Lurking at number 8 in The Punk Site’s 2023 Top 40 are Rites Of Hadda with their third album, Occult Sex Worker, that was released in October via Grow Your Own Records. Anyone who has caught this truly unique outfit live, or encountered their previous albums, 2018’s Witchpunk and 2020’s The Horned God, will be aware that the sax, drag and rock ’n roll that they describe as “anarcho-pagan-gothic-psychedelic-queer-Witchpunk” is never going to fit into any convenient pigeonhole, it’s more likely that they are carving their own, almost certainly in exactly the wrong place, possibly in a parallell dimension. This is a band that does not make concessions on any level, they are wrong on every level, but as we all know, this is an approach that often produces something that is so very right...