Heathen Harvest
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Type of site
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Music webzine |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Sage Weatherford |
| Created by | Malahki Thorn |
| Slogan(s) | Illuminating the Post-Industrial Underground |
| Website | heathenharvest.org |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | No |
| Launched | 2003 |
| Current status | Active |
Heathen Harvest is an Internet blog devoted to music criticism, music news and interviews. Its focus is on underground and post-industrial music, including ambient, heavy metal, gothic, and industrial music.
The site, which was established in 2003, is one of the longest-running webzines of its kind and has been dubbed "one of the leading online magazines for post-industrial music" and "the internet's foremost authority on neofolk." The website closed in June 2010 but was relaunched in July 2011 at a different domain.
Heathen Harvest has given support to many underground artists and rarely features mainstream bands. It has a current review archive of over 4,800 individual reviews of underground music albums.Heathen Harvest originally began as the Heathen Harvest Music Review, written by Malahki Thorn for RFD Magazine in 2002. Thorn had moved from San Francisco to pursue a quieter life away from the city in Trinity County, California and wanted to share his high-school influences through post-industrial music with the Radical Faeries community.
In December 2006 the site design was overhauled and the magazine began publishing on a bi-monthly basis. Multiple journalists collectively contributed over one hundred articles per month, such as Nick Quarm, Sage L. Weatherford, Patrick O’sullivan and Elena ZG, who would make up the core of the magazine for most of this period.
Soon more journalists were welcomed onboard but eventually (with the exception of Sage L. Weatherford, Patrick O’sullivan, and Elena ZG), all of this original group left or were dismissed. A handful of new writers entered Heathen Harvest, but gradually those running the webzine began to burn out due to the amount of money and time it was taking to process the immense amount of material submitted.
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