Long-overdue kudos - Terrorizer Magazine!

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The only UK print zine I read, except for the Wire - in my opinion, the two are more similar than different. Now that we're all pretty much shovelling dirt on IPC's coffin, can anyone recommend any other print zines, as I use the Tube alot and need stuff to read all the time.

tarden, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

the only mag, other than the wire, i get is time out. i have a long tube journey too (21stops) and i use it to read books. and play snake (top score=1080!)

gareth, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

For those unaware -- what area/interest/format does _Terrorizer_ focus on?

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Metal.

Richard Tunnicliffe, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Terrorizer

A good way to introduce Terrorizer take a look at Terrorizer best of lists

Terrorizer albums of '97

1. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk 2. Venom - Cast In Stone 3. Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale 4. Entombed - To Ride, Shoot Straight And Speak The Truth 5. In The Woods... - Omnio 6. Judas Priest - Jugulator 7. Today Is The Day - Temple Of The Morning Star 8. Deicide - Serpents Of The Light 9. Sigh - Hail Horror Hail 10. Brutal Truth - Sounds Of The Animal Kingdom 11. Non - God And Beast 12. Vision Of Disorder - Vision Of Disorder 13. Iron Monkey - Iron Monkey 14. Hammerfall - Glory To The Brave 15. Godflesh - Love And Hate In Dub 16. Voivod - Phobos 17. Kiss It Goodbye - She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not ... 18. Mayhem - Wolf's Lair Abyss 19. Karma To Burn - Karma To Burn 20. Hypocrisy - The Final Chapter 21. Fear Factory - Remanufacture (Cloning Technology) 22. Deceased - Fearless Undead Machines 23. Crisis - The Hollowing 24. Samiam - You Are Freaking Me Out 25. Melvins - Honky 26. Sick Of It All - Built To Last 27. Dark Tranquility - The Mind's I 28. The Blood Divine - Mystica 29. Babylon Whores - Cold Heaven 30. Solefald - The Linear Scaffold

Terrorizer albums of '98

1. The Haunted - The Haunted 2. Anathema - Alternative 4 3. Iron Monkey - Our Problem 4. Monster Magnet - Powertrip 5. Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal To The Flesh 6. Slayer - Diabolus In Musica 7. Vision Of Disorder - Imprint 8. Witchery - Restless And Dead 9. Queens Of The Stone Age - Queens Of The Stone Age 10. Swans - Swans Are Dead 11. Fear Factory - Obsolete 12. Nile - Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka 13. Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come 14. Sepultura - Against 15. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes 16. Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding 17. Cryptopsy - Whisper Supremacy 18. Soilent Green - Sewn Mouth Secrets 19. Diamanda Galas - Malediction And Prayer 20. System Of A Down - System Of A Down 21. Anthrax - Volume 8: The Threat Is Real 22. Meshuggah - Chaosphere 23. Kill II This - Deviate 24. Cradle Of Filth - Cruelty And The Beast 25. Converge - When Forever Comes Crashing 26. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse 27. Katatonia - Discouraged Ones 28. Borknagar - The Archaic Curse 29. Beyond Dawn - Revelry 30. The Gathering - How To Measure A Planet? 31. My Dying Bride - 34.788%... Complete 32. Hammerfall - Legacy Of Kings 33. Dillinger Escape Plan - Under The Running Board 34. Mindrot - Soul 35. Enslaved - Blodhemn 36. Earth Crisis - Breed The Killers 37. Avail - Over The James 38. Medulla Nocte - A Conversation Alone 39. Deicide - When Satan Lives 40. Angel Corpse - Exterminate

Terrorizer albums of '99

1. Neurosis - Times Of Grace 2. Emperor - IX Equilibrium 3. Katatonia - Tonight's Decision 4. Satyricon - Rebel Extravaganza 5. Mercyful Fate - 9 6. Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter 7. Opeth - Still Life 8. Anathema - Judgement 9. Today Is The Day - In The Eyes Of God 10. Ulver - Themes From William Blake's "The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell" 11. Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges 12. In Flames - Colony 13. AFI - Black Sails In The Sunset 14. Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity 15. Sodom - Code Red 16. Angel Corpse - The Inexorable 17. Dark Tranquility - Projector 18. Sick Of It All - Call To Arms 19. Misfits - Famous Monsters 20. Akercocke - Rape Of The Bastard Nazarene 21. Immolation - Failures For Gods 22. Karma To Burn - Wild Wonderful Purgatory 23. Beyond Dawn - Electric Sulking Machine 24. Arcturus And The Deception Circus - Disguised Masters 25. Testament - The Gathering 26. Marduk - Panzer Division Marduk 27. Grade - Under The Radar 28. Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black 29. Babylon Whores - King Fear 30. Slipknot - Slipknot 31. Botch - We Are The Romans 32. Spirit Caravan - Jug Fulla Sun 33. Dødheimsgard - 666 International 34. Agnostic Front - Riot Riot Upstart 35. 59 Times The Pain - End Of The Millennium 36. Fu Manchu - King Of The Road 37. Unida - Coping With The Urban Coyote 38. Cause For Alarm - Between The Wheel 39. Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions 40. Demoniac - The Fire And The Wind

Terroizer albums of 2000

Nile - Black Seeds Of Vengeance Napalm Death - Enemy Of The Music Business Electric Wizard - Dopethrone Mayhem - A Grand Declaration Of War Cryptopsy - And Then You'll Beg A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms Drowningman - Rock And Roll Killing Machine High On Fire - The Art Of Self Defence Iron Maiden - Brave New World Nasum - Human 2.0 Stampin' Ground - Carved >From Empty Words Eyehategod - Confederacy Of Ruined Lives Einsturzende Neubauten - Silence Is Sexy Goatsnake - Flower Of Disease (hed)pe - Broke Radiohead - Kid A Sigur Rôs - Ágætis Byrjum The Haunted - The Haunted Made Me Do It At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World Amen - We Have Come For Your Parents Halford - Resurrection Earthtone 9 - Arc'tan'gent Primordial - Spirit The Earth Aflame The Gathering - If_Then_Else Sunn 0))) - Void 00 The Chasm - Procession To The Infraworld Bogus Blimp - cords.wires Raging Speedhorn - Raging Speedhorn The Young Gods - Second Nature AFI - The Art Of Drowning Red Harvest - Cold Dark Matter Deftones - White Pony Discordance Axis - The Inalienable Dreamless Warning - The Strength To Dream Aghora - Aghora Stuck Mojo - Declaration Of A Headhunter The Damage Manual - The Damage Manual Fleurety - Department Of Apocalyptic Affairs

Terrorizer 100 Most Important Albums Of The Nineties

(in alphabetical order except Carcass which is no. 1)

Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious Agnostic Front - One Voice Alice In Chains - Dirt Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes Anathema - Alternative 4 Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul Autopsy - Mental Funeral Avail - 4am Friday Bolt Thrower - War Master Brutal Truth - Need To Control Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss Carcass - Heartwork Caspar Brötzmann Massaker - Koksofen Cathedral - Ethereal Mirror Cradle Of Filth - The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh Cynic - Focus Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky Dawn - Slaughtersun (Crown Of The Triarchy) Deadguy - Fixation On A Co-Worker Deicide - Deicide Depeche Mode - Violator Diamanda Galás - Plague Mass Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane Dissection - The Somberlain Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse Entombed - Clandestine Entombed - Left Hand Path Entombed - Wolverine Blues Eyehategod - Take As Needed For Pain Faith No More - Angel Dust Fear Factory - Demanufacture Fugazi - In On The Kill Taker Fugazi - Repeater God - Possession Godflesh - Pure Hammerfall - Glory To The Brave The Haunted - The Haunted Helmet - Meantime Immortal - Pure Holocaust In The Woods ... - Omnio Iron Monkey - Our Problem Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual Judas Priest - Painkiller Katatonia - Brave Murder Day Killing Joke - Extremities, Dirt And Various Repressed Emotions Korn - Korn Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun Kyuss - Sky Valley Machine Head - Burn My Eyes Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Megadeth - Rust In Peace Melvins - Houdini Metallica - Metallica Ministry - Psalm 69: The Way To Succeed And The Way To Suck Eggs Monster Magnet - Powertrip Monster Magnet - Spine Of God Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick Morbid Angel - Covenant Morbid Angel - Domination My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans Naked City - Torture Garden Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption Neurosis - Enemy Of The Sun Neurosis - Souls At Zero Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood Nile - Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine Nirvana - Nevermind Obituary - Cause Of The Death Opeth - Orchid Panasonic - Vakio Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power Paradise Lost - Gothic Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come Rollins Band - The End Of Silence Scorn - Evanescence Sepultura - Arise Sepultura - Chaos AD Sick Of It All - Scratch The Surface Sigh - Hail Horror Hail Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss Slint - Spiderland Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger Strapping Young Lad - City Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten Swans - Soundtracks For The Blind Swans - The Great Annihilator Swans - White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity The World Of Skin - Ten Songs For Another World The Young Gods - TV Sky Tool - Aenima Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses Type O Negative - October Rust Ulver - Themes From William Blake's The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell Vision Of Disorder - Imprint

Terrorizer magazine website.

Terrorizer is the world's number one magazine for extreme music of ANY kind. Whether it's Metal, Hardcore or Industrial, we aim to include it and write about it. That means: Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal/Grindcore, Doom/Stoner Metal, Hardcore, Punk, Industrial, Noise, Ambient/ Experimental Gothic and more that we've probably forgotten about right now.

I have been reading Terrorizer since March 1995 it has introduced my to many bands, Botch, Katatonia, Ulver, Strapping Young Lad, 3rd & the Mortal, Anathema, Beyond Dawn, Emperor, Arcturus, Dillinger Escape Plan, As Divine Grace, Red Harvest, Solefald, Satryicon, Agathodiamon, The Gathering, Primordial etc. The finest being the sublime In the Woods - the most supreme rock band of the 90s, Omnio and Strange In Stereo - two albums that rank amongst the finest rock albums of all time.

This year Terrorizer has continued to broadened its axis towards some of the music that The Wire covers and the more estoteric alternative music you would find in the low profile and excellent review section of Alternative Press.

Terrorizer coverage in 2001 has included, reviews or articles on

Zyklon, 2nd Gen, Green Carnation, Earthtone 9, The Young Gods, Pan Sonic, Crest of Darkness, Thorns, Nebula, Katatonia, Opeth, Dimmu Borgir, Satryicon, Current 93, Sirius, Old Man Gloom, Venetian Stares, Downer, Anthony & the Johnsons, Nile, Paradise Lost, Nick Cave, Ulver, Madder Mortem, Zao, Defenestration, Tool, Unwound, Sulpher, Thursday, The Angels of Light, Lightning Bolt, Keelhaul, Isis, Diabolical Masquerade, Diablerie, Cranes, Juno, Panacea, The Angels of Light, Foetus, Godflesh, Candiria, Fantomas.

Terrorizer covers music ignored by the useless, conservative and lame weeklies NME and Kerrang.

Have a good laugh at the NMemetal.com it is a complete and utter joke (all the bullshit rock/and sell out nu metal/rap rock in one place), the NME no fuck all about the creative/esoteric/extreme metal that Terrorizer covers along with a whole host of ambient, noise, industrial, hardcore and some darkwave music.

Sure there are bits of Terrorizer that don't appeal to me - power metal and death metal are two styles that hold no interest. (there are odd exception like Nile who incorporate different sound elements)

Terrorizer is normally monthly although the current edition, new this week is a double July/August and covers Keelhaul, Cranes, Angels of Light, Inkubus Sukkubus, Diabolical Masquerade, Panacea, Integrity, Diablerie, Isis, Old Man Gloom and Foetus. Album of the monthnis Godflesh and there is even a good review for Mouse on Mars: Idiology!

The next edition of Terrorizer is due late August: September edition. Highlighted for the next edition will include: Slayer, Emperor, Deicide, Candiria, Rollins Band, Gorguts, Alas, Mortician, Epoch of Unlight,Techno Animal and Ant-Zen Records.

I have mentioned Terrorizer on my blog many times in the past 10 months and also a number of times on this discussion board.

Simply Terrorizer is one of the finest music magazines in the world.

DJ Martian, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The correct URL for Terrorizer magazine.

I also forgot to mention that Terrorizer is now edited by ex Melody Maker journalist from the late 80s/ 90s Jonathan Selzer.

DJ Martian, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I hate to sound ungrateful, DJ Martian, but all you needed to say was that Jon Selzer (who I very much enjoy) edited it to capture my interest. But I do thank you for the other info. ;-)

So let's talk Opeth, then.

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Opeth never heard any of their albums.

DJ Martian, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

venom is still going? that is the first time i have seen their name without it being spray painted on the back of some junior high kid's leather jacket.

keith, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

It's weird, Revolver has suddenly turned into a metal mag. Their first 2 or 3 issues seemed to be trying to be an american Mojo-lite, but the new issue has Slipknot on the cover, the contents are all-metal, and there's something on the cover about it being the world's loudest magazine.

Patrick, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Yes, Terrorizer only mag in UK apart from Wire to give Merzbow-type noise decent coverage.

Andrew L, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Yeah, but coming from a Metal background most of those hacks seem to view Noise as a rage / catharsis / expression of pissed-off anger thing, which = P00.

Nonetheless, in other ways, especially musical eclecticism, it rocks like an insane bastard in a rocking chair, drooling and playing on his Rolf Harris-endorsed wobble-board!

http://www.yourphotos.com/users/2516/Terrorizer.gif

Kodanshi, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

That's the logo? I expected something far more sleek; I'm actually disappointed. It could be worse -- could be Kerrang! (though that's still a brilliant title for anything).

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

one year passes...
This looks very interesting... Damn!

Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Friday, 3 January 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago) link

three years pass...
coming from a Metal background most of those hacks seem to view Noise as a rage / catharsis / expression of pissed-off anger thing, which = P00.

Anyone care to tell me why this is bad?

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 14 April 2006 11:45 (eighteen years ago) link

A few hours left on the auction. £26.01 just now.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 16 April 2006 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...
...because viewing noise as nothing more than a "rage/catharsis/expression of pissed off anger" thing is astonishingly short-sighted--more importantly, it's the most boring easy-out criticism of the genre possible.

zach mercer (suizen), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 00:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Speaking of Wire/Terrorizor links, I notice at least one reviewer that freelances for Terrorizer also has the occasional review in Wire. Not too sure how clued up on the current experimental/improv/drone whatever scene he is, though - he reviewed one of my cds in Terrorizer and just rambled on about Lord of the Rings and the Spice Girls! Still, 'A' for effort!

Rombald (rombald), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I didn't know marcello wrote for terrorizer!!

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link

five months pass...
Top 40 Death Metal albums

40 Immolation - Failures For Gods
39 Nocturnus - The Key
38 Gorguts - Obscura
37 Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
36 Death - Symbolic
35 Malevolent Creation - Retribution
34 Entombed - Clandestine
33 Vader - De Profundis
32 Bolt Thrower - Warmaster
31 Napalm Death - Harmony Of Corruption
30 Death - Scream Bloody Gore
29 Obituary - Cause Of Death
28 Carnage - Dark Recollections
27 Cancer - Death Shall Rise
26 Crytopsy - None So Vile
25 Cynic - Focus
24 Pestilence - Testimony Of The Ancients
23 Carcass - Heartwork
22 Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
21 Nile - Black Seeds Of Vengeance
20 Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
19 Massacre - From beyond
18 Carcass - Symphonies Of Sickness
17 Bolt Thrower - Realms Of Chaos
16 Sepultura - Arise
15 At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
14 Nile - Amongst The Catacombs
13 Death - Human
12 Cannibal Corpse - Tomb Of The Mutilated
11 Repulsion - Horrified
10 Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
09 Autopsy - Mental Funeral
08 Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick
07 Obituary - Slowly We Rot
06 Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten
05 Carcass - Nectoticism: Descanting The Insalubrious
04 Death - Leprosy
03 Entombed - Left Hand Path
02 Deicide- Deicide

01 Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link

well, that's a list alright.

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Thursday, 16 November 2006 01:26 (eighteen years ago) link

From the new issue. The last part of the death metal special.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 16 November 2006 04:01 (eighteen years ago) link

i'll never get how testimony of the ancients could be rated higher than consuming impulse.

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Thursday, 16 November 2006 04:46 (eighteen years ago) link

that there death metal CD affixed to this issue's cover has me all of a tingle.

mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 16 November 2006 09:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I own none of these albums.
I do own several Entombed cd's but none of them made the list. (I don't have the 2 that did)
Death metal is not my bag.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link

i got part one of terrorizer's death metal series. it was great. i should subscribe. it's too hard for me to get it. i mean, it's not HARD, but i have to leave the island and everything.

scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm glad I don't have to leave this island to get magazines hehe.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link

we went off about a month ago (costs about 80 bucks round trip to take the car on the ferry) and i got that and the latest SOD at this magazine store in swansea mass that was THE SINGLE GREATEST MAGAZINE STORE that i have ever seen. and i've seen lots. it was about the size of one of those big drug store chains only filled with magazine racks. stuck in some dumpy mini-mall close to a mcdonalds. unbelievable. i was so impressed. they had everything.

scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I own none of these albums.

Not even those Carcass albums? You are insane.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Sounds great. I couldn't even get The Wire in my town (a fairly decent sized Scottish town) as Wh Smiths have cut back by about 70% the amount of music mags they stock. I couldn't be bothered with paying £4 on a train to Glasgow to buy a £3.80 magazine and I had no money for records. Luckily I got a mate to get me one as he works in Glasgow.
Smiths still had the new Terrorizer though.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Not even those Carcass albums, Ned.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll pick this up on the way home, id the newest "Sound on Sound" isn't out. Terrorizer's cover CDs are usually great.

Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Not even those Carcass albums, Ned.

*weeps* They are among the greatest albums ever made.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Ned, you are so much more metal than I am.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Compared to most, I am as nothing. But there is the hair.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Ned, you have hair Nelson would be proud of.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Is Wolverine Blues not considered death metal then? I do own that.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't believe Individual Thought Patterns didn't make that list. I mean, Death are well represented, but ITP is one of the greatest albums ever by anybody. Gonna listen to it right now, in fact, throwing aside this 2CD set by jazz bagpiper Rufus Harley that just came in the mail.

pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm hardly the biggest death metal fan here but I've heard and love 1/4 of that list, so it gets thumbs up from me. I'd probably swap Scream Bloody Gore and Leprosy though.

Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Everyone is more metal than I am it seems.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link

rufus harley sure was.


http://www.citypaper.net/clog/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/harley.jpg

scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't play bagpipes either.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link

I should really get those early Entombed albums.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 17 November 2006 00:47 (eighteen years ago) link

you should. wolverine blues is the slightly watered-down, rock-ified version of their earlier material. i think WB is slightly underrated due to the whole weird attempted tie-in with marvel comics, but you really need clandestine and left hand path to get the feel for early entombed at full strength.

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Friday, 17 November 2006 04:31 (eighteen years ago) link

i love wolverine blues. i love it all. i love entombed.

scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 17 November 2006 04:39 (eighteen years ago) link

i kinda tuned out after wolverine blues, tuned back in around morning star and they've been pretty good since then.

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Friday, 17 November 2006 05:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll certainly check it out then.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 17 November 2006 08:59 (eighteen years ago) link

You ought to grab the magazine, Kerr! The death metal comp CD is great, and there's some good stuff on the other comp as well. A mere £3.20.

Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I bought it the other day , Norman. I buy it fairly regularly now. Got Terrorizer, Rockarolla and Plan B to read. Only just got The Wire too. I'll get round to reading them eventually.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:43 (eighteen years ago) link

I like me the sound of that. Dude's Myspace page:

http://www.myspace.com/convivialhermit

Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 July 2009 23:23 (fifteen years ago) link

Hahah okay I'm with Scott, dude's a total hero:

Thursday, June 18, 2009

mp3 promos no longer accepted
With rare exceptions, like if you are living in a country that bans extreme music or I approach you myself, I am no longer accepting promos sent to me as MP3s. I simply have no time to pull files together and burn them onto CDR to listen to later, and honestly, having worked and used computers almost all my life, I can quite plainly say that I don't care for the format. I don't listen to music through my computer except to sample songs or, less frequently, albums. This is not a handshake with the music industry or what's left of it, and I am not trying to conciliate any label "bosses" or to "prove" anything about myself to the reader or the musician. This is mostly a matter of personal taste and a lack of luxury (i.e. time) to fuck around with inferior quality music without presentation. The less I am exposed to this faceless garbage the better...

If you really care for your music you will go the length of presenting it in some physical, i.e., tactile format. If you want to cut corners with compressed files sent in broadcast messages and such I suggest finding another magazine for your work, not this one. This especially applies to labels trying to save money. Here's a hint: send less promos out. Or, better: send none. I could care less.

Yury

Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 July 2009 23:24 (fifteen years ago) link

Meantime, I'm pretty impressed by this as well -- one of the better grapplings with this issue in any kind of art:

Friday, January 09, 2009

for skinheads/neo-nazis

Some of you seem to think - I am not quite sure why, possibly due to the fact that I've interviewed Aryan Art in 4 - that my magazine supports neo-nazi or fascist ideology. I've received several friend requests from people who are obviously out to shock people with their image and support of these ideals to reinforce the belief. While it's true that I believe myself that a person ought be free, at least in theory, to espouse whatever worldview he or she likes, even something as banal, ridiculous and backward as neo-nazism or conservatism in general, this magazine wants nothing at all to do with these ideas. I've stated as much in clear enough prose in my magazine over the years, for everyone to read, or at least those who care enough to turn to the first page and read the contents rather than react on a superficial glance at a "hot word" like "Aryan." Such a lame reading of my magazine befits an utterly brain-dead philosophy and way of life of this type, and I expect no less. But I want to make it clear that The Convivial Hermit does not stand for those ideals and opinions. The Convivial Hermit, as it should be understood from the title itself, stands for diversity and independence, and this explicitly excludes racism and nationalism which work, on the contrary, to limit these elements.

Possibly - I can't rule it out completely - I will interview or review the works of some bands who choose to follow these nazi ideas in the future, granted, first of all, that their work relates to me on some visceral level, usually something that comes by accident in such cases rather than through planning - but only with the understanding of the interviewee that these ideas do not reflect upon my own. How more evident can I make it? Alexander from Aryan Art grasped this fully and acknowledged as much through our interview. Gorefest, who I have also interviewed in 4 and whose ideas are closer to my own, I suspect likewise understood the basic point that The Convivial Hermit is a free forum for discussion, and by free, I mean, having no racial or national borders. As facts in themselves, I could care less what color skin a person has or in what country he or she is born. Personally, I want to have absolutely nothing to do with racism, nationalism, conservatism, anti-intellectualism, religion and so on, but I cannot be held responsible, in my magazine, for what my choice of interview subjects say (which I will never censor), or perhaps do not say. This is their own business. And they do it with the understanding that their own reputation is on the line. There is an element of mutual respect in this process. There must be, and this goes on despite the fact that neo-nazism and the rest of the -isms I've outlined above I find stupid and offensive.

If you find a paradox in this stance - that I occasionally talk to people whose views I disagree with or analyze and absorb their creations as works of art external to them as human beings, as personalities - then re-read what I have to say above one more time to put your thoughts in order. If it suits them and serves some need in cossetting their insecurity, skinheads and neo-nazis may find their psychological crutch elsewhere. They can work with me if they choose, yet only with the full understanding that this human being resists everything they stand for.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 July 2009 23:26 (fifteen years ago) link

his magazine was a big influence on my EMP folk metal paper. the tone and mood of the magazine.

scott seward, Saturday, 18 July 2009 01:39 (fifteen years ago) link

Any good fanzines that cover doom, scott?

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 18 July 2009 12:46 (fifteen years ago) link

I've never seen it myself but would be interested in anyone's opinions if they have: http://www.myspace.com/badacidmagazine

They cover all sorts of stuff as you can see but as a label they put out the Burning Witch CD in the UK like a decade ago so doom is one of their 'things'

Pissed Jenas (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 18 July 2009 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link

"Any good fanzines that cover doom, scott?"

You should start one! I'm serious. I think it would be a hit. So much stuff that doesn't get covered properly.

scott seward, Saturday, 18 July 2009 13:27 (fifteen years ago) link

I looked at a copy of Bad Acid in a shop, and regretted passing it up later - I was skint at the time!

Big and colorful, hell of an impressive production all round. Put out by one Dave Gedge - not the Wedding Present dude?

Soukesian, Saturday, 18 July 2009 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link

I can't write!! I'm not one of you journos!!

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 18 July 2009 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link

C'mon, you write well enough here that I'm sure I've picked stuff up on your recommendation!

Soukesian, Saturday, 18 July 2009 13:34 (fifteen years ago) link

I do have 2 copies of this doom fanzine, it was really good, but sadly its defunct it seems.
http://www.myspace.com/loadofnoise

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 18 July 2009 13:34 (fifteen years ago) link

nah i cant write. go over my posts and you will see i cant. Naming a few bands to check out does not equal writing.

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 18 July 2009 13:35 (fifteen years ago) link

but thanks anyway!

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 18 July 2009 13:35 (fifteen years ago) link

Pity Decibel isn't available in the UK. Borders don't even stock it.

I'm pretty sure that didn't used to be the case; we got it here in Ireland up until a year or so ago, and the UK/Ireland normally share the same distributor for US mags (COMAG?). Which still leaves the question: why no Decibel on this side of the pond?

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 18 July 2009 13:46 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.myspace.com/unholyhandfanzine

^this is pretty cool, nice presentation - I think I got issue 1 like a year ago so dude clearly goes at his own pace

Pissed Jenas (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 18 July 2009 13:48 (fifteen years ago) link

The little corner shop next to my work used to have Decibel but not sure they do now; not seen it in local Borders lately and they stock equally niche American mags like Wax Poetics and Skyscraper (until it folded)

Pissed Jenas (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 18 July 2009 13:50 (fifteen years ago) link

I used to buy Skyscraper from Borders if i was in otherwise I ordered it from the USA. But It was a bi-yearly thing so not much hassle paying shipping twice a year. Decibel is monthly so im not ordering it from abroad (esp as i've never even read it)

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 18 July 2009 13:55 (fifteen years ago) link

FWIW, Decibel isn't that expensive to buy online; granted I've only purchased a few back issues -- mostly for the classic album features -- but they were less than €10 including postage.

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 18 July 2009 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link

The new Decibel book is out. The hall of fame book. with expanded interviews.

scott seward, Saturday, 18 July 2009 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah, a u.k. subscription to decibel is 65 dollars. which is about par for the course. it would probably cost me a lot more to subscribe to mojo or the wire.

scott seward, Saturday, 18 July 2009 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link

does that include shipping? cuz shipping for any magazine is always more (sometimes double ) the cost.

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 18 July 2009 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link

Yep, looks like it includes shipping to me: http://decibelmagazine.com/ProdDetail.aspx?buy=103462

€46 for a year's worth of issues? That's cheaper than what it cost at the newsagents, surely. May have to subscribe meself!

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 18 July 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link

May have to get that book too, the Hall of Fame features are some of my favourites. Does it have the one on Immortal? I'm not a black metal fan, but I found that one hilarious!

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 18 July 2009 15:52 (fifteen years ago) link

Looks like more terrorizer readers aren't happy
http://www.terrorizer.com/main-forum/-mag/issue-186

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 18 July 2009 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link

Terrorizer editor listens to complainers.

http://www.terrorizer.com/main-forum/-mag/who-should-be-next-issue-terrorizer

Someone asked for a 70s thud rock special.

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 12:18 (fifteen years ago) link

*looks at Scott*

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 12:18 (fifteen years ago) link

Do you think you know EVERYTHING about Black Metal?

Terrorizer Magazine Presents The Secret History of... Black Metal.

Terrorizer, the World's most authoritative Extreme Music and Heavy Metal magazine proudly presents the first ever issue of its Secret Histories.This is a current magazine, not a back issue, and is onsale in the UK from 13 August 2009.

100 packed pages, including Mayhem, Immortal, Watain, Darkthrone and more, exclusive interviews, scene repots and in-depth features on music's most dangerous genre.

Plus:

Terrorizer staff choose the 40 Black Metal Albums YOU MUST HEAR!

Exclusive EMPEROR interview!

Free CD! with tracks from BEHERIT, DARKTHRONE, AURA NOIR, CHTHONIC and more!

Look at this mouth-watering features list, what more could you want!:

From Venom to Hellhammer: Black metal's early days explored
Black Metal Ethics and Ideologies
Norse Mythology: Rise of the Second Wave
Black Metal's Waxworks:A Guide to Collecting Vinyl
Scandals and Sensation: Black Metal's Bad Boys
Emperor: Exclusive Interview!
Art and Aesthetics Analysed
Scaling the Summit: Black Metal in the Mainstream
The New Wave of Black Metal
Post-Black Metal
Black Metal Top 40

Global Domination: South America
Global Domination: Scandinavia
Global Domination: United Kingdom
Global Domination: North America
Global Domination: Eastern Europe
Global Domination: France

The Secret Histories of... Bathory
The Secret Histories of... Hellhammer/Celtic Frost
The Secret Histories of... Mayhem
The Secret Histories of... Dissection
The Secret Histories of... Immortal
The Secret Histories of... Beherit
The Secret Histories of... Darkthrone
The Secret Histories of... Absu
The Secret Histories of... Gorgoroth
The Secret Histories of... Watain

This magaizne is released in the UK on 13 August 2009 and this is your opportunity to buy this magazine direct from the Publisher and have it delivered to your door for £5.99 in the UK, £6.99 in the EU and £7.99 across the rest of the world.

www.Terrorizer.com/BlackMetal

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 August 2009 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link

There's a few things in that I'll probably read with interest (early days, vinyl, art, French BM) - hope they did a good job of it

Status Quo hell at the end of the 80s (DJ Mencap), Friday, 7 August 2009 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link

you didn't write an article then?

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 August 2009 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link

I don't think I know enough tbh

Status Quo hell at the end of the 80s (DJ Mencap), Friday, 7 August 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link

maybe you can do their next special

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 August 2009 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link

I have always wanted to write for Terrorizer.

Nate Carson, Friday, 7 August 2009 19:32 (fifteen years ago) link

The black metal special is out and so is the regular issue, which has a sludge special feature.

http://www.terrorizer.com/system/files/imagecache/frontpage/Chthoniccover.jpg

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 14 August 2009 13:08 (fifteen years ago) link

There's a horribly glaring typo on that cover

Tim Krul ringmaster (DJ Mencap), Friday, 14 August 2009 13:10 (fifteen years ago) link

Not to derail, but I just got the Convivial Hermit issue mentioned upthread and it is a thing of beauty. The tiny type is going to test my bifocals, but damn, what a great looking package for $8. I don't understand how fanzine publishers manage to do things like this.

Brad C., Friday, 14 August 2009 13:33 (fifteen years ago) link

I hate the new terrorizer cover, it looks silly.

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 14 August 2009 14:03 (fifteen years ago) link

I can't quite explain why I don't like it when you have bands' logos on mag covers, instead of just in the normal font... but I don't like it. Maybe http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j203/Splatterfest/BoltThrower.jpg is a law unto itself however

Tim Krul ringmaster (DJ Mencap), Friday, 14 August 2009 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link

what typo?

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 14 August 2009 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link

oh i see it hahahahaha

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 14 August 2009 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link

it's a better name this way!!

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 14 August 2009 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link

^agree

Tim Krul ringmaster (DJ Mencap), Friday, 14 August 2009 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link

I like to think that one logo says 'hehemoth'.

Joerg Hi Dere (NickB), Friday, 14 August 2009 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link

http://lolmoth.wordpress.com/

Tim Krul ringmaster (DJ Mencap), Friday, 14 August 2009 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Reachin' out to djmartian imo: http://mickmercer.livejournal.com/982739.html

http://s730.photobucket.com/albums/ww309/mercerm_2009/?action=view¤t=Dominionmag.jpg

(don't rilly care for any of this stuff [maybe interested in reading up on 45 Grave] but hey, if goths wanna read let em I say)

Vladislav Delap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 12:44 (fifteen years ago) link

if only Bimble was here to say those bands weren't goth.

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link

four months pass...

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