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Gender Male
Location Poisonville, Down Under
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Introduction I'm a guitarist, vocalist, bassist, songwriter, producer, author, editor and obsessive collector of vinyl, books and mags.

Chronology:
1994-Present: Tsathoggua Press publisher
1997-2000: Destiny’s End guitarist
1999-2009: Metal Maniacs staff writer
2000-03: Artisan guitarist/vocalist
2002-Present: Falcon guitarist/vocalist
2003: Isen Torr guitarist
2005: Pale Divine bassist
2018-2019: Heavy Rockin' Raw radio show host

As a writer I've contributed to such diverse outlets as Scream Factory, Necrofile, Other Dimensions, Crypt of Cthulhu, Snakepit, Fungi, Psychedelic, Snap Pop!, Emptywords.org, Bangmusic.com
I served as editor on chapbooks such as The Eye above the Mantel, The Darkling Tide and Escape from Tomorrow by Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith: The Sorcerer Departs by Donald Sidney Fryer and The First World Fantasy Convention: The Interviews.

I worked as recording engineer/producer on the CD The Hashish Eater by Clark Ashton Smith, performed by Donald Sidney-Fryer.
Interests Heavy rock, heavy metal, vintage guitars, vintage amps, vinyl, film noir, hardboiled crime fiction, weird fiction, ale, weissbier, hiking, writing, traveling, the Black Dahlia murder case
Favorite Movies The Black Dahlia, The Big Sleep, Phantasm, Horror Rises from the Tomb, The Maltese Falcon, Chinatown, L.A. Confidential, The Chase, In the Mouth of Madness, John Carpenter's Halloween, The Hot Spot, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, A Dragonfly for Each Corpse
Favorite Music Death, Cirith Ungol, Rush, Pentagram, Free, Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, Trapeze, Buffalo (Aus), Blue Cheer, Mountain, Budgie, Captain Beyond, Blue Oyster Cult, Dust, Bubble Puppy, Demian, Bang, Savatage, Witchfidner General, Manilla Road, Pale Divine, Bad Company, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Sortilege, Control Denied, Solstice (UK), Revelation, Against Nature, Head Over Heels, The Frost, Taste, Rory Gallagher, Cactus, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Tommy Bolin
Favorite Books Deadline at Dawn by Cornell Woolrich, Severed by John Gilmore, My Dark Places by James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy, The Nothing Man by Jim Thompson, The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler, The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett, The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long, The Rim of the Unknown by Frank Belknap Long, Night Fear by Frank Belknap Long, The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft, The Book of Hyperborea by Clark Ashton Smith, The Purple Cloud by M.P. Shiel, The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson, A Killer is Loose by Gil Brewer, Scorpion Reef by Charles Williams, The Fabulous Clipjoint by Fredric Brown