tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18415866429615344362024-03-05T08:38:45.731-08:00Metal MaleficarvmMorbid Metal & Bestial Scriptures.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841586642961534436.post-12756794720881167382022-02-08T04:56:00.010-08:002022-02-09T08:46:56.101-08:00Review Paganfire "Of Deathblades and Bloodsoaked Paths..." EP 2021<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrrfbLRbeo533BoSB-rKqnKlQf9VkMhRSz65jKi2si9ffHrCrhrgmdw4_u0Gi-6sPb093f4LLA9HzZx7CXIhTJCMuaa21ybaWzNU8s8CcnNAj-fQvlN65DZx_scGQYsRmq1bLxeJhfkw7UDTd1bYQY7DZkz-uRoPXY1-QPZ1o44LG9HJ7sr5NSJr8Pqg/s4462/Paganfire SIGIL 2019.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4462" data-original-width="3148" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrrfbLRbeo533BoSB-rKqnKlQf9VkMhRSz65jKi2si9ffHrCrhrgmdw4_u0Gi-6sPb093f4LLA9HzZx7CXIhTJCMuaa21ybaWzNU8s8CcnNAj-fQvlN65DZx_scGQYsRmq1bLxeJhfkw7UDTd1bYQY7DZkz-uRoPXY1-QPZ1o44LG9HJ7sr5NSJr8Pqg/w283-h400/Paganfire SIGIL 2019.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">I know this band since time ago, because of many pacts and trades with the leader and good comrade Nonoy. I know almost its entire career, regarding releases (even I have some unofficial on my morbid collection), and since ups and downs, some raw release here or there, some other even a bit slower and "technical", to the current EP "Of Deathblades and Bloodsoaked Paths..."; I believe Im witnessing perhaps some of the best release of Paganfire I have heard! It shows a bestial Thrash Attack, where a cruel ancient spirit of Dark Angel or Sadus, is summoned, surrounded by bestiality on drums, mortifer delays on vocals and evil riffs on guitars! Riffs are deadly catchy, as the ones from "Poseurdom Shall Fall" for example, a epic warfare noise against fucking fake scum. Best thing on this release is that it really captures an aura and sensation of an old recording. It is kiler and weird listening a native language (I believe that) on songs as "Karumaldumal! Kasuklamsuklam!" (???), deathrashing rage here as in the entire release, with some mini solos as small demons grinding your flesh!!! Some little touches of Death Metal are perceived on "Disturbing, Defeaning and Disgusting". An interesting fact is that this kind of chaotic and mad sounds as a fucking old time. Primitive drumblasting on songs as "The Executor is back", some crazy solos and even some Max Cavalera summoning from the pre-fucked era of Sepultura. And finishing the release "False Protector" which starts with something like an intro. Im starting to believe this is the most "technical" song on this album, as it has many parts and changes. Fortunately, then it starts to hit the drums in primitive bestiality, returning to the constant noise on this EP, which is raw and direct Thrash Metal, with evil chainsaw riffs, speed of death on vocals, and the summoning of the elder Metal ghouls! (By JC Morbid)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh25JxKekxW28bNNEHNQp2dxSlNgcZ9tG1uyoJY2gC37bnZ20XkztUQlIROB4ccavslBX60mp2n7HLq0hdJbLUC6Gijyy3TdJMu0eOPMhX3BWNG8ennv5GSWDC1n13mVIgBE8jyhwu6z2PMcWYf121zs3GEDIhlQxqLSfv6M0AE-DS7Qp_GoZO37Tfjtg=s720" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="720" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh25JxKekxW28bNNEHNQp2dxSlNgcZ9tG1uyoJY2gC37bnZ20XkztUQlIROB4ccavslBX60mp2n7HLq0hdJbLUC6Gijyy3TdJMu0eOPMhX3BWNG8ennv5GSWDC1n13mVIgBE8jyhwu6z2PMcWYf121zs3GEDIhlQxqLSfv6M0AE-DS7Qp_GoZO37Tfjtg=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841586642961534436.post-29542608129765051162021-11-09T07:06:00.007-08:002022-02-05T07:44:55.914-08:00Libiac int.<p>This is a brief int. published on deathmetal.org: <a href="http://www.deathmetal.org/interview/libiac-interview/">http://www.deathmetal.org/interview/libiac-interview/</a></p><p><b>1.Explain the name of the band and also the reasons for forming it.</b></p><p>The name comes from one of the ancient deities of the Andes specifically the Andean region of Huánuco, from which we are and are very proud; Libiac or also called Yana Raman, a highly respected deity and feared by the inhabitants of the pre-Inka villages of the Peruvian central Andean part which was considered the god of Thunder. The main reason for forming the band is to spread through the lyrics of each of our themes the permanence and revaluation of our ancestral legacy, in all areas, likewise the band will transmit the pagan style which helps the idea or To this end, the advantage is to have found comrades with the same direction in thoughts about the honour and pride of our ancestors.</p><p><b>2.What are the topics you preach, what are you trying to express and/or what is the ideological proposal of the band?</b></p><p>The themes are basically focused on the Andean mythology and the pagan concept and beyond proposing I would say that it is to transmit what is being lost in our country: the identity and worldview of our predecessors. We reject all Christian interference.</p><p><b>3.How do you know about these topics? In which are they inspired or based on?</b></p><p>Being from the central Andean region we have all the ingredients to manifest as such. Knowing Quechua helps us a lot, getting to know the places closely and knowing about the Andean worldview, such as the customs and traditions of our environment, was very helpful and inspired not only in the lyrics of the themes but also maintaining a style of life.</p><p><b>4.What is your opinion of the Christian religion or other religions?</b></p><p>The religions of each place in that sense Christianity is foreign to ours, it is also worth emphasizing the history of false history that was told and implanted. We strongly reject Christianity.</p><p><b>5.If so, what kind of Andean rituals do you practice today? Why do you practice them? What is the meaning they give you today?</b></p><p>The Pagapu and the Pachamama, the reason is as part of giving tribute to the Apus and the same Pachamama, this is reciprocal since the connection we have is beyond a paradigm, it is pure conviction. Another reason we practice and will continue is to maintain that ancestral tradition.</p><p><b>6.What is your perception of the Norwegian Black Metal of the 90s?</b></p><p>There is nothing to detract from the Norwegian Black Metal scene of that time. Beyond the relevance of the events that occurred and were of great impact not necessarily in the musical if not in the events, but when one forms a band and aligning to this Point highlights with greater emphasis the musical side and the pride that they manifest towards their culture.</p><p><b>7. If so, what would you say is the influence of Norwegian Black Metal, both musical and ideological, for your band?</b></p><p>Windir, Kampfar, Burzum, Mayhem.</p><p><b>8. What do you think about the Metal scene of your area or region?</b></p><p>The local scene (Huánuco) is resurfacing in terms of Metal followers, through the increase to local concerts and sharing information about the Metal. With Libiac we will always continue to fight and maintain our musical style with themes of honour and ancestral pride.</p><p><b>9. What do you think about the Metal scene in Lima?</b></p><p>The Metal scene in Lima is shown with a great increase since frequent concerts with international bands, festivals and local concerts are given and every time the support of the general public is noticed to the local bands and that motivates the bands to continue creating songs and contributing more to the national scene.</p><p><b>10. Finally, what is the link that you find between Metal and the Andean world, ancestral pre Inkas or Inkas cultures? Why relate Metal to this theme?</b></p><p>Metal is a means by which one expresses all kinds of thoughts and ideologies and gives you the freedom to manifest yourself and what you want to convey. The convenience of addressing issues in metal or black metal is differentiated from blasphemy to rites or prayers to supreme beings or divinities and in this way allows us to find that metal link with the Andean world and thus express our ancestral heritage.</p><p>(By Morbid Devastator from: Death Invoker band, Legion of Torture zine, Evil Spirit distro.</p><p>www.deathinvoker.weebly.com, www.esdistro-lotzine.weebly.com)</p><p>Tags: Andean, Black Metal, Libiac, peru</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841586642961534436.post-90310391174613921032021-03-10T17:03:00.001-08:002021-03-10T17:03:08.859-08:00Dying Victims (GER) releases<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiup3fMQxOYEgriuVjvMGuhaOBJnxtmSwvxydfhQrFkxH45mWAxdSqRAKEQcXJfctcbZGAS4m2DdemlGfKlA6NpFioqRTLkr4kf8e0Hi7tMc0E8tSjPcYoPVUXTl7qNDUh0wNvbfd6omGiG/s1200/159099511_902438073824260_6429366869803314246_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiup3fMQxOYEgriuVjvMGuhaOBJnxtmSwvxydfhQrFkxH45mWAxdSqRAKEQcXJfctcbZGAS4m2DdemlGfKlA6NpFioqRTLkr4kf8e0Hi7tMc0E8tSjPcYoPVUXTl7qNDUh0wNvbfd6omGiG/w640-h640/159099511_902438073824260_6429366869803314246_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglhVUReMK4ItCbDNBefCZYoOl6iDXwka4AMmV00DOd6yvESu9DJS6z8nRCm94sEpXJ2QGY8kklmF2HE5Pg-j8lG-JaSuKMiYviz-VeSuLxYYX3fBrJmBvLvr1_UAXp74fWJvCV6T1mOAO-/s1500/159705197_1376819459349694_3875557160105886498_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglhVUReMK4ItCbDNBefCZYoOl6iDXwka4AMmV00DOd6yvESu9DJS6z8nRCm94sEpXJ2QGY8kklmF2HE5Pg-j8lG-JaSuKMiYviz-VeSuLxYYX3fBrJmBvLvr1_UAXp74fWJvCV6T1mOAO-/w640-h640/159705197_1376819459349694_3875557160105886498_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841586642961534436.post-62834637175066646042020-08-11T13:18:00.001-07:002020-08-11T13:18:17.645-07:00Releases Paragon Records (USA)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu0T0mtR1CW6GzoshjCnIy7hhBOd5pf4M9yTY2We7-oCcGQgwCScDhpmAfmLd8aA-qWFc8ZqLZ8OXS-vqbkvr1Q4nS8f9R-kwlxpAmDkGhJxOko0uVXbl77lI3NR1TEEvQsb1H12kXZStL/s500/aetherius+cd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu0T0mtR1CW6GzoshjCnIy7hhBOd5pf4M9yTY2We7-oCcGQgwCScDhpmAfmLd8aA-qWFc8ZqLZ8OXS-vqbkvr1Q4nS8f9R-kwlxpAmDkGhJxOko0uVXbl77lI3NR1TEEvQsb1H12kXZStL/w500-h500/aetherius+cd.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b>Aetherius Obscuritas [Hungray]</b>- *The black metal band Aetherius Obscuritas are certainly capable of mounting musical assaults of cut-throat savagery and spine-tingling wildness, but what makes their new album Mártír stand out from the barbaric pack is, for want of a better word, their adventurousness. The compositions are elaborate and multi-faceted, and the results can seem like musical potions that produce enthralling as well as electrifying effects. The song we’re premiering today, “Ilyen a vér (Blood Is Like This)“, is a great example of such ingeniously conceived and sharply executed adventures.</span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">The core duo that makes up Aetherius Obscuritas, Viktor (vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards) and Zson (drums) have been working together under that name for roughly 18 years, long enough to become familiar with each other’s talents and propensities but quite obviously not so long as to settle into stagnancy. In that time they’ve recorded eight albums, including Mártír, but still seem to be pushing themselves into new musical territories, perhaps most obviously on this new album. It follows the last one by a significant five years and will be released on April 15th by GrimmDistribution (Ukraine) and Paragon Records (U.S.). NOW IN STOCK!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsdQSYGOet3jp7qv6hhFe2f2jQt2g7foswqcmoAzwihMLd6L818qEv-GzSpyinWZTGymsD1Ib582qDYG8nZZ2ZJY1bNKedJZ587CDhNuzT6bt2ByDKM39TZtjNxjd4eb3jQjVkOGsKKqza/s500/orbstruct+cd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsdQSYGOet3jp7qv6hhFe2f2jQt2g7foswqcmoAzwihMLd6L818qEv-GzSpyinWZTGymsD1Ib582qDYG8nZZ2ZJY1bNKedJZ587CDhNuzT6bt2ByDKM39TZtjNxjd4eb3jQjVkOGsKKqza/s0/orbstruct+cd.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><b>Orbstruct [Ukraine] - Phobos Rising on CD . </b></div><div><br /></div><div>Paragon Records in cooperation with Envenomed Music proudly present "Phobos Rising" by Ukrainian Death Metal act Orbstruct set for release on CD with a Street Date of July 3 2020. NOW IN STOCK!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwAAmblphYD30b-GBlbZZ0q7Nwekz-seyLnZcD1M_JXwm6eO9ZnffWeMUTwGdQtJNh3GKy0WCJccFL5AiyVX8sXnXBRKpV67Xpv1oNXfSUYOzHsHN_TiX2mcKuwlGLFH9JH_Ot5iSz8NK9/s1800/logo+Paragon+Rec.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwAAmblphYD30b-GBlbZZ0q7Nwekz-seyLnZcD1M_JXwm6eO9ZnffWeMUTwGdQtJNh3GKy0WCJccFL5AiyVX8sXnXBRKpV67Xpv1oNXfSUYOzHsHN_TiX2mcKuwlGLFH9JH_Ot5iSz8NK9/s640/logo+Paragon+Rec.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><div>Origins:</div><div>Paragon Records was started in 2000 AD on Long Island, NY by Jim Mroz who shortly after partnered with bandmate M from Blackened Death Metal outfit originally called The Forgotten (before later embracing the name Dimentianon) to act as a means of distributing the bands material before later signing bands for releases as well.</div><div><br /></div><div>Paragon artists have gone on to be signed by Osmose Records, Candlelight Records, Profound Lore Records, Metal Blade Records & more.</div><div><br /></div><div>Paragon Records was born of the underground and strives to expose the best bands out there who are up & comers or tried & true. Strong emphasis goes into releasing diverse styles with creativity & passion from the artists- P.R. are looking for the masters of the plague who strive to unleash their own sound!</div><div>If you don't like that...fuck off!</div><div>NO HOODS, NO CLIQUES, NO CLOAKS...NO BULLSHIT!!!</div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841586642961534436.post-26852973529667104792020-08-08T02:41:00.006-07:002020-08-08T02:41:40.013-07:00Flyer Blasphemer zine from Brazil. Embalmed Souls, 30 years, special edition.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTbV9uFxpDlUaDc3F7cf7fJqfsS98OZP3-jDuJ4kbCqHw_MmSnE5xz1tm-vdNFs02V-TPeZeNSzQuyLoVLjigTIvs2QEOpcNzOwW5M6OsAa-SglTyhLVs3kMl5BdmPDLvs3p225qqUXOEX/s768/Blasphemer+zine+page.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: inline !important; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTbV9uFxpDlUaDc3F7cf7fJqfsS98OZP3-jDuJ4kbCqHw_MmSnE5xz1tm-vdNFs02V-TPeZeNSzQuyLoVLjigTIvs2QEOpcNzOwW5M6OsAa-SglTyhLVs3kMl5BdmPDLvs3p225qqUXOEX/s640/Blasphemer+zine+page.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqBliljdMqIv3GKjfxQkUERfPtr7BuuyV7PtcrI85lyxSlxnzFITPPzzPUzjWA_F9Bgn8Ij-51faTc4eSQ0FH0JqSv1dpMvb9xWj6v4VDsr6a0WaJHcSStZukaGZCp_YI-AzAxN1b0H4dC/s950/BLASPHEMER+FLYER+OFICIAL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="568" data-original-width="950" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqBliljdMqIv3GKjfxQkUERfPtr7BuuyV7PtcrI85lyxSlxnzFITPPzzPUzjWA_F9Bgn8Ij-51faTc4eSQ0FH0JqSv1dpMvb9xWj6v4VDsr6a0WaJHcSStZukaGZCp_YI-AzAxN1b0H4dC/s640/BLASPHEMER+FLYER+OFICIAL.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJC4BMWi7vjCag-cwri1c9rZm-R8tKEiUunoMzMyc2z40WG2HhR4cR7nv_3HzcP3Y7NTzO0hhKFdXNAxLU2VEgMinLiNDVXLdt4X9AJ6Db9ER5dzduZOfZ0IptrXUodO4bzB1hMamt6Gk8/s768/Blasphemer+zine+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJC4BMWi7vjCag-cwri1c9rZm-R8tKEiUunoMzMyc2z40WG2HhR4cR7nv_3HzcP3Y7NTzO0hhKFdXNAxLU2VEgMinLiNDVXLdt4X9AJ6Db9ER5dzduZOfZ0IptrXUodO4bzB1hMamt6Gk8/s640/Blasphemer+zine+cover.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841586642961534436.post-66451310042518027462020-08-08T02:34:00.005-07:002020-08-08T02:34:48.204-07:00Flyer Bestial Noise zine from Chile. Issue 6.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3z_sbCZuOffSyMxUPodcuJIWutmfp3OBqBjKPD2ZY-87CVIQipv3AG3gIMVskjT1BtLhqDG6nqIZ9j610_U6QYXqP7CMd1h3zd9YtErLFyZQ0TipXGI6T-hUCL5EFlLCABRtYmUhOa0Hx/s735/flyer+bestial+noise+6+-+chi.png" imageanchor="1" style="display: inline !important; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="557" height="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3z_sbCZuOffSyMxUPodcuJIWutmfp3OBqBjKPD2ZY-87CVIQipv3AG3gIMVskjT1BtLhqDG6nqIZ9j610_U6QYXqP7CMd1h3zd9YtErLFyZQ0TipXGI6T-hUCL5EFlLCABRtYmUhOa0Hx/w606-h800/flyer+bestial+noise+6+-+chi.png" width="606" /></a></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841586642961534436.post-33249240740764258432020-08-08T02:26:00.003-07:002020-08-08T02:27:24.334-07:00Release from the Brazilian Abyss!!! By Arauto da Morte Rec., Sociedade dos Mortos Prod., Temple Bizarre Cult Distro!!!<p>COMING SOON!!</p><p>SPLIT 4 WAY, "ANTIGOS RITUAIS DE CULTO À MORTE", INSOLITUM (BRA), PATHOGEN (PHI), DEATH INVOKER (PER) AND NECROCCULTUS (MEX)!!</p><p>MASSACRE, RITUAL AND SACRIFICE!</p><p>In one more primeval cycle of obscurity and slaughter, the labels Arauto da Morte Records, Temple Bizarre Cult Distro and Sociedade dos Mortos, announce the materialization of a new omen of death! This Split 4 Way marks the beginning of the celebrations of the “Antigos Rituais de Culto à Morte”, which in a great period of carnage, started to count on the presence of four emissaries of the doom! Four great subterranean entities that perfectly embody all the morbid symbolism of the Metal of Death (!!), are: INSOLITUM (BRA), PATHOGEN (PHI), DEATH INVOKER (PER) and NECROCCULTUS (MEX)!!</p><p>Material in Slipcase CD format, containing two songs from each mortuary entity, composed exclusively for this veneration to the rites of the decease!!</p><p>This is the first release of a Splits 4 Way trilogy totally dedicated to the profane, barbaric and archaic DEATH METAL!!!</p><p>Enjoy the smell of death and rot your souls!!!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAJ9IxIMgeSaghD9iZ9tG2Ld0SFx653WbQbeW_5oLL_K2jPe3y4W97IRk4HbgUOc0GDR5KiTgxndKkZY2ZyaHgJ7cc0PVHlU_bTM999fNfeuWtkSjyIbT4juxTG9I0Esu-8PS2u6Bv0baY/s2048/4+Flyer+-+Ingles.png" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1641" height="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAJ9IxIMgeSaghD9iZ9tG2Ld0SFx653WbQbeW_5oLL_K2jPe3y4W97IRk4HbgUOc0GDR5KiTgxndKkZY2ZyaHgJ7cc0PVHlU_bTM999fNfeuWtkSjyIbT4juxTG9I0Esu-8PS2u6Bv0baY/w641-h800/4+Flyer+-+Ingles.png" width="641" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841586642961534436.post-3071615528518607282020-08-08T02:14:00.002-07:002020-08-08T02:15:29.430-07:00Flyers from Germany<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFBBLajDbn_OBCE1lCFHG9snmyVudSZRkYs_X9dSDAkdavnWtIG9nrb57zt-J5v07ozKu-cbR1UEs8wnl_G8fssxzQjO79yXO0VcJHh_wphGTevXSdz4HtQxzAGWA1NyI-I00Fz4n4YZh0/s1197/2...Flyer_2.0+to+print+from+Johannes+-+Ago.2020_page-0001.jpg" style="display: inline !important; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="871" data-original-width="1197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFBBLajDbn_OBCE1lCFHG9snmyVudSZRkYs_X9dSDAkdavnWtIG9nrb57zt-J5v07ozKu-cbR1UEs8wnl_G8fssxzQjO79yXO0VcJHh_wphGTevXSdz4HtQxzAGWA1NyI-I00Fz4n4YZh0/s640/2...Flyer_2.0+to+print+from+Johannes+-+Ago.2020_page-0001.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjIyd8qb-F7O5kQj6e9cw6BqSv_sadZRhpyfWTWzl8IfZFd8epxiAKnuuWEs7Pa4aTFzySq0esu00PLwejNmNZlq9C6QKV1qF5wtuBUdiWlMJGIxIbimMglPAnh0GaVOCQLogpQ8ApJlJS/s1233/1...Flyer_2.0+to+print+from+Johannes+-+Ago.2020_page-0001.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="877" data-original-width="1233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjIyd8qb-F7O5kQj6e9cw6BqSv_sadZRhpyfWTWzl8IfZFd8epxiAKnuuWEs7Pa4aTFzySq0esu00PLwejNmNZlq9C6QKV1qF5wtuBUdiWlMJGIxIbimMglPAnh0GaVOCQLogpQ8ApJlJS/s640/1...Flyer_2.0+to+print+from+Johannes+-+Ago.2020_page-0001.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841586642961534436.post-77544057068020902652020-08-08T02:01:00.007-07:002020-08-08T02:12:55.889-07:00Flyers from Finland<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6d5hcL3NGnQPrnqnMx-utU7WRw22ZXIdUMJ-6iqABP7olqbp95p8tKq8NZ-TaDgIWeWXnqlhxdEQd7OzspAWLYspiitiyNi-91zNSW8rmkqGVp8s8egzCT2hk-hL-4Ir9QromvJEW3UWk/s960/bebuflaikku.jpg" style="display: inline; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="678" height="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6d5hcL3NGnQPrnqnMx-utU7WRw22ZXIdUMJ-6iqABP7olqbp95p8tKq8NZ-TaDgIWeWXnqlhxdEQd7OzspAWLYspiitiyNi-91zNSW8rmkqGVp8s8egzCT2hk-hL-4Ir9QromvJEW3UWk/w565-h800/bebuflaikku.jpg" width="565" /></a></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-shQm-xmUZ7yq6T4kRQrm8GLYX005zWvo4IUnGnmWGu-b5w-i9LZ6FUh_QZnE_Nf-r1cbt4U4E66zBiJpwWJCCLgzNxQwYfZ8Q9A34_Y-PqSkOmLIv6-Y1RCJIxkTiW45cwf412tpPHEK/s1754/rsflaikku.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1754" data-original-width="1240" height="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-shQm-xmUZ7yq6T4kRQrm8GLYX005zWvo4IUnGnmWGu-b5w-i9LZ6FUh_QZnE_Nf-r1cbt4U4E66zBiJpwWJCCLgzNxQwYfZ8Q9A34_Y-PqSkOmLIv6-Y1RCJIxkTiW45cwf412tpPHEK/w565-h800/rsflaikku.jpg" width="565" /></a></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841586642961534436.post-71865746620141428432020-08-08T01:37:00.004-07:002020-08-08T01:40:40.556-07:00Int: Artist May Witchhammer (Mex)<p><b>1.What is your background?, How did you started to draw?</b></p><p>I started when I was still a kid in the kindergarten, the teacher always wanted me to draw things which others could fill out with colors... Also my parents had a video-store where I always painted the walls. My parents always got mad about it till my mother checked all more detailed and liked it actually ha ha! My interest grew through the time while watching/reading comics, anime and cartoons, this way I discovered the styles of Frank Miller (Batman/Sin City), Frank Fraceta, Boris Vajecho, Ernesto "Ernie" Chan etc... they all inspired me a lot, especially Ray Harryhausen! I really like them. I even started to draw my own comic haha... so to say I started practicing by painting cartoon stuff etc. Although I was very interested in visiting some art schools, I never had the chance to visit one as I was always busy with work at my parents store, helping them out etc. So I just draw as I feel and like, at home. I learned some stuff from comics and manga stuff... my home was my school ha ha!</p><p><b>2.How did you meet Metal music?, What is the meaning of Metal for you?</b></p><p>I got in touch with metal music through my aunt and a friend of my dad. They got me into bands like The Scorpions, AC/DC, Van Halen etc... We watched VH1 (TV) and I saw some clips of the Scorpions which directly got me, as these guys looked completely different and made different music than the common stuff. So the interest grew and at some street stands were maniacs, selling bootleg tapes and CDs of Slayer, Black Sabbath, Metallica... and the first one I bought without knowing was “Hell Awaits” because of the name Slayer (I was watching a series called “Slayers” that's why ha ha) and honestly, I was kind of shocked when I listened to it for the first time ha ha. But the more I listened to it, the more I got addicted to the sound, the rush of adrenaline within your blood, it felt like a sledgehammer against your head... and it truly changed my life, even though I wouldn't consider myself a “huge Slayer-fan”, but this album had definitely a huge impact on me! Due to the fact that my parents didn't allow me to stay out on the streets for a long time (Mexican life...), I only hang out with the few friends who lived close to my home (mainly punks), who got me also into stuff like Nausea, Discharge, Exploited, Broken Bones, Addicts, Detastation, Misery, etc... some of them were wearing metal-vests with patches and they invited me to the classic “DIY-concerts” of local underground bands at someone's house, which was something popular to do back then (somewhere around 2005-2006). At these shows, with these people, seeing and feeling the spirit, it felt very familiar to me... I was facing a lot of problems at my home so these moments were like an escape for me, which had a strong impact on my life and will also never change again. And this is what metal meant to me... an escape but also strength, to continue with my life, to go further than my own limits and never to surrender!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPE9M6hyphenhyphenwsTK4auz4mUtRN3XJSuVXn0ER5DI6ZxR-b-JDuc5ieCQbu_VUszUwvQ13khREOOB8vr2bR3_J1XII_2Adt6YGhiY2stnGVJnSG5U0UAA2Qj-_9QRZzx-Vw8R9Ns9QWjXq0cszz/s2048/Abruptus.tif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1488" height="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPE9M6hyphenhyphenwsTK4auz4mUtRN3XJSuVXn0ER5DI6ZxR-b-JDuc5ieCQbu_VUszUwvQ13khREOOB8vr2bR3_J1XII_2Adt6YGhiY2stnGVJnSG5U0UAA2Qj-_9QRZzx-Vw8R9Ns9QWjXq0cszz/w581-h800/Abruptus.tif" width="581" /></a></div><p><b>3.What are your main inspirations at the time to produce your obscure art?</b></p><p>It can be many things like music, personal experiences and also dreams (especially nightmares) or visions that just came up to my mind. I always try to include a certain “message” or “history” into each work, to make it more than just a “normal drawing”, if you know what I mean? ... Another point of inspiration is movies like "Clash of the Titans", the way how Ray Harryhausen created the mythological creatures had a deep impact on me... warriors, skeletons, dark creatures!!!</p><p><b>4.What kind of special technic do you use to draw?</b></p><p>It evolved through the years piece by piece. It's a combination of dots'n'lines made with pencils and ink-pens, to give it a more different effect... of course it also depends on the idea behind the artwork, sometimes the one does fit with the other and sometimes it doesn't.</p><p><b>5.Is there any kind of special or personal feeling that you want to express?, what feeling and why?</b></p><p>Yes sure, I always want to give it a personal touch, something savage and aggressive. A mirror- reflection of my personal mind and attitude. Strength, bravery, fury and crazy madness... it should be beyond the limits of society's standards, unbound to any limits to express artistical freedom. A message, outside of reality – at the same time something that exists in real life, like evilness and fear.</p><p><b>6.With what artists/bands/labels, etc, did you have work?</b></p><p>I worked with some bands in the past but these motherfuckers turned out being total losers and rip offs who never kept their promises, so they are not worth to be mentioned. The only band I'm proud of to have worked with so far and who are worth the support are "Abruptus"!!!</p><p>For Festivals: I made some flyers for underground metal festivals and local concerts (for example "When Black Meets Death") and right now I'm working for the artwork of an upcoming festival with "Mortuary" (Clandestine Fest) and also for the Argentinian bands "Municion" & "Vomit of Doom" (black/thrash).</p><p>Magazines & Labels were so far only "Destruktion Records" & "Bestial Desecration Fanzine" from Germany (#2 & #4) and also the "Morbid Faith Newsletter" (#1, #2, #3, #8, #9) and sometimes on several fan-bootlegs made by friends like the "Bringers of Armageddon" promo...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVroN4rFpzfCR-H6UTgbxoBDHAIEO1E3yIjQOIBlkH8venSqUBum_s7NORFFA1R-RH5QGkXfqFA1kNiVmtVOm3K5ZyrOURjaIPmHnyr-PTfyRP115-V2JYGVNV9EmMiNnEOgzR9aCCU_Zy/s1590/ARTWORK_DESTROYER.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1590" data-original-width="1359" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVroN4rFpzfCR-H6UTgbxoBDHAIEO1E3yIjQOIBlkH8venSqUBum_s7NORFFA1R-RH5QGkXfqFA1kNiVmtVOm3K5ZyrOURjaIPmHnyr-PTfyRP115-V2JYGVNV9EmMiNnEOgzR9aCCU_Zy/w547-h640/ARTWORK_DESTROYER.jpg" width="547" /></a></div><p><b>7.What are the main/highlight works you have made?</b></p><p>Hmm that's a tough question because I always try to make each one better than the last one. So I would say the one I did for "Bestial Desecration Zine #4" was my personal favorite. This artwork was a re-make of a very old one which I did in the past during my early days, so it had a special meaning to me... also because I wanted to see how my style changed and evolved through the years.</p><p><b>8.In what would you say, you difference your own art from other artists?</b></p><p>I don't think that I have a very unique style, I mean there are many people doing it similar to me. But maybe one clear difference to other artists is that I don't do it to receive any attention or to say that I'm better etc... I'm not better than any other artist. I just do what I feel and simply do my work for my own satisfaction and always give my best to create a satisfying and honest result. I just like it and always try to involve my personal experiences of what I see and feel into my art, and if people can realize that too, it's nice for sure. Every artist has his own touch and I respect each one of them. </p><p><b>9.What about the deals to work with you? What do you ask for? (money, trade stuff only)</b></p><p>Well, for sure money is always useful in life but not the reason to do it. Many times there are young bands that have creativity and spirit but are lacking on finances to pay for an artwork etc., so I rather make out a deal with them like a trade for tapes, patches, shirt etc. It depends on the bands and their situation (and honesty).</p><p><b>10.Do you work with your art also for other sectors aside of Metal, can you make it professionally?</b></p><p>Sometimes some friends are asking me for stuff, who are not into metal at all, like punks and even rappers, for different things they need, for small projects or private things.</p><p><b>11.Speaking about your Metal scene, what bands, distros, labels, zines and other artists, can you recommend?</b></p><p>Definitely Masthema Sancia (Rex Bagude Recs./Hiborym), Ferna (Across Infernal Wasteland Recs/"El Dispensario“-Distro which is located at the „Fundadores“ in the center of Monterrey), Dark Recollections Productions (Mexico City) and Gusthavo Sandoval (a great artist and friend from Guadalajara)!</p><p><b>12.Last words and contact!</b></p><p>Thanks a lot for the nice interview, your attention and the interesting questions! It's been an honor to me. And I hope we can work on something together someday, too!</p><p>May Contact: may.witchhammerATgmailDOTcom</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhINJzVdJvkrwAQOjva5qapW3Q7Kaxqsc10cCSN9j0gfpM6oJu-aW3jOwIUhC5GuwXmhTS6u3dBmAb_q3bwJPOCTcIsSM0MmDBtUsXM5pU6q2r7LJtIJtkGfVyNzpF6QH2NLXw8PwcrGjLF/s2048/Bestial+Desecration+%25232+-+Nuclear+Death+Tribute.tif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1419" height="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhINJzVdJvkrwAQOjva5qapW3Q7Kaxqsc10cCSN9j0gfpM6oJu-aW3jOwIUhC5GuwXmhTS6u3dBmAb_q3bwJPOCTcIsSM0MmDBtUsXM5pU6q2r7LJtIJtkGfVyNzpF6QH2NLXw8PwcrGjLF/w554-h800/Bestial+Desecration+%25232+-+Nuclear+Death+Tribute.tif" width="554" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841586642961534436.post-46315564446498925492020-07-31T12:46:00.000-07:002020-07-31T12:46:08.892-07:00Int: Artist Heidi Kettunen (FIN)<div><b>1.What is your background/and/or parallel activities?</b></div><div>All I do is art and music. In addition to doing art I play bass in Ride For Revenge and Regere Sinister (where I also do vocals and keyboards).</div><div><br /></div><div><b>2.How did you meet Metal music?</b></div><div>I was really young when I remember my older Brother playing guitar and introduced me bands like Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, WASP and so. I also stealed KISS`s ”Animalize” vinyl from my dads record collection haha…. I started to play electric guitar and get more into that extreme kind of metal and switched guitar to bass.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>3.What were/are your main bands/releases, and your pillars until now?</b></div><div>At the moment I`m bassist in Ride For Revenge (kind of obscure, noisy black metal) and I also have my own band Regere Sinister where I do bass, vocals and keyboards. Other member is Hail Conjurer who does drums & guitar. That Project is way to demolish my deep worship of old hellenic, latin-american and some old European bands</div><div><br /></div><div><b>4.What is the meaning of Metal for you?</b></div><div>Everything.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>5.How did you started to draw?</b></div><div>I started drawing at a very young age and continued my hobby when I get older. I always liked specially draw animals, monsters and pre-historic creatures and ones I found from storybooks and horror movies. I did lots of studies with anatomy, skeletal systems and also liked to draw some living model stuff-mainly animals.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtBp3sL6uB0ckqSnocLfLbu8aK_5Rs4WsTOqxWyuLUd1WAKGNek5WXH20VVS0bEKjFPSEqHFmmhv5KaYSBZ7zbuc03M1YRwRH6NYwfMl5X9r_w6kKVj1bHl7VZua6oY7rgKx7n6mucNrk/s2048/bloodizineen.tiff" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1607" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtBp3sL6uB0ckqSnocLfLbu8aK_5Rs4WsTOqxWyuLUd1WAKGNek5WXH20VVS0bEKjFPSEqHFmmhv5KaYSBZ7zbuc03M1YRwRH6NYwfMl5X9r_w6kKVj1bHl7VZua6oY7rgKx7n6mucNrk/s640/bloodizineen.tiff" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b>6.What are your main inspirations at the time to drawing/performing/produce your obscure art?</b></div><div>For drawing I get inspiration from music of the band I do the artwork. Also nature, nightmares and morbid feelings, dark sides of mind are endless source of attraction. These things are also inspiring me with music I play and create.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>7.What kind of special technic do you use to draw?</b></div><div>None… I mainly use cheap markers and lead pencil. Sometimes I do drawings with color pencils and paint with acrylic colors on canvas.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>8.What kind of thoughts crosses your mind once you are drawing some abominable/twisted art? Is there any kind of special or personal feeling that you want to express?, what feeling and why?</b></div><div>It depends lot of my current mood. Usually I focus on working things while listening music and try to identify in atmospheres and lyrics etc. It is kind of liberating when you can vomit your most cruel fantasies on paper…..</div><div><br /></div><div><b>9.With what artists/bands/labels, etc, did you have work?</b></div><div>Ride for Revenge, Hail Conjurer, Chaos Cascade, Legion of Andromeda, Valhalla Bound, Human Agony, Horse Latitudes, Black Torture, Necrogosto, Antichrist, Necromancer, Hooded Menace, Reptile Womb, Witchcraft… What comes to labels I do lot of illustrations for Bestial Burst and it has been also pleasure to work with such a label like Zombi Danz Records.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>10.What is the more bestial art/cover that you were able to draw? What are the main/highlight works you have made?</b></div><div>Hmmm… If speaking about album covers I think that cover drawing I did for Singaporean Black Torture is kind of well succeeded. Their music is bestial Abhorer worship, so I made a cover to conform to the classic theme.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>11.In what would you say, you difference your own art from other artists?</b></div><div>Not so much gass-masked goats here. More the ones which are slaughtering some ecclesiastical wimps, hahahaha… I draw more like freehand and sketchy style than some others. Also classical oil paintings and sculptures give me lot of inspiration.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGKjEEx6sXX8A_XYL1unJ4gRL1ew-NULkm0s-3ahWyLs9sUpHxuDS_6bGCIsPfLGYCfL7rMqxnducOsNsw2e0iucOtCjtv9hDQCg5sY_n2wr7pHFDLd7xk_WOf58wGD_USSMyomoJugws/s1200/entertheg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGKjEEx6sXX8A_XYL1unJ4gRL1ew-NULkm0s-3ahWyLs9sUpHxuDS_6bGCIsPfLGYCfL7rMqxnducOsNsw2e0iucOtCjtv9hDQCg5sY_n2wr7pHFDLd7xk_WOf58wGD_USSMyomoJugws/s640/entertheg.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b>12.What about the deals to work with you? What do you ask for? (money, trade stuff only)</b></div><div>I mainly work with friends and bands I like to listen myself. If I take money for drawings, I always estimate final cost as low as possible, because I like to offer same quality of work for smaller and underground bands. I also like to trade artworks to Records. It`s more than fine for me.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>13.Do you work with your art also for other sectors aside of Metal, can you make it professionally?</b></div><div>I have done some single illustrations for other uses than album covers/gig posters/merch etc. But nowadays almost all my works are related to music.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>14.Speaking about your Metal scene, what bands, distros, labels, zines and other artists, can you recommend?</b></div><div>If speaking about labels & distros, I would recommend to check catalogues for Bestial Burst, Life Eternal, Zombi Danz, Astral Nightmare, Crimson Tide prods., New Era, and Breath of Pestilence. </div><div>Zines I recommend: Fall of the Idols, Macabre Overdose, Blasphemer, WOE, Forgotten Chapel & Cthulhu + up coming numbers of Escarro Nuclear are worth to check!</div><div>Speaking of bands, my deepest respect & hails goes to fellow comrades: WITCHCRAFT, CEREMONIAL TORTURE, REPTILE WOMB, NECROGOSTO, CEMETERY LIGHTS, ASPHODELUS, CAIXAO, BAPHOMANCIA, ASKE, VORNAT, CHAOSBAPHOMET, CHAOS CASCADE, PROPHETS OF DOOM and many others…</div><div><br /></div><div><b>15.Last words and contact!</b></div><div>If interested for artwork or RS demo (trades are most welcome!!), send me mail for this address: Malefic Eye, Porvoonkatu 33a 19, 00510 Helsinki ,Finland.</div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841586642961534436.post-39329000692734959612020-07-31T01:15:00.003-07:002020-07-31T01:19:33.200-07:00Bio. of MegaTherion (Arequipa, Peru), published in Morbid Faith 9<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0vSvNVsz-aPoAKRSCtoqnu_XrTYOaibU96A-o8Cm4yz1HMGXhAbe-Fa8dpHQkRXHJjjTf6y3zw8JrvDfTV_l5JjIE5sDb_5rBxZGbYk3gu2gJKlGke6Yjnn5beNvoCjfwFrqtASDbyo0N/s635/megatherion+bio+from+mf9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="561" data-original-width="635" height="554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0vSvNVsz-aPoAKRSCtoqnu_XrTYOaibU96A-o8Cm4yz1HMGXhAbe-Fa8dpHQkRXHJjjTf6y3zw8JrvDfTV_l5JjIE5sDb_5rBxZGbYk3gu2gJKlGke6Yjnn5beNvoCjfwFrqtASDbyo0N/w625-h554/megatherion+bio+from+mf9.jpg" width="625" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841586642961534436.post-17556126556321350742020-07-28T10:32:00.004-07:002020-07-31T01:19:56.528-07:00Releases of Deconsecrate prods (Mexico)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841586642961534436.post-41276212284557435762020-05-20T15:46:00.003-07:002020-05-20T15:46:37.835-07:00Reviews from Profanador Rec (Peru)<b>Necrofucker (PER), Vomit of Sepulchers, Vomit of Ancestors, Demo Tape:</b><br />
Released in 2019, it is a new release of Walter Profanador, an underground Peruvian rotten legend! Not to mention that for this release, John Capcha from Hadez (another legend into the Peruvian pits) has been summoned to play bass. Both completing the line up with Silva Blacker (another old guy in the scene from a dark place called Comas, who also run Blacker band, hated by many, but still in the front) and Oscar Mutilator (ex-drummer from Hadez and playing in other bands as well).<br />
They present a kind of primitive Death Metal, clearly influenced in the 80s noise. Even more, when you think in those kind of riffs, totally jackal and raw; but that don’t follow exactly a style or a reference; but putting more from the primitive and cadaveric emanations from killer instincts only!!! All of this, being completed with solos sounding as the noise of ripping and grinding corpses.<br />
Drums work is simple but effective. I worship when it plays in the ancient South American style hi-hat/snare!!! Time to time it hits like a primitive hammer only, like cavemen beating their animal carcass food!!! The bass is very audible, making some game here or there and giving the enough low atmospheres. Vocals go in a mixture between Death Metal and Black Metal.<br />
Usually the songs have a similar structure: hammering drums, South American hi-hat/snare. Even sometimes you are going to think that you are listening the same song, hehe…<br />
Almost the entire release has the kind of noise like a rehearsal, which for me is a nasty pleasure. I always prefer to listen the bands in a natural way instead of any kind of overproduction.<br />
Other stuff I like is the song titles which are in something like primitive English, exactly as if we were 666 years in the past. Evil, brutal and primitive darkness is the only way!!! Titles exactly as: “Mortem Crucification (Hammers of Terrors)”, “Aborts of Abhorrer”, “Horrors Cripts Yell... Consumed by Magots”, “Invoquing to Oracle of Death (Pioners of Death)”, “Vomit of Sepulchers, Vomit of Ancestors”; can give you a hint.<br />
You are going to get all of this brutal and ancient weird noise discharge in 11 songs. It is self-released by Profanador Records. Contact: necro_profanador@hotmail.com<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841586642961534436.post-27965785962822063742020-05-20T15:45:00.000-07:002020-05-20T15:45:19.753-07:00Reviews from Arauto da Morte (Brazil)<b>Pathogen (PHI), Blasphemous Communion, CD: </b><br />
It is a re-release coming from Arauto da Morte Records from Brazil (in cooperation with Pictures from Hell, who released previously some stuff of Death Invoker!!! Hails Junior!!), and if I´m not wrong, it is the first release of the label. They have made a good choice of course, because for a Death Metal label, Pathogen from Philippines is a great starting. Blasphemous Communion was the first full length of Pathogen, back on 2008.<br />
I already know the noise unleashed by Pathogen and got good contact with W. Desamero, and even I have interviewed them in the issue 1 of Legion of Torture, and released official patches and some promos back in the day, so it is not a new band for me. Time ago I labeled Pathogen as one of the best Death Metal acts currently and mostly because of the ability of have made a good combination of many styles of Death Metal, putting own ingredients and making a good offering for Death Metal style in general, passing the new millenium.<br />
This re-release also includes, beside the Blasphemous Communion album from 2008, two tracks of Pathogen side of split 2009 with Brimstone in Fire (also supported by my distro Evil Spirit), and 3 songs from demo 2001 “Invoking Disease”. In total here are 13 tracks.<br />
If you wanna remember, here is an extract from Legion of Torture 1:<br />
<i>“Early 90s Death Metal! Here we can find some sounds like Benediction, Death, Incantation. A dirty noise of death from this phillipinean bastards. Some slow parts gives the atmosphere of obscurity which is required (some part from 2nd track “Blood Orgy” reminds me some old demo from a Peruvian band). The voice is similar to Massacre or Benediction; dirty and raw guitar riffs. Few riffs which are repeated in the song, however it doesn’t makes it boring. The track 5 “Bestial Perversion” is the best for me; it has something similar to old Sepultura, which is a fucking great thing for this old Sepultura fan (me)!!! To finish some solos and tremolo sounds reminds me Mortem, I dunno why!!! It is a traditional Death Metal piece, no modern shit…”</i><br />
After many releases by Old Temple from Poland (same label of Death Invoker), Pathogen still strikes deadly; not to mention about some upcoming releases among other bestial acts of the subterranean death worship, hehe…<br />
Those wanting to play with figure actions, using Willie Desamero character as an Asian Ken, fukking Barbie, will suffer for sure. This re-release has not any kind of “extra” as your childish wishes want (pin, sticker, patch, candles, boxes, figure actions, autographs, first condom of members, etc), but only have two piece booklet; simple and raw, with lyrics inside… OK, it comes with some sticker that is supposed to be pasted in the jewel case as a symbol of the label, not as a new toy for those that think adding this to their labels will be more “real”. Ancient warriors of simple dubbed regular tapes and xeroxed covers are laughing merciless; didn´t you have realize???<br />
Anyway, it was a great beginning for this new Death Metal label. Expect just more primitive black vomits and ancient rites of death cult from this label only!!! Labels Contact: arautodamorte.records@gmail.com, picturesfromhelldistro@hotmail.com . Band Contact: pathogenic_virulence@hotmail.com<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841586642961534436.post-40138668087131550712020-05-20T15:27:00.000-07:002020-05-20T15:28:43.999-07:00Reviews from Old Temple (Poland)<b>Embrional (POL), Cusp of Evil, CD:</b><br />
Here you can find the noise of a starting band on their first release. It means you will find a production with a bestial mixing, without thinking in being “pro” or other crap.<br />
Riffs strike deadly, proper of a Death Metal band, like a killer chainsaw. Here or there are some dive bombs/horses movements that seems to me killer. Drums are louder than other instruments in my morbid opinion. The band plays mostly brutal, but in fact there are many passages of drums, so the tempos change, from fast to slow, to thrasher.<br />
Vocals are total monstrous. If you ask me, I can say the band is a bit technical when it comes to play between the tempos and the kind of riffs. Fortunately, it is not technical in the sense of “hard riffs”. On the opposite it is technical enough to don’t bore you, but without falling in guys desperate to show their “musical” skills. All of us want Death Metal soldiers after all; not “musicians”, if you get what I mean. All in all, we can say that it is not a “simple band” but has some level of complexity in their compositions.<br />
If you think on Immolation (chords pull), some parts of Incantation (slow and dark), a jackal riffs as Deicide here or there; Monstrosity (Final Cremation summoned some place???) or Malevolent Creation (mid tempo hammering riffs/drums), Morbid Angel summoning too… As you can realize it is oriented to US Death Metal, which fits perfect for me; now you can get an approach to the band.<br />
Almost the entire release gets “intros”, that at first sight I found a bit no sense and that could stop you the darker feeling. But once you listen again, it can be said that, these intros fitted well and got a proper prelude for the songs shown.<br />
It is highly recommended for those worshippers of 90s Death Metal, US style. Those that want direct and simple riffs, that don’t know the US 90s Death Metal style, must avoid it.<br />
This stuff is a second edition of the original release from 2006. Second one has 13 tracks in total, including the songs of 2006 and adding the intros per each, to reach the 13 tracks mentioned.<br />
Current edition is released by Old Temple from Poland in a 3 piece grey color booklet. Some won’t like this kind of presentation, cos maybe they are waiting for a pin, sticker, patch, card, t shirt, candies, balloons, other surprises for kids, etc. They are looking for nice accessories and forgot that METAL is something obscure and evil, not “nice things”. Covers look more evil than the original (in which a clown was shown???) and there appear a couple of phantasmagorical aliens into a bestial crypt or something. The release is completed with an evil and not common pro gold color CD.<br />
Contact the label here: http://www.oldtemple.com/, old@oldtemple.com<br />
Contact the band here: band@embrional.com, www.embrional.com<br />
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<b>Hate Them All (POL), Goat Tormentor, CD:</b><br />
First of all this is an EP released by Old Temple and the stuff arrived for a proper review. Here we have some misanthropic Black/Thrash from Poland, even with some punk/hardcore touches. Mostly the entire time sounds in the black/speed/thrashings ways, with few blasts beats here or there and some more “blacker” riffs. Some mid-tempo into the songs is also included. I can say everything is well recorded, it is not a noisy release, but you can listen almost all the instruments properly.<br />
Is absolutely rare for me, but that vocals sounds very similar to a Peruvian band, called Crown of Worms; not to be expected ah!? Surely not!<br />
It has a cover and back cover painted by the artist Somluck from some Asian country, where irreligious and obscure entities are shown; while showing a devilish goat making a massive onslaught to some priests, nuns, or something on the back cover. If you would like long booklets with lyrics and that, maybe it would not like you, cos it show only a two pages booklet, with a pic of the members inside.<br />
Clearly they are a kind of misanthropic and hate everything of course, and at the same time they are dressed as death commandos, with soldiers mask and that. Some songs titles seem to be in polish, but those that are possible to understand are: “Unholy War - Without God”, “A Skull Destroyed by Time”, “Destroyer of Bones”; so you can realize these bastards like human bones and total destruction!<br />
It was released with 7 tracks in total, in almost 20 minutes, as it is an EP.<br />
Contact of the band: hate_them@interia.pl, and the label can be reached here: http://www.oldtemple.com/, old@oldtemple.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841586642961534436.post-4489490218192658852020-04-12T12:08:00.005-07:002020-08-08T01:37:43.823-07:00Int. Artist Hanna Rozpara from Poland<b>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>What is your background?, How did you start to draw?</b><br />
I started to draw early, in childhood. The majority of my life was around the art. I was in artistic secondary and high school, then fine arts academy and now PhD degree in art.<br />
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<b>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>How did you meet Metal music?, What is the meaning of Metal for you?</b><br />
I’ve got to know metal music when I was a teenager, I was about 13 or 14 years old. I was searching for powerful, sublime music, something like Wagner, and I’ve found it in Metal. I didn’t have happiness to start in Metal in its golden times; at that times unfortunately nu metal was on the top (but I didn’t like it, with a few exceptions). I’ve started from Rammstein, through the metal classics, then death metal, epic metal, and ending with black metal.<br />
Metal is like a kind of spiritual feeling, an act of transgression and kathartic experience. It is powerful, it gives a sense of strength. Listening, and especially playing metal is an unique experience, something out of humanity, transcending the weakness into titanic power; becoming someone else.<br />
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<b>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>What are your main inspirations at the time to produce your obscure art?</b><br />
I have many inspirations, it depends of theme of artwork, which I have to create. There was war, science, postapocalypse, nature, melancholia, alchemy, philosophy… It depends on what I create, the aim of artworks and what I want to express.<br />
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<b>4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>What kind of special techniques do you use to draw?</b><br />
I am multidisciplinar artist. In my art I use many techniques and I still search for something new. I make paintings, drawings, photography, printmaking (woodcut, lithography, etching etc), installations, new media, graphic design and music… Techniques of drawing? There are too many of them to write it down there, haha!<br />
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<b>5.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Is there any kind of special or personal feeling that you want to express?, what feeling and why?</b><br />
I want to express my thoughts by the art, and in the opposite way, think by the creation of art; creating art is an cognitive process. The best way to find interesting ideas is to start to create, they will come to mind themselves. Art can express wide spectrum of feelings; but rather than express the feelings, I want to evoke feelings and thoughts from me and viewer. Art is a kind of catalyst. Behind every work are lots of theories, philosophical background, and some senses about which I don’t want to talk directly and maybe some senses with a few meanings that I don't even realize.<br />
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<b>6.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>With what artists/bands/labels, etc, did you have work?</b><br />
I rather rarely work with bands and labels. I made few covers for band Nuclear Thorn, and I made some translations for R’Lyeh zine. I made visual identification for Under The Black Sun festival, and I made some posters for smaller concerts. I also worked with classical musicians - posters and photo sessions. That’s if about metal (and music in general). I mainly work as an independent artist.<br />
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<b>7.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>What are the main/highlight works you have made?</b><br />
One of my main works is the cycle about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki named “The Radiance of a Thousand Suns”. It was monumental cycle of monochromatic lithographs, installations, objects, video and music; if can be defined as Gesamtkunstwerk. It was about annihilation, crossing the gates of nothingness, kind of revelation of destructive power. Creating this was interesting experience, revealing a lot of meanings. Last year I made some artworks about the meaning of substance, alchemy, radioactivity and origin of universe.<br />
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<b>8.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In what would you say, you difference your own art from other artists?</b><br />
I think that in definition artists should be different and constantly strive to be different. My difference? I always want to go by my own patch and searching something new. I try to do many things, and I have artworks in many different styles, I don’t like to stuck in one point.<br />
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<b>9.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>What about the deals to work with you? What do you ask for? (money, trade stuff only)</b><br />
I rather make artworks for a money, trade stuff occasionally. I mainly cooperate with art galleries.<br />
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<b>10.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Do you work with your art also for other sectors aside of Metal, can you make it professionally?</b><br />
Yes, I mainly make my art for sectors aside of Metal and I made it profesionally. I mainly create fine art for gallery shows and artistic open calls, sometimes I lead artistic workshops (calligraphy, photography and others). I had 19 solo exhibitions, and lots of group exhibition, some works I also exhibited abroad, in Portugal, France, Belgium, UK, Croatia, Bulgaria, Taiwan and Japan. Nowadays I make typical metal artworks rather occasionally.<br />
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<b>11.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Speaking about your Metal scene, what bands, distros, labels, zines and other artists, can you recommend?</b><br />
Polish metal scene nowadays is very strong, there is lots of broadly known bands, and active underground. From zines I can recomment R’lyeh zine (polish language) – with many interesting interviews, articles and reviews, and excellent feuilletons, leaded like as professional magazine. From English language zines from Poland I can recommend Necroscope zine, which is like as underground metal encyclopaedia and is released twice a year. Another good polish zines are: Infernal Death, Wolfpack (already not released, active in early 2000’s), Chaos Vault, Tribal Convicions, Oldschool Metal Maniac and others. There are some good labels, Old Temple, Mythrone, Mad Lion, Arachnophobia (already almost closed), the big and known Agonia records any many others. The known label is also Witching Hour, but lastly it begin more and more rip off. An interesting label is Pionierska Records. It’s rather not metal label, but worth to be mentioned. It is experimental label, now specialized in floppy releases, the records are releasing of floppy disks in low editions .This labels releases new stuff very frequently, one new title a week. In general the floppy disk as a music carrier is very rare, there have been released just a bit over thousand music floppys all time. A floppy label concentrated on metal is Dangerous Diskettes (from Germany). BTW in the summer I plan to release my ambient and experimental music works on floppy with Pionierska Records.<br />
The most known artists creating metal cover are Rosław Szaybo (died in 2019) – known of f.e. cover of Judas Priest’s “British Steel” and Zbigniew Bielak – made f. e. covers of Watain’s “Lawless Darkness”, Zhrine and Ghost. An artist, who’s art liked by polish metalhead and known abroad is Zdzisław Beksiński. His son, Tomasz Beksiński was radio presenter, very important for polish gothic culture. You can see history of Zdzisław and Tomasz Beksiński in movie “The Last Family”.<br />
As an interesting thing I can mention is that nowadays in contemporary established young art are popular extreme metal themes.<br />
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<b>12.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Last words and contact!</b><br />
Thank you for the interview! Keep Metal mighty!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841586642961534436.post-25451828448672826152020-03-29T19:16:00.004-07:002020-08-08T01:38:01.317-07:00Int. Artist Mark Riddick from USA<b>What is your background and how did you get your start drawing?</b><br />
I’ve had an affinity for drawing since my youth, however it wasn’t until I was 15 years old that I began drawing for metal bands. In 1991 I discovered the underground metal music scene and began corresponding with various underground death, black, and thrash metal bands, fanzines, record labels, distributors, tape traders, and fans around the world. Since it was before the Internet, all correspondence was made via postal mail, wherein we exchanged letters, fliers, and music. Since I already had a love for both drawing and metal music, I viewed the underground metal scene as the perfect platform for giving my artwork purpose and meaning, so I began to illustrate logos and demo tape covers for bands, covers and filler art for underground fanzines, etc.<br />
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<b>How were you introduced to metal music? What is the meaning of metal music for you?</b><br />
I can recall my parents purchasing several 7” singles from the major artists of the 80s and then transferring them onto mix tapes for listening during our annual family vacations. Being exposed to bands like Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Men at Work, New Order, Styx, A Flock of Seagulls, The Pretenders, Fleetwood Mac, etc. opened my mind and fostered my appreciation and passion for music. In 1983, my grandmother purchased my first Walkman for me, along with a copy of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” full-length; I played that cassette into oblivion. In 1986 my taste for music began leaning toward hard rock and glam metal, thanks to my exposure to MTV. I would spend my allowance on bands like Def Leppard, Ratt, Keel, Dokken, Motley Crue, White Lion, etc. After about a year or more I graduated to even heavier music and began purchasing albums by thrash metal acts like Coroner, Cryptic Slaughter, Kreator, Slayer, Demolition Hamer, Possessed, Vio-Lence, Overkill, Sadus, Destruction, etc. This obviously led me onto the path of death metal with staple acts such as Death, Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, Pestilence, Malevolent Creation, Napalm Death, etc. Upon discovering the underground scene, I was able to access even more bands who were lesser known or just getting their start. The underground scene offered so much variety and originality that wasn’t easily accessible via record stores or the bigger metal labels. I have so many old demo tapes in my collection from bands like Human Remains, My Dying Bride, Mortal Dread, Phantasm, Execration, Incest, Cataclysm, Putrid Decay, Torture Krypt, Morpheus, etc. many of which I still frequently revisit because they’re so incredible and way ahead of their time. What metal music means to me—it’s a part of my everyday life and truly is a lifestyle for me, and in some ways my livelihood. I wear a metal shirt daily, listen to metal while I drive, listen to it while I work, dedicate endless hours of time illustrating for the metal scene, and write, record, and publish my own metal music. I live and breathe metal.<br />
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<b>What are your main inspirations to produce your obscure art?</b><br />
What currently inspires me most about drawing is the ability to pause the regular demands on my time as a parent and husband. I love being a parent and husband, and much of my time and energy is directed toward these wonderful endeavors however drawing allows me to have a meditative moment and get completely lost in my own work. In terms of outside influences and inspirations, I often enjoy looking at the work of other artists, especially artists who also publish in the realm of metal music. Some of the artists whom I follow closely include Dan Seagrave, Daniel Shaw, Chris Moyen, Justin Bartlett, Brad Moore, Juanjo Castellano, Toshihiro Egawa, Christophe Szpajdel, Pushead, Wes Benscoter, Muhamad Candra, Sam Mills, and many others. I also enjoy the work of the old masters like Flemish painters Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Brueghel, German painter and printmaker Hans Holbein, and the pre-Raphaelites such as Edward Burne-Jones.<br />
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<b>What kind of special techniques and tools do you use to draw?</b><br />
I’ve worked with various pen types over the years however the past few years I’ve been using Sakura of America products; particularly the Micron pens (various nib sizes) and I especially love to use their Brushpen products. I also use white jelly roll pens and Sharpie markers. For paper, I use simple 20lb printer/copier paper. Regarding techniques, I mostly concentrate on thick and thin brushstrokes using the Brushpens but I also lean on cross hatching and stippling techniques in my art too.<br />
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<b>Is there any kind of special or personal feeling that you want to express with your artwork? If so, why?</b><br />
Ultimately, I’m attempting to capture the essence of old school death metal in my artwork. I do this to be nostalgic but also to capture a moment in time wherein the genre was at its genesis. On a separate note, I’m also aiming for my art to leave an impression of our human mortality by making my work appear grotesque, otherworldly, and putrid. Death is a certainty and I believe there is value and important philosophical/worldview-shaping implications in acknowledging our own inevitable end.<br />
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<b>With what bands, record labels, etc., have you worked?</b><br />
I’ve worked with hundreds of bands and labels in my career, across many styles of metal, and other genres of music as well other industries altogether. Some of the most visible work I’ve completed has been for clients like The Black Dahlia Murder, A Day to Remember, Carnifex, Thy Art is Murder, Arch Enemy, Justin Beiber, Pusha-T, Rihanna, City Morgue, Dethklok, Amon Amarth, Volvo automobiles, Stan Against Evil television series, and clothing brands like The Hundreds, Rebel8, Raised By Wolves, and Death Saves. I also have some other major clients on my schedule that I can’t reveal at this time because they have not yet been officially published or are currently in progress.<br />
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<b>What are the main/highlight works you have made?</b><br />
The greatest joy and personal highlights for me has been illustrating for bands whose music I am already a fan of or sincerely enjoy, such as Grave, Morbid Angel, Nunslaughter, Hulder, Autopsy, Suffocation, Obscene, Horrendous, Ossuarium, Rotting Christ, Varathron, Skeletal Remains, Timeghoul, Bloodbath, Dying Fetus, Mystifier, Cemetery Lust, Zealot Cult, Deceased, Arsis, Revel In Flesh, Mortician, Nailed to Obscurity, Massacre, Gorgasm, Medieval Demon, Mortuary Drape, Imprecation, Gatecreeper, Tomb Mold, and the list goes on.<br />
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<b>What would you say separates your own art from other artists?</b><br />
I do believe I have a distinct style that allows my work to stand independently from others. All art is repetition however it is up to the artist to translate reality through their own unique vision, to reshape the work of others into something fresh and engaging; I believe I’ve achieved this feat through my art. Another distinction about my work is my willingness to venture outside of my heavy metal niche by exploring other areas of entertainment consumption to include other music genres and industries like television and film, food and beverage, gaming, fashion, publishing, etc.<br />
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<b>How do you handle commissions (money, trade stuff only)?</b><br />
I charge a flat rate for my illustrations however I do accept trades or a combination of the two on some occasions. This usually depends on the circumstance or the kind of relationship I have with my client.<br />
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<b>Speaking about your metal scene, what bands, distros, labels, zines and other artists, can you recommend?</b><br />
It’s difficult to speak about the local metal scene in the northern Virginia area—where I live—because it’s changed quite a bit since my youth. In the early 90s the most important bands from the local area here included Deceased, Abominog, Incarnis, Grand Belial’s Key, Arghoslent, Medusa, Doomstone, Morbius, Witch-Hunt, Rain Fell Within, As the Sea Parts, etc. The very first show I attended featured Deceased, Corpsegrinder, Suffocation, and Dismember. I was invited to the show by the drummer from Corpsegrinder—he used to publish an underground fanzine called Chainletter ‘zine. Their singer at the time was George Fisher, who later joined Cannibal Corpse; in retrospect it was great to see him perform up close in a small club setting. Regarding fanzines, there was Death Vomit ‘zine, Violent Head ‘zine—which was edited by a now well-known gothic-industrial DJ, Mike Kangal, and Sinistrari ‘zine—which recently made an appearance in the Lords of Chaos film during the “Helvete” scenes (I drew the logo and frame on the cover). The local scene here has been a bit disjointed in recent decades and I haven’t paid much attention to it, save for a few bands like Corpse Hole, Dispellment, Charged Minds, and Svierg. Regarding the American scene, I think the USA has a lot to offer. Some of the labels I’ve been purchasing from a lot from lately include Maggot Stomp, Caligari Records, Rotted Life, Desert Wastelands, Redefining Darkness, Headsplit Records, Dark Descent, Unspeakable Axe, Reaper Metal, Hell’s Headbangers, Nuclear War Now, Necroharmonic, Moribund Records, etc. All of the record labels mentioned here, both new and old, deserve your attention.<br />
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<b>Last words and contact!</b><br />
Juan, I want to thank you for your time, support, and thoughtful questions. Keep up the great work with Metal Maleficarvm as well as your band, Death Invoker! Thank you for supporting underground metal music! If any of your readers wish to learn more about my artwork, please visit: www.riddickart.com.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841586642961534436.post-75583770319871416882020-03-17T18:12:00.002-07:002020-08-08T01:38:16.323-07:00Int. Artist Diabolizer from Poland<b>1.What is your background?, How did you started to draw?</b><br />
Diabolizer: Hail Satan! My background? I rose in the fire of hell and started to draw somehow in the meantime. I've never had such a plasticity. I treat it my primitive scraping as in forms of rest, relaxation...<br />
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<b>2.How did you meet Metal music?, What is the meaning of Metal for you?</b><br />
Diabolizer: Metal is my life, it directs me to a great extent and defines me as a man. And I met this art, by accident, too. Years ago, as a teenager, I went to buy a Swedish tape of the band Europe. But fate wanted this tape was out stock so I blindly bought Metallica "Ride The Lightning". The cover electrified me, the name was familiar to me but I didn't have then any thoughts or knowledge of metal. When I fired that tape at home, I saw that a new chapter started for me. I faded away...<br />
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<b>3.What are your main inspirations at the time to produce your obscure art?</b><br />
Diabolizer: It's hard to be clear about that. It consists of many factors both, spiritual and more the mundane, earthy... We're trying to turn it all into one devilish element, from which all the rest is created, which is also affected by chaos...<br />
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Diabolizer: A friend of mine noticed (hail Marcin!) it is tribal! haha! I don't use any special ones, I'm not a draftsman, graphic designer or painter. I'm basically doing it for myself, although... several ideas have already been published. I do these primitive incantations of mine with a gel pen or a pastels. No computer processing, just manual work.<br />
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<b>5.Is there any kind of special or personal feeling that you want to express?, what feeling and why?</b><br />
Diabolizer: In a sense on paper? All the darkness I would like to grasp which is in my heart and pour it on paper. Just a lack of technique and capability. And the darkness itself can be seen here in terms of feeling... I don't know why. It seems to me that some elements of yourself need to be spit out... or you'll suffocate with what's in your guts...<br />
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<b>6.With what artists/bands/labels, etc, did you have work?</b><br />
Diabolizer: I don't go anywhere with my stuff, I do it all the time rather for myself, and so far, only two of my works went outside. One is still adorning a fresh but rotten Cadaveric Possession/Aggressive Mutilator "Influx Of Hatred" split, several others contain Necrostuprum "Infernal" on one of the most disgusting compilations. There is also a Throneum/Death Invoker split "Pact with theForbidden". And the rest of them decorate a few covers of Blood, Morbid Winds or my Worship Him zine... Aha! And something else will decorate the filthy Cyrograph zine (hail Sobiech!)... I didn't know there is so much of them, haha!<br />
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<b>7.What are the main/highlight works you have made?</b><br />
Diabolizer: Everything I have done so far and gone into the world I have listed the answer above. All the time, something to myself… and rests in the archives...<br />
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<b>8.In what would you say, you difference your own art from other artists?</b><br />
Diabolizer: Lack of talent, technique, quality of performance...<br />
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<b>9.What about the deals to work with you? What do you ask for? (money, trade stuff only)</b><br />
Diabolizer: Everything depends on each individual "order". Although until now, such typical were just two...<br />
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<b>10.Do you work with your art also for other sectors aside of Metal, can you make it professionally?</b><br />
Diabolizer: You saw my sweat on paper. Professionally? Me? There's no chance with what I'm presenting at paper to be pro. Sure, it'd be casually cool to sit in a house with music and fund your account with dollars, but no chance, man! Haha!<br />
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<b>11.Speaking about your Metal scene, what bands, distros, labels, zines and other artists, can you recommend?</b><br />
Diabolizer: Oh, there's too much of that, I think... But what comes to my mind is the following.<br />
•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hordes: Putrid Evil, Bloodthirst, Witchmaster, Impurity Desecration, Cthulhuss, Gallower, Infernal War, Wędrowcy-Tułacze-Zbiegi, Offence, Empheris, Det Gamle Bessat, Haunted Cenotaph, Crippling Madness, Hell's Coronation, Dark Fury, Necrostrigis, Blood Stronghold, Szron,Cadaveric Possession, Xanctux, Halo of Miasma, Fuulmoon Night Ritual, Magog,Whalesong, Furia, Evilfeast, Rot, DWargoat, Stworz, Cult ov The Black Blood, Bestial Raids, Poisoned, Ur, Demage Case, Martwa Aura, Besatt, Embrional, Warfist, Odour of Death, Hate Them All, Kingdom, Doombringer, Cultes Des Ghoules, Necrostuprum, Duch Czerni,Anima Damnata, Raped Christ, Diabolicon, Necrosadist, Ritual Lair and many more. <br />
•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Labels: Old Temple, Pagan Records, Morbid Chapel Records, Zły Demiurg, Hell Is Here, Under The Sign Of Garazel, Putrid Cult, Godz Ov War, Fallen Temple, Unpure Records, Werewolf Promotion, Hammerbolt Prod, Mare Production Bunkier Production. <br />
•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Zines: Necroscope metal zine, R'Lyeh zine, Apocalyptic Rites zine, Into The Tomb zine, Vaginalluftwaffe zine, ZŁy Demiurg zine, Total Death zine, Riot of Violence zine, Post Mortem zine, Tales From Crematoria zine, Rest in Pain zine, Oldschool Metal Maniac magazine, Tribal Convictions zine, Pestis Spiritus zine, Cyrograf zine, Demented Omen Of Masochism zine, Musick magazine, Necro Mortem Tormentor zine and of course my Worship Him zine! haha!<br />
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<b>12.Last words and contact!</b><br />
Diabolizer: Worship the devil and support the fucking underground! Contact whoever wants will find find it. Burn in hell!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841586642961534436.post-25236513130429433372020-03-02T08:29:00.004-08:002020-03-02T12:11:12.422-08:00Artists interviews seriesMetal Maleficarvm blog (MM blog) has started to make some brief interviews with artists related to hard/extreme subteranean music and culture.<br />
Although, of course, MM blog is not responsible of the answers and cannot be considered that the editor of MM blog, shares the same ideas, the same personal tastes, etc. of the interviewed people.<br />
It is just useful as a showing of the art of the featured artists; and then you can decide, from their words, ideas and their arts, if they deserve to work with you, or not.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841586642961534436.post-40285337693058918142020-02-26T10:22:00.005-08:002020-08-08T01:38:34.311-07:00Int. Artist Jenglot Hitam from Indonesia<b>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>What is your background?, How did you started to draw?</b><br />
I’m a self-learnt artist, no formal education or special experience. I started to draw because it’s fun. I am totally interested in the exploration of mind and infinite imagination.<br />
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<b>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>How did you meet Metal music?, What is the meaning of Metal for you?</b><br />
It’s because of all the videos I watched in television and my brother’s influence. Metal is something to die for, I live it, bleed it and will die for it.<br />
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<b>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>What are your main inspirations at the time to produce your obscure art?</b><br />
A lot of things, but especially in dark themes. Music itself, occult books, ancient beliefs, movies and studies of history.<br />
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I can’t tell what, because I’m not sure if it has a name. But obviously it’s about the major involvement of details and theme exploration.<br />
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<b>5.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Is there any kind of special or personal feeling that you want to express?, what feeling and why?</b><br />
Not sure if there’s any, also not sure where this question leads to.<br />
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<b>6.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>With what artists/bands/labels, etc, did you have work?</b><br />
Many of them, not sure if I can remember them all. Some major names (bands)are Impiety, Nargaroth, Hellfire Deathcult, Infernal Execrator, Abhorer etc.<br />
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<b>7.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>What are the main/highlight works you have made?</b><br />
Actually my own personal projects, including some series of artwork, triptych, and some conceptual artworks.<br />
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<b>8.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In what would you say, you difference your own art from other artists?</b><br />
Not really sure where is the difference, I can’t really say, it’s the viewers who can tell not us, the artists. I let them decide.<br />
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<b>9.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>What about the deals to work with you? What do you ask for? (money, trade stuff only)</b><br />
I accept payment mainly with money, trade stuff is optional (only for special occassions)<br />
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<b>10.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Do you work with your art also for other sectors aside of Metal, can you make it professionally?</b><br />
Yes, but not often. I did some side-projects including commission artwork of comicbooks and movies-related.<br />
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<b>11.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Speaking about your Metal scene, what bands, distros, labels, zines and other artists, can you recommend?</b><br />
Band: Exhumation, Label: Pulverized, Zine: Bestial Desecration, Distro: Demonization<br />
Other artists: None<br />
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<b>12.</b><span style="font-weight: bold; white-space: pre;"> </span><b>Last words and contact!</b><br />
Contact: Facebook page: Jenglot Hitam Artwork<br />
Instagram: @jh_blackk<br />
Last words: Keep the Underground Spirit Alive! Hail Satan!<br />
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It was something like early 2000 when I met this band, just with a rotten CDr burned from a friend of mine, in those years, when even if some people were bitching (sometimes contradictory, as usual in the last years of Metal scene), many -NOT TO SAY ALL- were downloading happily a lot of stuff from servers as Emule, or just blogs (me included). You know, the times when everything just started to definitely change; I would say, not for Metal only, but for the entire society and world. Anyway...<br />
At the same time, those were the years in which the called "retro-thrash" -or anything- was striking the scene and we use to get so many children "dressed" for a masquerade ball with white tennis, jackets with 666 patches, and hair-cuts "like in the 80s". Even if some people bitched stupid attitudes, in some way I suppose, garbage can also get some good -or at least interesting- points. You know, maybe sometimes you can find some pieces of gold in the sewer. From that time to now there are many bands, that, even following style of the classics, are worthy and metallers can yet say "are good". Get my point.<br />
Of course, Nocturnal is led by committed people, I know, people involved in the scene and contributing to make it bigger, or at least to still fighting and survive. Sometimes I get a kind of strange hallucinations or supposed Metal ideas, that gets my mind to think on occult Metal forces that put things were things should be, giving the honor to raise a Metal banner to those that deserve it. Then, I would say Nocturnal are among the chosen. Once you put this CD to run, the simple fact that you are going to listen is evil thrash Metal in its rawest form!!! A noisy recording, even those that expect to "professional releases" would say this release is totally fucked!!! Of course, you, merciless warrior of darkness, know what this really means: EXTREME AND TRADITIONAL METAL IN ITS ESSENCE!!! We, the clandestine and bloody metallers want METAL!!! Not "professional releases". Let these for posers!!! Hahahahaaaaa... We value more than "professional" skills. Even not being something bad, there are also other important things in priority. So, this entire release of Nocturnal is something that you will delight!!! I had never "musical skills" (neither want too), but is obvious there are not a lot to analyze. Just the noise of Nocturnal is raw. Hardly I can listen the bass (in fact that is my fault, I almost cannot listen to this in any Metal recording, hahaha...) and cannot listen to the entire drums, but cymbals only (even the demo as bonus easily any drug addict or drunk could say has no drums...).<br />
This CD includes "Thrash with the Devil" MLP, but also "Rites of the Black Mass" demo. I have the 2012 version from THRASHING RAGE RECORDS, that in fact, nobody know so much, but I guess it is very close to the band; you know, like a confident label. In total it has 11 tracks. Speaking about the booklet, I would say it kills, just in grey colors with many pics of these bastards dressed like a reincarnation of old Teutonic thrashers and that. Bullets, patches, chains and satanic worship in its impure form!!!! If you ask me, "Chainsaw Carnage" and "Thrash Attack" are what I like the most. All in all, it is a killer release about a band among the "worthy" on the last decades. If you ask for a reference they are truly descendants of Destruction, aborted from devilish harlots fucked with the satanic lust of Schmier... THRASH TILL DEATH!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841586642961534436.post-38272354643608346612018-11-06T12:08:00.002-08:002020-07-31T01:22:46.977-07:00Review: Tyrannic (Australia) - Ethereal Sepulchre<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tyrannic (Australia) - Ethereal Sepulchre, CD.<br />
I have been speaking with the guy of the band and waiting this promo stuff since 666 centuries ago. So, it finally arrived to the morbid crypts almost 2 months later!!! Once I open the pack, I was fucking near to damage the cover, because the pack was almost tight. Hopefully my rusty blade is fucked and don´t cut anything... The first you can see in the cover are 3 bastards maniacs in a cemetery in some kind of desecration ritual; at least I guess so. The stuff comes in something like digipack, but flat. I have like this presentation. Colors you perceive are in deadly purple. I guess covers in this way looks fucking nice!!! Once you open the CD, you can find some metallic handwritten font, beside some primitive skulls and bats. Going to the noise unleashed, I would call this a kind of blackened/doomed deathrash. Did you have heard something before??? I guess it is not common. Even currently in the over saturated Metal scene, when we have 66666666666666666666666666666666666 bands on earth and hell, even nobody know where the fuck to find, even internet being not totally useful to know what is going on and that; even currently with much bands being just clones of others, even fucking dressing themselves as fucking clowns, only imitating "the old bands" and that... Even having bands that only pray cult to the elder legends (don´t get me wrong, I don´t want "new things", but classical), I guess Tyrannic shows us that is possible to get a touch of originality, at least when it comes to take elements from different styles and mix them properly. What you can hear here is a bestial raw deathrash noise, but with much doomy touches; even in some place I have heard something very close to a summoning of Black Sabbath. Riffs are raw with some funereal passages, not only "slow" but giving a sensation of total perdition. Vocals are as expected in extreme Metal bands (but there are something like clean voices that I don´t really like, fortunately for my morbid ears, these voices are very few; only in 1 songs if I´m not wrong), drums strikes deadly when it should do that and being slow and hard as a mortal hammer when it should. Even being a "raw" band, not complex riffs or that -what I always want of course-, I can say they have a lot of changes and some songs seems a bit long (more or a bit lesss than 10 minutes? Having only 4 songs it reaches near to 40 minutes). However, because it has a lot of changes, you won´t turn fucking bored. It is a bestial voyage to damnation!!! If you ask me for more references, beside Black Sabbath for the slow/other touches, I would mention early Sodom and also early Sepultura. They also have some bit of melodic sound, here or there, where I would say they have summoned a sinister spirit of an evil Iron Maiden. For sure this band is praying for the cult of the classics, with some interesting touch of originality. I would highly recommend this piece of Metal for those that want something extreme as usual to be expected in my zine, but at the same time with some obscure and slow passages, which gives the enough originality or own personality to this Australian band!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841586642961534436.post-7305076809387715482018-10-04T12:17:00.003-07:002020-04-12T13:00:30.470-07:00Interview I made for DeathHammer from Norway, published by Antichrist mag.<a href="http://antichristmagazine.com/deathhammer-interview/">http://antichristmagazine.com/deathhammer-interview/</a><br />
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<b>1.Prepare to suffer morbid torture!!!! You are almost a new band, started only in 2005, however you have managed to release many stuff! Can you comment something about this fact? How easy or hard enough is to compose and record new songs? What is the process??</b><br />
Sadomancer: I don`t feel we are a new band since we have been thrashin for almost 8 years now and we have only made like 50 songs and thats not much since we are two people taking care of the riffs. Makin new riffs is neither easy or hard, it just comes out when the time is right. I`m always in a metal mode but sometimes a good riff waits for months to come out and other times I can make two songs in a couple of weeks. We would never release anything half-assed we weren`t 100% satisfied with just to get something out there and I have waited several years for one single riff to be complete, although that was an extreme case hehe. Forcing things rarely works good in any situation, except rape of course.<br />
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<b>2.How did you decided to turn from a simple metaller to a member of a band? Why did you want to form DeathHammer?? What were your goals back then and what do you think have reached now???</b><br />
Sadomancer: I always liked to pound the hell out of the drums and I guess when we met up late 2005 to rehearse some riffs Salsten had made which didn’t fit into his other band Warfield (which was more like total german thrash and not as black and hellish as Deathhammer) we though this is it. We actually started as a punk-band called Hevnerne but we quickly found out that evil metal was our call. It got even better (for me) when Salsten showed me how to do the mighty powerchord and I could make my own songs too. Deathhammer never had a goal or a plan, we just follow our hearts and let the darkness lead the way. The riffs are still good and I still feel very inspired so we have no plans of slowing down. The torture never stops!<br />
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<b>3.What is your Metal history? Tell me how the fuck did you was possessed by Metal!? It is some of the most important questions for my zine Legion of Torture and also now in this contribution for Antichrist zine!!. Speak or die!!! And also, in what way does Metal turned important (or not so important maybe?) for your lifes??? In what did you and things changed since you entered into the Metal Legion??</b><br />
Sadomancer: Haha or not so important?! Metal is a total lifestyle for me which I will live to the death, its the only way. Metal and music is important to me because listening to music is definetly the thing I enjoy the most, and metal is my favorite music to listen to so there you go. The great rush of power I feel in my veins when I`m listening to my favorite metal records is more sacred than anything else. It`s also great to be a part of making metal music so I can do more than “just” listen, I can take action with my axe too. How I got possessed by the metal gods have to be when I discovered how great Iron Maiden was when I was younger. That was life-changing and they are still one of my favorite bands. I think the first Maiden-album is the most important album for getting me seriously into metal and from then on there was no looking back.<br />
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<b>4.You have a “buddy” in the covers of the first demos and then I think he got some kind of evolution or mutation (colors, etc). Can you speak something about this buddy?? I remember, when some German friend sent me your demos I liked that drawings because they seemed so primitive; then it encouraged myself to make a self cover with a so primitive / 5 y.o. kid drawing for some of my DIY productions… haahahha… It was amazing…</b><br />
Sadomancer: It was just something I drew at school when I was bored (bored now even talking about school) and we ended up used him on all our releases. I even made a 4-page cartoon of him back in the day which I still have but I will never show it to anyone hehe. I call him Tormentor and he`s sort of our “mascot”. Maybe one day when we are filthy rich we can make a big robot-version of him running around on the stage when we play and turn down the volume on the other guitarists amp, that would be killer.<br />
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<b>5.Riffs are shredder as possible and I like this chainsaw!!! Can you explain me what are the feelings that you get when you compose a song??? I mean do you need to get a special moment to make it, just take your guitar and what the fuck!!?? And also, about lyrics, you seem to be very nice speaking about flowers, butterflies, rainbows and that. From where comes these shiny inspirations???</b><br />
Sadomancer: Haha! As I said earlier, riffs just come when the time is right. Having listened to some raging metal on beforehand doesn’t hurt either. When a song is really taking shape and I got a good mainriff and chorus it is a great feeling, one of the most rewarding things about making music. Lyrics have to fit with the riffs, but I would say the riffs are 95% of a song and the lyrics 5%. That does NOT mean we just write lyrics for the sake of having some random lyrics and that we write something without inspiration or we don`t stand for of course, but if a song don`t have great riffs it simply have no use. A lot of nowaday metal bands seems to care more about the lyrics and image than the actual riffs, specially black metal bands. I say the riffs itself should be enough to create the images the lyrics are meant to convey. Also you have some bands like Ghost who is extremely visual and definetly a lot about the image and “the whole package”, but as long as the music is great that`s no problem at all. Anyway when I got a song ready it`s not hard to come up with words who fits the feeling of the song afterwards. I don`t write many lyrics now (only two on the new album) but when I do, I do it 110%. Our lyrics mostly deal about darkness, destruction, death, metal and hell. On our new album we even got a poser-bashing song called Mutilated Poserflesh which we havent had in many years. We hate posers and we believe in metal darkness. Our new album will be so merciless that all the shiny things in the world will turn to shit.<br />
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<b>6.Deathhammer appeared on 2000, maybe involved in what people wanted to call “retro-thrash” (I know many people hate it and others hails it, but it is a history apart…). In your opinion, what could be the differences between the Thrash scene of the past and the currently? Do you think still there are things to discover or re-invent for Thrash Metal?? In this way, what could be the contribution of Deathhammer, musically speaking???</b><br />
Sadomancer: Retro is a lame word, you do whats in your blood that’s the only way. If I was a teenager in Germany in 84 I don’t think I would have played reggae-music, if you see what I mean. But of course coincidences have a lot to say, like parents feeding you rock instead of disco and giving you a drumkit instead of a panflute and such things probably helps a lot. I wasn’t into thrash in the 80s, I was barely into breast-milk, but the first difference I could think of now would be that we will never again have a record like Show no mercy just appearing out of the blue to kill us all, and it`s not much you haven`t heard before nowadays. There`s still so much left to discover from the ancient days though, so I`m not complaining. There are always some new great metal bands who does things in a original way like Negative Plane, Black majesty or Faustcoven, but in thrash metal I don’t think there are things to re-invent or take further. It`s all a matter of writing the best riffs possible, that’s what it should be for every metal band anyway. Deathhammer`s contribution to thrash metal I hope is not gonna be seen as just some kind of tribute or homage to the old bands but genuine raging metal for the true maniacs. Also we don`t limit our sound, we use whatever riff that fits whether it sounds like black, heavy, thrash or death metal. We don`t limit our music to any genre, but the riffs got to have a certain hellishness to it.<br />
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<b>7.As far as I know, you are fans of old Bathory. What did you feel when you know Quorton was dead???</b><br />
Sadomancer: I remember I saw the norwegian band Enslaved live some days (?) after his death and that they dedicated one of their songs to Quorthon but I didn’t think much more about it since I wasn’t into Bathory at that time. I first got into Bathory a short while after when I bought The Return album and Bathory has been my favorite band ever since. Nothing beats listening to Bathory alone in the dark, that’s the best feeling ever. Hail Quorthon eternally!<br />
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<b>8.It seems you got some kind of support of Fenriz / Darkthrone. Can you explain how did you meet this guy??? In what way do you think his positive words towards your band have helped DeathHammer???</b><br />
Sadomancer: I always get this question.. He showed up at our first gig where he got our first demo and he`s been kind of supporting us since which is cool since he got excellent taste. I don’t think it have been very crucial to how “popular” we are today because people who wants to listen to Deathhammers music are people into underground metal and would have found out about us sooner or later anyway.<br />
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<b>9.Your current label is HellsHeadbangers from USA. How is the deal??? What did they offered to you??? What do you consider a fair deal??? Is OK just some royalties??? Would you ask for studio payment???</b><br />
Sadomancer: The deal in short is that they release our albums and we get a lot of LPs and CDs to sell for ourselves as payment. They also do merch, tapes and layout and such boring things and we are totally satisfied with them even though they fucked up the tracklisting for both the first and second pressing of the onward lp hehe, damn! Studio payment isn`t needed since we record in my basement-studio, but studio-fuel (alcohol in large dozes + milk for the vocals) would be nice to get covered. Maybe ask them about that next time.<br />
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<b>10.You told me that you only “sell” your items and don’t trade. Why this??</b><br />
Sadomancer: Haha, I trade but not against fanzines I`m interviewed in of course. It`s normal for the zine to give a copy to the band they interviewed, that’s what I`m used to at least.<br />
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<b>11.What is the meaning of the words UNDERGROUND METAL for you???</b><br />
Sadomancer: Metal for die hards. Metal for the ones who doesn’t like the modern way of producing music, triggers, pro-tools, over-compromizing etc. Real sound and real metal! I like evil metal to stay underground but I don`t mind if bands sell millions of albums as long as they stay true. Also I know that a band like Vomitor is not for the masses anyway, there are simply some things normal people will never understand no matter how hard they try, hehe. If Deathhammer sold 100.00 albums we would still make the same music with all fuck-ups included, but I don’t think we have to worry about THAT.<br />
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<b>12.Comment about the “drummer” issue in the band. I think it was a topic not so easy, isn’t it???</b><br />
Sadomancer: Not a problem at all. I play drums on the recordings as always and we have had a loyal live-drummer for years now which works out great. Check out his band Nekromantheon and their latest album Rise, Vulcan Spectre, it will kill you!<br />
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<b>13.What about the Asian gigs you played?? How it was possible??? What was the deal??? What did promoters offer to you??? With what bands did you share stage?? How was the experience to make this trip??? Did you “hook up” some Asian bitches?? And what about that gig with Sabbat?? I suppose it was a good experience at all…??</b><br />
Sadomancer: Singapore ruled! Only a bit too hot. Sweaty days. And we only played like 5 songs and stayed there for a week so that sucked a bit when i think about it, but was great as long as it lasted. An arranger (hails, Khalid!) contacted us and asked if we could play and he bought our flight tickets and booked us a place to sleep so it was very smooth. Not much asian bitches, you have to ask Onslaught and Desecration about that he he. It was cool the first day we arrived there, we went to a local bar in a shopping mall of all things and hijacked the stage and played a song or two. I remember I bled from my face on the floor and shit after the performance but can`t remember why. The guards looked really scared haha. The Sabbat-gigs was godly. specially the London-gig since I was exhausted and in fucked up shape in Oslo. Waiting on airports a whole night without sleep etc is beyond shitty. We also saw them in Berlin at the Nuclear war now festival the following weekend where they reigned supreme!!<br />
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<b>14.What do you know about Peru in general (culture, life, society, etc)??? What do you know about Peru, talking about Metal??? In your opinion what are the most valuable bands and releases of SouthAmerican Metal in all history???</b><br />
Sadomancer: Haha, don`t know anything about Peru actually. The only band I got in my collection (as far as I know) from Peru is Mortem. They released some good death metal with too clean drums. Also I know Anal Vomit, their first album is great as far as I remember. I`m a big fan of several south american bands, I guess most of them are obvious and no namedropping needed. My favorite south american metal-releases of all time would be INRI, Bloody vengeance and the 3 first Sepultura-releases. Parabellum, first Sextrash and first Abhorer albums etc are stellar too. There is a lot of great evil intense stuff from the south.<br />
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<b>15.You also belong or have belonged to Black Magic (hails Jon wherever you are, I still have here the tape you sent me!). Comment about this. In what way it could be useful for then turn for Deathhammer?? As far as I know you have some parallel bands, so speak about they too…</b><br />
Sadomancer: Yeah, Black Magic started when I heard Jon was going to my town in 2007 and I knew he had a one-man thrash band called Bestial purity so I contaced him on the net and arranged a meeting at my place where we jammed and decided to form Black Magic. We have released two tape-demos and played a few gigs and some years ago we recorded an album called Wizard`s spell which will be released very soon on high roller records and that will be the end of the band since Jon doesn`t listen to metal anymore. Yes I play in some other bands, one is Conflagration which is me and this deathrash-maniac from my neighbourtown who makes most of the music and we play death metal in the vein of Merciless, Slayer, Autopsy etc. We got one demotape out called Morbid dissonances and will record an album this year so beware. I also play in a punk/crust-band with some sleazy old guys (one of them is the Deathhammer-live guitarist) called Avfall which got one democd out called Das system, we will release something new in the coming future. Gateways is another band with a friend of mine which is some years old now, we are only waiting for one song to be complete and then we will record an album. Black metal. The newest band is called Satan`s hell (with Salsten and an italian lunatic) and we play speed/heavy metal in the vein of Running wild, Savage grace, Agent steel etc with some Show no mercy throwed in. Will release a demotape soon I hope, even though everytime we get together we tend to get wasted instead hehe. I`m also doing live drums for Ghoul cult the few times we decide to get together and do a show and I have played guitar on 3 gigs with the german black metal horde Occvlta now. Hails to them!<br />
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<b>16.Can you mention some of the better current Metal acts there in Norway? What about distros or paper zines currently??? I have not hear anything recently… Why do you think is this silence in this activities??? Also, what about Heavy Metal from the past?? Thrash Metal from 80s??? Honestly I did not listen anything!!!</b><br />
Sadomancer: Töxik Death got a new album on their way and I heard some new reh-tracks which totally slays! Also Condor and Lobotomized will release their debut albums soon, Gouge got a great 7″ out and I heard rumours about a new heavy metal band called Flight which got to be good. No new distros I have noticed, paper zines have not been big in norway since the old days sadly. Also I hate to say it, but the metal information one wants you can easily find on the net anyway. New releases/releasedates, interviews, bios, reviews etc etc. Still it would be cool with some good ol zines again. I remember a paper zine years ago called bloody vengeance which was very good and hostile. Hmm I live in norway and are in contact with many metal bands here so I haven`t noticed any silence I must admit hehe. Oh yeah, about old metal it`s almost “only” black metal we can be proud of but of course if you dig you can find some great releases in other genres aswell like Black Angels with their demo, EP and their godly Destroy 7″. They play great primitive heavy metal like Running wild, Accept-style. The Destroy-song got to be Norways best heavy metal song ever! They are even singing about burning churches in 84. Also check out the Norway rocks-LP with some great heavy/speed metal bands and of course old TNT. For 80s thrash, listen to Equinox – Auf wiedersehen.<br />
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<b>17.How is the relation of metallers with people from standard society? Having in mind what happened before with the arson events, murders, etc – some people maybe have terror when they listen something about “Metal music”. So, how hard (or not) is to be a metaller in Norway, after all the well known events happened in your scene??? What is the idea – in general – that standard society and people have about Metal???</b><br />
Sadomancer: I think nothing is shocking these days so people doesn`t react to metal music or Satanic images etc anymore which is fine by me, I don`t dress up to provoce reactions. Only the standard sceptical look from old people and regular people thinking you are stupid for having long hair and wearing a dirty leather jacket and such but to hell with them.<br />
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<b>18.Give your opinions about: A)Euronymus, B)Dead, C)Varg Vikernes, D)Metallion, E)Anders Breivik.</b><br />
Sadomancer: A: I worship the music of old Mayhem and I hail his quote “Har du spist penger?”. Also it`s cool that he threathened poser-bands to quit from what I heard but I didn`t know him of course so I dont have much to say about him other than that. The spirit of old Mayhem will live on forever. B: Great vocalist and great lyricist. Hails to Repugnant for keeping the morbid-legacy alive. Wonder how the hell they got the lyrics for another vision, hehe. C: Untouchable black metal. His new albums are also great, especially Belus. D: Slayer mag rules! Got an Arne Babb-patch on my vest. E: Don`t have much to say about him. If you`re not a metalhead you might as well be dead!<br />
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<b>19.Something like you state is “Death to posers!”. I want to know, since your opinion, what / how is exactly a poser??? Tell me, why do you hate so much posers (I fucking hate them, too!!! But this time I am asking you)?? If you should to give death to some poser, what would be the cruelest and abominable way in which you would kill them??? What is the worst poser attitude that you have seen in Norway???</b><br />
Sadomancer: I hate posers because they are infecting the true metal scene with false attitude and bullshit. Nobody into any musicstyle likes a poser. They represent everything thats wrong with metal like more focus on image/clothes than music and trying to fit in and feeling safe in the crowd so fuck them and their wimpy ways. The best way to kill a poser I could think of now would be to shoot them in their intestines and then steal all their records (posers often got good record-collections because they have rich parents and tries to buy all the “right” stuff to fit in) and then take their hairspray and spray it all over them and set them on fire. One example of a true poser: One time I asked a chick if she was into Bathory and she replied yes I just got a Bathory shirt and I asked which albums she liked and the answer was I dont own any records, its just a matter of priority. Haha. stupidest answer I have heard in my life. DEATH TO POSERS!!!<br />
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<b>20.Something related: what is the meaning of Metal for you? Do you have some special ideology, interpretation or ideas about Metal!?</b><br />
Sadomancer: Metal is the meaning of living. DIE BY POWER!!!<br />
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<b>21.MMMMMmmmmm… Going to the end (end = death; so curious…). I wanna dig more about what happens in the past and the current reaction about it: Do you think people of “Inner Circle” were real soldiers that raised the banner of Satan and make their mission?? Maybe they were just poor kids looking for attention??? How does your entire scene think about those guys??? Are they respected??? Hated??? Anyway, release more deep ideas about this topic…</b><br />
Sadomancer: I don`t know or care but I don`t think you could call bands like Darkthrone or Burzum who still goes strong “poor kids looking for attention” to say the least, but I guess there were some posers there in the back of the ranks as everywhere else.<br />
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<b>22.I’m fucking burned!!!!!! What is coming for the future of DeathHammer?? Die in some post-apocalyptic war maybe?? It’s the end of the morbid torture!!! See ya in the abyssal depths!!</b><br />
Sadomancer: TOTAL DEATH. Our new album will kill all of you.<br />
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<b>Extract from LOT zine #1 (2009).</b><br />
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Abhorrot (Aus) – Death in Blasphemy demo tape: I have here the 2nd version which is in black cover and DIY mood as I can check. Bastards, do you know what the fuck I have here??? It is death Metal in the old kind!!! Rotten, simple and raw recordings. The demo starts violently, but other tracks are quieter; voice has reverb which makes it seems so obscure and brings you to doom!!! Drums stucking with force but also here are some parts to make mosh. 7 tracks of sounds of death that no supposed death Metal worshipper could loss (includes a cover from Nihilist). This is Death Metal from Austria a country with not a lot of bands, so get it ‘cos it is good and rare (at least for me). By the way the dude from Abhorrot is also from Abhorrent Decay paper zine, just for you to know. Contact at: Thomas Heumesser / Rembrandtstrasse 18 – 7 / A – 1020 Wien / Austria. And to the e – mail: abhorrot@gmx.net<br />
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Anarkhon (Bra) – Obesidade Mórbida CDr: RRRoooaaarrrggg!!! Conchesumadreeee!!! Rrruuuaaarrrggg!!!!! Simply it is the kind of death Metal that I like and which I grew up!!! This has the tunes similar to old Cannibal Corpse, mixed with old Massacre and Impetigo, just to give some names of the classic; some blast beats, guttural voice, slow parts, to make mosh, some obscure parts, to release the most depravated of the inside, some drums in thrash velocity and yeah! It has some many riffs, but it is not the “ultratechnic/no passion/no feeling/only money ‘cos I’m a good musician” shit!! As some of nowadays are. Lyrics are in Portuguese, which gives a special aura and charm that I like so much (at least I like it). The topics are in the classic gore, zombie, necrophiliac tastes, pools of blood, executions, mutilations and the whole of this! The cdr comes with a sticker upon the cd and it is inside a cartoon case, yeah, similar to vynils, but in cd size. For now the dudes have progressed a lot, and until I know some german label will release this stuff on pro CD. Dude believe me, if you are into this kind of death, simply it will fill your tastes!!! For now, I confess myself an Anarkhon worshipper!!! If you want something contact: daniloporfirio_1@hotmail.com<br />
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Aflictis Lentae (Fra) – Chaos, Fire, Hate tape: A misanthropic War Metal from France. One man band; psychotic and depravated, this dude unleashes all his hate to mankind with this 8 tracks tape. This tape is a kind of compilation from it’s 7” and 3” (?). The sounds are violent and merciless. Afflictis Lentae shows its whole hatred against weak humans!!! The vocals are linked with black Metal and the drums are real fast and violent. Guitar riffs are into black Metal, with some obscurity and slow parts that makes you reflection your nasty condition of human being. Take this tape and prepare you for the humans holocaust. Contact: thierry.gaichal@dbmail.com. By the way, you can get this tape from Evil Spirit distro, then if you are near to Perú enter in contact with the owner. I will make you a considerable discount, ’cos I know you will be near to death with this tape.<br />
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Bogalj (Mon) – Primitive Sounds promo tape: Again from Montenegro. Some strange mid tempo thrash or something, with a black voice. One more time lyrics are in Montenegrian or I dunno what!!! A dement voice for sure; 3 tracks promo (1 intro). The last one is faster than the 1st; the riffs are dirty and it turns into a schizoid black Metal. I dunno why but voice is louder on this. We should to expect to some another stuff from Bogalj to make a whole veredict ‘cos this is a bit short. For sure seekers of exotic and dirty / violent Black Metal will want to get it!!! I like the primitive ways of Xeroxed and d.i.y. cover!!! Contact: Milovan Novakovic / Farmaci B.B. / 81 000 Podgorica / Crna Gora / Montenegro. Or bogubitnjak@cg.yu (this guy is the same from Iguman, and also runs the zine Zapisnik)<br />
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Dimentiaton (USA) – Live Promo CDr: I could call this a kind of Black / Death Metal, with some technic and “doomy” (but not in the way of “doom”) parts. 1st track starts furious, a violent drums stucking like old brazilian or some european bands, riffs are raw and dirty. On the middle of track some slow and some mysterious riffs. On minute 4 some part that seems me a bit technic; after the violence returns. 2nd track, starts with some technic riffs and after a black metal riffs, too crude!! A bit short, just 2 min. compared with the 1st which has 6 min. Track 3, “brazilian violence” is perceived on drums at the beginning, to follow some technic and after some strange / black riffs to show an obscure feeling. On the min. 3 some quiet part that I’d like to call “reflexive part”, it makes you to meditation between a storm of violence. At the end of track some quiet and slow riffs gives a sensation of doom. Too long track, aprox. 7 min. Track 4 starts at the most pure black metal style. I think it is the most particular track in the promo “Breath Deep”; some fucking blackened / doom riffs leads us to the final gates; this track reaches the 8 min!!! Two guitars works too well on this last ending. The final track is on the same style mixing death and black voice; short track, just 3min. For info or particular check, contact: Dimentianon / 31 Cedar Ridge Drive / Ridge, NY 11961 / USA. Or contact Mike, member of the band, who also runs Paragon rec. cult@msn.com As an anecdote, this live promo was recorded opening for Obituary and Incantation.<br />
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Distrocer (Bra) – ??????: it came to me in a simple cdr without cover from the same guy of the band Carlos Alexandre, and I’m not sure what kind of stuff is. Includes 3 tracks, from those for me the real fucking best and excellent is “Filhos da Guerra”!!! A track which talks about the horrors of war and that shit. When you listen the chorus you can check the fury and rage of this brazilian maniacs n bastards!!! One more time the lyrics in Portuguese seems me so interesting, really I like this kind of brazilian bands which sings in his native language. On second track “Key of Hell” some influences of Destruction are perceived and strongly clear. The final track is a kind of “changed instruments” because vocals is on drums, and drums is on guitar and that kind of matter, real strange and underground recording (including errors), not easy to get I think. A good thrash Metal from Brazil, then check it and try to contact ‘cos the dudes also have some other stuffs. Write to: cristosemvida@hotmail.com<br />
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Eternal Exhumation (Per) – promo 2008 CDr: Just 3 tracks for this promotional cdr. Around of 10 minutes could give us an idea of what Eternal Exhumation is. However a bit short, aprox. 10 or 12 minutes. The style could be called a brutal death metal, without too much virtuosism. Brutal, with programmed drums and raw and good riffs. The whole promo tracks were recorded by “one man” if I’m not wrong. You can contact me to get the promo cdr, ‘cos it was moved by Evil Spirit distro. Let’s wait for the demo debut, which is near to come, in summer 2009 as I got noticed (it means Peruvian summer, between January and March ’09).<br />
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Evil Damn (Per) - …through black abysses CDr demo: This is the demo debut from Evil Damn. The band shows a violent death metal, with a furious and full of hatred machine drums (some could call it the kind of brutal death). The riffs and lyrics have the old style, raw for riffs and occult and demoniac for lyrics. The demo has a good sound recording, really good produced. 6 tracks of Peruvian Death Metal and also plays a cover from Sarcófago: The Black Vomit. Cover has the lyrics to follow the path of the occult and barbaric death metal!!! The whole lyrics are based into the occult and the Necronomicon matter so if you like the occult stuff you will have here not only a good death Metal, but also some approach to the dark illusions of the topics!!! To get more info check the interview on this issue.<br />
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Goat Tyrant (Pol) – Necromantical Curse demo tape: A beginning that reminds some old riffs as Bathory or Kreator (1sts prods.), but with “machine gun” beats. The voice is into old Black Metal. Track 2, the drum violence stills remains and some thrasher riffs. The sound recording is noisy and primitive, specially for the seekers of raw Metal it will be a delight! A simple cover, minimalistic and using cut n’ paste. Cover has a draw as “grabado” from S. XVII or similar shit. Necromantical Curse, track 3, I think is the most violent in the demo which drums are too “unstopping”, however the sounds always has similar riffs to Venom or Hellhammer. Track 5 is a cover from Nihilist, “Supossed to Rot”. The final track is a bit short and has a quickly and holocaustic solo as in the old Metal was. If you’re looking for extremely, underground, raw and old style Metal, this stuff is an obligation for you. By the way, you shouldn’t try to seek some sound in the web, ‘cos you won’t find anything. I got this stuff by trade, then you should to do something similar, or send your dirty money in a snail mail. Contact the frontman: Michal Dolinsky / Ul. Krasinskiego 18 B / 83 – 110 Tczew / Poland. Or completenecro@wp.pl (this dude also runs the zine Complete Necro).<br />
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Hell (Fra) – The Arrival of the Eternal Reign of Evil demo tape: Minimalistic & primitive are words that can describe this black metal from France. It has 3 tracks on 14 minutes. Pro cover, minimalistic and printed by both sides, showing a pic of the blasphemers in the inlay and pro tape. For me the track 3 is the best, which has some cold and good darkest melodies. Voice is on the classic way of the style. Don’t expect inmiserycord drumblasting black metal ‘cos it isn’t in that way, but some in the riffs style of sounds as Venom or Bathory, maybe slower on drums. Get this slow or mid tempo black metal at: Stephan Vertey / Chemin du fort Bonnelle / 52200 Langres / France or write to the e – mail: war-crystallis@hotmail.fr<br />
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Helltorment (Per) – I invoke thee demo tape: the stuff here is a kind of black/death/thrash with riffs in the classic ways. I mean that here you can find some influences as Sarcófago, Destruction, Desaster; etc. Some thrash riffs with the blast beats (I think it is usual and common on this days and last years, mmmmmm…). This is a one man horde, this dude plays the whole instruments here and we can say that the dude executes it very well for the style that he practices. Lyrics are written into the satanic and blackened shit. It is a tape with sticker, with a cartoon as cover printed by both sides. Try to contact this dude and try to find it, ‘cos maybe for now it is total sold out, however the dude has other releases in many labels, some EP and also a full length recently released; then try to check something. Contact at: moises-jo@hotmail.com<br />
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Iguman (Mon) – Demo 2006 tape: Chaotic Black Metal from Montenegro; fast, violent, dirty and a suffering voice, it should come from pits of hell!!! Three tracks (1 of this an intro) of bestial and holocaustic noise. Titles are in Yugoslavian or I dunno what, then I couldn’t talk about lyrics or themes. The 3rd track is the most fucking violent and impiadous on this demo. The vocalist is burning in hell again and some epic sounds behind the slaughter machine drum. It has an outro, some sounds from nowhere who gives tranquility for you to go to your tomb and lie eternally… funeral, strange and quiet sounds of death. Contact: bogubitnjak@cg.yu<br />
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Infernal Conjuration (Mex) – Tremendous Plague demo: old style Death Metal from México!!! Here we have other band which plays Death Metal in the classical ways. Just to give a reference about the sounds, it reminds the old Pestilence, Death (some riffs so similar), old Morbid Angel or Mortem. The dudes uses this old influences and also the voice is influenced by this kind of Metal, with a bit remind of “Chuck + Mamelli” or something. The drums stucks as the velocity of old Death Metal made, just in some part extreme blast beats. Some good solos on this demo and riffs are too crude. Something that I can say as the best part of the demo are the vokills, which really sounds demential and bestial!!! 4 tracks of Death Metal in the old vein, I think in the last times this kind of death is reappearing, which is a good thing for me. Check some info about these dudes in the interview.<br />
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Lantern (Fin) – Virgin Taste of Damnation demo tape (also available on CDr): Great CARAJO! The first, at listen this demo, is to feel the old feeling, specially by the sound recordings and reverb on voice. A fast and violent Death Metal as in the old ways, remembering it’s old finnish comrades. 2nd track starts a bit quiet, to pass quickly to the same “raging death” of the first; and a slow part on the middle to make a balance of death. 3rd track, a slow part to be possessed by a not too violence on drums, more into thrash velocity, but violent, not to mosh, just to destroy and hit others; again a slow part which sounds some mysterious for me, a good track for the soul transmigration. Track 4, it starts with a solo “from beyond” and some voices of death makes the last call. This last one is hard and slow, to finish the demo with a sensation similar to “all is lost and you’ll never return from death!” Anyway, get this Death Metal piece at any cost! Some of the finnish bands which keeps the old death metal feeling and raise the banner of Finland Death Noise!!!.<br />
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Merciless Crucifixion (Gre) – Airesis demo. Pro Cdr: what do you think can find in a band called Merciless Crucifixion??? Nothing! Only Metal in the most cruelty and insane mood!!! Total cult to the goat and offenses to the crucified one. If I should to put a label, it would be a kind of Black/Death as some hordes from Hellas knows how to make, but also with some thrasher sounds to make the respective mosh. The stuff has 6 tracks (the most with intros) of infernal desecrations and black mockeries, featuring a cover from Sarcófago: INRI (the best cover for this band, ‘cos is linked with the moniker; I think a lot of dudes in Hellas are Sarcófago worshipers isn’t it?). The most of the tracks are violent, with some slow and hard parts, well then don’t expect so much mercy when you were near to be crucified in merciless ways!! I recommend it for sure, really it possessed me since the 1st time that I check the moniker in a zine, really it is impressive and impactant, as the music itself. Prepare your pen, ‘cos the dude are not thinking in boys and infants, only the Metal men. Write to: A.H. Virus / Thessalias, 81 / 188 63 / Perama – Piraeus / Greece.<br />
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Necrofucker (Per) – Demencia Precoz demo tape: Rooaarrgg!!! This demo should to be on streets 20 years ago, but it came recently in 2008. 7 tracks of Peruvian last 80’s deathrash!!! Recording is noisy and primitive, without any kind of “clearness” and “nice things”. Vocals have a particular style, sung in spanish and too demential. Walter Profanador made on this his first apparition on the scene, ‘cos after he formed Anal Vomit, also Toñyn Destructor is featured on drums. The tape comes with gloosy cover and sticker for tape. So contact el tio Walter Profanador with a snail mail, ‘cos he is trapped in time, and doesn’t know any shit about technology and internet! A lot of copies remains, then you are in time to pick one. If you’re a fucking lazy, can send me an e – mail and I’ll inform him about your interest. Even I have some copies in Evil Spirit distro, but I preefer to support el tio Walter. If you’re in the real underground, take paper, a pen and write to: Walter Profanador / Jr. Quilca 336 – 2do piso / Lima 01 – Perú.<br />
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Pathogen (Phi) – Blasphemous Comunion tape: Early 90s Death Metal! Here we can find some sounds like Benediction, Death, Incantation. A dirty noise of death from this phillipinean bastards. Some slow parts gives the atmosphere of obscurity which is required (some part from 2nd track “Blood Orgy” reminds me some old demo from a Peruvian band). The voice is similar to Massacre or Benediction; dirty and raw guitar riffs. Few riffs which are repeated in the song, however it doesn’t makes it boring. The track 5 “Bestial Perversion” is the best for me; it has something similar to old Sepultura, which is a fucking great thing for this old Sepultura fan (me)!!! To finish some solos and tremolo sounds reminds me Mortem, I dunno why!!! It is a traditional Death Metal piece, no modern shit. Take 1 copy writing to Willie Desamero, check contact at the end of the interview. Or take 1 from Evil Spirit Distro, ‘cos I have the tape version from Carnal Sadist Prod.<br />
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Profaner (Per) – Zombie Curse demo tape 2008: old, rotten and classic death metal you will find here. 4 tracks of pure Death, Massacre and Autopsy worshiping. Riffs are simple and raw, no technicism here, only the old essence of death. Lyrics are inspired on zombies and that shit, some influence of some 80s terror films I could find on this; dude, it are the films that I like!!! Then if you find some rememberment of Impetigo you won’t be wrong. Well, what the fuck? This is a new band which wants to open its way in the underground, then support this freaks, ‘cos they’re on the right way. Contact the zombie dealer at: unholymetalpestilence666@gmail.com<br />
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Recrucify (Per) – Grimorium Verum demo tape: Rrroooaaarrrggg!!!! Some bestial black/death here. Again from the Peruvian hordes this band Recrucify strikes without mercy!!! It has 5 tracks of satanic lust and devil worshipping. Tracks as Bestia Negra (great title in Spanish!), Fukk in the Pentagram or Nunphomans talks by itself. The demo has some changes in drums, the whole is not a brutal extremely and unstopping drummimg, but changes to give it a variance. Riffs are in the raw and rotten style and no technic shit, it means Metal as the old ways!!! Maybe the voice should to have a bit more volume as I would wish, but the rest of the production is simply killer!!! So if you have the proud to call yourself a mutant bastard, go and get it!!! By the way the demo comes in 2 editions, some with red logo letters (which is the normal version) and the other with golden letters on cover which has some sticker to put in some place. Extra information on the interview in this issue!!!<br />
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Retaliador (Bra) – Ultra Violencia demo tape: The 1st thing that comes to my mind when I heard this demo is Mutilator; I’m talking about a violent instrumental Intro. The 2nd assault is more on thrash mosh sounds, a voice with reverb reminds us some old bands from the genre. The lyrics are in Portuguese, an interesting thing for some seekers of the exotic stuff (just 2 tracks in English). I like the cover, some simple work and draw which could be from a 80s band without problem. Here you can find some sounds as Dorsal Atlantica, Taurus, the old Vulcano. The track 5 “Guerreiros do Inferno” is the emblem of this demo; the violence and 80s feeling from brazilian bands are present for sure. The production is made by Atomic Nuclear desolation from Chile, but I think is better if you contact directly the guys from the band and give your support. Write to Jeff “Insane Thrasher” jeffthrash_17@hotmail.com. Heavy Metal ate o Inferno CARAJO!!!<br />
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Sectioned (USA) – Elme Promo Cdr: Some old death metal you’ll find on this promo. 1st track is on the style of Massacre, Master, Benediction, early Vomitory and similars. The 2nd track has a bit of blast beats, but still has the old feeling, by the way, more quiet than 1st track. I think guitar solos has some particular atmosphere, which transmit an obscure and darkness sensation. 3rd track “My love of decay” (?) reminds me some sounds as old Obituary, following a “quiet” death Metal riffs. For my taste songs are too long; track 3 has more than 6 min., some repetitive riffs could make it a bit boring. Followers of old style & “quiet” death metal, enter in contact. Sectioned.metal@hotmail.com<br />
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Thornspawn (Usa) / Enshadowed (Gre) - Split Promo CDr: Maybe I’m not the best reviewer for this kind of black metal, but I’ll try. Promo starts with Thornspawn, an inmiserycord Black Metal and in the classic style: raw, violent and dirty. This is a promo from the split called “6 Black Candles, 6 rotting Hearts, 6 Sacrifices for Satan”. 10 tracks on this promo (really what could be the difference with the official release? I think just the booklet and that). It was released on December 2007. Also in Thornspawn part, some classic slow parts from the style are founded; too simply, too noisy, underproduced and minimalist; just the enough. Enshadowed part is more on the Black / Death style. A non – stopping drums machine, full of blast beats are beside catchy riffs. Riffs are very raw and with the cold feeling. Some rare blast beats in the last song (as Krisiun?) “Fly the Christian pigs”. Some riffs that sounds good, but for my taste, the kind of blast beating is not the best company for this.<br />
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Cadaverous Smell zine # 1 (Fra): A bit more than 60 A4 pages. This zine is made with the old cut n paste style, pasting over flyers, some morbid draws and similar shit. On this you’ll find some underground death noise as: Incrust, Funebrarum, Cacodaemon, Necroccultus, Sanctifier (a lot of great death metal!) and many more into black as Korihor, or Heavy as Metal Inquisitor. An interesting matter that led me to enter in contact and trade to get this stuff, is that some Peruvian bands are featured, as: Mortem, Evil Damn (long replies!), Anal Vomit (short replies!), Levifer. Questions are focused to get the basic and enough info, I think. Few reviews, total comprehension ‘cos it’s the 1st issue and I think not a lot of people (or nobody?) sent anything to be reviewed (as in this Metal paper that you’re reading). This dude uses big font, I think if he wants to show us 60 pages, and uses small font, the info could increase and be really huge! Perhaps in France postal service is cheap and he doesn’t care to use a lot of pages while he could to use less ones. Nowadays (Dec. 08) the 2nd issue is near to come. Contact the editor at: Christophe Mercier / La Chimonette / 08170 Fepin / France. Or write to save money: cadaverous_smell@hotmail.fr<br />
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Demon’s Jail zine #1 (Chi): This zine is too interesting to know about Chilean scene, a lot of chilean bands reviewed, also Chilean zines reviewed and Chilean bands interviewed as: Denying Nazarene, Asesinato, Miserycore or Bruma. The format of zine is A4 and has 43 pag. Cut n paste style and some draws at the borders. For sure a good issue to know about Chilean scene, which seems to have a lot of Metal activities by there, and in several parts of the country. For now (dec. 08) issue 2 is on progress. Contact: Demon’s Jail zine / Casilla # 1560 / Correos de Chile / Sucursal Mall Plaza / Antofagasta / Chile. Or demonsjailzine@hotmail.com<br />
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Devilment zine # 2 (Fra / U.K.): This zine is run by a French dude who lives in England. A4, a bit more than 25 pages; the classic cut n paste is present with really obscure and darkened draws and pics; interesting for the eye. First of all, this dude has something in mind and sees Metal as an ideology, not just music (which I’m total agree and think the same) and show his thoughts in a “Deaditorial” in which links topics with psychology, philosophy and even anthropology (I think this dude has some intellectual characteristics, not just the “Metal means alcohol, sex, drugs” dude). This is featured on interviews and reviews, ‘cos the dude uses his philosophic knowledge to make questions and some literary touch, or even poetry to make the reviews. For sure the dude has style; however, this “style” takes out a bit of clearness and direct info. And a bad thing is that the most of reviews hasn’t the contact (why a lot of zines doesn’t put the contact in the review part?). As interesting point I should to mention the int. with Reverorum ib Malacht, in which the band’s dude are extremely linked with philosophy, occultism and a particular points of view; total interesting to read (but I think not a lot of people will understand the whole int.). Let’s wait the next issues, ‘cos Flavien is now on 3 or 4. Contact him at: blackramspellz@hotmail.com; or Flavien Monier / 1 Westgrove Terrace / CV32 6EA / Leamington Spa / Warwickshire / UK.<br />
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Exterminio zine #3 (Mex): 50 pages (including covers), A4. This Metal paper comes from México and because of this show us some info. from this scene, interviewing bands as: Infernal Conjuration (good tastes!), The Light of the Dark (some of you should known this ‘cos the split with Throneum), Voltax (good classic Heavy Metal) and other bands from Latinamerica as Witchtrap (Col) or Necrolisis (Crc); also some old, but not well known (at least not for me) band from USA as The Path into death/doom and Crucifier from Greece (sociopolitical Thrash) among others. It has the “classic 3”: interview, bio, review. Made by PC, cover and inlay (hey Diego I think ink printer should be cheap there isn’t it? I couldn’t make the same here!). An interesting point for me was to know about some Mexican zines, some of this with particular styles as Gods of Iron zine (good name dude, you take off me, the idea to put a Running Wild title as moniker, shit!), well, check by your own. Issue #3 of Exterminio should be near to come, in which Diego will feature some Mexican bands linked with topics from it’s ancient cultures; then contact to know more about the whole of this: Diego Contreras / H. Galeana # 502 Col. Centro / CP 96400 / Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz / México. E – Mail: exterminio_zine@hotmail.com<br />
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Evil’s Beast zine #1 (Isr): Don’t ask me a lot of this stuff, ‘cos it is written in Hebrew!!! So I didn’t understand anything, except by some monikers of bands. But I wanted to get this zine ‘cos it comes from a country not with a lot of Metal tradition (even if the editor is Russian). Also I wanted to write about the existence of this zine, ‘cos the editor Sergei is a dude with real underground tastes and he turned in one of my underground comrades in the other side of the globe. Then if you like to check some pics, some strange figures (which really are letters!), and you want to have exotic zine stuff for your collection, enter in contact: werewolf12345666@gmail.com (I think the snail mail address was here but I couldn’t read any shit!). Or learn a bit of Hebrew and read! I think some of us would wish that next issue would be in English, think it my friend. (and until I know issue 2 is on English!, good dude.) <br />
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Goat Cult Perversion zine #1 (Ger): When I started to read a couple of interviews, I think the stuff isn’t very good, it is ‘cos the dude repeat the same questions (and I mean exactly the same words!!!), for the most of bands featured. But when I’ve read the Impetigo int. I think “the cost is paid!”. Mark the guitar Impetigo dude, really has the spirit alive, even if he is out from the scene: long replies, with dedication, giving a lot of info. talking about releases, the last reunion gig few years ago; and I think this int. has the thing that the real underground warriors want: info.!!! On other matter a good point, even if the questions are extremely repetitive, is that the editor show us aprox. 30 bands! Yeah, a lot, then you can find and check by your own. I knew here some bands unknown, at least for me, as: Necrosexual Rites (speed/black from Italy), Necroholocaust (Sgp), Denouncement Pyre (Aus), Sadomator… among others, not a lot known in the scene. By the way this stuff has no reviews and the dude Marco (editor) has the support of some Peruvian dudes for some interviews, as in example Goat Penis interview. And also Marco shows some interest in Perú, ‘cos he ask to some bands if they know something about my lands; thanks for that interest in my country man! (but not a lot of bands knows any shit!) The whole stuff is on gloosy paper. Enter in contact at: Marco Roch / Heuberg 31 / 91567 Herrieden / Bavaria – Germany. Or mondocane-metal@web.de<br />
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Morbid Tales zine # 2 (Can): Some day I was lurking on the web for Metal info. and I found some Canadian webzine. Then I checked a zine run by a 13 years old girl!!??!!?? I said: What the fuck???, quickly I decided to enter in contact and trade. This zine is in A5, 48 pages, using cut n paste, very attractive for the eyes. This issue features some old bands as: Anvil, Witches Hammer, Cloven Hoof (one of the most supportive on the zine). The questions are simple, and some of the interviews seems to be made in direct (as Rammer by example). An interesting part which talks about some Metal shops in Montreal. I like this, even if it’s unusefull until I’d be there, ‘cos it shows the idea about the scene there (some old vinyls are found there and a shop ran by a Peruvian dude if I’m not wrong). The issue is made by the girl and also a guy called Black Metal Jo (even if he isn’t really focused on black Metal as he says). This guy seems to be a defender of ladies, because in some review criticizes a band that “promotes violence and sexism” and offenses women ‘cos show them as “sexual toys”. A real gentlemen. To finalize the issue some vinyl reviews. Actually this zine is in the issue 5 or 6, # 2 is from 2005 (someone could ask why I got very past issues ah?), and if I’m not wrong only Satannick (the girl) remains, and she should to grew up for sure. Contact the lady at: Annick Giroux / 1486 Rue Pre Fontaine / Montreal, QC / HIW 2N5 / Canada. Or write an e – mail to: go_yaten@hotmail.com (which you’ll wait a lot to be replied, ‘cos the girl is a bit busy. Just for info. the girl supported Barbatos on bass while this band played in Montreal).<br />
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Necroscope zine # 20 (Pol): man, what the fuck I could say??? Simply it is the biggest and most underground info. on paper zines that each mortal can find (mortals involved in underground of course, not the “simple”). A lot of bands interviewed, a lot of reviews from bands that maybe you won’t know that exists if is not by Necroscope. Also including sections as “The forgotten race” which are interviews for tape traders. The questions are deep, cos the dude Adam knows his work, and he knows of course a lot of the underground, not from nowadays, but since a lot of time ago!!! Then simply you will find the best information about the underground world here. Around of 100, A5 pages and not a lot (or no one?) of pics, small font, and that!!! Simply get it and take some info of the deep underground!!! Adam Stasiak / Ul. Zakopianska 42 – 3 / 80 – 139 Gdansk / Poland. Or necroscope1@wp.pl<br />
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Occult Bleeding zine # 3 (Bos): Again a Death Metal zine. The most are in the USA style (maybe I could say Cannibal Corpse style), which for some will be a real delight, ‘cos here appears bands really not well known, from some parts of Europe; bands as: Datura, Daggerspawn, Dead Congregation (known in the underground), Defilement, Fleshripper and others. Then you’ll get some bands into the called brutal and a bit technic sounds, however bands that doesn’t belongs to the mass, and with an underground status. PC style, pro cover with a great cover art (made by Diego Corbalán from F.O.G.; his draws kills!). Some reviews, the most in the same style as the bands interviewed, even some review of Cannibal Corpse stuff. Interviews are direct without digging in other things apart from band matter. Contact Milan Mandic at: D. Karajzovci 38 A / 78418 Nova Topola / Republic of Srpska / Bosnia. Or occultbleeding@hotmail.com (this dude is also the frontman of Lithopedion, a band fucking great for those fans of the early Cannibal Corpse!).<br />
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Putrefactive Effect zine # 3 (Fra): This was the 1st zine that I got from Europe, asking for a trade by the way. Here we have a zine focused into Death Metal. Interviews with bands into old death metal style as Death Evocation or Severance, some of the called “brutal” as Charnier, some bit technic as Forbidden Cult or Pestifer, and others in 90s USA death style as Enthrallment. It has reviews from stuff of different styles, a good amount and also zines reviews, which is always interesting to have “Metal bibliography” to make an underground investigation. An interesting interview with Wan Syamsul from Deadhead zine / Afterlife Prod. (using cut n paste). And some face to face game between Erik from Shrunken n Mummified zine and Adam from Necroscope. The style is made by PC and a bit cut n paste here and there. Jim Beautour / Bec Oisseau / 16230 Juille / France. E – Mail: cbeautour@aol.com<br />
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Revelations of Doom zine #1 (Per): If you want to know about the Peruvian scene, you must to have this zine! A total obligation for that “Peruvian worshippers” (I think are some of this by there). It features a lot of bands, maybe the most relevant as: Goat Semen, Anal Vomit, Evil Damn, Cadaver Incubador, Gore, Teratos; some a bit new: Crown of Worms (RIP), Lord Sanguinary, etc… A lot of bios with more peruvian bands. Report from Desaster (Ger) gig in Perú, and just a bit of reviews. It comes with gloosy covers, xeroxed pages, aprox. 30 in A4. Not more to say, I think it is interesting for some people. Issue 2 is on progress. Contact: Jorge Bobadilla Walther / Jr. Filadelfia 1709 – Urb. Perú / Lima 31 – Perú. E – mail: revelationszine@gmail.com<br />
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Sangwitok zine # 6 (Mal): This issue is from 2008 first of all! A “fatty” A5 zine, 100 pages. A good zine to know about the Asian scene. The whole is written in small font, it means a lot of info. here. Lay out is in cut n paste and also using PC, then you’ll find tradition / modernity. The zine begins with a lot of undergrouns news, talking about releases, info, distros, zines. Small font = good info, but… just a critic, perhaps some parts with white letters and black pages aren’t well visualized and isn’t easy to read (or perhaps I’m loosing my vision…). Another things is that some ints. Are in native language, then of course I didn’t understand anything. The most bands unknown for me, as: Infernal Rites, Sanguineous or Stench of Virginity. I’ve learned some about the U.G. here (in this moment I’m passing from 2008 to 2009 dude!!!). I think the editor has good humor and shows us a lot of happiness in some passages of the interviews. Aprox. 20 per each. I want to mention the int. with Dictator, in which the frontman talks about some politic situation in his country (a matter that hasn’t any link with Metal but I wanted to say it); and also the band gave it’s first int. for a Peruvian zine; good! Contact this Asian comrade on the following: sangwitok@yahoo.com<br />
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Satanic Malediction zine # 6(66) (Bra): This Metal stuff is a brazilian one, and as you check the moniker is diabolous! 60 pages on A4 will show the whole stuff into Black and Death Metal. The style used is the traditional cut n paste, ‘cos the dude wants to keep the old spirit, even this is seen on the interviews, ‘cos the dude asks about the “changes” of new times. Interviews are not only for bands, but zines too (Osculum Obscenum, Vampyrium Spectrum, Prophecies of Pagan Fire); some support to brazilian bands on int. (Sign of Hate, Rottenness, Vulturine, Benemmerinnen and Corpus Cristii (Por)…) but only 5 and a good amount of reviews from demo tapes (the most black metal), to CD and CDrs (here appears other styles as thrash) and to finalize LPs and EPs reviews!!! great for the collectors. A sad shit is that no contacts appears, however this is a good metal paper to take notice about the brazilian underground activities, at the end you can contact the editor and ask for the bands contacts, I think. Then send questions to: Irlan Asaradel / Rua 2 de Julho, 528 / Centro – Alagoinhas – BA / Cep: 48051 – 190 / Brazil. Or the virtual mail: s6m6z6@yahoo.com.br<br />
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Shrunken n Mummified zine # 9 (Hun): Other of the first that I got. It’s on A4, 40 pages and has really a lot of reviews from zines and bands. Some bands really unknown from countries as Romania or Ukrania, too underground! Style is made by PC with small font, then you’ll get a lot of info here. Bands interviewed are really not well known, some of this mix styles with grind or some experimental, some bands are: Iron Batasuna, Obscene Gesture, Moonfog, Death Evocation, Eternal Bleeding, Ravendark’s Monarchal Chanticle; etc. Some reviews are for stuff linked with another styles as hardcore, even I remember a punk comp. reviewed. Anyway, you could get a lot of info here, even I took a lot of my contacts checking on the whole reviews (you should to get time to read the whole!). This dude has moved from Hungary to Czech Rep. then just I show the e – mail: korpsefire@gmail.com (for now the dude is releasing issue 10).<br />
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Tervilles zine #2 (Fra): I receive this zine, read fast an immediately make a review (on 21 Jan. ’09), in less than 10 min. or so. It is a little zine, but interesting for me, it features bands as: Denial of God, Church Bizarre, Desaster, Nunslaughter. Written in English and 2 int. in French. A5 and 14 pages. Only interviews, no reviews on this. The lay out style is cut n paste, but it seems to be made by PC, I dunno, but it seems strange. Issue 3 is on progress now, we hope for next issue some reviews included. Contact the editor for info. to get the zine, or any shit: Stephane Vertey / Chemin du Fort Bonnelle / 52200 Langres / France. E Mail: war-crystallis@hotmail.fr<br />
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Thrash Attack zine # 1 (Ger): Do you think it’s a full thrash zine? Fucking right! A5, 40 pages, cut n paste. It features bands as: Tankard, Nocturnal, Sauron, Gama Bomb. Some reviews which shows some unknown thrash Metal (at least for me) as: Eure Erben (with Darkness members), Insane from Italy, Norace from Brazil (some forgotten stuff), Old (black / thrash from Germany) and Redimoni from Spain, just for example. Some distros / mailorder are mentioned, useful to get some stuff and a certain sentence of this guy, about black Metal, appears: “… the only real Black Metal is the first wave: pure Speed / Thrash with satanical lyrics!!! Fuck the rest!!!”. This 1st stuff is from ’06, but I wanted to review here. For now the dude has progressed a lot and is in the issue 5 or 6, has increased pages and covers shows primitive draws; great!. I’d want some of new issues to know more about. Florian Grill / Ganghoferstrasse 10 G / 83043 Bad Aibling / Germany. E – mail: flo_grill@web.de<br />
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Visao Underground zine #9 (Bra): This is a little zine pro printed in which brazilian bands are featured, and only one foreigner from Panamá (Equinoxio). Brazilian bands featured are: Impetuous Rage, Insanctification, Mitra, No Blest among a bit more. It has some reviews from brazilian stuff, then it could be good to get for those ansious to know about this scene, ‘cos this country has a lot of states and you can find a Metal bands in the most of this. Then try a check and contact. Elton Lima / CP 1559, Ag. Centro / Belém-PA / CEP: 66.017 – 970 / Brazil. E – Mail: visaounderground@hotmail.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.com