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Hard Stuff #1 (Poland-US) Sept. 1994

Hard Stuff #1 (Poland-US) Sept. 1994. Editor: “Mariusz Kmiolek”

A one-off, combined effort from Poland’s Thrash ’em All and US’s Loud Magazine. I am not sure if it ever got off the ground into a regular publication(?), but this short introductory issue from late in 1994 was still pretty cool, with some ads and pics I have not seen elsewhere, some reviews (demo and album), as well as a selection of interviews and features on Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, Absu and Setenced. (thanks Pawel)

February 4, 2017 | Categories: Absu (US), Cannibal Corpse (US), Earache Records (UK), Hard Stuff (POL/US), Morbid Angel (US), Moribund Records (US), News, Nuclear Blast Records (GER), Pavement records (US), Sentenced (FIN), Sick Records, Vader (POL) | Leave a comment

Mortuary #3 (Germany) 1992.

Mortuary #3 (Germany) 1992. Editor: “Christian Hillenbrand”

Massive German zine (in English) packed with tons of reviews and (brief) interviews targeting many of the underground’s death and black metal notables of 1992, as well as zine editors like those from Slayer and Isten, and even Earache Records (with Pete Lee from Lawnmower Deth representing). Features Beherit, Benediction, Bolt Thrower, Carcass, Cannibal Corpse, Dark Tranquillity, Darkified, Dark Millenium, Fleshcrawl, Demigod, Desultory, Furbowl, Goatlord, Goreaphobia, Gorefest, Inverted, Hetsheads, Malaphar, Mega-Slaughter, Immolation, Necrophobic, My Dying Bride, Mould, Pan-Thy-Monium, Samael, Tiamat, Traumatic and more. Thanks to Stefan Lons for sharing!

September 5, 2016 | Categories: Adverts, Beherit (FIN), Benediction (UK), Bolt Thrower (UK), Cannibal Corpse (US), Carcass (UK), Cemetary (SWE), Cremetory (SWE), Dark Millennium (GER), Dark Tranquility (SWE), Demigod (FIN), Demo Reviews, Desultory (SWE), Earache Records (UK), Fleshcrawl (GER), Furbowl (SWE), Goatlord (US), Goreaphobia (US), Gorefest (NL), Hetsheads (SWE), Immolation (US), Inverted (SWE), Isten (FIN), Massacre (US), Mortuary Zine (GER), My Dying Bride (UK), Necrophobic (SWE), News, Pan-Thy-Monium (SWE), Playlists, Reviews, Samael (SWTZ), Slaughter Records, Slayer Zine (NOR), Tiamat (SWE), Uncategorized, Zine Reviews | Leave a comment

Grave Disgrace #2 (Russia) 1993 (in Russian)

Grave Disgrace #2 (Russia) 1993. Editors: “Gladchenko Arkadiy” (in Russian)

Finally, a Russian zine! This one is packed – 84 pages – with long features on labels like Foundation 2000 (NL), Peaceville Records, and Wild Rags (California), as well as extensive scene reports and info on Russian bands from the time…all for those who can read it. If not, enjoy it anyway, and thanks to Супранов А.В. for sending it over and Anton for helping me figure out what was what, interviews and features with Agathocles, Autopsy, Azhubham Haani, Blasphemy, Bowels, Brainstorm, Catacomb, Cannibal Corpse, Corpse, Decomposed, Edge of Sanity, Deicide, Emperor, Carbonized, Exulceration, Firetower, Scaffold, God’s Tower, Gorefest, Skeletal Earth, Impetigo, Lazaret, Necropsychosis, Old Funeral, Possessed, Sarcoma, Morrisound/Scott Burns, Solemn, Suffer, Thou Shalt Suffer, Russian Winter and much more. PDF is up as well in the downloads section…

 

 

 

December 5, 2014 | Categories: Adverts, Agathocles (BEL), Autopsy (US), Azhubham Haani (SWE), Blasphemy (CAN), Cannibal Corpse (US), Carbonized (SWE), Catacomb (IT), Decomposed (UK), Deicide (US), Edge of Sanity (SWE), Foundation 2000 Records, Gorefest (NL), Grave Disgrace (RUS) in Russian, Impetigo (US), Morrisound Studios (US), Old Funeral (NOR), Peaceville Records (UK), Possessed (US), Russian Scene Report, Sarcoma (US), Skeletal Earth (US), Suffer (SWE), Thou Shalt Suffer (NOR), Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Disposable Underground #3 (VA, USA) 1991

Disposable Underground #3 (VA, USA) 1991, Editor: “Richard Johnson”

Issue #2 of DI, out of the Virginia suburbs of Washington DC. Again, Rich was in early grind outfit Enemy Soil, prior to going on to playing in the likes of Agoraphobic Nosebleed and now Drugs of Faith.  This long running zine can now be found online in downloadable format here, both new and old issues.

This issue has live reviews, adverts, reviews, opinions (one from Deceased guitarist Mike Smith) features and interviews with/on the Foundations Forum, Riki Rachtman, Slayer Zine, Cannibal Corpse, Atheist, Autopsy, Bolt Thrower, Coroner, Death, Dark Angel, Grave, Gorguts, Hexx, Fates Warning, Impetigo, Believer, Overkill, Queensryche, Pestilence, Relapse Records, Suffocation, Sacrifice, Unleashed, Century Media and much more…

 

June 7, 2014 | Categories: Adverts, Anacrusis (US), Atheist (US), Autopsy (US), Believer (US), Bolt Thrower (UK), Cannibal Corpse (US), Century Media Records, Coroner (SWZ), Dark Angel (US), Death (US), Demo Reviews, Fates Warning (US), Foundations Forum, Gorguts (CAN), Grave (SWE), Gwar (US), Hexx (US), Live Reviews, Mythic (US), Overkill (US), Queensryche (US), Relapse Records (US), Reviews, Riki Rachtman, Sacrifice (CAN), Slayer Zine (NOR), Suffocation (US), Unleashed (SWE), Virginia Scene Report, Washington DC Scene Report | Leave a comment

Vital Wound #3 (Lithuania) 1993

Vital Wound #3 (Lithuania) 1993. Editor: “Mindaugas Lapinskas”

Third issue – features and interviews with Azhubham Haani, Benediction, Blood Duster, Bolt Thrower, Cannibal Corpse, Conscious Rot, Dark Opera, Entombed, Exterminance, Fleshcrawl, Funcunt, Gore Movie reviews, Maltese scene report, My Dying Bride, At the Gates, Pentacrostic, Pestilence, Polish scene report, Putrid Offal, Rest in Peace and much more.

 

March 25, 2014 | Categories: 7 inch Reviews, Adverts, Anathema (UK), At The Gates (SWE), Azhubham Haani (SWE), Benediction (UK), Blood Duster (AUS), Bolt Thrower (UK), Cannibal Corpse (US), Conscious Rot (LTU), Demo Reviews, Entombed (SWE), Exterminance (US), Film Reviews, Fleshcrawl (GER), Horror Films, Impaled Nazarene (FIN), Maltese Scene Report, My Dying Bride (UK), News, Osmose Productions (FR), Peaceville Records (UK), Pestilence (NL), Polish Scene Report, Putrid Offal (FR), Uncategorized, Vital Wound (LTU), Zine Reviews | Leave a comment

Grinder #1 (Chile) Noviembre 1993 (Español)

Grinder #1 (Chile) Noviembre 1993 (Español). Editor: Andrés Padilla

Exciting news from Chile these days. Andrés Padilla, who used to do Violence Zine (Chile) in the late 80’s, and currently editing the long-running Grinder magazine, recently published the book Retrospectiva al Metal Chileno (1983-1993), with a limited edition 12″ LP compilation released by IronBonehead Productions (Ger) that includes rare and old death metal Chilean bands never released on vinyl before…More info here http://corvusdiscos.cl/label_retrospectiva.htm

Now he is working on another book called Underground Never Dies! (hardcover, tons of old school flyers and rare pics from cult bands, and interviews with lots of key-members of the UG scene), plus a limited compilation 12″ LP filled with bands of the 80’s, from all over the world. More info here: Underground Never Dies!
http://corvusdiscos.cl/homeUND!.htm

Now to Grinder…this was the first issue of Andrés’ (2nd) magazine, Grinder, and it featured interviews and/or features with Anathema, Cannibal Corpse, Carbonized, Cathedral, Confessor, Criminal, Deicide, Dorso, Fear Factory, Gwar, Konkhra, Massacre, My Dying Bride, Sacrificial, Sadus, Therion, Tottenkorps, Undercroft, and much more…

March 3, 2013 | Categories: Anathema (UK), Cannibal Corpse (US), Carbonized (SWE), Cathedral (UK), Confessor (US), Criminal (CH), Deicide (US), Demo Reviews, Dorso (CH), Fear Factory (US), Grinder Mag (CH)(español), Gwar (US), Horror Films, Massacre (US), My Dying Bride (UK), News, Reviews, Sacrificial (DMK), Sadus (US), Satanism - Occult, Therion (SWE), Totten Korps (CH), Uncategorized, Undercroft (CH-GER) | 2 Comments

Thrash Em All #1 (Poland) 1991 (In Polish)

Thrash Em All  (Poland) 1/1991. Editor: “Mariusz Kmiolek” (In Polish)

Thanks to Paweł for the contribution. Another relic from the Polish scene to add to the collection. Features articles, pictures and/or interviews with Bendiction, Defecation, Carcass, Convulse, Cannibal Corpse, Death, Dorsal Atlantica, Exhorder, Kind Diamond, Loudblast, Master, Megadeth, Merciless, Paradise Lost, Pascal, Sadus, and more.

January 25, 2013 | Categories: Adverts, Benediction (UK), Cannibal Corpse (US), Carcass (UK), Convulse (FIN), Death (US), Defecation (UK-US), Demo Reviews, Dorsal Atlantica (BZL), Earache Records (UK), Exhorder (US), Incubus (US), King Diamond (DEN), Live Reviews, Loudblast (FR), Master (US), Megadeth (US), Merciless (SWE), News, Nuclear Blast Records (GER), Paradise Lost (UK), Peaceville Records (UK), Playlists, Polish Scene Report, Readers Poll, Sadus (US), Thrash Em All (Poland) (Polish), Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Mettalic Butcher #4 (Poland) 1992

Mettalic Butcher #4  (Poland) 1992. Editor: Rob Tarasiuk

EXCELLENT ZINE – VERY well laid out (with KILLER cover art!), put together by Mr. Tarasiuk, who apparently got most of the interviews and pics when he was in Belgium in 1991 or so (check out the editorial), catching all the classic tours of the 90-91 era…(really, who is not jealous reading this now?!) Numerous classic bands represented here, at the height of the ‘golden’ era of death metal, interviews with Benediction, Bolt Thrower, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass, Cathedral, Dark Tranquilitty, Dead Infection, Disgrace, Dismember, Gorefest, Grave, Immolation, Morbid Angel, My Dying Bride, and more…

 

October 18, 2012 | Categories: Adverts, Benediction (UK), Bolt Thrower (UK), Cannibal Corpse (US), Carcass (UK), Cathedral (UK), Dark Tranquility (SWE), Dead Infection (POL), Disgrace (FIN), Dismember (SWE), Gorefest (NL), Grave (SWE), Immolation (US), Mettalic Butcher (POL), Morbid Angel (US), My Dying Bride (UK), Peaceville Records (UK), Reviews | Leave a comment

Eruptions From Below #5 (Toronto, Canada) 1993

Eruptions From Below  #5  (Toronto, Canada) 1993. Editor: “Laurie Fortune”

Copied and stapled zine out of Ontario (formerly out of Buffalo). Solid and packed with ads, representing the ’93 death metal underground quite well. Features numerous reviews, and (brief) interviews with Cannibal Corpse, Lucifers Hammer, Deteriorate, Angelkill, Exterminance, and more, with the highlights being the killer live reviews of the classic Suffocation, Obituary, and Deicide tours from that year.

July 9, 2012 | Categories: Adverts, Angelkill (US), Cannibal Corpse (US), Deicide (US), Demo Reviews, Deteriorate (US), Dismember (SWE), Eruptions From Below (CAN), Exterminance (US), Fear Factory (US), Flotsam and Jetsam (US), Gutted (US), JL America Records (US), Live Reviews, Lucifers Hammer (US), Mercyful Fate (DK), Playlists, Regredior (LTU), Reviews, Suffocation (US), Vader (POL), Virginia Scene Report | Leave a comment

Holocaust #5 (Poland) 1991

Holocaust #5 (Poland) 1991. Editor: “Tomasz Krajewski”

Classic  zine from eventual Pagan Records (Poland) founder Tomasz Krajewski. Features an interesting editorial on the prevalence of trendy death metal people inhabiting the scene at the time, as well as an article on the occult called “The Voice of the Dark” by a fellow from Mexico named Alberto Vorkt Jimenez. The cover and back cover establish a brilliant, minimalistic touch, setting a great mood as you move through the text within. Has interviews and features with Afflicted, Possessed, Benediction, Imperator, Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, Revenant, Samael, Sindrome, Unleashed, Thanatos, and many more.

May 31, 2012 | Categories: Afflicted (SWE), Amorphis (FIN), Anathema (UK), Atrocity (GER), Benediction (UK), Cannibal Corpse (US), Dark Tranquility (SWE), Demo Reviews, Desultory (SWE), Funeral Nation (US), Goreaphobia (US), Gorefest (NL), Holocaust (POL), Human Remains (US), Imperator (POL), Morbid Angel (US), My Dying Bride (UK), Napalm Death (UK), Necrotomy (AUS), Pan-Thy-Monium (SWE), Possessed (US), Purtenance (FIN), R.U. Dead? (GER), Revenant (US), Reviews, Sentenced (FIN), Sindrome (US), Thanatos (NL), Thergothon (FIN), Torchure (GER), Transgressor (JP), Unleashed (SWE) | 3 Comments

Pit Magazine #8 (Colorado, USA) 1992

Pit Magazine #8 (Colorado, USA) 1992, Editor: “Wendy Perelstein”

A massive update here….Pit Magazine was published by Mosh Pit Records, a metal record store out of Colorado Springs, Colorado, that is sadly missed. Their magazine started in the late 80s and ran into the 90s with ambitions of being a national magazine of sorts, and they eventually did get okay distribution, but in essence it was really just a nice pro-printed, national zine – and that is what made it cool (It seems there is also still some online presence, as they have a facebook page and an outdated website, yet I think the last print issue was put out about 5 years ago…I could be wrong).

With better content and interviews than most national mags, it was packed with all the relevant bands and more. This issue was no exception, featuring an interview with Metallica-Jason Newsted when the Black album dropped (talking about their songwriting and change), Bolt Thrower (!!!), Nick Menza around “Rust in Peace” era-Megadeth, Chris Barnes from Cannibal Corpse talking about serial killers and why he hates (hated?) Phil from Sacred Reich, Godflesh, Autopsy, Necroticism-era Carcass, Soundgarden, Solitude Aeturnus, Blessed are the Sick-era Morbid Angel interview with Dave Vincent, Anacrusis, an extended interview with Pete Steele for the Carnivore–Type O Negative fans, the Hoffman Brothers of Deicide, Exhorder, Immolation, Coroner, Entombed, Cancer, Grave, Gorguts, Napalm Death, Obituary, Unleashed, and many more.

 

January 6, 2012 | Categories: Adverts, Agnostic Front (US), Anacrusis (US), Asphyx (NL), Atheist (US), Atrocity (GER), Autopsy (US), Black Mark Productions (GER), Bolt Thrower (UK), Cancer (UK), Cannibal Corpse (US), Carcass (UK), Coroner (SWZ), Corrosion of Conformity (US), Deicide (US), Earache Records (UK), Entombed (SWE), Exhorder (US), Fear Factory (US), Godflesh (UK), Gorguts (CAN), Grave (SWE), Immolation (US), Massacre (US), Megadeth (US), Metallica (US), Morbid Angel (US), Napalm Death (UK), Nuclear Blast Records (GER), Obituary (US), Overkill (US), Paradise Lost (UK), Pestilence (NL), Pit Magazine (US), Primus (US), Sick of It All (US), Solitude Aeturnus (US), Soundgarden (US), Treponem Pal (FR), Type O Negative (US), Uncategorized, Unleashed (SWE) | Leave a comment

Chainletter #16 (MD, USA) 1994

Chainletter #16 (MD, USA) 1994. Editor ” Mark Gonce”

Reliable and long running zine (see other entries on this site) out of Baltimore by Mark Gonce (also from the local MD band Corpsegrinder,yes,  the one where “George” got his start). Still going strong in late 1994, this issue features Dark Tranquillity, Samael, Mayhem, Dying Fetus, Kataklysm, Gutted, Pandemonium, Asphyx, Oppressor, Horror of Horrors, Inner Thought and Epidemic…