1 July 2023

DISTORTED REPORTS NEWSLETTER: EDITION #5


DISTORTED REPORTS NEWSLETTER: EDITION #5
Published in July 2023

Interviews: ENTRENCHED (Poland) and RANCID AMPUTATION (USA). Biography: LORD OF CONFUSION (Portugal). Press Releases: PAST M.D. (Germany) and URKU LLANTHU (Ecuador). News Updates: NEPHROPEXY (Ecuador/USA), KORVAK (Brazil), LOOSE SUTURES (Italy), GSTNK (Germany), WALK WITH TITANS (Canada), VALLEY OF SORROW (Malaysia), LANAYAH (USA), TEUFELSBERG  (Poland), DARK AGE OF RUIN (Portugal), VORTEX (Canada), GUTSLIT (India), TALIA HOIT (USA), CORPSESSED (Finland), RISE ABOVE (Netherlands), HEMPLIFIER (Malta), GESSO (Portugal), DYING SUN (Australia), VØLUS (USA), SADO RITUALS (Poland) and MEDIEVAL (Malaysia).

Frontcover: Michał Pec of ENTRENCHED
Backcover: Michael Oak of RANCID AMPUTATION
12-pages / A5-sized / English-written

Download PDF: DRN_edition05

9 June 2023

Interview: XIRROSSIX (Argentina)


XIRROSSIX is an old Heavy/Thrash Metal band formed back in 1989, in Pico Truncado - Argentina. The band is basically inactive these days but recently they released a cassette-tape “Demo: Autista - 30 Aniversario”, an essential demo that was originally recorded in 1992. The 2022 reedition of “Autista” released by 1989 Desde Pico Truncado Ediciones also includes extra/additional tracks, consisting of unreleased track, Demo 1991 and some rehearsal & live recordings. Here we have a Q&A session with the vocalist/guitarist, Manuel Purulla, also known as Manu de Extremos. - Interview by Atandistorted [June 3, 2023]

1: Hola Manuel. Does Xirrossix still exist & still active? Tell us about the band’s history and lineup members?
Hello Atandistorted, the Xirrossix band is not currently active… In the year 2012 there was a meeting and we did some shows… Personally, in this last time, and… before also, I dedicated me to spreading that sound, that own style, to keep its history alive… Xirrossix was born in the mid-1989 in the city of Pico Truncado, Patagonia, Argentina. After the departure of some of the members, the most known line-up was established, Cristian on drums, Manuel on rhythm guitar and voice, Nestor on bass, and July on first guitar, with which we gained a heavy metal/thrash sound…

2: What is your definition on the music style of Xirrossix? Who are your influences?
At that time, it was not easy access to music, because of the distance to the big capital, where you achieved more or less what you wanted… Somewhere something arrived… Each one of us, on your side, had your preference… Nuclear Assault, V8, Cro Mags, Bad Brains, Sepultura, Ratos de Porão… among others, they sounded in the rehearsal room…

3: What has Xirrossix recorded and released so far?
In 1992, we recorded “Autista” at home in our city. And “En vivo”, live record of a show that same year (demo tape format). In 1993, in a studio in the city of Caleta Olivia, we recorded the independent production “Latinoamérica”, four tracks in pro tape format. Closer to this time, in 2018 the label “Alkolik Holocaust Records” edited “Tren de la Sombra Interior” Demos y Grabaciones Inéditas 1989/1993 in CD pro format. “Latinoamérica reedición 2020” was the first production on cassette from the label “1989 Desde Pico Truncado Ediciones”. “Descontrola Calavera - reunion 2012” is a live record in CD format, published in 2021 by the labels “Tornado de Almas Records” and “1989 Desde Pico Truncado Ediciones”. For commemorative occasion, in 2023, also for “1989 Desde…”, the demo was edited: “Autista 30 Anniversario”, on cassette.


4: Tell us more about the special re-issue tape “Demo: AUTISTA - 30 Aniversario”?
The demo “Autista” in 1992 was one of the first with this sound, which was recorded in the area. And with the conviction of making that initiatic movement known, I also compiled some live rehearsal recordings and an unfinished demo (prior to “Autista”), all of this, included as a bonus track. Keeping the original cover art, work by Nestor, in 1992.

5: What subjects were written in the lyrics?
The lyrics basically talk about personal experiences, the view of the world, of that moment… What it meaned to be young in our little city… Life, Death…

6: Please introduce us more about the label, 1989 Desde Pico Truncado - Ediciones?
“1989 Desde…” is my label, created in June 2020, with the purpose of publishing in physical format, archive material from Xirrossix and Extremos Niveles de Conciencia (E.N.C. hc-punk trio, in which I participate)… Today it is also a distro.

7: Where has Xirrossix ever played gigs and tours?
Our tour was small, in some way, even though the distances are great here… Cities like Las Heras, Comodoro Rivadavia, Caleta Olivia… Rada Tilly, and logically Pico Truncado… Always with bands from the area, we also played with Escabios, Sadistic Kill and the Spanish band Baron Rojo.

8: Thank you Manu. Say something to end our brief interview?
First, thank you very much for this interview, where I was able to tell my incursion into music, my activity. Congratulations for supporting the bands. I invite you… on Youtube and Bandcamp you can find Xirrossix… A big hug from Patagonia!!!


6 June 2023

REVEAL FANZINE: ISSUE #16


REVEAL FANZINE: ISSUE #16
Published in June 2023

Interviews: SKULL SOCIETY (Colombia), WINTERCOLD (Sweden), CÚT LỘN (Vietnam), LOCURA (Netherlands), BODY RAG (Malaysia), CREPUSCULAR ENTITY (USA) and MOROII FANZINE (Romania). Biographies / Press Releases: KERAMAT (Indonesia), PERTURBACIÓN (Honduras), WINDTRIUMPH (Indonesia) and MUSEU DO HEAVY METAL AÇORIANO (Portugal). Reviews / News Updates / Others: ABHORRENT EXECRATION (France), AZORES & METAL COMPILATION (Portugal), BAREBONE BLITZ (Philippines), FOREST NOCTURNE (Australia), GHOST:WHALE (Belgium), PAST M.D. (Germany), TEARS OF FIRE (Germany), DUST PROJECT (Portugal), FARDEAUX (France), GRIEF COLLECTOR (USA), KORVAK (Brazil), OBLIGATOR (India), RIPIO (Argentina) and SNARM (India). Flyers: Metal Soldiers Records (Portugal), Aniquilación Satánica Producciones (Ecuador) and Nekrolust Records (Brazil).

Frontcover: SKULL SOCIETY - Colombian Thrash Metal duo
Backcover: Satanic Tony, the founder of Sweden’s WINTERCOLD
Format: 28-pages / A5-sized / English-written
Prices: RM 5  (Malaysia) / Free Download (International)

Purchasing/Inquiries:

Download PDF: REVEAL_issue16

Note: Printed/physical copies are only distributed in Malaysia at a non-profit price of RM5/copy (if there is any request/order). For international, Reveal Fanzine is available for free download and is given permission to be printed on paper. Bands/Labels/etc interested in being interviewed/reviewed in the next issues please submit your brief information, promo/press-kit to email: distortion.fanzine@gmail.com

30 May 2023

Review: WINTERCOLD - As Above as Below


WINTERCOLD (Sweden) - “As Above as Below” Full-length 2021
This band is not a new name. Wintercold has issued numberless releases in the 15 years of its existence (you can check their data of discography at Encyclopaedia Metallum). It’s just that for me they are a bit low-profile, more into do-it-yourself ethics and positioned in the depths of the Swedish underground. “As Above as Below” is one of the most recent, a full-length containing 12 tracks that was released on August 4th, 2021. Throughout approximately 37 minutes of total playing time is wisely-interpreted Black/Doom Metal; epic, artistic, well-executed compositions. The gloomy and atmospheric nuances are precisely pleasant. The empowerment of pagan/neofolk/ambient elements in the structures and arrangements of their songs (referring to this “As Above as Below” album) has made them an awe-inspiring, breath-taking and undoubtedly worth-checking band. Wintercold stands in a class of its own!

29 May 2023

Review: V.A. - Azores & Metal Vol #2


V.A. - Azores & Metal Vol #2 (Compilation 2022)
“You may not believe in Azorean Heavy Metal, but it exists!”. Portugal’s Ponta Delgada-based label Museu do Heavy Metal Açoriano is back with its second volume of Azores & Metal compilation series, assembling some more 17 most active bands from the islands. Just like Vol.#1 that I checked in Reveal #14, I was once again fascinated and even more stunned by the quality of each band appeared in this Vol.#2. Each of them has given the best in terms of sound production, ideas that are rich in variety and full of color, song compositions in high creativity beyond limitations, a few of them are smart and brave to inject some non-metal elements, modern characteristics and other surprisingly unexpected features. Azores & Metal compilation is solid proof that there is a worthwhile metal scene in that Portuguese archipelago, and it’s like an ever-rolling ocean wave!

Review: TEARS OF FIRE - Anatta


TEARS OF FIRE (Germany) - “Anatta” 7" EP 2022
The Iranian-Swedish-German conspiracy Tears of Fire returns with their latest brainchild, “Anatta” 7" EP released through Austria’s Grazil Records on December 31, 2022. This, in my opinion, is another magnificent product following the full-length “Relics of Ancient Love” (2021) which I reviewed in Reveal #13. Once again I want to emphasize, wisdom has no boundaries and restrictions. Intellectuality grows and expands if you don’t put yourself in a limit. That’s what Tears of Fire has and they have their own magic and intelligence in their creative works. “Anatta” contains 3 monumental tracks infused with brilliant components; ritualistic, spiritualism, distinctiveness -- and the result is a mesmerizing and haunting artistry of Oriental Funeral Doom. This EP is absolute perfection!

Review: PAST M.D. - Desert Moon Hotel


PAST M.D. (Germany) - “Desert Moon Hotel” Full-length 2022
Frankly speaking, I never knew anything about this band until one day I received a press-kit from Imperative Music Agency (thanks to Gilson). Germany’s Past M.D. are a bunch of experienced musicians who have been in the Hard Rock scene there for a long time. Jörg Reuter (vocals, guitars, harp) and Detlef Poschmann (guitars, vocals) started with Midnight Darkness formed in 1980, recorded the only album “Holding The Night” released in September 1985. These two most crucial members returned in 2004 under a rebranded name - Past M.D. (so now you know what the MD stands for). Based in Oberhausen - North Rhine-Westphalia, the band released two early albums; “Part Time Rebellion” (2008) and “Circles” (2010). After several years passed and several phases of line-up changes, Jörg and Detlef teamed up with Hansi Heringer (drums), Jürgen Becker (guitars, piano) and Andreas Keuntje (bass) to record their third full-length “Desert Moon Hotel” officially released on October 1st, 2022. The new album comprises 12 songs (with a total duration of 58:55 minutes) of truthfully classic Hard Rock, fulfilled with the 80s aura and charisma, and the sound quality is really pleasant to the ears. Apart from the hard rock nuances that are the backbone of their music, Past M.D. also incorporate elements of ballads, blues rock and rock & roll at the right balance to make their works varied and more importantly, amazing! Remember one thing: Old people are still poisonous!!!

Review: GHOST:WHALE - Echo:One


GHOST:WHALE (Belgium) - “Echo:One” Full-length 2022
Now, it’s time for us to listen and enjoy something interesting and particularly amazing! Based in Brussels, the trio uniquely named Ghost:Whale bring us what they claim to be Instrumental Stoner Doom Sludge Noise. “Echo:One” is their one hour debut album, comprising 5 lengthy tracks including one epic 27-minute song. Heavy and loud sound. Sublime songwriting with highly creative music arrangements. Intensely groovy double distorted basses (by Lionel Beyet and Yves Vranckx). Profoundly solid drumming by Vincent De Santos. The addition of effects and samples that further enhance the brilliance of their songs. Ghost:Whale has brought out their music to a broader definition, daring to vary and innovate without limits and restrictions. Inhale your weed and fly to the tunes of “Echo:One”. Fantastic at all means!

Review: FOREST NOCTURNE - Scientia Potentia Est


FOREST NOCTURNE (Australia) - “Scientia Potentia Est” Full-length 2022
Something epic and majestic that you will get from the debut full-length of Forest Nocturne. “Scientia Potentia Est” contains 5 tracks that all feature an equal blend of aggressiveness and melodiousness. The quality of music and sound is close to the spectacular works of bands such as Emperor and Dissection. Based in Adelaide - South Australia, Forest Nocturne consists of L.Saalah (guitar/bass/vocals) and Robin Stone (drums), and they are both immensely intelligent in songwriting & music arrangements. Truthfully dark and furious guitar riffings, monumental drumming attacks, added with mesmerizing acoustic and synth elements, harsh-screaming vocals… the entirety sounds ravishing and remarkable! The album “Scientia Potentia Est” is 33:30 minutes of purely uttermost Black Metal aesthetics.

Review: BAREBONE BLITZ - Uproar Against…


BAREBONE BLITZ (Philippines) - “Uproar Against…” EP 2022
I once reviewed this band's 2-track promo/demo “This is Sure More Terrifying!!!” in Reveal #8 (August 2021) and now they are back through an EP entitled “Uproar Against…”, released on August 18, 2022. Established around 2020, the Filipino band Barebone Blitz will definitely always get my attention because their musicworks are always exciting. Damn!!! The new EP which includes four songs with only 4:13 minutes total playing time will make us amazed at the superb maximum speed they have presented, and all that in tight play conditions. Barebone Blitz really defines ‘fast, short & loud’ at its best and perfectly delivers what is called straight-in-your-face thrashcore threat!!! It’s heavy, lunatic and kicking ass! If you want something riotous, get this.

Interview: WINTERCOLD (Sweden)


Based in Sala, Västmanland (Sweden), WINTERCOLD was originally a one-man band formed by Satanic Tony (Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums) in early spring 2008. From late summer 2018 the band evolved into a duo with Shelmerdine (known from Dark Awake) from Greece (on Keyboards, Vocals, Effects duties). Wintercold has been experimental from start and played a form of doom/goth metal the first years, nowadays they play their own brand of Atmospheric Black/Doom Metal with Neofolk/Pagan and Esoteric Ambient elements. Countless recordings and releases have been unleashed since it began, and the new one “When the Leaves Fall” (full-length 2023) is about to hit its light. Be prepared!… Here we talk exclusively with the band founder, Satanic Tony. - Interview by Atandistorted (May 19, 2023)

Hail! Tell us the history and background of Wintercold? What are some of the current status and news about the band?
The band started around March/April 2008 as a side project beside of the main band Demorian back then. From beginning I guess that it was never meant to be a serious band, but things got changed. 

Please also introduce the band line-up? How did you guys gather the ideas for the band name and the overall concept of Wintercold?
The band started as a one man band with me on all instruments, vocals and during many years it was in that way except for some guest appearance on a few recordings. In late summer/autumn 2018 the band extended into a duo with Shelmerdine from Greece. On the album “The Passage” from early 2019 we were two members and since then the band and the musical genre/sound have grown and changed a bit, but without leaving the old philosophy and idea in the band. The band name was more or less just taken as something that was related to nature + it was also a track title from my other band Demorian and thought it was a good name. 

In more detail, could you please define and describe the music of Wintercold, and also where most of the influences come from when talking about songwritings and the music sound?
The musical influences I take and get is from a huge number of musical genres, bands (Hellhammer, Bathory, Venom, Nokturnal Mortum is a few) etc. It is all from raw black/death to doom, folk, pagan, punk and some dark ambient. My personal idea from the beginning was that the band should do everything in it’s own way without try sound like all others, guess I have managed with that. Many call our music dark metal, doom, black metal and some not, guess we both leave all that to those who listen to our music. We create what feels right. Can add that I am personally most influenced by older bands from the 80’s and even some from the 70’s.

What are the lyrics all about? 
Hard question, but most lyrics is about topics related to our world today, life struggle, war, nature, ancient history, nationalism, our roots, heritage, life and death, universal powers, apocalypse. Personally have death and much thoughts around a life after death becoming a big part lately, much thanks to so many around me that have left their lives and often to damn early and it is probably because my own age today. Death is something that’s impossible to avoid for us all and that’s just a fact.

There might be some of us unaware about your full discography, so please keep us informed about some of the latest releases from Wintercold?
Some of the latest releases we have done is the ep/mini album “Dark Thoughts” from 2021 that we are very proud of and was produced by Dark East Productions in Russia. Then in the same year the band released a all free digital album “As Above as Below” that is a very special one, many instrumental tracks and can be seen as a way of a experimental one with lots of folk/pagan music elements. “To Nature we will Return” is an quite new ep we released last year and so far only as digital that also got a lot of pagan/folk rock elements. In 2022 we also did a split “Bloodlines Energy Cosmic Covenant” together with Ihdamas from Colombia and that one was made on a limited cassette, here’s the sound is more in the way as “Dark Thoughts” and “The Passage” albums. Right now we working on the layout for our new coming full length called “When the Leaves Fall” that have taken a long time to finish, it will be out sometime this year. 


How do you evaluate the band progressed in terms of musical composing and recordings on your new records as to compare with your old previous stuffs?
It is more or less in the same way for me when it comes to the recording process, but since the band now have two members it has developed and increased a lot in sound, guess we both believe it is so. With Shelmerdine in the band it have now a more mature/very dark, stable atmosphere, more than I think it was before. It is also because of that we all gets older and the longer a band goes on you also need to see and find new directions/ways in the musical creation.

Were there any live appearances from Wintercold?
No, sad to say, some years ago I had those ideas of do some live performance/gig with some guest musicians in the band. But I also think now that’s not the most important thing in life or as a band. Of course it would have been fun, but for what reason, for myself, or to sell some more record after, get more fans..ehh playing music and especially underground music is much more than that and was probably a more important thing for me when I was younger.

How do you predict the future of the band for the next few years to come?
In about 5 - 10 years from now I can absolutely see myself still doing music and it will not be pop (if the health is well), age is just a silly number and doing extreme music is absolutely nothing that’s just for a youth and have no such best before date in my eyes. In fact have I personally become a better musician just the last ten years so sometime is age and getting older a very positive side effect. I also hope that Wintercold as band is still active in 5 - 10 years, but of course I can’t give a guarantee as you never know what the future brings. We keep on going as long we do and that’s true.

Mind you sharing something about the extreme metal / underground music scene in Sala, Sweden? Are there any fanzines from the area?
There are no fanzines/magazines that I know of here today, back in the 80’s and early 90’s there was a few. Our town have some underground and known metal bands and a few punk bands as Grand Design (at least half band), Carnal Forge, Wombbath (not sure if all members live here now), Stonetrade, Mayhem in Bedlam, Below Under,  Irritation (Hc/crust) and Freddie Brox. Older bands that the town is known for is In Thy Dreams, Harvey Wallbanger, Hans & Greta, Metal Militia, Nightfall, Steelattack, Section Eight, Tragic Serenade, Persecution, Asperity, Soulskinner and many more. There have always existed a lot of bands in our area and many have been so underground that none have even realised they have existed. But beside of myself there’s not many that have been focused or even have been close to do black metal or more extreme. We have a local rock/pub place here that many smaller local, but also well known international bands have been playing at so the scene is alive, but not like the old days. Spotify, Itunes etc.. have f**ked up a lot.

Thanks for spending your time for this interview. Any last words?
We thank you for the interview and hope people will keep on support the underground metal scene as it have started become fragile these days. The modern world with all the technology destroyed a lot the past years. Hails!

12 May 2023

Interview: AVTOTHEISM (Italy)


Death Metal will sound unique and extraordinary if a band wisely incorporates varied and different elements in the right place, has a high quality of creativity and puts it in a distinctive sound. This is what AVTOTHEISM, a brilliant band from Italy, has. Their debut full-length is absolutely heavy, angular, tense, yet manic. “The Sleeper Awakens” is an ambitious exploration into the mammoth darkness that waits beyond. A signal transmitted through dreams but is not a dream. - Interview by Atandistorted [May 12, 2023]

1: Hail! As has been informed, Avtotheism was established in Italy in 2016. Can you tell more about how this band was founded and who is in the present line-up? What is behind the bandname, Avtotheism?
Hail! 
Yes, we formed in 2016 in a completely different shape. First of all, we are previously friends than band mates. We began as a 4 piece band, when L. (bass) asked us to the write some extreme music inspired by names like Cryptopsy and Deeds of Flesh. At the time we were just jamming some tunes and the idea was to tribute the old Sci-Fi movies era. We had a completely different name and approach. Then, we realized that we could take this thing to something different and more close to what we deeply love about extreme music. 
The name Avtotheism came to describe both sacredness and iconoclasm, the elevation of the self beyond religion and divinity. Unfortunately the name “Autotheism” was already taken as an album title, so we decide to switch the “u” into a “v” to keep the band easily researchable. We had a line-up change past year and now we are a 3 piece band.
 
2: I learned that Avtotheism is a Death Metal band with sulphuric, atmospheric and dark ambient elements in their sound. Please describe further about this musical genre and also explain where you get your major influences from?
All of us have completely different type of musical backgrounds, that we try to blend together to get the most abyssous and cavernous soundscapes we can. 
The idea is to find sulphur and atmosphere within sound research and not strictly into the riffs. 
As I said previously, we have come across different styles and musical tastes. 
For sure our main influences are Morbid Angel, Portal, Immolation, Ulcerate, Gorguts, Cult of Luna, Incantation, Abyssal, Lustmord, Atrium Carceri…

3: Something interesting considering your lyrical themes and the music deal with concepts, end-time scenarios and human annihilation. Elaborate more on this and why it has been your choice for Avtotheism?
We try to match the music that we make with something that could describe it as tight as possible. I think it is also cathartic for us to release our deep anguish and anger into music, there are flaws and frailties into the essence of being human that we want to unveil as they repulse and scare us, and probably this human race collapse scenarios are what combine the most all these elements together. 


4: Now please share as many things as you can about your current full-length, “The Sleeper Awakens”, especially in terms of songwriting, recording sessions, also in relation to the production and distribution of the album? Have the end outputs reached the quality you guys expect?
“The Sleeper Awakens” has been a quite long process, due to the 2020 pandemic. 
First of all, the album is a concept based on the movie Prince of Darkness, directed by John Carpenter. I (R.) always wanted to write music based on that movie.
Musically speaking, I think there’s a lot of sci-fi/soundscapes elements that make the record more cinematic than the previous material we wrote. It was one of a kind record because we tried to blend the music we play with the mood of the movie, and I think we are completely satisfied about the result. 
We began write riff and chunks of music round 2017, but the most was written during summer 2018, in a very short term of time (basically in 10 days I wrote most of the songs), but we could not record it before summer 2019, in our past drummer N. rehearsal room. 
As I said previously the pandemic slowed down the process, and we had to mix and master the record remotely, during long video and phone calls. Finally, by the end of 2020 we began searching for a Label that we actually found, but the deal went down after few months, so we lost other time researching someone else to promote the album. 
Fortunately we found Eric from Life After Death, the right man at the right time.
The record was finally released in summer 2021. 
I think we did not expected anything, for us the most important thing was to release a record that had 3 / 4 years gestation, but we are quite happy about the resulted output it reached, considering the time and energy we had spent at that times.

5: Compared to your previous works, especially referring to “Hives MMXVII” EP 2017, how do you interpret that Avtotheism has progressed and evolved more through “The Sleeper Awakens”? Do you see this process as just normal growth or do you feel that Avtotheism is still far from maturity?
I personally think both things, We are in the process of natural growth but still we are far from maturity. I always thought that the best record you craft is the most recent, so to me our growth and maturity are exponentials. Will be the next record more mature? Yes.
Will be the most mature? No. Music in general is research, and research never ends to me. 
That said, “Hives MMXVII” was made strictly for fun, we do not have clear ideas of what we were doing and where we were going, we were just enjoying the process and having fun. 
After it release, I realized we could and should take that thing to another level, that could express more our musical personalities. 

6: Many thanks for responding. Last but not least, how do you predict the future of Avtotheism? Are you currently planning for new recordings and next releases? What can you promise for the listeners of Avtotheism music?
First of all, thank you for your time and space. 
Yes, we are currently planning a new record. We began recording past year some material, but after few listens I personally wanted to go back and adjust things here and there, re-write songs and write some new tunes. I’m really obsessive when it comes to write music and I have to be 100% sure of what I hear, to be sure it represent us artistically in every part. 
Surely it will be a more obscure and cavernous record, with less melody and more dissonance. We are also planning some guests for this record, one is confirmed and already recorded is part, that we are really grateful for and proud of. 
For now this is all we can promise!

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Credits: P. and AVTOTHEISM

5 May 2023

Interview: CREPUSCULAR ENTITY (USA)


The underground scene is not only limited to extreme metal and hardcore/punk genres but there are many other unique and different dimensions of art as performed by CREPUSCULAR ENTITY in this interview. You just need to have the openness to accept everything that has been done by Ken Jamison, a great personnel behind CREPUSCULAR ENTITY who is also the owner of a label called BASEMENT CORNER EMISSIONS. - Interviewed by Atandistorted [May 5, 2023]

Hello! What’s up today? Well, please tell us the history of Crepuscular Entity? Who is behind it?
Hello, I am Ken Jamison, from Oregon on the west coast of the US. I am the flesh and blood behind Crepuscular Entity. I also have the wall noise project Hana Haruna and I am in several duos like FOTO, Suyuin, Crepuscular Rituals, and Crepuscular Zombie, and have been making experimental noise since early 2018. I also run the (mostly) netlabel Basement Corner Emissions. I originally was in the noise duo Danshoku Dino and Crepuscular Entity (or CE) was my solo material. After the dissolution of Danshoku Dino my energies went full-time into CE, Hana and the label. Having no instrumental musical talent but loving the audio arts, CE was essential for my creativity.

What actually inspired you to form Crepuscular Entity and in more detail, how would you like to describe the music/sound created by this project?
CE came about because I had ideas in my head that didn’t fit in with Danshoku Dino as a collaborative and were more individual to me personally, and also because I knew the duo wouldn’t last forever. With CE I primarily make experimental sounds, focusing mostly on harsh noise, ambient, and some drone, but I have a wide variety of concepts mixed in and will add anything to the brew that makes it sound good to me. It’s primarily improvised on analog gear; I have a few dial synths and lots of effects pedals to run the sounds through, and also some looper pedals to gather found sounds to mutilate and distort to whatever I need. I just try and keep it as interesting as possible. 

Do you have any reasons why it is named as Crepuscular Entity?
Crepuscular Entity basically means ‘twilight being’. I like the idea of twilight as this area of neither fully light or fully dark, but obscuring everything into not-fully-knowable mists or fog. Dimness as an ideal. I try not to be obvious in what I do and to allow things to be interpreted by the mind of the listener. Plus it stands out in this era of noise all about women’s stockings or skinny ballet dancers or oozing pus or a bunch of no-longer-original themes. It’s an abstract in a time of specifics.

Tell us some of the best workpieces and releases from Crepuscular Entity? 
Wow, after hundreds of releases I honestly am not sure I can do that. Pick from my children? You can go to Basement Corner Emissions (or BCE) and just start with the most recent and go backwards. And often much of my best stuff is on the splits I do with other projects. Actually listening to my tracks on splits here and there is a good way to catch a variety of what I’ve done. And listen to the other project as well, which is what splits are all about.


What were majorly emphasized everytime you write and record a track?
As I said above, improvisation. I may start on a track with a basic concept, work out a loose structure, perhaps a time length and maybe how I primarily want it to sound, but when I hit record I try not to overthink what I’m doing, but let the flow of the sounds work themselves out and then improvise what I do from there. There’s no writing, all composition is in the moment, from my head to my fingers on the dials and then to an unforeseen end. It forces me to use my brain and stay engaged. It’s also more fun for me that way.

Do you put any message on each piece of work? How do you determine the track title?
No message, at least not in a strict sense. I love the abstract and do nothing with a determined meaning. My influence is not other noise acts but free jazz. Little structure, but chaos somehow filtering out into some kind of flow and ebb. As I’ve gotten older I have found that I have no interest in narrative forms in artistic endeavors, whether it be literature, film, TV or music. It is reflected in my sounds; no story, no neat finish, but oddities and strange nuances as ends in themselves instead of just moving a story along. I do have interests in history and remote and abandoned places that often enter as influences and these often get reflected in the final titles of tracks, but it’s more of a feel than of strict interpretation. My noise is just sound moved around according to my own impulses.

Please introduce more about your label - Basement Corner Emissions?
BCE came out of the ashes of the old kv&gr/recs label after the end of the original duo/partnership/friendship. kv&gr/recs started as a format for our own material but grew quickly to include other acts. When I had full control of the label I wanted to take it in a fresher direction, emphasizing newer and different experimental and noise projects over the usual suspects in the genre. I noticed the big name labels all seem to be a cabal of the same dozen US white males in cahoots with the same dozen European white males. It was getting boring. I wanted more diversity, not in a sense of political correctness, but because those outside the precious few were actually making better and more creative noise. I was finding great stuff in Latin America and Asia that were being ignored by the tastemakers, who after reaching the apex of the harsh noise pile seemed more intent on pushing others down and keeping the spoils for themselves. So I figured someone had to grab up all the good shit coming out of The Philippines and Indonesia and Thailand and India and Brazil and Argentina and other places not considered by the hipster labels and also promote the fact the best noise comes out of unusual circles nowadays. And of course female representation which is just as sparse. For a form that considers itself the most underground and unique of musical forms it seems to have no problem in letting the testosterone flow too freely. BCE exists to give new artists a leg up and a place to have their works heard, and to release albums by projects that were favorites of mine that might not get a call by the elites. I want good sounds, not fashionable ones.

Thanks for the answers. Anything else you want to say about Crepuscular Entity and to zine readers?
Please have a listen to the label and if you make noise or experimental sounds please consider contacting me through the contact page on Bandcamp or the social media links there. Or at basementcorner@outlook.com. I can’t promise I’ll release your work but I will give it a serious listen and the policy is pretty open door. And if you’re looking for sounds to listen to try projects you’ve never heard of and the more underground labels. I can tell you there’s nothing fresh going on with the well-known noisemakers, just a lot of 15-year-old re-releases on vinyl by labels trying to look cool. That is definitely not the future of the genre.


31 December 2022

DISTORTED REPORTS NEWSLETTER: EDITION #4


DISTORTED REPORTS NEWSLETTER: EDITION #4
Published in December 2022

Interviews: FUNERAL OF SOULS (Argentina) and NOESTALGYA (Indonesia). Biography: HORDA CANNIBAL (Mexico). Press Releases: SARCATOR (Sweden) and TOXIC YOUTH (Italy). News Updates: VORAATH (USA), AMAUROT (Sweden/Germany), METALSTEEL (Slovenia), VISITANT (USA), MIST (Slovenia), STAB (Brazil), MORBID ABOMINATION (Austria), BOARHAMMER (Germany), RIPIO (Argentina), IMMORTAL GUARDIAN (USA), VIS MYSTICA (USA) and OMNIFARIAM (Puerto Rico).

Frontcover: FUNERAL OF SOULS
Backcover: NOESTALGYA
12-pages / A5-sized / English-written

Download PDF: DRN_edition04

1 October 2022

Biography: PERTURBACIÓN (Honduras)


PERTURBACIÓN - Death Metal from Honduras

Perturbación is a Honduran Death Metal band originally from Tegucigalpa, born in 2010 at the initiative of different musicians from the Death Metal scene of that city. Their first concert was in 2011 and since then they have played in the main cities of Central America, these being Managua, San Salvador, Guatemala City and San José de Costa Rica. 

Perturbación has participated in important national festivals such as Megametal, Wacken Honduras, Independent Fest in El Salvador. In Honduras they have performed in the largest cities of the country, which makes them the few Honduran bands to travel the Central American region and with international projection. 

Initially the group consisted of Max Staildl ex Blasfemia, César Suazo, Juan Amador ex Malditos Ojos, Jacko Amaya Blasfemia, Bastard and Rodrigo Escobar ex Blasfemia.

In 2013 Max Staildl drums left the band and was replaced by Javier Cañadas and in 2017 César Suazo and Juan Amador left Perturbación due to differences and to concentrate on their projects and were replaced by Nieguill Calona, former vocalist of the band Tras las línea Enemigas, in voices, who makes his debut at the 2018 Megametal Festival in Tegucigalpa Honduras, with a skeptical public and that when we saw our presentation we received good criticism, for the new disturbance and the reactivation to the stages at that time in and David Valle, bassist in G.O.D. and Exequias on bass, a musician who had already worked with the band in the recent past, in 2018 Javier Cañadas is expelled from the band and Alejandro Martínez is recruited, drummer in Cantaxiia and Soul Perversor on drums who has him added his crushing style on drums especially on new themes.

Currently the original line-up survives Jacko Amaya - Lead Guitar and Rodrigo Escobar - Rhythm Guitar. The definitive formation of the group is now established as follows: 
Nieguill Calona - Voices 
Jacko Amaya - Lead Guitar 
Rodrigo Escobar - Rhythm Guitar 
David Valle - Bass 
Alejandro Martínez - Drums

The main influences have been Old School Death Metal and we have tried to remain faithful to that style which is the one we like, regardless of new trends in extreme music, always following their concepts we looked for a name for the band that was a single word that described what we wanted to do as musicians and the word seemed appropriate to the concept of the band.

Perturbación features the demo “Devastación de la Serenidad”, which came out in virtual format in 2011 - and currently features two singles “Sirviente de la Locura” and “Víctima de un Macabro Placer” that are part of the themes of what will be a first album, which is in process with very good progress.

The source of inspiration for the lyrics comes from horror books, horror movies, stories of serial killers and especially what we live in our cities that become heinous news of murders, dismemberments and of course the conflicts that obsessions provoke, fanaticism, and certain mental illnesses in the human being. Therefore our lyrics are brutal and very direct in terms of content, because that is the reality in a third world country, it is a violent and very brutal reality.


Note: Article submitted by Rodrigo Escobar (rhythm guitarist and founding member of the band) on 15 September 2022 - (to be) include in Reveal #16

Interview: BLOODBATH RECORDS (Japan)


BLOODBATH RECORDS is undoubtedly a long-running and one of the oldest independent record/production/distribution labels in Japan. I’ve known Yutaka Kimura (label owner) since the mid-90s when I started to wholesale and distribute some Bloodbath Records releases; among which include Grind The Faces Of Rockstars comp.tape, Bizarre Abnormality comp.tape, Deviant “Deviant Mass-Turbation” tape, demotapes from bands such as Intestine Baalism, Carcass Grinder, Desperate Corruption and a few more that I myself have forgotten, as well as his old good fanzine Gouon‘zine. Through Kim and his label, I learned a lot about the Japanese extreme/underground music scene. Thank you Kim for the long friendship. Well, here is a special discussion about the respected Bloodbath Records. - Interviewed by Atandistorted, 13 August 2022

1: Hello Yukata Kimura. What’s up today? Introduce a little background about yourself?
Hi, I am still alive!!! After pandemic of Covid-19, I am slowly running label (Bloodbath Records) and organizing shows in Koiwa, Tokyo (Koiwa Death Fest. since 2000 and Distro. Day since 2020). I am Yutaka Kimura from Japan, I start my activities since 1994 in Kyoto, Japan. I love Malaysian scene extremely, because when I visited to KL in 1992 first time, I am very surprised at existence of many cassette shops in the shopping mall or other places and found big scene there. At that time, I bought many cassette tapes and still have them. VSP rules! In Japan, death metal/grind core are still underground, from that time we could not buy the stuffs in any shopping mall.


2: Congratulations for keeping Bloodbath Records active & productive for so long. Share the establishment history of the label and what exactly encouraged you to form it?
I started the label from 1994. To make the scene in Kyoto strong, it is the biggest reason. From that time I fully supported Grind Core/Death Metal music. To spread that kind of styles, I start the label. At the beginning, I released home dubbed cassette tapes and 7-inch vinyls. First CD release is 2000 (BIMI028 2000 BRUTALITY REIGNS SUPREME (Holland) - Back From The Dead). I was also organizing shows in Kyoto, Japan (In Sonic Chaos), invited many bands from Tokyo or foreign countries (Warsore from Australia, Birdflesh from Sweden, and so on). I was more into Grind Core styles, because my friends in Kyoto are mostly Hard Core/Fast Core freaks.

3: What are the types and criteria of bands you like to sign and work with under your label?
It is only feeling what I want to support. Of course underground extreme-style bands; Death Metal, Grind Core, Hard Core, Noise Grind, Black Metal, and so on.

4: What are some of the best moments you’ve had while running Bloodbath Records, and have you had any bad & difficult times?
It was always fun for me. But when I was very busy for my real job, I ripped off some people in the world. Because I had no time to communicate, trade, distribute, I want to apologize it around 15 years ago. After that, I became more slow and lazy… And my organizing shows were also always great moments, I could have a lot of friends over the world. I cannot count it. 


5: List the 10 most essential products (band/release title/year) under the Bloodbath Records discography according to your personal preferences?
BIMI009 1996 VOLTIFOBIA (Japan) / IMPREGNATE TRICHOMONAS (Japan) Split 7"EP
BIMI019 1998 DxIxE (Japan) / AGATHOCLES (Belgium) Split 7"EP
BIMI012 1998 DEMISOR (Singapore) / C.S.S.O.(Japan) Split 7"EP
BIMI025 2000 MORTALIZED (Japan) / EVOL (Japan) Split 7"EP
BIMI022 2001 NIKUDOREI (Japan) / DxIxE (Japan) Split 7"EP
BIMI044 2004 MAGGUT (Japan) - Into The Gore CD
BIMI045 2005 REALIZED (Japan) - 21st CENTURY TERMINAL WORLD CD
BIMI053 2006 WARSTATE (Japan) - Endless Confusion CD
BIMI064 2008 DEADLY SPAWN (Japan ) - From Beyond The Dark CD
BIMI062 2008 CATAPLEXY (Japan) - ...Lunar Eclipse, Chaos To The Ruin... CD

6: List some new & latest releases from this label and some plans for the upcoming products?
Available:
BIMI085 2020 REALIZED (Japan) - Proud of Fire Flag 7"EP
BIMI086 2018 CORBATA (Japan) - Un Odio Sin Fin CD
BIMI087 2019 PAGAN FIRE (Philippines) / PERPETUAL (Malaysia) split live CD
BIMI088 2019 PUNISHMENT FOR BARBARIAN (Japan) / WHILE THE CITY BURNS (Japan) split CD
BIMI089 2019 TASTE (Japan) / INFECATED (Vietnam) split CDEP
BIMI090 2021 BOLT STEIN (Japan) / HUMILIATION (Malaysia) split 7"EP
BIMI091 2021 HUMILIATION (Malaysia) - Execution Outline Sendai 2019 / Sendai Invasion 2016 Double Live CD
BIMI092 2021 TASTE (Japan) - Suffer at Mamat Fest. Live CD
BIMI093 2022 DxIxE (Japan) - d.i.e.r.r.e.a. CD
BIMI094 2022 HUMILIATION (Malaysia) - C.O.V.I.D. (Conflict. Over Verge Intrusion. Detest) CD
BIMI096 2022 DEADLY SPAWN (Japan) - Live...Pandemic Fear of Death Live CD

Next:
BIMI095 PAGANFIRE (Philippines) - Of Deathblades And Bloodsoaked Paths CD
BIMI098 PNEUMONIC PLAGUE (Myanmmar) CD


7: Tell us about some of the gigs & festivals you have organized?
In Sonic Chaos from 1995, in Kyoto/Osaka Japan - I already mentioned above, I organized shows in 27 times until 2014. 

Koiwa Death Fest. from 2000, in Koiwa Tokyo Japan - Still continuing. Currently total 85 times happened. Many many bands have played from all over the world, like HUMILIATION from Malaysia, XANADOO from Singapore, DEAD INFECTION from Poland, DEAD from Germany, AGATHOCLES from Belgium, NUN SLAUGHTER from US, AGENTS OF ABHORRENCE from Australia, MEINHOF from UK, FETUS SLICER from Taiwan, ENEMA TORTURE from Taiwan, PENIS GEYSER from US, DIE PIGEON DIE from Australia, WARMASTER from US, PULMONARY FIBROSIS from France, EMBRYOPATHIA from France, SULSA from Korea, SEDEM MINUT STRACHU from Slovakia, DECHE-CHARGE from Canada, STARGAZER from Australia, 2 MINUTA DREKA from Italy, BRUTAL BLUES from Norway, DERANGED INSANE from Brazil, ABERRANT from US, ARSEDESTROYER from Sweden, BODIES LAY BROKEN from US, UTTER BASTARD from US, and many more to be mentioned.

Distro. Day, in Koiwa Tokyo Japan - Still continuing, Co-organizing with Jero from Abigail. The name of event is inspired from Malaysian scene. And because of Pandemic, we were forced into limited activities. So I decided to organized the small show in daytime because I don’t want to stop anything. That was the reason to start. Already 11 times happened.

Hai Ba Trund Deathfest from 2017 to 2020, in Hanoi Vietnam. When I was living there, I organized 8 shows, invited the bands from Japan or other countries. The biggest bands are INCANTATION from US and DEIPHAGO from Philippines. When I lived in Vietnam, for me really great because it was really easy to go to KL and joined many shows in Malaysia. I could join so many shows, those were also great memories for me.

8: How do you see the future of Bloodbath Records, for the next few years to say the least?
I will continue something surely in underground deeply. It will be 100 percent. We need to pass our activities on to the next generation, that will be next purpose to continue.


9: Please share some information about your legendary Gouon zine? Have you ever thought of going back to editing and publishing the fanzine?
Oh, too old, but it was professional printed fanzine I edited/published in 1994-1995 in Kyoto. I released 2 issues and both were limited 200 copies each. I wrote a lot of reviews about Malaysian cassette tapes on pages. These stuffs were bought in KL directly as I mentioned above, not promotion or something. I only introduced my collection at that time, haha!

Currently in Japan, many printed media stopped the activities. In that situation, my friends started new underground magazine called GUT ZiNE from 2020, then of course I am supporting it. Unfortunately the magazine is written only in Japanese, but the front cover is always featuring cute girl photo, haha. But the contents are so maniac for normal people, please check in near future.

Personally I can’t start the fanzine again. Because it is needed to spend many times and efforts. To need to share tasks with friends is the best way to keep it.

10: Last question: What do you think about current Japanese metal/grind underground scene? Any new bands with great potential?
We need young generation, all bands and people in scene became old (average year 30-40, I guess). Young is power to keep our history. I don’t know much bands or people under 30 years old. It is serious issue in current Japanese scene. Old people still buy vinyls, cassettes, and CD’s even though they can download the contents of them. That is the biggest gap between young people and us. I respect Malaysian scene, because still many people buy physical stuffs.


*Note: This interview is as published in Reveal #15

Interview: RIBAG SUDE (Indonesia)


RIBAG SUDE is  3-piece Hardcore Punk / D-beat Raw Punk mob from Medan, Indonesia. The first release is an EP entitled “Krisis D.I.Y” Tape 2015. After approximately 5-6 years of silence due to line-up problems, the band is back with a second Cassette-EP, “Warvictims”. Both of these releases are under Bukan Record. RIBAG SUDE is also actively involved in several splits and compilations, among which are “Crust War Raw Attack” 8-way split, No Class For Hell Crust Sound compilation tape vol.2 (Sound of Chaos Records), Noise-82 compilation tape (Noise-82 Records, Bandung), Bebas Merdeka #4 compilation CD (Lapak Punk Records, Pangandaran - Jawa Barat), etc. Let’s read our conversations with the vocalist and guitarist, Ijas. - Interviewed by Atandistorted, 31 May 2022

Hello guys. What’s up today?
Hello Reveal Fanzine. We are fine and healthy.

Please tell us the history of Ribag Sude and introduce the current band members? What’s the exact meaning behind the band name?
RIBAG SUDE was formed in 2009, starting from the interest of 3 youngsters to d-beat punk music. At that time we were enjoying traditional alcoholic drinks (tuak) while playing a cassette tape of Singapore Punk Holocaust 4-way split featuring MINUS, BLINDED HUMANITY, HATRED JACKALS and DISTRUST. Because of that, the idea has emerged to form a raw d-beat band. We started composing some songs and started performing at some punk gigs. However, it only lasted a year and then Ribag Sude began to vacuum. At the end of 2014 we returned with the new formation and had recorded 9 tracks. In early 2015, Ribag Sude officially released its first album “Krisis D.I.Y” which was released by Bukan Record. A year later the bass player Hendri stepped out of Ribag Sude and the vacancy was filled by Sadam, and then until 2017 Sadam was replaced by Said. In 2018 our drummer Ian left the band and was replaced by Gadonk. Ribag Sude was on hiatus again until 2021 where the band bounced back with new current members; Ijas (guitar/vocals), Kinoi (bass), Gadonk (drums). Along with this line-up we produced an EP we called is as “Warvictims” and was just released by Bukan Record a few months ago. We got the name Ribag Sude from the local language (Batak). For information, Batak is one of the tribes in the area where we live, namely Medan, which is indeed very identical with this tribe. Ribag in Indonesian means “Hantam”, or “Hit” in English while Sude is “Semua” (or “All” in English). RIBAG SUDE is HANTAM SEMUA in Indonesian translation, which means HIT ALL!

More than 10 years existed in the scene, how do you rate the band achievements as far? Where do you put the position of Ribag Sude in the entire Indonesian hardcore punk scene?
Apart from being a medium to convey worries and awareness through lyrics, for us this band is to have fun and become a platform to make friends, especially in the hardcore punk scene. Yes, we still put ourselves in the D.I.Y movement, just like other crust bands.

Please describe in details about your musical style and share some of your major inspirations and influences in composing music?
We play d-beat raw punk/crust musically, inspired by some d-beat raw/crust bands such as Anti Cimex, Disclose, Doom, Disarm, Pisschrist, Discharge and other crust bands.

Say something about your debut EP “Krisis D.I.Y” (Cassette-Tape 2015)? How difficult it was to release the first official EP and did it meet your satisfaction?
“Krisis D.I.Y” is our first album containing 9 songs released by Bukan Record. “Krisis D.I.Y” we took it from one of the song titles in the EP. Actually it’s not too difficult, because there happened to be a friend who helped the process of mixing, mastering, and duplicating the cassettes. Well, that’s the first recording, of course, we feel that there are still a lot of things that are lacking, but it doesn't matter, it can be a lesson for us for the next album.

Congratulations for the releasing of new EP “Warvictims” (Cassette-Tape 2021). Tell us everything about this new EP regarding the songwritings, recording sessions, sound production, artworks, etc?
Thank you bro. This EP can be realized after Ribag Sude got a new line-up formation, because before that the band was on hiatus for a while. With this new line-up we have planned to record and prepare new songs for the next material. Regarding songwriting, most of the songs wrote by me, Ijas (guitars/vocals). Then we discussed each song during rehearsal sessions. Within 2 weeks we managed to write some songs and started practicing in the music studio. We rehearsed twice and got 5 songs. In the next practice we got 2 more songs. Then at the 4th meeting we immediately recorded, but the sound quality was not satisfactory, so we had to repeat the recording once again. For the recording process, we recorded live until finally all the songs were successfully released.


How do you see Ribag Sude progressed and developed in this second new brand EP as compared to the first one? Do you accomplished anything through “Warvictims” EP?
In this second EP, the music is neater than the previous one. Yes we are so much more satisfied with this second EP.

Bukan Records has given their full commitments on both of your EPs. Lets talk something about this trusted label?
Bukan Record is our close relative, a record label that fully supports punk bands in our city to produce physical releases in particular. Apart from owning a music studio, recording facilities and a screen printing production house, Bukan Record has also released many punk bands in this city, especially for crust & grind bands. Bukan Record also organizes band tours from out of town and even from international bands who want to tour in our city. You can get in touch with the label via email: bukanrecord@gmail.com or instagram: @bukanrecord.

Ribag Sude also featured in some splits and compilations. What do you think about these release-formats? Do you gained anything from the appearances?
The main thing for us to be involved in the compilation is just to increase the network of friendship and communication with the hardcore punk scene movement wherever they are. Yes, from several compilations, we usually get royalties in the form of cassettes of these compilations.

Please explain more about your lyrical themes and topics? Do you think that messages are truthfully important from a hardcore/d-beat/crust bands just like Ribag Sude? 
The theme is still about social criticism, anti-war and the like. In the first EP we gave the title “Krisis D.I.Y” because it tells about our dislike of punks who stepped away from the concept of punk resistance itself. We are against punk rockstars / punk idols who act like mainstream artists because they are caught up in trends and enslaved by the capitalists. In our second EP entitled “Warvictims”, it's about the destruction caused by war, the annihilation of the world, killing the innocents, all paid for in blood. Warfare is the most cruel savagery in the history of human civilization. Stop All Wars Now!!!

Please report briefly about hardcore punk / underground music scene in Medan and Sumatra? Are there any fanzines around there?
Hardcore punk/underground music in Medan and Sumatra is growing in recent times. There have been a lot of releases from several bands from every city popping up. Yes, there are some fanzines such as: New Kicks, Diszine, Setara zine.

Thank you. Any last words?
Yes, thank you again. Glad to be able to share info in this fanzine. Greetings from us Ribag Sude, may we all be given good health and long lasting friendship. Message from us: stay punk, keep enjoying and don’t forget to stop by our city if there is a band that wants to tour in Indonesia. Contact us on instagram: @ribagsude_official or email: ribag.sude@yahoo.com. Cheers!

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*Note: This interview is as published in Reveal #14

30 September 2022

REVEAL FANZINE: ISSUE #15


REVEAL FANZINE: ISSUE #15
Published in September 2022

Interviews: BEGRAVEMENT (USA), NIHILISTIUM (UK), MALAÖUN (Malaysia), DEATH IN COMA (Malaysia), HORDA CANNIBAL (Mexico), NORTAVLAGGH.377 (Singapore) and BLOODBATH RECORDS (Japan). Biographies / Press Releases: A MORS ET BELLO (Mexico), MAXSHIT (Malaysia) and NIHILO (Switzerland). Reviews / News Updates / Others: CABRA INFERNAL (Ecuador), GRIMORIUM VERUM (Ecuador), HELL FURY (Ecuador), ARCHDEMON (Finland), DIABO (Brazil), UNHOLY IMPALER (Italy), KOBOLD (Serbia), IMPIOUS COMMUNION (Mexico), DEVOURER (Sweden), NIHILO (Switzerland), MELEKTAUS (Chile), EXCRUCIATE 666 (France), THE BLACK DISORDER (Poland), ECHELON (UK/Sweden), ONION TERROR (UK) and GREBER (Canada).

Frontcover: BEGRAVEMENT - Death Metal from Minnesota, USA
Backcover: Mörtemiis, The sole genius behind UK’s NIHILISTIUM
Format: 28-pages / A5-sized / English-written
Prices: RM 5 / USD 5 / trade welcomes, write first!

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REVEAL FANZINE: ISSUE #14


REVEAL FANZINE: ISSUE #14 
Published in September 2022

Interviews: THE REBEL RIOT (Myanmar), NO SECURITY (Malaysia), SERANGGA (Malaysia), DISM (Malaysia), DECEIT (Philippines), DISGIYERA (Philippines) and RIBAG SUDE (Indonesia). Biographies / Press Releases: ÁNGEL PORCO (Argentina), XXII ARCANA (Italy), SEPULCHRAL CURSE (Finland), UNVEILED (Malaysia), REINCARNATED (Thailand) and AZORES & METAL COMPILATION VOL.#1 (Portugal). Reviews / News Updates / Others: ANAMNESIS (Belgium), DERELICTED (Germany), HANDCRAFT (Malaysia), LEVIATHAN PROJECT (USA), SCROLLKEEPER (USA), SERMON (Türkiye), XIRROSSIX (Argentina), MEADOW GROVE (Finland), DOLDREY (Singapore), SKULL SOCIETY (Colombia), HROSSHARSGRANI (Austria), UZIEL MARRATU (Germany) and SLOWLY WE ROT FANZINE (Romania).

Frontcover: Kyaw Kyaw, vocalist/guitarist of THE REBEL RIOT
Backcover: Arol Soleh, guitarist/vocalist of NO SECURITY
Format: 28-pages / A5-sized / English-written
Prices: RM 5 / USD 5 / trade welcomes, write first!

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29 September 2022

Review: GRIMORIUM VERUM / CABRA INFERNAL - Vientos Del Pasado Y La Maldición Eterna


GRIMORIUM VERUM (Ecuador) / CABRA INFERNAL (Ecuador) - “Vientos Del Pasado Y La Maldición Eterna” Split 2022
Ecuadorian Black Metal heinous conspiracy! A magnificent 2-way split cassette even though the sound quality is not at the best level, but the mission & vision behind it has surpassed everything. This profane alliance entitled “Vientos Del Pasado Y La Maldición Eterna” consists of 7 tracks with around 40 minutes. Grimorium Verum is said to be the first Black Metal act in Ecuador. The band presents 4 tracks; 3 songs recorded in rehearsals in 1998 and never released before and an additional live song are also included. Cabra Infernal contributes 3 songs taken from a rehearsal prior to the recording of their 2 new albums, which were recorded this year 2022. Both of them have a raw sound (because these are rehearsal versions) of Black Metal but each has their own character. Grimorium Verum is more raw and sounds ancient meanwhile Cabra Infernal is quite grim and satanically unholy! Unleashed by Aniquilación Satánica Producciones, this split is indeed something exclusive, containing recording materials from two different times but amalgamated by the same essence. This, a darkest treasure of the mighty Andes, absolutely!
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