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FOREVER DOOMED  Art & Essays by Tenebrous Kate  MAGAZINE A5   (Heretical Sexts)   5.00


���I've been an avid follower of Tenebrous Kate and her blog Love Train for the Tenebrous Empire ever since I stumbled across it a couple of years ago. Since 2008, Kate has been regularly offering her knowledgeable, well-written ruminations on classic Euro-horror and midnight movies, contemporary independent horror films, vintage erotica, the darker fringes of underground music, and underground/psychedelic comic with equal amounts of perceptive criticism, tongue-in-cheek humor and an unflagging enthusiasm for these art forms. The scope of her blog tends to focus on the dark, weird and schlocky, but Kate's articles could range from a smartly written review of the 1971 British satanic shocker Blood on Satan�s Claw to a lengthy interview with psychedelic horror comics artist Sarah Horrocks or an article on French surrealist pulp anti-hero Fant�mas. And with her unabashed appreciation for perversity and absurdity, Kate's stuff has consistently hit on numerous fields of interest for me. She's also an avid and outspoken enthusiast of old-school fanzines, which has led to her expanding beyond the Love Train with a new micro-press imprint called Heretical Sexts that's just started to kick in with a handful of limited-press fanzines and comics that all look fucking fantastic. One of the first Heretical Sexts titles is Forever Doomed, a one-shot zine that features an assortment of Kate's writing and art specifically focuses on her dual obsessions with old-school occult horror cinema and the more occult-obsessed side of doom metal. It's only thirty-two pages, but it delivers a solid read that includes essays on the 1980s heavy metal horror classic Black Roses, British occult novelist and historian Dennis Wheatley (To The Devil A Daughter, The Devil And All His Works ), the 1968 horror film Curse of the Crimson Altar, and Jorge Grau's environmental zombie epic Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, as well as musings on her trip to the 2012 Maryland Deathfest to see Electric Wizard, and the utterly ridiculous comic Erotic Rites of the Nazg�l. Definitely worth picking up if you're a fellow fan of satanic cinema and occult metal.