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Paranoize is a non-profit independent 11/25/17 publication based in New Orleans, What a crazy year it’s been! I originally Louisiana covering metal, punk, planned for this issue to come out in May hardcore, sludge, doom, stoner rock and with a completely different collection of pretty much anything loud and noisy. interviews (aside from the Curtis Cottrell interview that Bill Heintz sent me back in Bands/labels are encouraged to send their April). One morning I woke up with severe abdominal pains passed it off as a stomach music in to review, but if we don’t like it, bug and was just going to ride it out over you can bet that we’ll make fun of you. the weekend . Conditions didn’t get any better a day later, so my girlfriend, Micki, Advertisements and donations are what told me to stop being an idiot and go to the keep this publication FREE. Go to emergency room. It turns out my appendix www.paranoizenola.com or email had ruptured and my insides were filled [email protected] to find out with all sorts of nastiness. They couldn’t go how to donate or advertise. in laproscopically and remove it because I had waited too long so they had to cut me You may send all comments, questions, open and clean me out. The surgeon said letters, music for review (vinyl, cassette, that I should have been dead. cd), ‘zines for trade, money, various I was to be out of work for 6 weeks, so to household items, etc. to: Paranoize P.O. help ease my mind on how I would get my Box 2334 Marrero, LA 70073-2334 bills paid, Kelley Quigley set up a GoFundMe and Jenn Attaway organized a Visit Paranoize on the internet at: benefit show and I was able to stay afloat www.paranoizenola.com while I healed up. Thanks to all of you who contributed and paranoizenola.bandcamp.com helped out. I’d be in a world of shit without www.facebook.com/paranoizenola you! www.twitter.com/paranoize Anyway, on to this issue! Bill Heintz is on Several staff members have shows on board as a guest contributor (and I’ll Core Of Destruction Radio: probably be hitting him up more often!) (www.coreofdestructionradio.com) interviewing long-time New Orleans scene Bobby hosts Out Of Bounds, M.Bevis fixture Curtis Cottrell. The interview turned hosts Sonic Relay, Lizard hosts Stoned out to be an essay, so we just went with Insanity. Visit the site for schedules. that! Tune in 24/7 for the best of the Jenn interviewed Dom Jones about his underground! cassette label, A Necessary Evil, and the upcoming Gulf Coast Slaughterfest (the ad Paranoize #43 credits: for it is on the back page of this issue) Bobby Bergeron: Raise The Death Toll Lizard interviewed Todd Zilla of Bloodsick interview, reviews, layout, and I hit up Brawla, who has been in a few bands over the years (AggroFate, The Unwilling Commencement) about his latest Bill Heintz: Curtis Cottrell interview project, Raise The Death Toll, and the Bands In Your Backyard compilation series Jenn Attaway: Dom Jones interview he’s doing. Lizard: Bloodsick interview Thanks for reading all this! Enjoy the ‘zine! Bobby Ali Amarena: cover photo (Raise The Death Toll) NEW ORLEANS SCENE REPORT Alright, since nobody really gave me Eat The Witch much to publish here, I’m just going (sludge/doom/instrumental) to publish a list of New Orleans area eatthewitch.bandcamp.com bands and where you can listen to their music. I don’t want to kill this Ekumen section off! If I left your band out, it (punk/hardcore) wasn’t intentional. This was thrown ekumen.bandcamp.com together very last minute. Fat Stupid Ugly People Abysmal Lord (hardcore/powerviolence) (black metal) fatstupiduglypeople.bandcamp.com abysmal-lord.bandcamp.com Gristnam A Hanging (grind/hardcore/sludge) (thrash/hardcore/crossover) gristnam.bandcamp.com ahanging504.bandcamp.com Mehenet AR-15 (black metal) (thrash/hardcore) mehenet.bandcamp.com ar-15.bandcamp.com/ Mountain Of Wizard Bloodsick (metal/rock/instrumental) (death/black/doom metal) mountainofwizard.bandcamp.com bloodsick.bandcamp.com Mule Skinner Big Pig (grindcore) (metal/prog) themuleskinner.bandcamp.com bigpignola.bandcamp.com Mystic Inane Capsizer (punk) (doom/stoner metal) mysticinane.bandcamp.com Capsizer.bandcamp.com The NoShows Cauche Mar (ska/punk) (metal/punk/classical/latin/etc.) thenoshows.bandcamp.com cauchemarnola.bandcamp.com Out Of Reach Cikada (hardcore) (sludge/doom) Outofreachla.bandcamp.com cikadadoom.bandcamp.com The Pallbearers (punk) Classhole thepallbearers.bandcamp.com (punk/hardcore) classhole.bandcamp.com Patsy (punk) itspatsy.bandcamp.com Donkey Puncher (punk/hardcore) Raise The Death Toll reverbnation.com/donkeypuncher (death metal/deathcore) raisethedeathtoll.bandcamp.com NEW ORLEANS SCENE REPORT Recluse Checkpoint Charlie (grind/hardcore/powerviolence) 501 Esplanade Ave. New Orleans reclusenola.bandcamp.com Twist Of Lime Romasa 2820 Lime St. Metairie (post-sludge) romasa.bandcamp.com Babylon 2917 Harvard Ave. Metairie Six Pack (thrash!) Record Stores: sixpack1.bandcamp.com Skullyz 907 Bourbon St. New Orleans Space Cadaver (sludge/doom/crust) Euclid spacecadaver.bandcamp.com 3301 Chartres St. New Orleans SS Boombox Sisters In Christ (punk/garage) 5206 Magazine St. New Orleans ussboombox.bandcamp.com The Mushroom Tomb Of Nick Cage 1037 Broadway St. New Orleans (horror punk) thetombofnickcage.com Press: Sonic Boom Magazine Torture Garden https://issuu.com/kevinp.johnson (punk/hardcore) torturegarden504.bandcamp.com Antigravity Magazine www.antigravitymagazine.com Totally Possessed Paranoize (thrash/hardcore/crossover) www.paranoizenola.com totallypossessed.bandcamp.com Witch Burial (black metal) witchburial.bandcamp.com For info on upcoming shows go to www.noladiy.org VENUES: Santos 1135 Decatur St. New Orleans Poor Boy’s 1328 St. Bernard Ave. New Orleans Circle Bar 1032 St. Charles Ave. New Orleans Gasa Gasa 4920 Freret St. New Orleans WHY I LIVE IN NEW ORLEANS by Curtis Cottrell as told to Bill Heintz stations, too. I liked Chipmunks, Coasters and “Alley Oop” produced by I first met Curtis at The Abstract Cafe Kim Fowley. When I was in third during a Quincy Punx/FYP show grade, I met Bobby Charles when he back in the mid 90's. He was wearing performed at a company picnic and an orange prison jump suit and I hung out with him for the whole questioned whether or not to pass him afternoon. I asked him why the radio the joint. My brother said "Yea man, played Bill Haley’s version of “See that's Curtis". At first I thought he You Later, Alligator” instead of his was crazy. Then, I got to know him original. Bobby was the regional and realized that he really is crazy. promoter for Chess Records and made Kidding, he's actually one of the sure that their blues records were on coolest people you'll ever meet and our local jukeboxes. We liked the possesses the most incredible heavy guitars of Chuck Berry, Howlin’ knowledge about music that I have Wolf, Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley, ever come across. Over the past 20+ but R’n’B songs with sax solos were years he has gotten me into hundreds cool, too. Some big kids threatened us of bands with mix VHS tapes, spindles for playing black music, but we kept of CD's and countless conversations doing it just to irk them. The Beach at gigs. He's a huge Party movies introduced us to surf contributor/supporter of the New bands, but we liked Von Zipper’s Orleans underground scene and has bikers better than Frankie and Annette. done plenty to spread the word of our antics throughout the world. He is I got a stereo for Christmas and began sort of a glue that bonds the local testing my parents. First, I snuck a scene from decade to decade by fuzz guitar into the house on the introducing people that need to meet, Goldfinger soundtrack. Then came preserving and passing on great music The Ventures Play Batman and Wild from the past and boasting a general Angels soundtrack after reading Hunter enthusiasm and drive that is Thompson’s Hell’s Angels. My contagious. brother bought Sgt. Pepper in 1967 and I sent him a list of questions for gave me Absolutely Free by Frank Paranoize regarding his contributions Zappa’s Mothers for my birthday. I and musical highlights from over the gave him Their Satanic Majesties years and he delivered a pretty Request by Rolling Stones. I got the incredible history of his musical single of “I Can See for Miles” by The upbringing! "Curtis is on the case." - Who and The Crazy World of Arthur Bill Heintz Brown, produced by Pete Townshend. BFF Jeff Smith gave me albums by I have always loved New Orleans The Who, Seeds, and Grateful Dead—I music. From ages six to ten, I watched emulated Pigpen’s blend of biker and American Bandstand daily with our bohemian styles. Big Brother had the maid, a Fats Domino fan. She listened Hells’ Angels seal of approval, too. I to the 50s R’n’B DJs on the local AM got Jefferson Airplane’s Crown of WHY I LIVE IN NEW ORLEANS Creation and The Family That Plays Wall and The Gentrys at proms. Jeff Together by Spirit. A girlfriend loaned Smith and I did the light show for me Love, Quicksilver and White Light A440 from Houston at the 1968 Sock White Heat by Velvet Underground. Hop with opaque, overhead, slide and Jeff drove me all over town looking for 16mm projectors. The crowd liked it Jimi Hendrix Experience. A music when I superimposed slides of flowers store redneck wisecracked, over crash test dummy films while Jeff “Psychedelic soul brother? What will mixed oil, water and food colors on the they think of next?” overhead.