BARDS OF THE BLACK SUN: THE LASTING LEGACY OF NEOFOLK is now available to order. The book is 150 pages in length and costs just 24 EUROS with free postage (excluding America, which is an additional €15 postage = €39 total). Our PayPal address is blackfrontpress@yahoo.co.uk and you can find more details below. Editor: Troy Southgate / Cover: Francisco Albanese Pastene

FOLLOWING our two previous books on Neofolk, this third investigation into the whys and wherefores of one of the world’s most unique phenomena features a fantastic selection of sixteen texts in which the cultural, historical and political ramifications of this inimitable music scene are explored in detail. With an illustrious line-up of musicians, underground adventurers and social commentators, this book is certain to become a cult classic. Chapters include:

*The Symbolism of Death In June and the Aesthetics of Contradiction
*The Remarkable Sins of John Murphy
*Albin Julius (1967-2022): The Luminous Agitator
*A Journey Through the Mysteries of The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud
*Camerata Mediolanense: A House for Europe
*Can Myth Redeem Faustian Man?: Current 93 and the Restoration of Astonishment
*The Stones of Naples: Riccardo Prencipe’s Experience from Lupercalia to Corde Oblique
*Sturmpercht: Crazy Creatures Roam the Austrian Alps
*Rerum Naturam Alunt: Corrado Videtta’s Dark Roots and the Ethereal Poetry Behind Argine
*Pyhä Kuolema: Expressing the Finnish Mystical Landscape
*The Tombstone Cowboy: The Journey of Giulio “Serpico”
Marini through the Sonic Desert
*Ultima Thule: How Ostara Tested the Boundaries of Neofolk
*Osewoudt: The Duality of People in the Search for Identity
*Tenhi: Whispers From the Land of a Thousand Lakes
*Between Earth and Sky: Giuseppe Argentiero’s Inner Cartography of Niemandsrose and Vostok
*Neofolk: “Sad Acoustic Music”, Apocalypse and the Contradictions of an Unrepeatable Scene.

The contributors are Troy Southgate, Miklós Hoffer, José Almeida, Graziano Ciccarelli, Luís Couto, Alexander ‘Hugin’ Karrila, Stefan Hayes, Manuel Dugos Pimentel, David Oakspawn, Rafael Moreira, Aleksandar Sazdovski and Ismo Meinander.