Cigarette Magazine Issue 4

Cigarette Magazine Issue 4 continues Wesley Eisold’s archive of lost subcultures and private mythologies. This installment turns toward the forgotten corners of cassette culture. It lingers where punk, goth, and black metal intersect in dim rooms that smell of leather and clove, while still rooted in the now traditional Cigarette obsession with 80s leather and 90s hardcore.

It drifts through the 1990s and the lingering fog of the satanic panic, where fear and fascination blurred into new forms of devotion. Pentagram head–tattooed teenagers expelled from school gather in the woods for makeshift rituals. Forgotten demos hiss in the background. Rumors of teenage levitation and midnight curses pass between friends like mixtapes. Local legends dead by twenty-three are remembered here as saints of distortion and collapse.

The collage work in Issue 4 mirrors the fragility of its subjects. Layers of photocopied texture, image, and residue create a document that feels found rather than made. Cigarette remains a study of what refuses to fade, collecting fragments that were never meant to survive and letting them hum again in static and shadow.