― tarden, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― gareth, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Richard Tunnicliffe, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
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
I also forgot to mention that Terrorizer is now edited by ex Melody Maker journalist from the late 80s/ 90s Jonathan Selzer.
So let's talk Opeth, then.
― keith, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Patrick, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Andrew L, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Friday, 3 January 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 14 April 2006 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyone care to tell me why this is bad?
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 14 April 2006 11:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 16 April 2006 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― zach mercer (suizen), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 00:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rombald (rombald), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link
40 Immolation - Failures For Gods39 Nocturnus - The Key38 Gorguts - Obscura37 Darkthrone - Soulside Journey36 Death - Symbolic35 Malevolent Creation - Retribution34 Entombed - Clandestine33 Vader - De Profundis32 Bolt Thrower - Warmaster31 Napalm Death - Harmony Of Corruption30 Death - Scream Bloody Gore29 Obituary - Cause Of Death28 Carnage - Dark Recollections27 Cancer - Death Shall Rise26 Crytopsy - None So Vile25 Cynic - Focus24 Pestilence - Testimony Of The Ancients23 Carcass - Heartwork22 Sepultura - Beneath The Remains21 Nile - Black Seeds Of Vengeance20 Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream19 Massacre - From beyond18 Carcass - Symphonies Of Sickness17 Bolt Thrower - Realms Of Chaos16 Sepultura - Arise15 At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul14 Nile - Amongst The Catacombs13 Death - Human12 Cannibal Corpse - Tomb Of The Mutilated11 Repulsion - Horrified10 Atheist - Unquestionable Presence09 Autopsy - Mental Funeral08 Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick07 Obituary - Slowly We Rot06 Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten05 Carcass - Nectoticism: Descanting The Insalubrious04 Death - Leprosy03 Entombed - Left Hand Path02 Deicide- Deicide
01 Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Thursday, 16 November 2006 01:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 16 November 2006 04:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Thursday, 16 November 2006 04:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 16 November 2006 09:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Not even those Carcass albums? You are insane.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link
*weeps* They are among the greatest albums ever made.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 17 November 2006 00:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Friday, 17 November 2006 04:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 17 November 2006 04:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Friday, 17 November 2006 05:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 17 November 2006 08:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― 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 acceptedWith 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
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-nazisSome 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.
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!
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
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Precious-Metal-Albert-Mudrian/dp/030681806X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1247927825&sr=1-1
― scott seward, Saturday, 18 July 2009 14:37 (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 happyhttp://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*
hey scott you own these?http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ULTRAKILL-1-MAY-94-SLAYER-PARADISE-LOST-BURZUM_W0QQitemZ360123739887QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Magazines?hash=item53d90c2eef&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ULTRAKILL-2-JUN-94-SEPULTURA-DEICIDE-C-O-F-CYNIC_W0QQitemZ360123739952QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Magazines?hash=item53d90c2f30&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
they were the only 2 issues ever. Musta been pre-terrorizer days
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 23:52 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.terrorizer.com/system/files/imagecache/product_full/BlackMetal_Packshot.jpg
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 August 2009 15:24 (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 exploredBlack Metal Ethics and IdeologiesNorse Mythology: Rise of the Second WaveBlack Metal's Waxworks:A Guide to Collecting VinylScandals and Sensation: Black Metal's Bad BoysEmperor: Exclusive Interview!Art and Aesthetics AnalysedScaling the Summit: Black Metal in the MainstreamThe New Wave of Black MetalPost-Black MetalBlack Metal Top 40Global Domination: South AmericaGlobal Domination: ScandinaviaGlobal Domination: United KingdomGlobal Domination: North AmericaGlobal Domination: Eastern EuropeGlobal Domination: FranceThe Secret Histories of... BathoryThe Secret Histories of... Hellhammer/Celtic FrostThe Secret Histories of... MayhemThe Secret Histories of... DissectionThe Secret Histories of... ImmortalThe Secret Histories of... BeheritThe Secret Histories of... DarkthroneThe Secret Histories of... AbsuThe Secret Histories of... GorgorothThe Secret Histories of... WatainThis 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
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 exploredBlack Metal Ethics and IdeologiesNorse Mythology: Rise of the Second WaveBlack Metal's Waxworks:A Guide to Collecting VinylScandals and Sensation: Black Metal's Bad BoysEmperor: Exclusive Interview!Art and Aesthetics AnalysedScaling the Summit: Black Metal in the MainstreamThe New Wave of Black MetalPost-Black MetalBlack Metal Top 40
Global Domination: South AmericaGlobal Domination: ScandinaviaGlobal Domination: United KingdomGlobal Domination: North AmericaGlobal Domination: Eastern EuropeGlobal Domination: France
The Secret Histories of... BathoryThe Secret Histories of... Hellhammer/Celtic FrostThe Secret Histories of... MayhemThe Secret Histories of... DissectionThe Secret Histories of... ImmortalThe Secret Histories of... BeheritThe Secret Histories of... DarkthroneThe Secret Histories of... AbsuThe Secret Histories of... GorgorothThe 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
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
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
http://www.terrorizer.com/sites/terrorizer.com/files/imagecache/frontpage/cover.jpg
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 17 October 2009 22:30 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.terrorizer.com/sites/terrorizer.com/files/imagecache/frontpage/BURZUM_COVER.jpg
― Pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 26 February 2010 01:27 (fourteen years ago) link