The range of music we can now cover is huge - as a guide check out the bands listed to the left for the eclectic and far reaching styles and genres we are interested in.

From Godspeed you Black Emperor to Joanna Newsom, Current 93 to 65 days of static, Mono to Of the Wand and the Moon and from Johnny Cash to Efterklang, the Judas Kiss can now truly explore the boundaries of modern music and beyond.

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The Judas Kiss is dead long live the Judas Kiss

It is with regret that as from the 03/06/06 the decision has been made to cease the printed version of the Judas Kiss magazine. This was a very hard decision to make and was done so for a number of reasons - please read on

Firstly the spiralling costs of the manufacturing and postage of the magazine has gone up considerably. Therefore to be able to continue producing the magazine of the same quality and page length would mean that the price would have to increase just to cover costs – and this increase is something I felt very strongly about. Compared the costs of mainstream magazines how much more could the cost justifiably rise before readers and distributors said ‘enough was enough’? We don’t have the huge advertisers these mainstream magazines have and therefore the costs are covered by the actual magazine sales themselves.

Of course there’s also the internet, where a whole plethora of information can be obtained instantly for free - something we as a printed concern could never really compete against.

Finally, as I get older my life’s priorities have changed – work and my home life have became more and more important and both leave little time to spend on the increasing work load of writing, editing, laying out, gathering advertising, distributing and selling the Judas Kiss.

I would of course like to thank not only all of the readers who have purchased the Judas Kiss in the past but also all of the bands who have given their time to conduct interviews, the artists and labels who have sent in review material and have advertised in our pages and of course the writers, past and present, who have believed in the Judas Kiss enough to spend hour after hour writing reviews and interviewing bands for inclusion. Without these people, especially Alan Milne and Simon Collins, the Judas Kiss would have never made it this far.

Thank you one and all.

The Judas kiss magazine (printed) has now left the building..

However this is by no means the end of the Judas Kiss in fact its just the start of a new chapter.

As you may already know our website has recently had a huge update of new reviews and another one is planned any day now. Aside from this there will be new interviews included here as well.

All of this means that new reviews and interviews will be made available a lot quicker then was possible the printed magazine. It also means more people will be able to read them which in turn will benefit the artists and labels concerned.

Lee - Judas Kiss Editor

About the Judas Kiss magazine, as was

The Judas Kiss magazine was one of the leading small print journals that captured the very essence of the post-industrial scene through the written medium. Focusing primarily but not exclusively on musical aspects of this genre, including such styles as neo-folk, martial/military, neo-classical, noise, dark ambient, power electronics and all that falls in between. Through in-depth, yet delectably readable interviews and articles, the Judas Kiss strives to delve into the very souls of these artists/bands to unearth how and why they produce the powerful and stimulating music they record.Also included within the pages of the Judas Kiss are a splattering of articles that deal with the more esoteric spectrum of subjects, which have over the years become part and parcel of the post-industrial scene. In previous issues these have taken the shape of both interviews and articles that have focussed Satanism, Fetishism, Piercing (both body adornment and ritualistic), Japanese rope Bondage, Odinism, Fascism and its relationship to the post-industrial scene, Female domination, cults and extreme literature.

The Judas Kiss presents - Past, Present and Forever' CD compilation 

The Judas Kiss recently released its first compilation CD entitled 'Past, present and Forever' via Kaosthetik

- TRACKLIST -

1. Spiritual Front - Singing Sodomy*
2. Stimulus - Blow the Moon and His Fool*
3. Coph Nia - Lord of the Air (vocal)*
4. Of the Wand and the Moon - Gal Anda (version)*
5. Blood Axis - Reign I Forever
6. Midnight Syndicate - Ride to Destiny
7. As All Die - Love Lorn*
8. Allerseelen - Trumlied
9. Von Thronstahl - Lawrence of Arabia*
10. Days of the Trumpet Call - Rendezvous*
11. The Caretaker - We'll Go Riding On A Rainbow*
12. Project Fahr - Swollen*
13. Caithness - Solesmess Echoes'*

* indicates exclusive track or remix

Entitled the Judas Kiss presents Past, Present and Forever the compilation contains 13 tracks of the very best in neo-folk, martial, neo-classical, dark ambient and industrial music from a stunning array of artists and groups.

Released on the French label Kaosthetik the compilation is on CD format and comes in an edition of limited at 420
copies which is housed in a beautiful triptique 7 EP cover'.

The CD is available from those wonderful people at Kaosthetik as well all good industrial music mail-order
companies, worldwide.

All whole-sale queries should be directed to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

More information on Past, Present and Forever can be found at Kaosthetik, which also features a number of samples from the compilation and the Judas kiss magazine

The Judas Kiss also has a 'Live Journal Community' which can be found here - this can used for posts by members, which fall under the wide spectrum of music and topics covered within the Judas Kiss

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