DESECRATION OF VIRGIN 4 (2000)

2000, 56/A4, printed, English, interviews: POSTHUMOUS, MANATARK, FORNICATION, MENTAL HORROR, ZOLTAR, NEGURA BUNGET, NECROFLESH, ABHORRENCE, SECRETS OF THE MOON, GOSPEL OF THE HORNS, EMBALMED SOULS, LETHAL CURSE, ESCHATOS, MYSTERIAL, HORNAGEST, HOMICIDE, INFERNAL, DESTRUKTOR, TORTURE SQUAD, BLACK ANGEL, UNPURE, KRABATHOR, HIRILORN, ZEMIAL, ROK.

If the previous press King’s attack into the bastions of the underground made a permanent state of erection, the four is rather some kind of disappointment, creating an atmosphere of strange exolution.  Although King managed to provide 56 pages this time, nothing has been changed. Luckily? All right, let’s start with the Posthumous interview as it is pretty good opener, Gustavo gave full-informative and interesting answers. But when I want to sum all the things up, something is missing here. That’s true there are good chats (Negura Bunget, all the Aussie bands, Secrets of the Moon, Infernal, Zemial or astonishingly comprehensive Peruvian Black Angel as opposed to their music). And what is more, the whole is desecrated (or better to write: desecrated?) by Rok in a really fine way, and yes, this Australian son of metal, possessed by ‘k’ letter, should write another dictionary (fukk, diktionary) with his claiming on the start that ‘k’ is more aggressive than ‘c’. Ah, never mind. And… that’s all. Mostly, due to standard questions or laconic answers, or both these things together, the interviews are just ok and nothing more than that. Some of them very short (like Necroflesh with four questions…), or with orgy of printing and spelling errors (Hornagest chat and ‘let’s try to write a demo title the right way…’).

White and black are the only rightful hues. King knows it and doesn’t change anything. However layout and cut’n’paste method seems to be more chaotic. Let’s take five first inties on the plate: King serves five different fonts. If the reviews are concerned, I’m accustomed to read it, yet some of them pretend to be more thought-out shit. But there is wrong way in choosing Mr. Hurricane to write words on music. Simply it’s a waste of paper as his poor considerations on it don’t fit to the desecrated virgin style. One side is bad, but King provides something new to his kingdom, attacking my eyes with new section called Ancient Cult. To put it briefly: really great idea as I always love to read anything on old, not seldom forgotten, piece of ancient hot metal.  What a pleasant feeling reading all these items coming from South and Latin America mostly. In addition pretty vast report from Malaysia revealing both old and newer exhalements from the region. Unfortunately the latter report that comes from Portugal is given in a much poorer way.

Well, this issue brings many conflicting emotions. The whole is bigger than the previous ones with total amount of 210 reviews of music and 18 of underground papers and it’s good, because the virgin grows up. But reading it is like a rollercoaster journey. Luckily this ‘case’ will be improved a bit in the next King’s offers.      

7/10

-Tlacaxipehualiztli

(written in June, 2015