The first volume of Deserts of Hex, a unique new music journal focusing on dark and arcane sounds, is available for purchase exclusively through Radical Research. Deserts’ premier gambit features long-form essays on such diverse artists as Norway’s Solefald, Finland’s Vladislav Delay, California’s Red House Painters, and France’s Acanthus. Additionally, readers of Deserts Vol.1 will find the first-ever discographical survey of the shadowy Italian-Slovenian collective Devil Doll, an extended meditation on the Symbolist tendencies found in the music of France’s most daring rock and metal, as well as an interview with Shiiver, the visionary publisher of Arcane Archivist magazine. Edited by Hunter Ginn and Thomas Clark and featuring the invaluable work of Ryan Madson and Forrest Pitts (aka Fallow Heart), Deserts of Hex is available in limited quantities. Should your tastes tend toward the crepuscular margins of extreme music, you will find in Deserts of Hex a one-of-a-kind reading experience.