PHOTOGRAPHED BY LIGHTNING

Operating out of the UK, PBL have been active in various capacities since 1984. 

The band played its last gig in 1990, but is now planning to return with a few selective performances.

The music is a hybrid mixture of psychedelic rock, free jazz and avant garde experimentalism drawing on influences as diverse as the Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Can, Faust and Throbbing Gristle. 

They are currently working on a new release Black Acid.

THE NAKED BEAST AT HEAVEN'S GATE

Talent borrows, genius steals. Sampled P-funk basslines married to surreal lyrics, treated guitars becoming the death songs of hunted whales, songs of longing juxtaposed with words of longing for isolation. There is only one record in the world could ever sound like this. Photographed by Lightning is the band that made it.

MUSIC FROM THE EMPTY QUARTER 

This  is how protest music would have sounded had the nazis won the war. Torment, torture, total terror. A soundtrack to a world peopled by the defeated. 

2 CDs of humanity struggling to escape brutality. 

THE RISE AND FALL OF DUST BUG CECIL AND THE WINKING CATS

A concept album with no concept. Sharp pop songs that avoid the obvious only to encounter the concept of rhythm with the surprise of a runaway car penetrating your living room wall. Written by people who appear not to know where they are, where they belong but nevertheless are sat on the precipice laughing. If McCartney had been replaced by Manson this is the album they would have made. Features the single, 'Eyes On Stalks'.

LET ME EAT THE FLOWERS

Psychedelic pop songs. Tales of a life spent in front of the television, channels added by the second, greasing our journey to the grave by telling us how to think. Propaganda thrives on the lazy mind.

"Is that a meteor or just our lives crashing over the beautiful horizon?"

MOTHER PROTON WHORE

It's unlikely that your mother would be either amused or entertained by this. Solution: move out of your parents' house and get some semblance of a life. The music? It's nasty... listening to it is the equivalent of those thirty fated minutes before you ended up in the casualty unit... remember? The time it got serious...  

REVOLUTION 666

Had this record been made in 1968 there is little doubt that naughty Charlie and his fraternity of murderous goblins would have superglued it to the turntable prior to getting all medieval on random and unfortunate people. A recording that reveals in all its filthy glory, the hidden malevolence the average listener would not realise lurks within the Fab Four's back catalogue. 

BLOOD MUSIC

The soundtrack to a murderous cult two hundred years in the future.  Be thankful you live now! The sound of an underage Thai prostitute being rubbed down with a bamboo cheese grater.  

MUSIC FROM NOWHERE

Originally issued as Music For Strangers in a limited edition of just 23 copies and, as the title would suggest, and in far less interesting times, left at random locations around the UK, inc Devon, a Swansea to London Paddington train and a pub in Manchester. Reissued with some extra tracks of dark chilling ambience.

ERICH ZANN

Originally a side-project of Photographed By Lightning, Erich Zann create  dark ambient and ritualistic soundscapes ideally to be used as an aid for meditational and magickal  practices. 

Erich Zann  performed a series of live rituals during the 90s in various scared places.  Although most of these were recorded, the sound quality varies quite drastically. We are currently attempting to compile the best and most effective of these for possible release in 2011.

SONGS OF AMBIENT DARKNESS

Two long electronic pieces inspired by the works of  H P Lovecraft.  These pieces were intended for use with lucid dreaming exercises and skrying and are meant to complement the magickal pracices of groups working with Lovecraftian ideas in a ritual setting.