Stephen Thrower

Stephen Thrower (born December 9, 1963 Ashton-Under-Lyne, Manchester, UK) is an English musician and author.

Formerly a member of the music group Coil, Possession, Satin Chickens, Put Put, Identical and Skullflower. His current music project is Cyclobe, with Ossian Brown (another former Coil member). Their first two albums Luminous Darkness and The Visitors were released on the UK based record label Phantomcode, whilst their collaboration with Nurse With Wound, Paraparaparallelogrammatica, was issued by the US label Beta Lactam.

Thrower is regarded as an expert on horror and 'off-mainstream' cinema: his published works include Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci, The Eyeball Compendium, and Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents. With Coil, he worked on the (unreleased) soundtrack for Hellraiser by Clive Barker, and recorded the soundtrack to the Derek Jarman film The Angelic Conversation. As Cyclobe, he wrote the theme music for George Barry's Death Bed: The Bed That Eats and recently scored the first ever Pakistani horror film "Zibarkhana".