The second
half of the 90s, 48/A4, printed, English, interviews: DIES IRAE, MEDICINE
DEATH, MELECHESH, STRANGULATION, OCCULT, DUSK, MURDER RAPE, ALASTIS,
TENEBRARUM, MALEFICARUM, VARATHRON, OSSUARY, HEMDALE, SEAR BLISS, EXHUMED,
KRABATHOR, UNGOD, SADISTIC INTENT, PSUDOSTRATIFFIED EPITHELIUM, MANIAC BUTCHER.
No idea how
the press debut of King Wolle looked like. The second strike into the
underground shows its cult effigy. Yes, Brazilians from Sarcofago and the
beautiful unreadable zine logo. Bought through Polish Pagan Records mail-order
in the second half of the nineties, it was something exceptional in my world of
print. Not because it was a German zine, but because of unrestrained editor’s
love to the exotic metal. Exotic that means bands coming from Colombia, Peru,
Costa Rica and so forth. In most cases I faced completely unknown bands (does
anybody remember times without internet???), believe me, it was like an
archeology work. And the workers at my post-office were really panic-stricken
seeing all those strange addresses and packages to this part of the world. Yes,
fucking geography!
But what
about the written essence? Even if King is on the beginning of his editor path,
some details are clearly declared: only pure metal to the bone with big
fuck-off to the Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir hordes (I can image astonishment
on King’s face while reading Alastis’s answer about techno music in his stereo…).
Hardcore hasn’t easy life as well. And on the beginning he gave bands names
that didn’t answer his question or simply ripped him off. Let’s go further, to
the technical stuff, everything seems to be ok, sometimes layout is a bit
messy, or too much a blank space amongst the text column. The quality of
pictures or drawings is good enough with the font that is readable not like the
logo. Of course, English of King should be mentioned, as it isn’t complex, just
a simple way to communicate, with bad spelling of adjective concerning
nationality. The interviews are rather not in-depth with standard questions and
hackneyed phrases. The best ones here: for sure bizarre and crazy answers from
gore worshippers Exhumed, Sadistic Intent (with guest appearance of Heiko S.)
or Krabathor. Unfortunately there are some gross errors like ‘inties’ with Melechesh
or Ossuary where King showed a few questions only. Pity, ‘cause both bands are
pretty interesting. Unfortunately many bands answered in a really short way.
However, the Hungarian Dusk made my face smiled: with a typical black metal
deduction the bassist wanted to destroy all human race, on the other hand he
was hoping to sell the demo in the largest possible quantity. Hm…
The reviews
section isn’t a strong point of DoV. They are short, sometimes with two curt
sentences only, mostly saying about the genre, with a total amount of 129
(music) and 9 (zines) pieces. Some bios, flyers, commercials and very short
Bulgarian report included as well.
To sum all
the things up: I liked it a lot due to many unknown bands, but it is more than
clear that King is on the start with his writing. Great the next issues are
better with another portion of exotic crews. Virgins! Watch it!
7/10
-Tlacaxipehualiztli
(written in June, 2015)
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