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CONTENTS

CONTACT USEmail [email protected] 021 146 6477

Postal - Slaughterama, PO Box 12978, Penrose,

Auckland 1642, New Zealand

02 - Contents

04 - Graveyard

05 - rob_on_guitar

06 - Set On End07 - Ward 10

08 - Cofnfeeder09 - I.O.T.M.S.B.O.D.

10 - Disciples Of Zoldon

11 - SixDayWar

12 - Fallen Order

13 - Ofine14 - Upraw

15 - El Schlong

16 - Archend

17 - Grave Digger19 - Wednesday 13

23 - Legacy of Disorder

24 - Album Reviews

EDITORIALIts always a surprise just how much

content we manage to squeeze intoan issue of Slaughterama... well this

issue I think is some kind of record

for us. Not only do we have full page

proles on each of the 13 greatbands featured on Slaughteramas

rst ever compilation disc, we alsomanage to interview WEDNESDAY

13, GRAVE DIGGER and alsoLEGACY OF DISORDER. Whew!

Im sure you will enjoy thecovermount CD. It is a milestone

for us to release one, and I reallylike all of the songs featured. Now

if you see these newer bands

performing live, youll already befamiliar with a song or two! Make

sure you support the bands you like

the most by going to their shows

and/or buying their CDs.

Enjoy!

Brendon Williams

EDITOR

NEWSFilming has wrapped on upcoming

horror movie SUCK, which will featurecameos by classic rock stars, includingIggy Pop, Alice Cooper, Henry Rollins,Carole Pope of Rough Trade and Alex Lifeson of Rush. And

for the rst time ever, Cooper (playing a sinister bartender)

will appear opposite his daughter, dancer Calico Cooper,who plays a barmaid.

A television show based on the Tracii Guns-led version of

L.A. GUNS is currently being shopped to different networks.

The guitarist stated in an online posting, Our label paid tohave the show made. I saw the rst six episodes fuckinghilarious! Once the show is sold, then we nd out the airdates, then we start marketing dollars for the release ofthe [groups new studio] record, so as of now its a waitinggame. He added, The name of the band will not be L.A.

GUNS for this TV show and album, but we will do somenostalgia shows and festivals as L.A. GUNS basicallyjust having fun and playing tunes.

Marilyn Manson has unveiled a witness wish list that includes

his ex-wife Dita Von Teese and NINE INCH NAILS mainmanTrent Reznor to testify on his behalf in an upcoming court

showdown with estranged keyboardist Stephen Bier. Bier,better known by the stage name Madonna Wayne Gacy,sued Manson in August 2007, seeking more than $20million. The musician alleges Manson deprived him of his

partnership share.

01 - Graveyard - Criminally Insane

02 - rob_on_guitar - Seeking The Truth

03 - Set On End - Fire For Amber

04 - Ward 10 - v1.7 For A Short While

05 - Cofnfeeder - Foetal Regurgitation

06 - Invasion Of The Mutant Space Bats Of Doom - InvasionOf The Mutant Space Bats Of Doom

07 - Disciples Of Zoldon - He Breaks His Fast Upon A FeastOf Flasehood

08 - SixDayWar - Freedom In Exile

09 - Fallen Order - Disaster

10 - Ofine - Hospital Takeover11 - Upraw - The Basement

12 - El Schlong - The Cow Jumped Over The Moon

13 - Archend - Conquer For Satan

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TRACK 01

Criminallyinsane

Graveyard focuses on basic catchy song writing centred

around evil themes, ignoring the aspects other bandsconcentrate on too much, such as over-polished productionvalue and showing off how good at guitar you are. The

result is stripped down evil designed to stick in your head

and pollute your mind.

Criminally Insane is about having an evil heart which

pumps black blood to your evil brain.

myspace.com/thegraveyardband

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We are a 4 piece metal band from West

Auckland due to release our debut EP

Means to an End.

Fire For Amber is about religiousapocalyptic obsession, an apocalypsewhich becomes all too real when enough

people believe in it and stop caring about

bettering our situation here and now. Anti-

religious.

We are doing some dates with Subtract in

January supporting their Winning Heartsand Minds tour

Look out for the EP release date early 09.

It was recorded at our home studio with

Zorran Mendonsa and mastered by Evan

Short from Subtract, Cobra Kahn, ConcordDawn, with artwork by Damian Alexanderfrom Blindspott.

myspace.com/setonend

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v1.7 For A Short WhileThree mental patients currently residing

at the Ward 10 Hospital for the Insanely

Insane with a whole host of psychologicalissues including believing that they are

actually a band! Claiming to have been

creating a unique blend of face pounding

metal, electric cello, massive beats,samples and inspired randomness since

2002. An alledged debut album - CuringThose Who Are Normal was recorded in

2007 in an attempt to stop the voices inour heads with an accompanying video

and World Tour of the North Island. With

supposed killer new material the bandclaim 2009 will be a good vintage for

them!

V1.7 For A Short While is about sitting onthe brink of sanity/insanity and wondering

if it would be possible to have just a tasteand be able to return.

Check us out if youre looking for

something a bit different and hit us up!

Gimpys top tips for the new year; 1) sexis always better in a gimp mask! 2) sex isalways better with pain! 3) its not the sex,its how were doing it! 4) use adequateprotection, some rug burns never heal! 5)buy our album so I can feed my son!

www.ward10.co.nz

myspace.com/ward10band

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We like beer, women andmusic.

Foetal is a song about tolerance

and what you can and cant

handle morally, all delivered ina vile and inhuman package,shock therapy!

Support your local metal scene

or we will kill you and eat your

unborn babies..

myspace.com/coffinfeedernz

foetal regurgitation

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Epic Symphonic Midi

Power BATtle-Metal for

World Domination!

The song Invasion OfThe Mutant Space Bats

Of Doom is a rather

spontaneous creation

that was completed

within 30 minutes,and I still hold this in

highest regards as the

best song I have ever

composed, and nothing Ihave created in my other

projects can compare.Many others share this

similar viewpoint, andas soon as I spammed

this song all over the

Internet, it received aninstant cult following,literally within hours it

had stormed through

message boards, forums,user profiles, msn and

chat rooms, much to theannoyance of some, but

I managed to enlighten thousands of people with this

urgent message of forecoming doom!

Spread the Invasion, Plague Bringers of Doom!

myspace.com/iotmsbod

www.iotmsbod.tkwww.soundclick.com/invasionofthemutantspacebatsofdoom

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He breaks his fast upon a feast of falsehoodThe Disciples of Zoldon

started as a satirical

studio project aimed at

making fun of religious

Metal stereotypes.

Zoldon is the name

of a fictional deity

otherwise known as theGod of Heavy Metaland features in all of

the song lyrics. There

have been three full

length studio albums

and one EP so far.

The project is the work

of one person (LukeBrimblecombe) but allrecording is done by

another person.

Theres a little-known

Australian Christian

Death Metal band called

Ethereal Scourge (longsince disbanded as far

as anyone knows) whohave a line in one of

their songs that goes

They gladly feast on a

banquet of falsehood.The line refers to

humanity in general,

in particular the trend

towards secular/non-

christian ideals &

beliefs. I just thought

this line is hilarious and

He breaks his fast upona feast of falsehood is

a parody of that. Thesong is essentially

about my fictitious

God of Heavy Metaldeity Zoldon throwing

a feast in celebration

of evil and in particular:

deceit.

Theres a lot of very

unique and interesting

music out there if youlook hard enough. Dont

put up with the same

boring repetition all the

time just because its

new, flashy, or trendy!It doesnt have to be

Metal either. Also, ifyoure into computer

gaming, check out myyoutube page at www.

y o u t u b e . c o m / u s e r /vaulsc !

www.solvere.co.nz/doz

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freedominexile

SIXDAYWAR is Kiwi Thrash Metal with a lyrical focus

towards war / politics / society.

Freedom In Exile is about Helen Clark and hermendacious ways.

Thanks for those whove come to our shows, thanksto Slaughterama for your continued support keep itMetal!

www.sixdaywar.netmyspace.com/sixdaywarnet

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disasterFallen Order is a metal band from Wellington

heavily inuenced by 80s metal, through tomore modern progressive bands. Having justobtained our new vocalist Hamish Murray, weare working on new material for our debut

EP and are looking to line up gigs across the

country in 2009.

Disaster is an older Fallen Order song,originally written with vocalist Hayden Moore.Recorded with Hamish, we have introduced acleaner vocal style to our sound.

Look out for Fallen Order gigs in your area

in 2009!

myspace.com/fallenordernz

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This is a solo project created out of the inability

to nd like-minded musicians (in little old NewZealand) able to collaborate with the staunchthemes & musical direction of ofine.

Hospital Takeover is about mankinds greedand the unnatural lengths he will go to livelong and cheat a natural death; the song goes

as far as to suggest in our lifetime technology

will develop to the extent where the dying will

have the choice to download themselves into

supermachines, trapped forever in a digitalhell -lyric excerpt.

Support the gigs, Buy the merch, Speak thetruth, Bang the head!!

myspace.com/programmedanger

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The BasementUpraw is a 5 piece Heavy Metal act fromAuckland. Not sticking to any one stream of

Metal, Upraw takes many inuences to createa unique blend of fast, heavy and diversemusic with themes that many people can

relate to.

The Basement is inspired by the oppression

of organised religion. Ourselves, we havenothing against religion. Religion, or thebelief in something higher than yourself, or

just a belief in something you feel strongly

for, can be a beautiful thing. But its the waypeople twist religion and beliefs in order to

suit themselves and their own motives, andthe methods in which they push and force

those beliefs on others that we are against.

This song, like others on our album, exploresthe aws inherent in all humanity and thefaults present in human nature as a whole.

Nobodys perfect, ourselves included, andour debut album TORMENT is just our way of

saying, this is how we see things every day,and this is our perception of mankind through

experiences we have gained from the moment

each of us were born.

Cause an Upraw in your daily lives and, aboveall, Stay Heavy.

www.upraw.co.nz

www.myspace.com/upraw

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Photo courtesy of Sarah Macdonald

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The Cow Jumped Over The Moon

We formed in Dunedin in 2003, moved toWellington in 2005, and again to Londonin 2008. The sound has changed over the

years, but the main purpose of the band isnot to satisfy an audience, but to producemusic that is fun for us to play. We are very

selsh in that respect. We would get boredplaying just one genre and the result is often

an odd mix, but imagine how shit a party mixwould be if it was just jetplanes. And how

boring the world would be without downs

syndrome..........

We wrote The Cow Jumped Over The Moon

while recording the rest of the album (TheBaddies Are Coming). It was written forour vocalist of ve years who had recentlydeparted. He is obsessed with seacows. Itis our tribute to him.

Up the bum, no babies.

www.elschlong.cjb.net

myspace.com/elschlong

Or send a stamped, self addressedenvelope....

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Archend is the return ofrst wave Black metal andClassic Satanic Thrash

to New Zealand. With a

whirlwind of thrashing riffs

and fuck off lyrics we will

conquer.

Conquer For Satan isinspired by the spirit of

Heavy Metal. The attitudeand the feel. Drink! Fuck!

Thrash! Conquer in the

name of our blasphemous

symbol against the pitiful

dogs who follow their fake

ethics and religious belief.

A 4 track ep will be released

by April 09. The medium it

will be released on has yet

to be decided. Keep and

eye out for it and keep on

thrashing.

myspace.com/archendevil

CONQUER FOR

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German Heavy Metal veterans GRAVE DIGGER have been

frequent visitors here at Slaughterama and provided

a soundtrack to a lot of our endeavors during theyears. Now with the new album being unleashed, we

got in touch with our good old friend, vocalist Chris

Boltendahl to keep you all updated on the latest

developments in the band.

The new Grave Digger album, Ballads of

a Hangman should be out by now. Are

you happy with your effort?

Oh, were really happy! Everybodys quite

interested too, since weve got a newmember in the band [Thilo Herrmann, guitar,

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What made you decide to work with two

guitarists?

After Liberty or Death [2006] we startedthinking about some sort of development

in the band. So I asked Manni [Schmidt,

guitarist] what does he think about getting asecond guitarist. He thought it was a cool ideaand we both had Thilo Herrmann in mind. Sowe called him and he said: Oh guys, I have totell you that I have short hair now and I gained

like a hundred pounds... (laughs) But let meask my wife and Ill call you in a week. But

he called us a few hours later and said, Yes,I wanna come back to the Metal biz and so

he joined us. Thilo is a great guitar player

because hes really different. Manni is more

into 70s bands, Sabbath, Zeppelin, Purple.And Thilo is into 80s bands like Iron Maidenand Judas Priest. And these two styles t verywell together and bring the sound to a new

level.

So is he going to grow his hair back and try

and lose some weight?

Oh, the hair wont grow anymore. (laughs) butI think hes working really hard to lose weight.

Although with Christmas time nall I think hellgain the kilos back!

You are now ofcially the savior of the

unemployed guitarists. First you got Manni

who worked in a record store when you got

him in the band and now Thilo...

Yeah, were like some sort of retirementcommunity for Heavy Metal musicians!

(laughs) No. These guys are really greatmusicians, and they did a lot for Metal inGermany. And I nd it rather surprising thatnobody picked them up before we did! For

me these guys were really the rst choice ascandidates for Grave Digger.

You recorded quite a few concept albums.

Whats the story with Ballads of a

Hangman?

This one is not a concept album. After Libertyor Death we felt like we have no ideas left.

And we didnt want to repeat ourselves. We

thought of doing something about the Trojan

War, but these things are so similar to what wedid in the past with Tunes of War, Knights

of the Cross, Excalibur, Rheingold - its allabout the Middle Ages and pretty much thesame topic. Now Ballads of the Hangman issimilar to our The Grave Digger album, butfrom the lyrical point of view its more sarcastic

and ironic.

When are you coming to New Zealand?

As soon as somebody invites! I heard so much

about your country and I really wanted to visit,

but it has to make sense nancially. Otherwiseits pretty much impossible.

Anything you would like to say to your

New Zealand fans before we nish the

interview?

Collect some money together and well come

and play for you! (laughs)g

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f**k itLiVE

WELL DO it

SLAUGHTERAMAS DEAD EXCLUSIVE WITH THE

SHOCK ROCK HORROR MASTERMIND HIMSELF.

So, what is the latest news from the

Wednesday 13 camp?

Just nally trying to get some rest after the tour.Its been non-stop, I released a record, and anEP, and a live album, and a live DVD, and now

I got a little time off before the next tour starts in

the beginning of February.

Lets talk about the studio album, Skeletons

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Yeah... I really try to do a different thing on each record, Im notreally interested in repeating myself over and over. I did that with

my previous bands in the late 90s, and with Wednesday 13 Imnally able to try different things. My rst album, Transylvania90210 was just kinda fun horror, and Fang Bang was morelike a Punk Rock record. Skeletons came out to be darker,scarier, still kind of spooky, but with a different vibe than the

previous albums, with more personal topics, something Ivenever done in the past. It shows the audience that theres a

different side to what I can do and that Im not predictable.

What inuences you to write this kind of thing?

I know what used to inuence me, and probably still does to acertain extent. I used to sit in front of a TV and watch movies orthe news and suddenly you think, hey, thats a good song title.And Id just take it out of the context of what they were talking

about and go from there. Everything around me inuences me.

I just keep my ears open and if something hits me, I can writea song out of it.

Tell us a little about your new live record, Fuck it, Well do

it Live.

Thats just something I wanted to do for a long time and I wasnt

able to do it with the labels I was on, then I had different bandmembers who came and went and I couldnt get the clearance

from them, so there was always something that kept it fromhappening. So now I was nally able to put it out. It was a reallygood year for me. I was able to release all this stuff, yknow!

We havent seen you in New Zealand since you played Big

Day Out with Murderdolls. How different is the Wednesday

13 show?

I think musically theres denitely similarities. Murderdolls wasdenitely more of a fun, energetic, rock band sort of thing, andhad more of a band mentality. It was me and Joey [Jordison,Slipknot] who put that thing together. Wednesday 13 is my own

vision, so its denitely more of a solo thing as a band.

What are your impressions of New Zealand? Are you

coming back?

Its one of my greatest touring memories ever! Unfortunately the

promoters havent made a proper offer so we would nanciallybe able to do it, and I really hope that it will happen some timesoon, so Id be able to come back there. Its such a beautifulplace and the fans are really great!

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Do you nd yourself lumped into the same category as Mists,

69 Eyes and other horror rock bands?

The image thing probably more than anything else. People just see

the look of the band and automatically assume were a Goth band.

My thing with black hair and make-up comes from bands like Kiss,

Alice Cooper and Motley Crue. I never considered it Goth, its justrocknroll to me. People often assume that were some gloomy Goth

band, but were really just an energetic and fun rock band.

Youve done a few shows opening for Alice Cooper. Did you ever

consider working with him, maybe having him as a guest on

your album?

Id love to! We started doing concerts together in 2005 and weve

been doing a couple of shows every year since. Alice became a good

friend and a fan of the band. I remember seeing Alice and Twisted

Sisters video Be Chrool to Your Scuel when I was a kid thatwas really really cool! So I really hope so. But I still look at what Im

doing being in baby stages. Im still new to this and these guys [Alice

Cooper and Twisted Sister] have been around for ages. So maybe

a couple albums down the line Id be able to do something together

with them.

Tell us about your high school life. Were you a rebellious

teenager? Were you ever suspended or expelled?

When I was at school I was just bored and I didnt care. A lot of

teenagers experiment with drugs and alcohol I never did anythinglike that. I just sat in my room and played guitar, read Metal magazinesand watched horror movies. So basically Id get in trouble at school

because I just wouldnt show up. My parents would drop me off and

Id be walking back home.

Did you get to date cheerleaders or were you the weird guy?

I was that skinny, geeky guy with black hair everybody avoided. Inever was successful with the ladies. (laughs)

What got you into music?

You know, it was a very quick transition. I really loved GI Joe whenI was a kid. It was my life. I collected every toy that came out! So I

remember playing with my GI Joes and my parents were watching

TV, when the commercial for an Alice Cooper concert came on. Itwas like This Friday, the nightmare returns! Alice Cooper... and theyshow those videos with his head being chopped off, and the snake...You know, the 20-second clip. I didnt know what it was! I lookedat my parents, and I was like Whats that?? and they go, Oooh,thats the guy who bites the heads off chickens and snakes! And

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this transition from GI Joe to Heavy Metal. My favoritebands were Alice, and Motley Crue, and Twisted Sister,and W.A.S.P., and all those shock rock bands.

What was the rst concert you went to?

My rst concert was Motley Crue on the Dr. Feelgoodtour. My parents were very protective and I couldnt go

anywhere, so I had to go with my brother. I think I wasabout 12 years old when I saw that concert. They were

larger than life. Im so glad I got to see it!

Did you ever in your career think of giving up?

Never. Id get frustrated, but not because I wasntgoing anywhere, Id get frustrated with band members.We went through member after member after member,because those were the guys who got discouraged.

And we were not going anywhere because people kept

leaving. But luckily I kept the band together and I nallygot a phone call from Joey Jordison from Slipknot who

heard a couple of [Frankenstein Drag Queens From

Planet 13 - Wednesdays rst band] records. He wasputting Murderdolls together and asked me to be apart of it. I think it shows that I stuck to my guns and I

kept it going, and after all it opened a door for me.

So whats the story with Murderdolls?

They put out one album, which was

great, and that was it.

It was a side project to Slipknot, so as longas Slipknot was touring and putting out

records, Murderdolls was always going tobe a side project. And later, when Joey hadtime to perhaps do another Murderdolls

record, I was touring with Wednesday 13.So it was a timing kind of thing. I spoke with

Joey recently and we were toying with the

idea of doing another Murderdolls record.

I hope when the time is right we can do

another album and it would be great!

Can you remember the lowest and the

highest points in your career?

The highest point was getting the

Murderdolls gig and going from playing

bars in front of 5 people to opening for

Guns NRoses in Japan in front of 30,000people. I kinda feel like I stayed on that

high point ever since. I was able to release

my own records and I keep touring around

the world. And the down part was when

Murderdolls came off tour and I sat there

for a year doing nothing. Joey went back to

Slipknot and I thought if I dont start doing

something, Ill go back to playing in frontof 5 people in my hometown. So I kept the

ball rolling, and Im really glad I did!

So the Skeletons and the live CD/DVD

came out this year. Whats the next step

for Wednesday 13?

Well, we got tours booked for February,March and April. After that Im gonna

take a couple of months off and work on

my southern country project Bourbon

Crow. After that Ill start recording the next

Wednesday 13 album which will hopefully

come out by the end of 2009.

Thank you very much for doing this

interview. Anything else youd like us to

pass to your New Zealand fans?

Yeah, thanks so much for your supportguys! I hope I can get back there soon. I

wouldnt be here without you!g

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Please give us a brief rundown on the band

and its sound

Legacy of Disorder is a 4 piece band. We have

been together for approx 3 years. Our sound is

heavy, tight, thoughtful and original.

Your self titled debut album was released in

October (2008). How has the reaction been

so far?

The reaction to the album and the sound

quality weve had so far is near staggering. In a

recent review of our album we were compared

to current leaders in Heavy Metal world wide,and as a band we think thats pretty darn cool.

Now we are doing our best to get our album andsound heard more, and that is the hard part.

The album was recorded in Dallas, Texas

USA. What were the reasons behind going

out of NZ to record?

We felt we would be working with someone

whom could benet our particular sound andthat the environment would be better for what

we wanted to achieve. Metal must be played

and recorded with precision in all areas and we

wanted the engineer to be on the same page.

We thought recording in America would open

more doors for us. It seems our style of music is

considered more mainstream and is accepted

as a genre of music in its own right in the US.

You worked with Sterling Wineld who

has produced Pantera, Damageplan and

Hellyeah, plus a bunch of others. How didthat go?

Sterling has such a vast know-how and

understood what we wanted to achieve, soeverything just seemed to fall into place. For

some of us, working with Sterling helped easethe loss of Dimebag in a strange way, and wewill sure use Sterling again.

What are the biggest obstacles you are

facing being a Kiwi Metal band taking yourmusic to the world?

The metalers in NZ are awesome, but thereseems to be a misunderstanding of Metal, whichseems to preclude us from being promoted or

heard by many on a large scale i.e. daytime

radio.

Thanks for the interview. Any nal comments

for the readers of Slaughterama?

Listen to our album and come to our shows and

hear and see what we are about as thats the

best way to explain LODg

Debut

Self Titled AlbumOut Now!


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REVIEWSHARVEST

Evolution (EP)

2008

MASIVEmusiq

Harvest are four young fellas from Rotorua,who have recently released this 3 song EP.

Its pretty cool.. the song Visions in particularis very catchy. With some quite modern

inuences coming through (particularly inthe vocal area) it may not be one for ClassicMetal purists, but the younger audienceshould be able to embrace Harvest veryeasily, and there are some good lead guitarparts. Would really like to hear some more

faster, thrashier, balls-to-the-wall stuff fromthis band, which may happen, consideringthat this is only a recording debut.

Reviewer: Brendon Williams

RATING:fffffeeeee

OSMIUM

Relentless, Primal Being

2008

osmium records

Osmiums debut album. Instrumentally its

very good, however the singing is a littledisplaced from the rest of the music, as if acheap mic was used to lay the vocals down,or not enough time was spent getting the

right mix or sound. Aside from that, I foundthe album enjoyable. I think that the CDs

font cover is hideous (especially the bandslogo) and it does not reect the quality of themusic it represents, particularly in the guitardepartment. Catch them on their current NZ

tour, and see them perform live, then takethis album home as a memoir.


RATING:fffffeeeee

DARKLIGHT CORPORATION

(Self Titled)

2008

Isaac Promotions

Great quality sounds from Darklight

Corporation on their debut. The Brazilianvocalist Fabio Santos cant help but make

me think of Sepultura inuences (or perhapsthats just the accent?) but either way it worksvery well with the hard industrial Metal sound

underneath. The clear winner on this album

is the song Sweet Sickness which is just anabsolutely perfect piece, terrically catchy,and not overdone or too complex. Any CD

from NZ with this level of production value

makes me hopeful for more local releases

with the same polish and shine.


RATING:ffffffffee

IRON FIRE

To The Grave

2009

Napalm Records

The Danish Speed / Power Metallers release

their sixth album. First we have the absolutekiller, The Beast From The Blackness andthen the album continues to the end with

the same impact throughout. All in all, veryManowar-esque in subject matter, and theseguys would be conquering the world right

now if they had originated this kind of thing.

Instead, they take the tried and true andforge new steel from it, creating somethingworthwhile for fans of Metal songs about

battles and Metal. I dont know if thats you,but it sure is me. Kill For Metal!


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REVIEWSCRADLE OF FILTH

Godspeed on the

Devils Thunder

2008

Roadrunner

What a brilliant work from the kings of the

macabre! Re-telling the story of the notorious

warrior-turned-serial-child-murderer Gilles

De Rais, who in early XV century foughtalongside Joan of Arc, Cradle Of Filth deliverwhat could easily be their best album in a

decade. Beautifully written and produced this

evil story is sure to captivate you and send

shivers down your spine. Everything youd

come to expect from Cradle... AND THENSOME! Absolutely essential.

Reviewer: Max Thrasher

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VOODOO CIRCLE

Voodoo Circle

2008

AFM

A super-group (well, yet another one) withnames every hard rock fan should know:

Rudi Sarzo, Dougie White, David Readman,Matt Sinner, and heaps more famous peopledeliver what seems to be one of the strongest

hard rock albums in a while! Very high qualitymusic, catchy with wonderful performance.It may get a little repetitive, but I stronglyrecommend it to anyone who wants to hear

something rocking!


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CYNIC

Traced In Air

2008

Season Of Mist

Although this is only their second album (in

more than 15 years) this strange band onceagain proves their status. Incredibly messed

up half-classical music/half-death metal is

what Cynic is all about. It can be compared

with Psychotic Waltz, but only by the musicalimpact and the refusal to follow any rules.

Cynic has created a cult following having

only one album in their backpack. Now you

have to hear the sequel. Denitely not foreveryone though.


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GRAVE DIGGER

Ballads Of A Hangman

2008

Napalm Records

Grave Digger have released more than

enough albums to know the formula forgreatness. Their 13th studio album is also

their rst with a dual guitar attack, and itturned out to be a great idea, giving an evenfuller sound than usual to the proceedings.

Personally I nd it refreshing that this is notanother concept album from Grave Digger;

check out the awesome duet featuring

Veronica Freeman of Benedictum Lonely TheInnocence Dies - poweful and accessible,Freemans voice is wonderful in this song

and I feel it is the albums highlight.


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DIRECTOR:

David Cronenberg

WRITERS:

William S. Burroughs & David

Cronenberg

STARRING:

Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm,

Julian Sands, Roy Scheider

SUMMARY by Keith Loh

Not an adaptation of beat writer

William S. Burroughs novel but a mix

of biography and an interpretation of

his drug- induced writing processes

combined with elements of his work in

this paranoid fantasy about Bill Lee, awriter who accidentally shoots his wife,whose typewriter transforms into a

cockroach and who becomes involvedin a mysterious plot in an Islamic port

called Interzone. Wonderfully bizarre,not unlike Burroughs books.

REVIEW by Brendon Williams

Awesome stuff. I remember seeing it

a few years ago in a haze, not entirelypaying attention other than to note how

peculiar and extraordinarily unique the

lm was. Matter of fact, some of it was

downright disturbing to the point thata couple of scenes etched their way

into my long term memory. While its

not exactly a pleasant experience the

whole way through (likeparts of Brazil if youveseen that) I still recommendit as absolutely essential

viewing. You can derive

so many interpretations

from the lms delivery

and content... yes thatsright, it makes you think,so if youre after simple

plot and eye candy, watcha comic book adaption.

However, if youre after abrain stimulant, whethersober or in a chemically

altered state, Naked Lunchwill provide an interesting

experience at the very least.

Not recommended for those

with a fear of bugs.

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DID YOU KNOW?

The shooting of the authors

wife is not a ctional incident.William S. Burroughs did

indeed accidentally shoot

his wife Joan in the head

in 1951 in Mexico in a

William Tell stunt that wentdisastrously wrong. Mexican

law at the time meant that

Burroughs only served 13

days in prison for killing his

wife.

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