December
2013, 116/A4 pages, printed, Polish, interviews: KING DIAMOND, IMMOLATION,
CANNIBAL CORPSE, PUNGENT STENCH, IMPERATOR, PROTECTOR, PARRICIDE, EPITOME,
ANCIENT RITES, RISE FOR VICTORY zine, BETRAYER, MASACRE, ARKONA, ANAL VOMIT,
RITUAL LAIR, BLOOD, DYSPHORIA, CRUCIFIER, ANIROE, APOKALYPTIC RITES, AMZIUS,
NON OPUS DEI, HYPNOS, SACROFUCK, HEGEMOON, MASTER OF CRUELTY, OFFENCE /
EXHALATION, PRELUDIUM, HOLODOMOR, SLAV, PAGANIZER, HELL:ON and NORTHERN PLAGUE
(in spite of all…).
This is my
third meeting with Adrian’s child. And definitely the best one so far. To begin
from an ominous and dark front cover, through the countless interviews and reviews,
additional other things to the absolutely cult last page. This time Adrian
serves 100+ pages once again, without any advertisings or commercials, but the
whole number of the reviews really knocked me down: 326 with music and 47 with
press. Of course, if I counted well… And the reviews are the first thing I see
about on the start. Believe me, it’s not an easy task to break through this
enormous wall of text, but I like Adrian’s writing style very much and it was
nothing but a real pleasure. He doesn’t use superfluous words or exaggerated descriptions.
Only direct to the essence. Though I don’t understand writing capital letters in
the case of the adjectives, in Fester review “Norweski”, in Graveyard / Nominon
“Szwedzki”, in Headhunter D.C. “Brazylijskich”, in Moder “Niemieckiego”, in
Hell Press zine “Bizantyjski” to name a few. Lowercase is the only way here!
Interviews.
It’s not a surprise that this piece of underground contains of big names (King
Diamond, Cannibal Corpse, Immolation) and some (completely unknown for me) crews
coming straight from the depths of the underground as well . About quality, I
read MANY very interesting, full informative talks, but the best ones are Rise
for Victory zine (Mirek Górka) and Imperator (Adrian, the drummer of the band)
conducted by Wojtek Lis. Then, also noteworthy, with good questions and
answers: Parricide, Epitome, Ancient Rites… I’d like to point out on King
Diamond interview, as it is not focused on bygone times, but the whole refers
to the crucial events in King’s life and health. The transformation is audible,
even I can write he is a wiser man now. It is a rather short talk, but forget about
any unprofitable argle-bargle.
While
looking through the bands list in every zine, I always search for any crews
coming from Middle and South America. This time R’Lyeh proposed four names: Apokalyptic
Raids (Brazil), Masacre (Colombia), Master of Cruelty (Paraguay) and Anal Vomit
from Peru. And even if the first trio gave good answers, Anal Vomit is a
fucking disaster here: questions are much longer than ‘superb’ answers. And I
wonder why Adrian decided to make them an opener for this issue? Alphabetical
order reasons? Did they pay him? During all these one-sentence lame answering,
I found really paralyzing information: Milo is a lawyer… No comments, ha, ha!
It should be nuked definitely, as R’Lyeh is a very good brand amongst paper
releases.
Reviews,
interviews, but also many live reports not only from Polish land, well known
columns from the previous issues like “Pomyłki undergroundu część XI i XII” (in
English “The Underground Mistakes”), “Metal zza krat” (“Metal from Jail”),
scene report (this time from Malaysia), a stirring letter to redaction and so
on. But a separate subject is a case of Northern Plague band from Poland. They
have been described as clowns of this issue, but when I started to read this
fascinating story, I was convinced I had faced a thigh-slapper. Unfortunately,
everything became a sad truth after a while… The band which looks for a
sponsoring. The band which can offer many goods in return. Another mistake of
underground? Absolutely. A sign of modern times? Yes… so beware of the Northern
Plague, their sponsored debut album has been already unleashed! Business metal
attacks!!!
To sum all
the things up: poor are the non-Polish readers! You’re missing really great piece
of underground press. R’Lyeh belongs to the best titles in Poland beyond the
shadow of a doubt, with each consecutive issue it becomes a better shot of
metal words. It’s simply great that it saw the light of the day, because
nothing was obvious during the predecessor. Fortunately the duodecimo is
planned by Adrian and company, I hope that any kind of misspelling will be eliminated
in future and I won’t see another orthographic orgy like in Arkona review… So, I
wait.
ADRIAN
P.O. BOX 20
02-919 WARSZAWA
POLAND
hellishband@o2.pl
9,5/10
-Tlacaxipehualiztli
(written on February, 2014)
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