Slayer #5 (Norway) 1987
Slayer #5 (Norway). 1987. Editor: “Metalion”
Fifth issue from long running, legendary Norwegian zine/”mag”…as only Metalion could deliver. Timely and historic features/reviews and interviews with Annihilator, Bathory, Black Uniforms, Mutilator, Aggression, Incubus, Kreator, Massacre, Mayhem, Mefisto, Messiah, Morbid Angel, Mutilator, Napalm Death, Nuclear Death, Obscurity, Poison (GER), Sabbat (YES!), Sadist, Sadus, Satan’s Holocaust, Schizo, Aggressor, Sepultura, Slaughter Lord, Slayer, Sodom, Soothsayer, Tribulation, Vulcano, Wehrmacht, and more…(thanks S.L.!) ALSO SLAYER #5 and #7 ARE BOTH UP IN THE PDF DOWNLOADS SECTION NOW.
- Cover
- Back Cover
- Editorial
- Thanks
- Annihilator 1
- Annihilator 2 – Casbah
- Bathory
- Black Uniforms
- Deadlock – Aggression
- Decay Lust – Mutilator
- Demo Reviews
- Disrespect
- Exxor – Gore
- Incinerator
- Incubus
- Kreator 1
- Kreator 2
- Massacre
- Mayhem 1
- Mayhem 2
- Mefisto 1
- Mefisto 2
- Mefisto 3
- Messiah 1
- Messiah 2
- Morbid Angel 1
- Morbid Angel 2 – Agony
- Mutilator
- Napalm Death 1
- Naplam Death 2
- Neutron Rain – Fantom Warior
- Nuclear Death
- Obscurity 1
- Obscurity 2
- Poison (GER) 1
- Poison (GER) 2
- Poison (GER) 3
- Reviews
- Sabbat 1
- Sabbat 2
- Sabbat 3
- Sadist (GER) – Funhouse Records
- Sadus 1
- Sadus 2
- Satan’s Holocaust 1
- Satan’s Holocaust 2
- Satan’s Holocaust 3
- Schizo – Aggressor
- Sepultura 1
- Sepultura 2
- Slaughter Lord
- Slayer 1
- Slayer 2
- Sodom 1
- Sodom 2
- Soothsayer – Fanzines
- The Nikoteens 1
- The Nikoteens 2 – Minotaur
- Tribulation
- Vulcano
- Wehrmacht
- Collage
- Collage 2
- Art
- Arne Babb
Impulso Repulsivo #1 (Chile) 1989 (Español)
Impulso Repulsivo #1 (Chile) 1989 (Español). Editors: “Andrés Padilla” and “Cristian Gonzalez”
Another zine from the vibrant Chilean scene of the late 1980’s, also another one that Andrés Padilla had a hand in (presently of Grinder Magazine and the Underground Never Dies! book). Packed with interviews and reviews, a good cross-section of the scene at the time, in Spanish, but the layout is classic as well (even if you can not read the text). Features Acid Reign, Apparition, Atheist, Bloodfeast, Cynic, Deceased, Grave, Immolation, Revenant, Merciless, Nihilist, Morbid, Revelation, Sadus, Sepultura, Skeletal Earth, Soothsayer, Verbal Assault, and many more.
- Cover
- Editorial – Credits
- Acid Reign
- Apparition
- Atheist – Autopsia
- Atomic Aggressor
- Bloodfeast 1
- Bloodfeast 2
- Fallout
- Digos Goat
- Dethtoll
- Deceased
- Cynic 1
- Cynic 2
- Humanicide
- Immolation 1
- Immolation 2
- Kaos – Revenant
- Leprocy
- Mega Mosh
- Merciless 1 – Sorcerys Malediction
- Merciless 2
- Mad Poltergeist
- Order From Chaos
- Num Skull – Autopsy
- Nihilist – Grave
- Morbid
- Revelation 1
- Revelation 2
- Reviews 1
- Reviews 2
- Reviews 3
- Reviews 4
- Rumble Militia 1
- Rumble Militia 2
- Rumble Militia 3
- Sadus 1
- Sadus 2
- Sepultura – Acid Reign
- Skeletal Earth
- Treason
- Verbal Assault 1
- Verbal Assault 3
- Verbal Assault 2
- Verbal Assault 4
- Soothsayer
Grind Zone #1 (Italy/Spain) ? 1994 (En Español)
Grind Zone #1 (Italy/Spain) ? 1994. Director: “Claudio Cubito” (En Español)
A somewhat mainstream Italian publication, translated into Spanish for Spain (and published by a German conglomerate!), yet containing many cult underground acts in their prime. This goes to show just how far the ‘underground’ was from being really underground by 1994 – only to collapse back into obscurity more or less by 1995-96. Features and interviews with Entombed, Cathedral, Asphyx, Burzum, Tiamat, Samael, Gorefest, Anathema, Amorphis, Cynic, In Flames, Doomstone, Dark Tranquillity, Expulsion, Misanthrope, Osmose Productions, Century Media, Nuclear Blast, Peaceville, Roadrunner, Death, Eucharist, Impaled Nazarene, Absu, Phlebotomized, Sadness, Schizo, Cradle of Filth, Mind Riot, Black Shine, and Sadist.
- Cover
- Contents
- Absu
- Amorphis 1
- Amorphis 2
- Anathema
- Asphyx 1
- Asphyx 2
- Burzum 1
- Burzum 2
- Burzum 3
- Burzum 4
- Cathedral 1
- Cathedral 2
- Cathedral 3
- Century Media – Peaceville Records 1
- Peaceville Records 2 – Nuclear Blast
- Carcass 1
- Carcass 2
- Cradle of Filth 1
- Cradle of Filth 2
- Cynic 1
- Cynic 2
- Dark Tranquillity 1
- Dark Tranquillity 2
- Death 1
- Death 2
- Doomstone
- Doomstone Ad
- Eucharist
- Entombed 1
- Entombed 2
- Entombed 3
- Earache Ad
- Lucretia Records Ad
- Expulsion 1
- Expulsion 2
- Gorefest 1
- Gorefest 2
- Holy Records
- In Flames
- Impaled Nazarene
- Mind Riot 1
- Mind Riot 2 – Blackshine 1
- Blackshine 2
- Misanthrope
- News 1
- News 2
- Nuclear Blast Ad
- Osmose – Roadrunner 1
- Roadrunner 2 – Godhead Records
- Osmose Ad
- Osmose Ad
- Phlebotomized
- Quorthon 1
- Quorthon 2
- Sadness
- Samael
- Schizo
- Schizo 1
- Schizo 2
- Sepultura Ad
- Tiamat 1
- Tiamat 2
- Unleashed 1
- Unleashed 2
Blowing Thrash #3 (Chile) Sept/Oct, 1986
Blowing Thrash #3 (Chile) Sept/Oct, 1986. Editor: “Anton Reisenegger”
The third issue from 1986 (#2 is below), also put together from Anton Reisenegger of Chile’s cult early death metal outfit Pentagram (and currently in Lock Up). His first in English, it features another mini-Chilean national report, KILLER interviews with SOD (Scott Ian), Detente, Sepultura and more interviews and/or (mostly) features on COC, DRI, Massacre, Morbid Angel, Watchtower, Wehrmacht, Master, Anvil Bitch, Holy Terror, Cryptic Slaughter, Death Angel, Agnostic Front, Voivod, Necrophagia, Volcano, Overdose, Blood Feast, Deathrow, and more.
- Cover
- Editorial and Playlists
- News-Morbid Angel
- Addresses and ads
- Agnostic Front-Blood Feast
- Annihilation-Holy Terror
- Chile Scene Report
- COC-DRI
- Cryptic Slaughter – Defron
- Detente
- Massacre – Death Angel
- Mordred-LSN
- Overdose-Deathrow
- Reviews1
- Reviews2
- Savage Thrust-Sudden Impact
- Sepultura
- SOD
- Syranex-Aggression
- Voivod-Necrophagia
- Volcano
- Volcano-Mutilator
- Watchtower-Anvil Bitch
- Wehrmacht-Master
Blackthorn #4 (Denmark) 1986
Blackthorn #4 (Denmark) 1986. Editors: “Esben Sorensen and Henk Leviathan”
Ahh, Nasty Savage in full Technicolor on the cover! This issue was limited to 2000 copies, and is printed on the “A4” size standard (I think) in Europe at the time, stapled, with a nice original full-color pic of a young Mille from Kreator on the back (taken live in Copenhagen by a guy named Peter Markham). Highlights for this issue include an insightful Voivod interview right around when “RRROOOAAARRR” came out (coupled with intimate photos taken by Monte Connor, who later would become a dude at Roadrunner Records), features on demo-era Sepultura, Legacy (Testament), Holy Terror, Annihilator, Massacre, interviews with Canadian tyrants Exciter and Razor, as well as Netherlands’ Thanatos, and a number of reviews on rare and long forgotten underground releases. LASTLY- there is a Megadeth merch order form circa “Killing is My Business…” !
- Cover
- Kreator – Back Cover
- Editorial – Playlist
- Annihilator 1 – Exumer
- Annihilator 2 – Aggression
- Casbah – Cyclone
- Demo Reviews 1
- Demo Reviews 2
- Demo Reviews 3
- Demo Reviews 4
- DesExult
- Exciter 1
- Exciter 2 – Deathrash
- Holy Terror – Battalion
- Massacre – Legacy
- Megadeth Merch Form
- Mercenary – Midnight Metal
- Nasty Savage 1
- Nasty Savage 2
- News
- News 1
- News 2 – Assassin
- Prophets of Doom – Damien
- Razor
- Reviews 1
- Reviews 2
- Reviews 3
- Reviews 4
- Reviews 5
- Reviews 6
- Reviews 7
- Reviews 8
- Sepultura – Dream Death
- Thanatos
- Voivod 1
- Voivod 2
The Book of Armageddon #4 (NY, USA) 1989
The Book of Armageddon #4 (NY, USA) 1989, Editor: “Ed Farshtey”
This week I have the fourth and final issue of Ed Farshtey’s “Book of Armageddon.” Ed was entrenched in the New York metal scene throughout the 80s to the 90s, from ‘heavy’ metal, to thrash, to death, and even ended up working at Roadrunner when they were signing all the classic death metal acts around 1990. This issue features Armoros (who had a pre-Strapping Young Lad Jed Simon), as well as a lengthy interview with Dark Angel right as “Leave Scars” dropped. Speaking of Dark Angel, there is a review of the classic “Ultimate Revenge 2” show in Philadelphia…poor Raven!!!(among numerous other great live reviews). Also, interviews with Gargoyle, pre-“Beneath the Remains” Sepultura (where they discuss their 7-album (!) deal with Roadrunner), Voivod!, and the underrated Prime Evil.
I had a chance to catch up with Ed this week, so here is a bit from him, in his own words…also check out the interview with him from Metalcore zine here.
“I started the Book of Armageddon in 1985 with my friend Mark Sokoll. Back then we just began contacting different bands we were into, like Death, Celtic Frost, Bathory and Dark Angel, just for the hell of it. Then, when a bunch of them actually got back to us, we decided to put out the zine. The Book of Armageddon was available around the city, in places like It’s Only Rock and Roll, Bleecker Bob’s, Venus Records, Butterfly, Slipped Disc on Long Island, Generation Records, etc, and I would also send them out of state, to places like Ace’s Records in Tampa and Wild Rags in LA.
I would sell them at shows, like back in the day at L’Amours in Brooklyn. We would show up there at like twelve in the afternoon, hang out all day and meet the bands. We would bring copies of the zine, and hope to sell them fast, because if we had to hold on to them all night they would end up getting ripped up. Nearly all the metal shows at the time would go through L’Amours, but there were a few other places like Studio 54, The Ritz, and Irving Plaza, and even CBGB’s would sometimes do a metal show. But at L’Amours it seemed every week there was a big metal show coming through.
By early 1990, I stopped doing the zine when I began working at Roadrunner Records. That was the best time to work at the label. I knew half of the bands that were getting signed then, like Malevolent Creation, Suffocation, Immolation, Sorrow and Gorguts. Those were excellent times, meeting bands like Pestilence and Sepultura, and getting to work with them too! ” – Ed Farshtey
- Cover
- Editorial
- Editorial – Playlists
- Acheron Ad
- Armoros 1
- Armoros 2
- Armoros 3
- Armoros 4
- Atrophy Ad
- Bloodfeast – Vio-Lence – Testament Live Review
- Caligula – Reanimator – Sanctus Live Review 1
- Caligula – Reanimator – Sanctus Live Review 2
- Dark Angel 1
- Dark Angel 2
- Dark Angel 3
- Dark Angel 4
- Dark Angel 5
- Dark Angel 6
- Dark Angel Live Shot
- Deceased Ad
- Eviction
- Gargoyle 1
- Gargoyle 2
- Gargoyle 3
- Gargoyle Promo
- Hallows Eve Live Review
- Holy Terror Ad
- Live Reviews 1
- Live Reviews 2
- Live Reviews 3
- MX Machine
- Num Skull
- Num Skull 2
- Overkill – Destruction Live Review
- P.M.S. 1
- P.M.S. 2
- Prime Evil 1
- Prime Evil 2
- Prime Evil 3
- Prime Evil 4 – Revenant – Immolation – Morbid Angel Live Review
- Prime Evil Live Review
- Realm
- Sepultura 1
- Sepultura 2
- Sepultura 3
- Sepultura 4
- Ultimate Revenge 2 Live Review Philadelphia 1
- Ultimate Revenge 2 Live Review Philadelphia 2
- Ultimate Revenge 2 Live Review Philadelphia 3
- Voivod 1
- Voivod 2
- Voivod 3
- Voivod 4
- Voivod 5 – Legion of Death
- Wild Rags Ad
- Wreckage
Deathcheese Zine #1 (USA) 1991
Deathcheese Zine #1 (USA) 1991. Editor: Brian Hellfarmer
This was a stapled, photocopied zine out of Oxnard, California, that also had Richard Johnson (Enemy Soil, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Drugs of Faith) as a writer/interviewer, and as such features not just my DC-area hometown band Abominog, but also some interviews culled from shows I attended back then, like the incredible ‘some tours were meant to stay underground’ tour in Nov and Dec 1990 (WASH, DC was DEC 7th, 1990) that featured Sepultura, Obituary, and Sadus. The interviews here with Sepultura and Sadus are from that tour and feature some timeless commentary. Also we have 2 separate interviews with Morbid Angel just before the release of “Blessed are the Sick.” Additionally there is a cool interview with James Murphy when he was in Obituary. A very text-heavy zine, but that is where the gold lies with this one!
- Cover
- Editorial
- Contents
- Autopsy
- Cannibal Corpse 1
- Cannibal Corpse 2
- Cannibal Corpse 3
- Cannibal Corpse 4
- Demo Reviews
- Godflesh 1
- Godflesh 2 – Abominog 1
- Abominog 2
- Abominog 3
- Morbid Angel DC Interview 1
- Morbid Angel DC Interview 2
- Morbid Angel Interview DC 3
- Morbid Angel Reseda Interview 1
- Morbid Angel Reseda Interview 2
- Morbid Angel Interview Reseda 3
- Obituary – James Murphy 1
- Obituary – James Murphy 2
- Sadistic Intent 1
- Sadistic Intent 2
- Sadus 1
- Sadus 2 – Dark Angel 1
- Dark Angel 2
- Sepultura 1
- Sepultura 2
- Sepultura 3
- Sepultura 4
- Back Cover
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