Apologies for this blog’s lengthy absence, and thanks to those who got in touch personally regarding its mysterious disappearance. I haven’t died, or indeed found the love of Our Lord and Saviour. Rather, a fiendish pincer-movement from my internet service provider and website host conspired to cripple, dismember, and finally dissolve the site. Updating Windows inevitably added to the fun. Happily, thanks to the expertise of my friends at Ave Satanas, we’re up and running again.

I plan on making a few changes to what and how I post on here in future, as well as promoting the site a little, rather than leaving it languishing, as before, in the bowels of the net like the spectre of some unwanted guest. When disaster struck, I still owed the site the second part of my review of Abertoir film fest, plus the conclusion of my piece on the primordial roots of heavy metal. Of course they’re scarcely topical now, but they were hardly topical then, so perhaps I’ll start by searching the cobwebby depths of my archives and open with those. In the mean time, watch this space…