James was born in South Africa but spent most of his life living between New Zealand and Australia and now calls California home. James owns Cave Dweller Music, a music review site and the music PR company Cave Dweller Productions. He also hosts the Cave Dweller Podcast series and is a monthly contributor to the Doom Charts. He has loved alternative and extreme music for over 1 years. This is not his first writing gig, having formerly managed a successful travel blog, which he traded in to pursue a more musical direction. He listens to an ungodly amount of music ranging from death, black and doom metal to dark ambient, harsh noise, folk, punk, reggae, hip hop, ritual, industrial, dungeon synth and dark country, and just about everything in between.