A gothic blues musician from Aylesbury has explained her unlikely journey to becoming a popular artist.

The Curse of KK Hammond has amassed a strong online following and her work has even been endorsed by rock royalty Metallica.

She lives in the Aylesbury area but through the power of social media has gained fans both here and in the states.

Her music has featured on BBC Radio 2 and Metallica shared one of her slide guitar performances on their official TikTok account calling it ‘incredible’.

Previously, the Buckinghamshire-based artist has described her music as horror blues. The video to her and her band’s reworking of Johnny Cash’s Ain't No Grave sees the artists donning masks which would not look out of place in the Purge films or many other gothic horror features.

"It was later in my teens when a good friend of mine, Dan, introduced me to the Blues but I always had a very expansive taste in music,” she told The Bucks Herald when asked how she discovered the genre of music which does not have a strong history in the Aylesbury area.

"I listen to a great deal of blues and blues rock but have taken a good pinch of influence from almost every imaginable genre. As a youth I listened to a lot of reggae, drum and Bass and jungle, hardcore, metal, classical, Flamenco and Latin rhythms, grunge, folk, traditional and everything else in between from Depeche Mode to Nick Cave. These days I listen to pre-war blues the most and can't shake my fascination with it.”

KK also revealed that she takes a lot of inspiration from Buckinghamshire and the countryside. While working as a full-time musician, she chooses not to gig and tour her music instead relying solely on word-of-mouth and power of the internet to promote her work.