Brutarian ‘zine #8

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Brutarian was a fairly thick (and fairly sick) ‘zine that evidently ate only brutes.  All of the articles were pretty long, in depth, and well written, and focused on whatever suited their fancy (usually music (punk, metal, industrial, and “college rock” type stuff), film, books, fringe culture, and lots of art and comics).  They had a lot of contributers (including my old buddy Keith Brewer from A Taste Of Bile ‘zine who mostly wrote music reviews in this) so had a large talent pool to draw from, and that’s why their articles were so top-notch.  Some issues even came with a flexi disc record.

If you can get your hands on one, they’re well worth checking out.  I have heard conflicting reports that they are still publishing, and I know they put issues out all the way into at least 2008.  Their web presence is kind of vague.

This issue featured a humorous interview with THE MENTORS (including El Duce (R.I.P.)), plus a lot of different movie and music review columns, as well as ‘specialized’ columns on many various things that the writers wanted to write about (including sex, New York, Andre the Giant, and others that ramble on about several fascinating topics) and loads of comics (including one by Mike Diana, who got arrested because of his art).  There are also quite a few in depth book reviews to round it all out.

Brutarian was an awesome magazine, and I hope it’s still around.  Here’s some pages for you to peruse:

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Blood Feast Inc. ‘zine

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Blood Feast Inc is both a music and horror movie ‘zine (tho this particular issue seems to have more music stuff in it).  The music is (at least in this issue) mostly metal and industrial, and tho there are a bunch of reviews scattered throughout the issue, it focuses on several longer music reviews rather than a whole bunch of shorter ones (like most ‘zines).  It also has several horror movie reviews, and this issue features interviews with make-up artist Julie Cimperman, as well as the bands SKREW, DEAD WORLD, MERCYFUL FATE, CHEMLAB, and DISINCARNATE.  There’s also news, a page of weird facts, and articles on the ‘concerned parent’ phenomonon, Conrad Veidt, and collecting monster models.  All in all a nice little ‘zine.  Look at some pages here:

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Godvomit ‘zine #3

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Here is the third issue of Godvomit ‘zine.  A couple of notes before you look at it:

1) A couple of pages are a little bit messed up, because it came out in early ’92 (over 20 years ago), so things like this happen.  This issue isn’t too bad.

2) I put out this issue (well, all of the Godvomits) in the early ’90s.  This was before we had Lollapalooza, MINISTRY, the BUTTHOLE SURFERS, NARILYN MANSON,  or even NIRVANA out on the radio and television- if you weren’t alive at that time, you don’t understand how repressed everything was.  Anything ugly, dark, even mildly offensive, “controversial”, or in bad taste  was terribly looked down upon, and pushed to the side, ignored or censored.  The religious right ruled everything.  One of the things that I was trying to accomplish with this ‘zine was to offend these people- I thought everyone was too oversensitive, and that you shouldn’t ignore or hide the ugliness in the world.  So I filled the ‘zine with ugly, offensive, upsetting, dark, disturbing things- I always said “Those who get offended easily should be offended more often, so they get desensitized to it”.  I was trying to do this- desensitize people to offensive things as well as piss off the religious right and the people trying to censor everything.  So it’s more than just an underground music magazine.  It’s a direct attack on censorship and good taste.
Nowadays, things are different- the sickos won.  Things are a lot more loose and free and it’s not as necessary to overload the world with dark and depraved shit.  You can find crazy underground movies and music easily on youtube, and artists are always pushing the envelope farther (although the ridiculous hubbub over Miley Cyrus’ rather tame shenanigans kind of makes me question this a little- maybe we are going back toward the more repressed era?).
Anyway, it kinda goes without saying that kids probably shouldn’t look at this (well, their parents probably shouldn’t, anyway.  The kids have probably watched and laughed at Two Girls One Cup 20 times by now).  Stay sick…
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Adversity ‘zine #5

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And we’re back- we were off for about a month for technical difficulties (I know you missed us), but now we’ve returned.  We listened to some of your suggestions and made the site much easier to navigate and find things on (all the movies and ‘zines now have their own links, for example===>).

We’ve returned to tell about the awesome extreme music (death metal, thrash metal, hardcore, grindcore, noizecore) ‘zine Adversity.  This issue came out at the end of 1990 from Connecticut (but wasn’t full of straight-edge hardcore).  The interviews and reviews were (mostly) short and sweet, but there were interviews from several bands you don’t see interviewed very often (and look at how pleasant a young Seth Putnam was in the ANAL CUNT interview) such as the grindy American ATROCITY and 7 MINUTES OF NAUSEA.

Here’s several pages for you to peruse:
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Thrashcore ‘zine #4

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This time the random ‘zine generator chose Thrashcore ‘zine,  from my neighbors in Louisiana, which mostly featured what the name described- thrash and hardcore.  The editor still does a ‘zine today called Paranoise (https://www.facebook.com/paranoizenola).  The layouts in Thrashcore are pretty simple and undynamic, but there are interviews with a lot of good bands you don’t see interviewed a lot, so that’s a real draw.  It also featured a small review section with shorter ‘blurb’ type reviews by editor Bobby plus several guest reviewers (including ex-Soilent Green vocalist Glenn Rambo (R.I.P.) and EyeHateGod/ Soilent Green member Brian Patton).

Here are some pages, reproduced for your perusal:

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Asian Movie Month ‘Zine #2: F.E.T.U. #4

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Released in 1988, the 4th issue of F.E.T.U. (Far East Thrashcore Union) came straight out of Tokyo and featured interviews with bands from all over (including SAVAGE THRUST, HADES, SYSTEMATIC DEATH, AGONY, DISARM, SACRIFICE, HOLY MOSES,  and CASBAH, , but had a lot of news, reviews, and interviews with Japanese bands you didn’t see much in other ‘zines.  It was the offbeat (for a ‘zine) comic book size and professionally printed, but black and white.  I really liked their demo review section, with each demo getting it’s own little info box telling information about it.
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There were small parts of it in Japanese, but most of it was in English.  It’s style was very no nonsense and to the point.  I remember discovering HELLCHILD and ASBESTOS because of this ‘zine.  It also featured live show reviews, scene reports,  and an opinion piece on how to make your ‘zine more original.
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Ultimatum ‘zine #1

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Ultimatum was an old metal ‘zine put out by Kim August (who had a very short stint In DERKETA) starting in the mid to late ’80s.  This first issue is pretty slim, and the layouts are boring, but it’s the content that ultimately matters.  This one features 3 pretty good interviews with MORBID ANGEL, ATHEIST, and one of the only ones I’ve ever seen with the Texas cult band NECROVORE.  There aren’t many reviews but they’re all pretty long and in depth as well.  Tho there were plenty of glam and hard rock magazines around at the time, there weren’t very many underground ‘zines that featured stuff like this in the mid-80s (tho there would be a ton just a couple of years later) so this is a pretty good attempt.

Here’s some pages from it:

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Senil Nekrofil #2

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Senil Nekrofil was a ‘zine from Sweden that focused on the extreme of extreme music- grindcore, noisecore, and the heaviest of death metal (the editor didn’t even like TERRORIZER!).  It had an appealing layout that looked like a little more care and work was put into it than most desktop publishing ‘zines, and included a bunch of interviews and a few music reviews (most ‘zines were the other way around), plus a few movie and ‘zine reviews and a very small bit of commentary.  There were larger ‘focus’ pages on certain bands as well (longer than the little blurb reviews), and overall this was a pretty cool little half-sized ‘zine.  Not much else to say, except check some of it out below…

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Phoenix Militia #8

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This was Bill Steer’s (from CARCASS/ NAPALM DEATH at the time) old ‘zine (and the cover was done by Jeff Walker, also from CARCASS (and who did NAPALM DEATH’s Scum album cover).

Bill and his fellow editor Pek did a fine little ‘zine which featured a lot of crust/ stenchcore bands, as well as death metal, thrash metal, black metal, hardcore, punk, and grindcore.  They would do several lengthy interviews each issue, plus several shorter interviews and few mini interviews.  They’d also do a bunch of shorter demo/ record/ and ‘zine reviews, plus a few slightly longer features on bands they liked.  They asked a lot of political and social questions (particularly a lot about veganisn) and a lot of more intelligent questions (rather than the usual questions most ‘zines asked).  They also didn’t have many ads in their ‘zine, unlike most ‘zines of the time.

I think this was the last issue they ever did…

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Godvomit #2

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Godvomit #2 was not near as big as #1, but it was twice as sick.  A lot of people were offended, and I always wondered how they could take something so silly so seriously (I cringe looking at some of it because of how goofy it is).  Looking back, I guess it did have a lot of over-the-top and disturbing things in it (I’d probably get arrested for putting it out nowadays, since everybody is scared of everything), but it was the early ’90s and we were all trying to out-offend each other.  I put a lot more art and comics in this issue, and started doing smaller, one page interviews with some bands  (which was my answer to a lot of music ‘zines who would do one page ‘features’ or biographies on bands- usually just reprinting or rewording their press sheet which I was never a fan of).

I put the first issue up as a PDF, and some people said it took too long to load up on their computer, so I’m doing this one like all the other ‘zines I’ve done, and just putting images of the pages up (except it’s the whole thing).  You can, of course, click on them to make them bigger.

Interviews in this one with CORPSEGRINDER, BATHYM, DR. SHRINKER, DISHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, NOCTURNUS, SUPURATION, EYE GOUGER, and CREMATORY (which I think is the least amount of bands I interviewed in any issue except the half size #8).

Needless to say, VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED, NO ONE UNDER 18 (or really no one at all) SHOULD READ THIS…

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