Zines in the Death Metal Underground. Individual Thought Patterns: Apostles of Death Metal. Infestation of Evil: Chroniclers of Black Metal. Droid Sector: Information Networks and the Degeneration. Written by. NWOBHM and British punk were dying out, replaced by the tough street gang aesthetics of hardcore and the satanic postures of early speed and black metal. The public stances of groundbreaking bands were growing to be more and more incompatible with mainstream rock media, which since the demise of the . The success of bands such as Metallica and Slayer wasn. Active touring, circulation of demo tapes and word of mouth established the reputation of these non- compromising bands, along with independent heavy metal publications such as Metal Forces Magazine in the UK and Kick Ass Monthly in the USA. While these started out as photocopied zines, they soon became professional but continued championing the authentic observations of the editors, distinguished metal writers such as Dave Reynolds and Bob Muldowney (R. I. P.), for relatively small profit and a benefit to metal fans worldwide in search of ever more lethal developments of the basic ideas of heavy metal music. Individual Thought Patterns: Apostles of Death Metal. Death metal in the 8. In keeping with the independent spirit, death metal fans corresponded with each other and compiled newsletters that were at first minimal and crude, spreading the viral infection of an art form which was long abhorred by fans of classic metal and power metal. Thus, the crown jewels of death metal media originated perhaps from lands separate from the Anglo- American centers of youth subculture dissemination, where enthusiasm for the new style existed alongside speed metal and crossover interest: Metalion. Rs is doing a 'zine ich is actually a 't even know what on, black metal is. The Japanese black metal ene is really poor. I only recommend and 'l (both par. Unblack metal (or Christian black metal) is a genre of music that is stylistically black metal, but whose artists are either directly against the Satanism prevalent. Contemporary US zines that didn. At first I just read zines , all of them from overseas, and the thought never came to mind to do one myself until I realized I had a lot of contacts by tape and video trading. There were no metal oriented zines in Australia in those days . So I decided to combine my love for all the styles, and I had a partner who helped me get interviews etc. In the spirit of Black Metal History Month, in this year of our Lord 2011, it's only right that we acknowledge the enlightened souls who have made black metal so. Zine Libraries Countries Outside the U. Queer zines available in PDF for. Death/thrash/grind/black metal fanzine scans from yesteryear. An epic 500+ page tome exploring the history and development of black metal from its beginnings in the early 1980s to the present day. Featuring dozens of interviews. Metal Fanzine Archive. PDF up as well in D/L section. MUTILADOR ZINE E-Zine - N. La portada exhibe unas. It worked exceptionally well because none of the bands we ever contacted back then had done anything with an Australian zine . Barely anyone in this country ever saw my zine because nobody was really into the music as much yet, it would be years before the underground bands got a big enough following here. Brian: For me, I think the idea for Chainsaw Abortions just came because I. In those times doing a zine was the best way to do that. My only contacts when I started were the local bands here in Buffalo, then from letter writing and tape trading my connections quickly grew. Of the zines that I bought back then, I really liked Death Vomit from Virginia and Ripping Headaches from Florida, plus of course Buttface from Australia. Alan: Haha, I noticed that Brian mentioned Buttface! Personally my favourite zines were Blackthorn from Denmark (my friend Esben Slot Sorensen. In the USA without a doubt for me, Invincible Force (Bryan Daniel) and Ripping Headaches (Bruce Davis) both from Tampa FL, although there were other much older zines like Total Thrash and Uniforce which I loved getting my hands on when I could. I never purchased any zines pretty much except Blackthorn, it usually worked out that I got copies from the editors in trade or they were included in packages of tapes or shirts or records, as extra goodies you know? We always did shit like that, crammed photos or stickers or flyers into the package to make it cooler for whomever you sent it to. We all did that stuff pretty much . That was always fun, to hear your trader. You really felt special and connected to people, and you had to pay your dues. With their down to earth, entertaining but always informative reviews and interviews the zines of the era opened for many ignorant small town kids the landscape of the underground, the indivisible fabric of ideals, images, and hard work by their intricate visual and literal presentation of the latest frontier of metal. Often black and white, cut and pasted by hand and then photocopied, the zines were constructed with care and attention to build an aura of mystery and power, laid out symmetrically with blasphemous figures and gory art, encasing the alien appearance of foreign bands in sheets of terror resembling an ancient tome. The DIY method had an invaluable asset in that it was relatively independent from monetary concerns and possible for basically any fan with the required intelligence, attention span and literary abilities. Actually many zines seemed to even manage without these. Brian: Chainsaw Abortions was just photocopied, so my part time job paid for issue #1. For issue #2 my dad made the copies at his work for me because they had a copy machine that could handle 1. Alan: I was going to college full time and had no job, but I was getting a student allowance from the government here, so 1. In 1. 98. 8 I got a very well paying job in a factory . My parents were cool and didn. They never knew what stock to get in and always overcharged (1. I went right to the labels (which were all underground mostly) or got the stuff from the bands if the released records themselves, and had things sent sea mail which took a bit longer but was so cheap, saving more money. Time management was easy, because I was a full time student back then, with no wife, no kids, not much responsibility and was well trained in making my time count that I could get the zine done with not much effort time- wise. I never paid to have my zine printed, it was photo copied, at my father. Ronny Eide from Morbid Mag in Norway worked, plus later he started to distribute porn to pay for his exceptionally high quality zine. We also glued our stamps . I think I traded records with one of my many Brazilian contacts for 1. One accustomed to the 2. Far from boring and trivial, it was the sort of discussion the target audience could best relate to and helped the spawning of new bands, as fans realized that the masters of death metal mostly weren. I found them very inspiring. At the time there was no Internet as we know it today and it was very difficult to find information about bands you were interested in, or bands you didn. So it all pretty much started from a personal obsession to find out information about bands and artists I was interested in myself. It was all somewhat difficult in the beginning as I was young and obviously didn. There was also huge demand for information about bands from the audience and a need from the emerging bands in the scene to get promotion for themselves. So when in 1. 99. I was very young . I was already friends with Sodomatic Slaughter from Beherit , so I was aware of the scene and as Black Crucifixion was only in its earliest pre- stage in the autumn of 1. I had already enjoyed reading some good quality early Finnish fanzines, my favourite was called Intestinal, so starting Fallen Pages was a natural step. The first issue was in Finnish and in A5 size under the name Damn Zine. The very first number along with bands like Beherit and Samael also featured thrash, speed, death, doom and punk bands. You have to remember that there practically was no . Holocausto Vengeance from Beherit suggested that I would change the name from Damn Zine to something more suitable for international market. So we came up with the name Fallen Pages of Damnation, which I then shortened to just Fallen Pages. I also got more ambitious with the layout and went for A4 size and very heavy glossy paper. The substance got heavier along with the outlook, as the second issue included mostly black and death metal bands. It was published in the 1. I was surprised by its reception as everybody seemed to like it. Maybe it was a bit ahead of time with its outlook and probably my pretty juvenile style of writing added something to the mix. The English language was still pretty much shambles, but by the standards of the time that didn. The sheer amount of competing media also meant it was impossible for anyone to claim the status of . Xeroxed artifacts as an after school hobby guaranteed freedom of speech to an extent alien to major media prone to be manipulated by management and executives. Alan: Almost all of the experiences in doing a zine that I had were positive. Perhaps the only negative thing was when customs would sometimes steal from me (money, t- shirts, tapes . I mean back then you had this nightmare of waiting for shit, and you had to just trust people and the most you could do to protect your . Jesse Pintado did that to me infact, the shit, heh. I sent him $5 for a demo and never got it, imagine his surprise when I showed up in Tampa in 1. It was OK though, on the last day there he said he was sorry, I told him it was OK. If I had stayed in Australia and never got to do all this stuff, then I would have been pissed off of course. My zine policy was that we would only review what we liked. So we stated that anything like that we would pay to return, you know, so the band could send it out to someone who could actually do something with it. I mean, would you rather someone blast your band and lose you fans, or would you like them to shut the hell up and mail it back to you? There were one or two people that I met later down the road, even that I used to write to, years before, and we didn. Most everything about it all was positive, I didn. Now international calls from Australia are cheaper than calling someone on the same street I live on! But it was cool just to bullshit with my traders buddies, or Lori Bravo, Trey, David, Mitch Harris. Positive experiences were plentiful. I interviewed Trevor Peres (Obituary) and after the interview we just kept on chatting about the scenes in Florida and Buffalo and just music in general, same when I interviewed Steve Digiorgio (Sadus) and Sharon Bascovksy (Derketa). Niko: I guess it.
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