A year of writing for Heathen Harvest
After my “Is all martial industrial the same?” post a couple of years ago, Sage L. Weatherford, editor of Heathen Harvest, reached out to me and asked if I’d like to do some writing for Heathen...
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Schism to be released 31 October
My second album, Schism, will be released on 31 October. It has taken over five years and hasn’t been an easy process. Indeed, I had thought that the album was almost finished two years ago… but I was...
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Schism – the second album
Schism is available now. This is my second album. Written over the last five years, it is a more diverse and also a darker album than Empire and Dust. As well as the neo-classical elements that will...
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Jo Quail – Hands of Ruin Remixes
I’ve been a big fan of Jo Quail’s music since I heard her playing live some years ago. Jo uses an electric cello and live looping to build up intricate, spell-binding music. A little while ago I...
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Sounds of Ruin
Nicholas Diak is a scholar whose wide-ranging interests encompass neofolk and post-industrial music, Eurospy and neo-peplum films, and H.P. Lovecraft. I first encountered him while we were both...
View ArticlePreview from the Nosferatu soundtrack
F.W. Murnau’s 1922 film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror is one of the classics of the silent film era. This telling of the Dracula story is notable for Max Schreck’s iconic and eerie performance as...
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What’s in a name?
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet What am I doing when I give a title to a piece of music? Back in 2015 Nicholas Diak1 wrote a review of Waffenruhe’s...
View ArticleNosferatu on YouTube
I’m happy to announce that you can now watch Nosferatu with my soundtrack on YouTube. F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu is a 1922 adaptation of the Dracula story to the screen. It’s a classic of silent cinema,...
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