May your hunger guide you through nights wilder still. Nafre. I thought I'd start this post off with a quote from Nafre, a ridiculously wise friend of mine. Last week he signed a message off with 'May your hunger guide you through nights wilder still,' and I've been using it as a source of creative… Continue reading May Your Hunger Guide You – Words For Creatives Going Forward (Part I)
A Few Things I'm Looking Forward To & Hoping For In 2021 This list isn't particularly vast and mostly features books I want to read, but it was only several weeks ago that I started to feel a sense of optimism about the future after a very long time with no hope whatsoever. I hope… Continue reading A Few Things I’m Looking Forward To & Hoping For In 2021
The other week I was talking about how I'd said goodbye to depression and how I hoped it would be a while before we met once again. Well. I had a mere five days or so without it. In my head, I was imagining that it would be months and months until we crossed paths… Continue reading The Dark Has Teeth
Today's offering from Cave Mouth is about the legend of the Barghest. If you've been here a while, you'll know I have quite the enthusiasm for this folkloric creature. It's one the most terrifying things to hail from my home county of Yorkshire, after all. (If you're interested, there's an Art of the Barghest post… Continue reading Barghest
Here's what Cave Mouth have conjured up today... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vY1aCLn1r4&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2SZ8fHDyibwgDhTN7rv05Zm7zmPzMq5rNHbGdXcyxffglNfn2DBTTx8RM
After far too long a time, my band Cave Mouth is back! I really hope you'll find a few minutes to have a listen to I Follow The Wolves. It's also available to listen to on Bandcamp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs72-zFgaFw&fbclid=IwAR1eWxRNBQIIfma3xGNytPTMLPfvide11Ps4XF_XU94f9PFSf-6br8GBraU
To celebrate Samhain, my band Cave Mouth has released a new EP... a small pocketbook of folk horror and silver tongue sonnets. A dark fairy tale spiriting those away to enchanting landscapes of yore. Brimming with forest speak and incantations, wrapped up by the dead tree refuge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cQZCOXqxEE But that's not all! We also have… Continue reading Celebrate Samhain With Cave Mouth
Do you need something wicked to darken your day? Then I have just the thing! Witch Of The Northern Forest is from Cave Mouth's upcoming EP which we'll be releasing in time for Samhain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgKg8D3IOLc In other Cave Mouth related news, we now have a website. Come and find us here.
I've been sharing music videos on Wyrd Words & Effigies since 2013, and not once did it ever occur to me that one day I'd be sharing my own. Yes dear readers, today Cave Mouth releases its debut music video A HEX ON YOUR HEAD! We collaborated with the immensely talented artist and filmmaker Lagomorphosis… Continue reading Cave Mouth Debut Music Video
A few months ago, I wrote a song when I was in one of the deepest depressions of my life. I never could have imagined that a short time on, I would be in a band with one of my favourite musicians of all time, and on the verge of releasing a full-length album. But… Continue reading Hex By Cave Mouth : Album Artwork
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 