Please send all and any queries or communications to hierophantnox [@] gmail.com.
You don’t need to email ahead of submitting material for review, but feel free if you’d like to check it’s arrived with us safely.
You should hear from us within two days – if you’ve haven’t, please send us another message using the contact form.
HIEROPHANT NOX POSTAL ADDRESS: Hierophant Nox, 11 Dunbarney Avenue, Bridge of Earn, Perth, PH2 9BP, United Kingdom.
AREAS OF INTEREST/REVIEW POLICY:
Our general remit is “extreme metal” – black, death, grind, gore, doom, folk, gothic, pagan, trad, power, thrash… metal. I’m not going to attempt to list the genres here, but you get the picture. If you’re not sure, just ask.
Since our inception, we’ve also indulged our various individual interests, which include classic rock, dark ambient, noise, harsh electronics, acoustic folk, ethno-folk and –ambient, neofolk… we’ll continue to cover these areas because we think extreme metal fans’ tastes overlap significantly with these genres, and, well, because we can. Again, if your music’s experimental or hard to define, don’t hesitate to drop us a line, chances are one of us will be interested.
Religion/politics (Editor’s note): the views expressed by the artists featured on Hierophant Nox are their views alone, and are not representative of the crew’s beliefs or attitudes. Use your head when you read their words, engage your own judgement and common sense.
Without wanting to open a can of worms about what should/should not be covered, and where you draw the line on these things, we’ve run the gamut from anarchist animal rights activists to glorifiers of Europe’s pagan heritage before, and I’m sure we will again. I find it contemptible that those writing about our corner of the musical world dodge the bullet by saying “oh, but it’s all ART, so it’s ok”, but similarly whenever someone tells me they’re never reading another word I write because I have, in my life, expressed an opinion about Burzum, I want to scream. I greatly enjoy discussing these pitfalls, and I welcome dialogue with anyone who finds anything we feature on Hierophant Nox particularly awesome or particularly objectionable.
I subscribe to the gentle and non-confrontational view that religion enslaves the human spirit and should be forcefully obliterated from the earth, so if that guides you in your decision of whether or not to send me your material, so much the better. I have a nice collection of ‘white metal’ coffee coasters… Jesus decidedly doesn’t want me for a sunbeam.
And Nazi punks can… fuck off.
FORMAT:
You can send us CD/CD-R/tape/vinyl submissions to the address below.
If you can send your release electronically, or have a high quality stream where we can have a listen online, please provide us with this information instead: it saves costs for you, and it saves us the worry of things being lost in our various countries’ postal systems.
We operate an extremely strict policy regarding electronic releases here, do not believe in file-sharing, and think so-called ‘journalists’ who leak material ahead of release are the scum of the earth. Not to put too fine a point on it.
Use our email address (hierophantnox [@] gmail.com) if you’ve an electronic release you’d like us to consider.
INTERVIEWS:
We greatly enjoy interviewing artists about their work, and are proud of the depth and scope we achieve in many of our features.
In the ideal situation, an interview is a feature that accompanies either a demo/EP/album release, or a tour. You have something to talk about, and we have something else to get our teeth into, so that we get a good feel for you.
If you, or the band you represent, hasn’t released anything recently (or ever), and/or doesn’t have any currently plans for activity, please consider whether an interview will be a worthwhile request, as they are time- and resource-consuming for both sides.
There are always exceptions to the rule, but think before you check with us.