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TERMINAL
DIAGNOSIS #1
"Fanzinus
deity, I worship thee!" might be the last words
of a banger in terminal phasis of rusty cancerous metallization. Anyway,
what we have here is not the terminal but first issue
of a fanzine from Usa that deals more or less with all
kinds of old school metal (Rather the extremes, so no
heavy or doomy). The scriptures weren't scribed, but
computer typed, and the whole looks more or less cut'n
paste depending on the pages: Some have a quite cool
cut'n glue horror/ zombie background (That looks a bit
cooler than the usual cut'n paste stuffs), some have
drawings. The fanzine is not very big (24 x A4 pages),
but the content is not bad, you have interviews of THE
CHASM (Interesting; Even though they went through Earache,
they wouldn't mind releasing their next CD on their
own label, and talk about their band philosophy), MORTEM
(quite cool interview, even if a bit classical: The
past of the band, some 80's stuffs, the scene etc),
NECROVATION (Usual "What's new with the band and
close subjects" informative intie) and WEAPON (Who
has things to explain about his band and religious views,
not bad). I hope the editor will be able to develop
the interviews' side, because he tries to ask personalized
stuffs to the bands and in the cases of THE CHASM or
WEAPON it didn't turn bad at all! There are also
10 reviews, it's rather the same than when the listener
writes what he thinks during listening. I'd like some
to be a bit longer, or help the listener to have a better
idea of the music... but well it's a first issue! So
this first materialization didn't blow me away, but
it contains enough cool stuffs or qualities to let us
expect something cooler and quite promising (Is this
the right word?) for the second diagnosis. Decrepitus
fanzinus aeternus.
c/o Terminal Diagnosis, 137
Allen, Lansing, MI 48912, USA. Email: Terminaldiagnosis(a)gmail.com
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