Spring 2021, 126/A4, xeroxed, Polish, interviews: GOATSPELL, OMNIZIDE, KILL, CTHULHUSS, HAUNTED CENOTAPH, UNPURE RECORDS, GALLOWER, BARBARIAN, MORBID SACRIFICE, FÖRGJORD, BLOODTHIRST, IMPURE DECLARATION, IMAGO MORTIS.
Worship Him's sixth issue doesn't bring many changes. As a matter of fact it's just a continuation of what I have experienced in the previous attacks straight from the dephts of Polish underground. For sure the hempen cord that holds the pages tight is blatantly obvious and this is absolutely unique thing. Robert, the editor did here a titanic work providing thirteen interviews (some of them are really extensive), a bucketload of reviews, a few articles and gig reports – all on 126 pages! Believe me, it's quite challenging task to scrape through this fanzine, it's a massive monster. It has been done using old school cut'n'paste method with no free space left and quite small font being an optic nerve serious enemy. But giving it over a dozen hours of reading there is nothing to complain about (but I found some spelling mistakes and typos), what's more, this issue becomes one of the greatest Polish fanzines I have read in last decade. As for the content itself, the reading goes smoothly, absolutely curiously, there's a neatness across the pages. Surely I can feel the editor's yearslong experience and metal dedication.
Amongst these 13 inties, I cannot indicate a lame one. Yep, definitely not, but maybe Italian Morbid Sacrifice misfits to the rest due to its short and sometimes laconic answers? However their answer why the line-up consists of four musicians and there are only three of them on the band's picture really made me laugh – the drummer hadn't got the time to go for a photography shoot. From the other side, during Kill intie, Robert had some answering problems but it came to a small success eventually. The interviews are really well prepared, with no coincidence detected, in some cases he knows the interlocutor (Unpure Records), submitting approximately 25 questions not only on musical (metal) themes but also on... everything that matters: geopolitics, economic conditions, social relations. The inviolable rule is asking about the legends or dark mystrious tales that come from answerer's dwelling place. And in many cases I got really fascinating stories!
As for the interviews, Förgjord is the real jewel in the crown. The Finnish black metallers I have never known about strike my sight organ with twelve and a half pages hellspawn: it's comprehensive and exhaustive, it's interesting and gripping. Valgrinder, the mastermind of the project, is an intelligent man and whole intie can be read with bated breath. The band to be checked out definitely in the nearest future. What else on the roster? Two Italian crews Barbarian and Imago Mortis – in the fumes of metal, history and art they deliver another exiting piece of reading. That's the stuff I desire most. And another bands I knew nothing about them. The Polish underground is represented by the unholy five: Cthulhuss and Haunted Cenotaph (both drowned in literary heritage of H. P. Lovecraft), Gallower (the youngsters worshipping old school thrashing black madness), Bloodthirst (friendly chat done by Wodzu from Eternal Death zine) and Impure Declaration (Bies, the vocalist, coming from my city, told an interesting story about one lake...). The last one I want to write is mentioned earlier with Marcin from Unpure Records – welcome to the cassette dimension as they both are true freaks of this format.
Reviews. I know there are zines without it, but WH is not such a zine! They are major part here featuring 256 musical and 21 paper units. Yes, it impresses a lot! They are divided on cd, tape, promo stuff and vinyl sections which I consider a good idea. They are all written a clear way, not rarely with childlike fire and enthusiasm, many times with poetical complexion. Fully informative, some of them are kept in a shorter way, some of them are much longer, there's no rule for that. Band's names range – from the deepest abyss of the underground to the more 'known' ones like Darkthrone, Incantation or Desaster (their reviewed fifth „Angelwhore” album is first editor's meeting with these German devils). From the amount of reviews four of them have been written by Waldek (Morbid Chapel Records) being a part of The Crypt of Demonic Filths (only demos from the ancient times, for example, Amorphis first demo „Disment of Soul” from 1991), and the WH is closed by the longest piece in the family: a return album „Natas Liah” by Hell-Born written by another editor's guest. Whew, what else on the table, I've got five rather long gig reports and three of them coming from abroad (Death in Hell from Porvoo, Finland, 2019 and Scandinavia Deathfest from Stockholm, 2019 by Marcin / Unpure Records, Finnfest from London, 2020, Furia / Licho Southern Europe touring and one Polish gig from Poznań: Vader / Marduk / Ragehammer, 2020). The whole is completed by two short articles about Unlord and Giants Dwarfs and Black Holes (playing heavy psychedelic rock), and two interesting texts by Mówca Wiecowy. And that's all I guess in this issue. To sum it up, I'm really, really impressed by this work Robert did. Ah, I almost forgot, let me bring some another names: Moloch Letalis, Hell-Born, Goathrone, Mirror of the Void, Mordhell, Throneum, Zmora. It's not the table of contents of Worship Him 7 to be released in future. No, I'm just giving some of bands Robert (as Diabolizer with his killing drum kit) is involved in. Could you tell how he manages to find spare time for all his activities? Amazing! Any way, a total recommended underground lecture. Ha, and one more, during writing the review, I was listening to the newest offer of Towards Hellfire „Inquisitors of Blasphemy” released on February this year. Guess who is the drummer?
vobi_wrz@interia.pl
9,4/10
-Tlacaxipehualiztli
(written in April, 2025)
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