Sunday, April 17, 2016

ALCOHOLIC BUTCHER 2 (1999)





1999, 58/A4, xeroxed, Polish, interviews: NEUROPATHIA, ODIUM, ELIGOR zine, PSYCHONEUROSIS, ETHELYN, NEW AGE OF BRUTALITY distro, IMMEMORIAL, NECROSCOPE zine, WOJTEK CHAMRYK Judas Priest Fanclub, UNDER FORGE, INCARNATED, SUCCUBUS, DESASTER, YATTERING, TRIVIAL THORN.

Quetzalcoatl is dead, long live Alcoholic Butcher! Looking at the masthead, there’s a need to heckle Daniel all the time: why did you bury the Deity? Why you were so infidel? Well, the answer has been revealed very quickly on the start: new name is easier to be remembered and effable by folks, and it isn’t… fucked-up (?!!!). Yes, it isn’t fucked-up! I can only imagine the face of Quetzalcoatl and his wrath. So the unfaithful ones, stand in articulo mortis!!! Forget about any mercy!!!

All right, I boiled myself a bit… A new born child is definitely in more Polish style. So, can I write one word? Of course: changes! Changes , from the size itself and front-cover with some old once metal band Metallica (do you remember, guys?) and naked nice bitches to the handmade layout and cut’n’paste method. Everything seems to be quite chaotic and strowed this time, with possible smallest font, yet it perfectly fits to the zine name. And if the menu is smaller as compared to issue #1, quantity went to a better quality. Simply, the interviews with the blast of drum-fires struck another higher level. They are mostly very long with studied and interesting questions, most of them turned out into a friendly chat just, bringing a portion of (sick) humour. The only thing that irritated me was too often used Daniel’s remarks, in most cases, short and useless showing nothing but an unwanted discontinuity. Another change is the foreign raisin in the Polish family, Desaster. Infernal did a good job, though. But what is the best here? For short, two of them, Necroscope zine (intie made by Krzysiek / Arachnophobia) and chat with Wojtek Chamryk. And believe me, amid metal you will be bathed in urine, feces, emesis, and tons of alcohol. This vulgar, blasphemous, churlish, full of women gynecology and one kvlt picture put on page number nine, something for fishing worshippers. If the previous issue was like a polite secondary-school pupil keeping physics book, here I give the works with immodest seductive slut. Or something like this, young devout altar-boy before his first mass and ribald, unbridled bishop parading with the pot-belly. See the difference? I hope so.

If the reviews are the salt of each zine, Daniel salted the dish properly, I mean, it doesn’t refer to the number of it all, as he offered 82 pieces, unfortunately with sounds solely. The style is what I want to write about. And once again, it is simply better, more to the bone, more penetrating (yesss!!) and like a scythe cutting the innocent skin. When stuff is weak, the opinion is harder, when stuff is shitty, you can imagine the final mark. No mercy and nice words, indeed. All right, what else on the plate? Seven live reports splashed by products of distilleries and breweries, few flyers, bios and articles (“Only for Slaves”, “Dick in Your Asses, Motherfuckers!!!” to name the most memorable ones or this which shows up a swindler called Hellchrist), one opinion poll on gigs, again translations, this time with five metal (!!!) songs of Metallica and again I treat it as redundant shit. It’d be better to put another women’ anatomy, wouldn’t it?

To cut the story short, even nowadays I had a pleasant time to read all the stuff once more, pity it hasn’t been hand-numbered. And one advice for non-Polish readers: learn this language if you don’t wanna miss the title ha, ha. You know, it’s not only for Slavs!   

8,8/10
-Tlacaxipehualiztli

(written in April, 2016)

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