English Heretic is a Suffolk-based English project associated with neofolk, dark folk, experimental music and psychedelic rock. It presents itself as an art collective and uses music as one way of exploring Britain’s esoteric and psychogeographic landscape.

Concept and focus

The project centres on the idea of maintaining and interpreting what it describes as England’s psychohistorical environment. Its material draws on occult archaeology, astral geography and mystical place-naming, with an emphasis on decoding the symbolic and conspiratorial relationships between buildings, landscapes and other features of place.

Its work also frames this exploration in terms of inner journeys and liminal spaces, presenting itself as a guide for people investigating uncanny, interdimensional and psychologically charged landscapes.

Approach

English Heretic describes its output as including formats such as an imaginal ordnance survey, psychogeographic documentary evidence and technical guidance for passing through a liminal gateway. These ideas place the project within a wider tradition of experimental folk-derived art concerned with occult, historical and geographical subject matter.