Zine #39 Washington state, U.S. www.metalbulletin.blogspot.com www.facebook.com/pages/The-Metal-Bulletin-paper-zine in this issue: reviews, reports, news, interviews on: Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation (Japan) Dimicandum (Ukraine) Mortal Soul (Kenya) Deeds of Flesh (U.S.) Ghost Bath (China) Subterror (Brazil) Mist (Slovenia) Theoria (Syria) The Great Gamble (U.S.) Eye of Solitude (U.K.) Secret of Ankh (Iran) also: DEATH METAL traditional: Cleric (U.S.), Derogatory (U.S.), Harm (Germany), Torchure (Germany) technical/blast: Deprecated (U.S.), Oblivion (U.S.), Pestilence (Holland) HEAVY/POWER METAL Argus (U.S.), Cyntia (Japan) MELODIC/GROWL METAL Nightfall (Greece), Noumena (Finland) PROG METAL Withem (Norway) THRASH Skeletonwitch (U.S.), Toxic Holocaust (U.S.) WEIRD/EXPERIMENTAL The Meads of Asphodel (U.K.), Mephistopheles (Australia) www.fuglymaniacs.com (issues online, concert videos, interviews, reviews) history of Metal Bulletin Zine Then in 2011 their EP “Kakusei” destroyed any Issue 1 to 20: (2006-2009): Wisconsin doubts about where this band was heading. In a way, Issue 21 to 26: (2009-2010): Texas the EP solidifies the achievement of the debut. Of Issue 27 (2010) -- now; Washington state course, it’s an EP, so it’s short, even within a context of -- grind. Metal Bullletin Zine (MBZ) is a homemade publication That brings us to the present. The name of the and it is not a business enterprise in any way. MBZ is not album is “Wallow.” Clearly presenting their best- business partners with any band, sounding recording to date, “Wallow” is also another record/management/publicity company, club/bar, or loud scream of sonic yaaarg-blaaarg that continues any kind of for-profit organizations/individuals. MBZ is what this has band has been doing for all these years not paid money for reviews and interviews. Neither now. It’s quite the racket the way that F.I.D. goes about does MBZ seek to sell any product to anyone for destroying people’s hearing. Everybody’s going to money. need hearing aids after listening to this. -- It’s not just in the studio, either. For instance, look metal on the radio/internet (Pacific Time) up this band on YouTube performing live in concert Metal Shop (Seattle, WA): Saturday 11pm-3am and you will find several frenzy-whipping performances. KISW 99.9fm www.kisw.com F.I.D. is here to chew bubble gum and to play grind, FOUR ridiculous hours of the heavy stuff! and they are all out of bubble gum. Whether it’s Obscene Extreme Fest in the Europe or Asia, or some Sweet Nightmares (Houston, TX): Thursday night club in the middle of nowhere USA, the people who 9pm-midnight KPFT 90.1 fm www.kpft.org witness the band leave very moshed up and most likely Bill The Master and his pirates take over Texas! in some form of bodily pain. — F.I.D. has made a couple of appearances in the — U.S., such as in L.A. and Oakland. Here’s a picture of Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the F.I.D. with those lumberjack trainhopping hoboes from Capitalist Casualties and Slight Slappers. Dilapidation (Japan) The hills are alive with the sound of grind and Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation. Besides possibly having the greatest name for a band ever, this group is made up of geniuses of grind. Instantly likeable, and efficiently People into Nasum, Rotten Sound, Napalm Death and to the point, with no time-a-wasting, the F.I.D. sound grind in general, this one’s for you. has taken over my “house” (a van down by the river). www.facebook.com/Flagitious.Idiosyncrasy.in.th The band has demos from 2003, 2004 and 2006. e.Dilapidation THE END Then, in 2008, that’s when the grind hit the windmill, the -- band’s debut self-titled album was released. Dimicandum (Ukraine) Ridonculous: an outrageous collection of growling, screaming, animal sounds, thundering bass, stomping In the previous issue of this zine, the review noted, beats, blasting…and lots of yaaarrgg woof-woof amongst other things, about Dimicandum’s album “The aaarrrgg! Legacy of Gaia”: Bits, segments and pieces in the songs suggest “Listeners into modern melodic heavy/power metal all sorts of genre mixing, yet it all sounds very grind. For and big choruses should look into Dimicandum today.” short moments, you may think that they are going to do “There are eight songs on here. No filler, just hit a slow doom song, and it all gets busted up in grind; after hit.” some riffs sound kind of “rock and roll,” only to get “Starting with the first song, ‘The Legacy of jacked up by grind. A lot of times F.I.D. sounds like Gaia,’ things just get better and sooner than you “brutal death metal,” but it’s so hyper that it all turns realize, the album is over with ‘When the Sun Burns into grind the F.I.D. way. Immensely enjoyable and Out.’ What is a person to do? Have to play it again.” boatloads of fun; F.I.D. has a certain punk rock flair that charms up the grind, too. Dimicandum sounds like melodic, traditional heavy/power metal, with atmospheric elements and a bit of growling, but framed contextually, and keeping the music very catchy. Roman (vocals, guitars) answers some questions about the band. -- Hello, you are based in Kiev, correct? How is the metal scene in Kiev for Dimicandum? Hi! That's right, we're from Kiev, Ukraine. Our scene is lagging behind the West and now just getting on its feet. We do not have the infrastructure for the development of metal music, all that is done, is done by enthusiast forces alone. The situation with the clubs is stable, it is not always quality concert halls, but there is All your songs are in English. Can your ideas for the where to play, there are some cool clubs. In general, songs be expressed just as well in Ukrainian? each year the development of the scene is enhanced! No, we do not have the songs in Ukrainian, Russian was [used on] a couple [of songs] at the beginning of our What are your current objectives? career. But we came to the conclusion that it is better In 2013/2014 we plan to release one more video, new to sing in English. This opens up more possibilities, after single, and start writing the album, the material for all, it’s the language of the original rock n roll. which is now composing. The process is slow, but steady. In the summer we’ll play some festival shows. What are the problems that Dimicandum confronts for Also, we plan a concert in Poland (autumn 2014). The reaching Western Europe, and the Americas or Japan? new album will be a logical continuation of the Previously, the main audience was in Ukraine, then previous one, both in music and in the lyrics. We found Russia and Belarus. But, after release of our album, the style that does not limit our scope and our sound, so geography of our fans greatly expanded. Currently it’s we'll stay the course. Poland, Germany, Indonesia, Mexico, Japan, France, Canada and USA. You have played more than 60 concerts, correct? This year, two of our members must complete What have you learned about functioning as a band? clearance of foreign passport, and then remains the Yeah, right. In total, we played more than 60 concerts. case for [a] small [detail]: to finance our first European Geographically, it is Ukraine and Belarus. The main tour. For a start it will be Ukraine's neighbors, because thing on the tour is to avoid conflicts with each other :) going on a big tour with one album and without large- For us, it was very easy, because in our team is very scale promotional support makes no sense, everything friendly relationships between the musicians. must be gradual. What is your opinion about auto-tune, drum Does the radio in Ukraine play Dimicandum? programming/drum sound replacement technology, Unfortunately, in Ukraine there is only one rock radio and other such things? Do you sing the chorus every station. And they play Iron Maiden, Scorpions, etc., but time on the album or do you "copy and paste"? nothing with growl/scream vocals. All radio stations We think that for some bands, modern technology is a playing extreme metal broadcast are on the internet. real solution. For example, when there is no way to record live drums. In our case, we wrote everything In the U.S., some musicians, when they have a serious completely, all the instrumental parts, without copy- illness, they do not have the money because metal paste; vocals without auto-tune, with minimal musicians are often not as wealthy as other musical processing, etc. All lyrics in the songs also recorded styles. Sometimes their audience donates money for completely, including repeating parts. the sick musician. Can you explain something: If you are sick in Ukraine, what happens when you go to a How is “The Legacy of Gaia” a concept album? clinic or hospital? Yes, it's a concept album. All the songs are related to We have a relatively free medical care, but it is each other and placed in a playlist within the meaning effective for simple diseases. If you’re sick with cancer and mood. The overall message of the album is legacy or something like that, you have to pay a huge pile of of our planet, what we have now and what will be left money for treatment, and the state then does not help.