca.
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 