Metal History Through Fanzines

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SOD – Sounds of Death (Missouri, USA) #3, Summer 1993

SOD – Sounds of Death (Missouri, USA) #3, Summer 1993. Editor: “David Horn”

Like the issue #2 which I posted up a while back (see archives to the right), this is again sort of ‘in between’ a zine and magazine. David Horn’s eventually long-running Sounds Of Death still remained ambitious, and this time around it is packed with original art contributions from Cannibal Corpse cover artist Vincent Locke. Featuring pro-print, color cover, while keeping the underground feel, this issue also has an interview with Locke, along with Brujeria, Dismember, Cancer (nice tour story from their US tour with Deicide and Demolition Hammer), Venom (with trash talk on good old Raven), Kataklysm, Morbid Angel, and Vader. Lastly, TONS of cool record label ads.

 

April 14, 2012 | Categories: Ace's Records (US), Adipocere Records (FRA), Adverts, Black Mark Productions (GER), Blue Grape Merch Ad, Brujeria (MEX), Cancer (UK), Death (US), Decapitated Records (GRE), Dismember (SWE), Earache Records (UK), Grindcore Records (US), JL America Records (US), Kataklysm (CAN), Morbid Angel (US), Moribund Records (US), Necropolis Records (US), No Fashion Records (SWE), Nuclear Blast Records (GER), Osmose Productions (FR), Pavement records (US), Rage Records (US), Relapse Records (US), Sounds of Death (US), Vader (POL), Venom (UK), Vincent Locke | Leave a comment

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– and that is what made it cool (It seems there is also still some online presence, as they have a facebook page and an outdated website, yet I think the last print issue was put out about 5 years ago…I could be wrong).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