Battlefield #7 (GER) 1987 (auf Deutsch)
Battlefield #7 (GER) 1987. Editor: “Armin Nolzen” and “Bernd Backhaus” (auf Deutsch)
Leaning even more towards hardcore and grind, but still with plenty of metal….with interviews, live reviews and features on Atavistic, Chronic Fear, Extreme Noise Terror, Corrupted Morals, CPD, Cyclone, Death of God, Darkness, Living Death, Destruction, Heresy, Heibel, Guillotine, Napalm Death, Overkill, Helloween, Thanatos, The Accused, Prong, Soothsayer, LSN, tons of record reviews and more. Thank Bernd B(!).
- Cover
- Vorwort – Editorial
- News – Leserbriefe
- Atavistic 1
- Atavistic 2
- Atavistic 3
- Atavistic 4
- Atavistic 5 – Half Off demo reviews
- Chronic Fear – Extreme Noise Terror 1
- Extreme Noise Terror 2
- Corrupted Morals
- CPD 2
- CPD 3 – Gang Green
- Cyclone
- Death of God 1
- Death of God 2 – Darkness – Living Death – Destruction Live review 1
- Essay
- Extreme Noise Terror 3- Reviews
- Heibel – Guillotine
- Heresy 1
- Heresy 2
- Heresy 3
- LP Reviews 1
- LP Reviews 2
- LP Reviews 3
- LP Reviews 4
- Darkness – Living Death – Destruction Live review – Sick of it All – Napalm Death 1
- Napalm Death 2
- Napalm Death 3 – Morbid Outburst
- Overkill – Helloween live review – Thanatos 1
- Thanatos 2 – Reviews
- The Accused 1
- The Accused 2 -Prong 1
- Prong 2 – CPD 1
- Reviews 1
- Reviews 2
- Reviews 3
- Reviews 4
- Reviews 5
- Reviews 6
- Reviews 7
- Reviews 8
- Soothsayer – LSN
- Speed Airplay Radioshow
Vital Wound #2 (Lithuania) 1992
Vital Wound #2 (Lithuania) 1992. Editors: “Sarunas Sabaitis” and “Mindaugas Lapinskas”
Interviews and features with Altar (SWE), Anathema, Ancient Rites, At the Gates, Balance of Terror Zine, Devastation, Edge of Sanity, Norwegian and Polish scene reports, Impetigo, Meat Shits, Nuclear Death, Rot, Seance, Thanatos, Fear Factory, Extreme Smoke and much more…
- Cover
- Editorial
- Adversary 1
- Adversary 2
- At the Gates
- Asshole
- Ancient Rites 1
- Ancient Rites 2 – Reviews
- Anathema
- Altar
- Balance of Terror Zine 1
- Balance of Terror zine 2 – Edge of Sanity 3 – Dan Swano
- Carrion Lord
- Devastation
- Dunwich
- Equimanthorn
- Energumen 1
- Energumen 2 – Bathym
- Edge of Sanity 1
- Edge of Sanity 2 – Reviews
- Extreme Smoke 1
- Extreme Smoke 2 – Norwegian Scene Report
- Fear Factory – Brain Storming
- Human Remains 1
- Human Remains 2 – Reviews
- Impetigo 1
- Impetigo 2
- Impetigo 3 – Reviews
- Lullaby – Wild Rags Ad
- Lightning Death 1
- Lightning Death 2
- Meat Shits 1
- Meat Shits 2
- Mestema
- Monkey Mush 1
- Monkey Mush 2
- Nausea
- Nuclear Death 1
- Nuclear Death 2 – Polish Scene Report
- Osmose ad – Masacre – Profanatica
- Parts ad
- Protected Illusion
- Reviews 1
- Reviews 2
- Reviews 3
- Reviews 4
- Reviews 5
- Reviews 6
- Reviews 7
- Rot 1
- Rot 2
- Seance 1
- Seance 2 – Reviews
- Skeletal Earth
- Skin Chamber
- Thanatos
Battlefield #6 (GER) 1986 (auf Deutsch)
Battlefield #6 (GER) 1986. Editors: “Armin Nolzen” and “Bernd Backhaus” (auf Deutsch)
Speed/thrash/crossover classic zine from Germany, a mid-80s DIY beast with interviews and write-ups on many great bands in their demo-days/first album-era – including Detente, Death, Onslaught, Heresy, Concrete Sox, Holy Terror, Lethal Aggression, Assassin, Poison (Ger), Excel, Desexult, Kreator/Destruction/Rage live review, Negazione, Sacrifice, Schizo, Voivod, Heathen, Raw Power and more (THX B.B.!).
- Cover
- Annihilation – Legion of Death – Koroner
- Attitude Adjustment 1
- Attitude Adjustment 2 – Death
- Capitalist Alienation – Christ on Parade
- Concrete Sox – Heresy
- Deathrash – Terminal Death – Savage Death
- Detente 1
- Detente 2 – Cyclone
- Editorial
- Excel 2 – Desexult
- Holy Terror
- Kreator-Destruction-Rage Live Review – Raw Power
- Larm
- Lethal Aggression – Thanatos 1
- Messiah
- Necronomicon – Aggression
- Negazione
- News
- Onslaught 1
- Onslaught 2
- Poison 2 – Corpse – Angel Death – Agony
- Reader letters
- Reviews 1
- Reviews 2
- Reviews 3
- Reviews 4
- Sacrifice
- Savage Thrust – Thanatos 2
- Schizo – Asmodis
- Sea Monkeys
- Syranaz – Assassin – Heathen
- Voivod – Poison 1
- Voor
- Wehrmacht 1
- Wehrmacht 2 – Excel 1
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
Fucker Zine #3 (Poland) 1992 (In Polish)
Fucker Zine #3 (Poland) 1992. Editor: “Maciej Fluder”
We are reflecting again on the Polish scene of the golden years, with another contribution sent over from reader Pawel Wojtowicz. This time it is the “Fucker” zine that had such an impact on him at the time, and it features reviews and interviews with numerous Polish underground bands, along with Hellwitch, Mortuary Drape, Blasphemy, Sinister, Thanatos, Thrash Em All mag, and also one with Ivar Peersen‘s pre-Enslaved (?) band ‘Inoculate Injure‘ from Norway. If you can read Polish, you are again in luck, if not, use your imagination…!
Here are also some additional comments from Adam Stasiak of Necroscope zine):
SBMS!: The Polish scene at the time, in the early days, seemed quite vibrant and alive. From the zines I have seen from there at the time, there were many bands in Poland, who were only known inside of Poland. Was there a sort of thriving underground there during those years that many people outside the country never knew of? Were there a lot of local shows and did any “foreign” tours ever come to Poland in the early days?
“Yes, the Polish scene was quite vibrant and active back in the early 90’s. We had a lot of zines, distributions and bands especially. On the other hand, the activity of those people was focused on the Polish scene only, it’s my impression at least. I mean about bands especially. There were many killers, such as: IMPERATOR, BETRAYER, CHRIST AGONY, PANDEMONIUM, VIOLENT DIRGE, HAZAEL, DAMNATION, ARMAGEDON and many more. believe me, those bands performed music, which deserved bigger attention from foreign scenes, however it never happened. I think because people involved in those bands didn’t know (and did not want to know) about promotion too much. Their idea was to give material to a label (CARNAGE rec., for example) and then to wait for some foreign, “commercial” success to appear. When it never arrived bands started to split up (ARMAGEDON< BETRAYER) saying some bullshit about their labels, or changing their musical styles (CHRIST AGONY, PANDEMONIUM or HAZAEL). Another matter regarding “foreign attention” -from my viewpoint, this old Polish scene, underground was and is much respected in many various countries, although when it comes to the pure underground and maniacs only… Yes, we had some foreign tours back in the 80/90’s, some big, mainstream and underground festivals. And even if there weren’t so many gigs, shows as it is nowadays, I think we couldn’t complain of the lack of Metal live performances. Actually, almost of all from most important bands from death/thrash metal scene were playing in Poland back in those days! So it wasn’t just a desert on the European map. Concluding, I think Poland had one of the most active scenes in Europe and I can not agree with opinion that it was known inside of Poland only, maniacs interested in the real underground knew very well what the Polish Hell was all about.
- Cover
- Editorial
- Blasphemy 1
- Blasphemy 2
- Bloodshed
- Danger Drive
- Desecrate
- Hazael
- Hellwitch 1
- Hellwitch 2
- Hellwitch 3 – Sinister 1
- Inoculate Injure 1
- Inoculate Injure 2
- Kassandra Promotion
- Lastwar 1
- Lastwar 2
- Morbid Vision – Therion
- Mortify
- Mortuary Drape
- Mussorgsski
- Necrolatry 1
- Necrolatry 2
- Nuclear Death
- Pandemonium 1
- Pandemonium 2
- Reviews 1
- Reviews 2
- Schiskopathic
- Sinister 2
- Thanatos 1
- Thanatos – Sarcophagidae
- Thrash Em All Mag 1
- Thrash Em All Mag 2
- Thrash Em All Mag 3 – Disastrous Murmur
- Warrior Distribution
- Wise Squirt
Slayer Zine #7 (Norway) 1989
Slayer Zine #7 (Norway). 1989. Editor: “Metalion”
To again celebrate the release of Metalion’s book, I unearthed the last copy of Slayer Zine in my possession, # 7 from 1989. This issue is an almost complete reflection of everything that was fresh and exciting about the underground at the time, featuring interviews with many ‘future titans’ in their demo days and/or on their first album. As always, encased with great DIY artwork and layout, highlights include Nihilist, Napalm death (Bill Steer!), Autopsy, Atheist, Morbid Angel (Best answer from Dave Vincent: “I personally love to play fast, so until my arm fell off, I want to play faster and faster as it is fun.” ), a SUPER long interview with Jeff from Carcass, Bolt Thrower, Merciless, and more.
- Cover
- Back Cover
- Editorial
- Abomination 1
- Abomination 2
- Agathocles
- Asphyx
- Atheist 1
- Atheist 2 – Nuclear Death
- Autopsy
- Bolt Thrower 1
- Bolt Thrower 2
- Carcass 1
- Carcass 2
- Carcass 3
- Carcass 4
- Dismember – Schizo
- Filthy Christians 1
- Filthy Christians 2
- Incubus
- Masacre
- Merciless
- Morbid Angel 1
- Morbid Angel 2
- Mutilated
- MX
- Napalm Death
- Nihilist
- Nihilist-Grotesque
- Norway Scene Report
- Old Lady Drivers
- Pungent Stench 1
- Pungent Stench 2
- Sadistik Exekution 1
- Sadistik Exekution 2
- Sindrome
- Sore Throat
- Thanatos
- Updates
- Alfie Mitton RIP – Dr Shrinker
- Deathcore Noise short reviews 2
- Deathcore Noise short reviews
- Eva Dahlgren
- Matricide
- Norwegian Scene Report
- Reviews 1
- Reviews 2
- Reviews 3
- Reviews 4
- Reviews 5
- Reviews 6
- Reviews 7
- Reviews 8
- Reviews 9
- Reviews 10
- Vinyl Massacre
- Zine Zone
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