About

I've been meaning to get back into writing for a while. I had a photocopied extreme metal zine in the early 2000s, I wrote for an Italian magazine in the late 2000s and then got back to writing about music during the pandemic… and I've been feeling this need for some time.

Music is my radar, but I've also been interested in fringe culture for decades. These cultural extremes have brought me to some dark places and I've been trying to get my head around them. Consider this blog part musical interest, part cultural deep diving and part therapy blog. It's cheaper than a doctor.

Why Filthpig?

As a teenager I absolutely loved Filth Pig by Ministry and still go back to it from time to time, especially for the Dylan coverLay Lady Lay. It stuck, as I also feel like I tend to get into the messier side of culture and music and thoroughly enjoy wallowing in it.

Why Apocalypse Culture?

Do you remember the book Apocalypse Culture? That book really opened me up to the whole concept of outsider culture. It has its own baggage (something I will definitely get into at some point), but I really want to reclaim this search for the underground and the extreme. In the early 2000s I had this same domain and it was a link dump for the weirdest stuff I could find on the internet. Today I feel like I want to curate it a little more and dive into stuff myself.

What will you find here?

Musings on music, extreme culture and my personal life. I'm really open to corresponding about pretty much any of the subjects touched upon here so feel free to email me at filthpig at apocalypseculture dot com, don't be shy. I avoided a comment section because a) fuck the modern internet and b) I really didn't want the technical maintenance.