Brian Herring(II)
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Brian Herring is a multi-disciplinary creator-writer, musician, and actor-best known for blending dark fiction, industrial/darkwave soundscapes, and a deeply atmospheric sensibility.
As the founder and frontman of Semantic Noise found on Bandcamp.com, Herring crafts industrial, darkwave, and ambient albums such as The Abyss Awaits. His music is distinguished by crushing rhythms, haunting atmospheres, and lyrics steeped in existential horror, occult imagery, and the macabre. Many of his songs draw from the same mythos, characters, and cosmic dread that populate his novels.
In literature, he is the author of the Strait series-Strait to Jail, Strait to Hell, Strait to Judgment-which fuses pulp noir, horror, surrealism, and a vein of black humor. Other works include Lonesome Witching Hour and Tales from the Black Grove, along with various short fiction and chapbook projects. His writing often explores themes of madness, fractured realities, the supernatural bleeding into the mundane, and the grotesque beauty of human flaws.
As the founder and frontman of Semantic Noise found on Bandcamp.com, Herring crafts industrial, darkwave, and ambient albums such as The Abyss Awaits. His music is distinguished by crushing rhythms, haunting atmospheres, and lyrics steeped in existential horror, occult imagery, and the macabre. Many of his songs draw from the same mythos, characters, and cosmic dread that populate his novels.
In literature, he is the author of the Strait series-Strait to Jail, Strait to Hell, Strait to Judgment-which fuses pulp noir, horror, surrealism, and a vein of black humor. Other works include Lonesome Witching Hour and Tales from the Black Grove, along with various short fiction and chapbook projects. His writing often explores themes of madness, fractured realities, the supernatural bleeding into the mundane, and the grotesque beauty of human flaws.
