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is comprised of a small but dedicated team of extreme music enthusiasts with substantial
and varied experience in the scene, spanning print and web journalism, promotion, club
nights and radio. We founded Hierophant Nox in the final months of 2008, having found that
our respective situations were not allowing us to promote the music we loved to the extent
we desired. Our aim for the webzine is to provide high-quality comment and news reporting
on a broad range of extreme genres, investigating and promoting labels, events and
individuals alongside the standard tasks of reviewing and interviewing in order to make
greatest use of the space and freedom that being web-based provides. Please see our ‘Contacts’ page for detailed information about contacting our crew. Writing Crew Ellen Simpson Hierophant Nox’s editor cut her reviewing teeth as a staff writer at Vampire/Archaic Magazine, where she also had news reporting and mentoring duties. During her two-year tenure at the zine, she worked with acts such as Mayhem, Vomitory, Azrael, Skitliv, Akercocke and Pantheon I, and worked hard to champion underground bands, particularly from the UK. A black metal fan at heart, Ellen also has wide-spanning interests in death metal, neo-folk, pagan metal and ambient projects. Prior to working at Archaic Magazine, Ellen gained experience organising and promoting extreme metal club nights, and also gave radio broadcasting a flirtatious spin. Her academic background lying in English Language and Literature, Ellen spent a year as a graduate researcher exploring Middle English poetry, or ‘the dark medieval times’, as she prefers to call it. She now works in the publishing industry. Satanic Muttley Muttley's immersion in the world of extreme metal spans right back to the earliest days of the genre (not that he's old or anything...) and he brings to our pages a genuine enthusiasm for anything that pushes the envelope or embodies a classic spirit. With interests split between such diverse areas as harsh electronic noise and classic rock, it's no surprise that we're not the first publication to make use of his wisdom, judgement and quick wit. Paul King A long-time friend of Ellen and Luke, Paul has been instrumental right from the planning stages of Hierophant. His open-minded, broad-ranging view of the musical landscape is a real blessing to the crew (given how many of the rest of us are complete bastards), and brings a thoughtful honesty to all that he dissects.
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