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Black Stone Sanctuary

Black Stone Sanctuary proudly presents a long-form interview with Ulf Söderberg, aka Sephiroth. 

An early version was released in 2018 to Substack paid subscribers only. I'm over-the-moon excited to release the updated version publicly on @paragraph. 

If you’re among those who’ve been banging on the quality-over-quantity, impact-over-engagement drum (keep it up), I invite you to give this a read. 

The creative process for the interview spanned several years — a slowcore record for us both — and it’s 100% human-written and -edited. 

Ulf is my all-time fav musician, full stop. Collaborating with him marks a high point for me as a music writer.

If you haven't heard of him despite his stature, it may be because his music isn't on Spotify, Apple, BC, etc. Copies of his OOP albums go for astounding prices on Discogs. His work can only be heard unofficially on YT. 

Enjoy!

https://paragraph.xyz/@blackstonesanctuarypm.me/scandinavian-heritage-an-interview-with-ulf-soderberg?referrer=danicaswanson.eth

For anyone into dark ambient or curious about the creative side of music, @danicaswanson’s latest interview is a must-read

Writer, senior editor, music nerd, GenX eldergoth, monastery-bootstrapper. https://paragraph.xyz/@danicaswanson https://tinyurl.com/Black-Stone-Wordsmith

Tip: put this album on while you read, it’ll make the experience even better

Tip: put this album on while you read, it’ll make the experience even better

https://youtu.be/TCnAmEGZ6UM

I refuse to accept that this will be your last 😭 but if it has to be, then it's a really good one to go out with

Thanks for reading and recasting! Glad you enjoyed it.

As we've discussed, music journalism has been gutted and this may turn out to be my last published interview, so it seems fitting that it's my proudest.