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Weirdos and freaks, scientists and philosophers, Index libertines and mavericks of metal music! Crew 2 Half a year ago avantgarde-metal.com About Avantgarde-Metal 4 began to sprout its branches into the internet. Originally it was meant to be a little harbour for lovers of the metal sounds beyond the streamlines. But very Interviews soon it became obvious that we are not the only ones bored by the clichés and conventions of the metal scene. BETHLEHEM 5 DøDHEIMSGARD 12 Your interest in the weird sides of metal ABIGOR 22 is stunning. More than 45.000 visitors FLEURETY 31 show that the metal revolution has al- ready begun! And so avant-garde- KOROVAKILL 38 metal.com grew rapidly. In February DOL AMMAD 44 2007 we started with four people. Now ANGIZIA 51 the crew consists of 16 enthusiastic writ- MANES 60 ers from all corners of the world. More SATANOCHIO 63 than two hundred articles have been written to present you the most experi- BERGRAVEN 67 mental and innovative sounds metal can KEKAL 69 provide. THE AMENTA 74 IMPURE DOMAIN 78 So we thought that the time was ripe for [D]EKADEN[Z] 81 a big Christmas present for you – the first print edition of avant-garde- GIRE 84 metal.com. On 124 pages you can find ANSUR 88 all online interviews and reviews of the UMBAH 92 most important avant-garde metal al- BRACHIALILLUMINATOR 94 bums of 2007. And you can find the re- ABSTRUSE 98 sults of your voting for the best albums of this year. Discover the hidden Treas- ures & Reviews Never stop the Freak Show… Chrystof Retrospection 2007 102 rd 23 December 2007 Your Top Ten Albums 103 More new Releases 111 Hidden Treasures 118 Imprint 125 1 THE CREW Chrystof Nieder- Bernd Grünwald wieser Vienna, Austria Tyrolean Alps Webmaster and Designer Admiral of the Editorship - design with Eclipse New Media - organizing concerts with KV Kaltenbach - music with Sternenstaub Katja Honeywine aVoid van de Barrel the southern Swedish Germany woods PDF design and reviews, stories and inter- MySpace Mistress views Studies Environmental Sci- Bassist in Havok, Strange ence and Resource Manage- Calm and Infernal Hellfire, ment - plus a few clandestine writing for "The Grimoire of projects - studying English Exalted Deeds" and Musicology Olivier Côté Jegger Montreal, Canada Austria reviews, stories and inter- interviews views studying Philosophy - writing stories and essays Guitarplayer for Tristwood and Bearcht – writing a EROS - Live, learn and love - doctorate in German phi- that's all there really is. lology Jobst (in real-life Jonny Lignano realms known as Nofar) enfant terrible of reviews, stories and interviews Tel Aviv, Israel reviews, stories and inter- Favorite guitar chord: e views Favorite letter: l Favorite addition: c + l = d author at its first novel peak - writer and co-editor in the currently developing a Israeli reviews website "The dictionary of imperatives Blind Janitor" that are no real impera- tives (i.e. Drehtüre) 2 James Slone Polygon Lost Wages, Nevada - Bamberg (Franco- now lives in Seattle, nia/Germany) Washington (USA) reviews and interviews reviews and stories Sound-wizard of the Ger- Freelance writer, film man Black Metal blogger, radical activist, collective Membaris – performance artist, ama- currently returned from teur guitarist, lover of the an academic exchange in good things in life Riga Tentakel P. revon Germany- Hamburg, Hungary pearl of the north reviews and interviews reviews, stories and in- terviews -Drummer of Todtgelich- Dives into: Origins of the ter Avantgarde movement, -Lover of literature dadaist/surrealist movies, -Watcher of weird movies literature, photography, -Player of retro-games painting, astronomy Suleiman Ali Trident Pakistan Southern Germany reviews, stories and in- Reviews terviews Planning Engineer by Profession & family man The mystery of life is not by calling - mastermind a problem to be solved of the weird musical ex- but a reality to be experi- perience Burzukh enced Ulv MvH In the middle of Croatia born in Wiesbaden, Ger- many – now living in reviews, stories and in- Virginia (USA) terviews reviews A thought: "Gold is to give silence a form" Favorite addition: Musician, Military History, d + c = Lignano Astronomy, Photography, The meaning of life is to: Philosophy, Reading, .... create Writing More information about us can be found in the “about” section of www.avantgarde-metal.com. If you’d like to get in contact with a crew member you also can find our email addresses there. Your messages are warmly welcome! 3 ABOUT AVANT-GARDE METAL “Avant-garde” is the French term for “advance guard” or “vanguard”. It refers to people who venture into the unknown. Sometimes they find the shining shores of the future there, the visions and ideas of tomorrow. Sometimes they get lost in the forests of insanity, in the whirls of chaos and confusion. But it’s always new worlds that they discover. Sometimes the avant-garde of today will become the mainstream of tomorrow. But most avant-garde will always remain absurd and strange to the masses. Avantgarde-metal.com is dedicated to the pioneers of metal, to those bands and musicians who incorporate new and innovative elements into metal, who break conventions, tear down walls, violate borders. They build new worlds. They sur- prise. More than for any other term in metal, the characteristics of avant-garde metal are hard to specify. What’s fresh, innovative, new, surprising? The answer to this question lies in the eye of the beholder. Some say avant-garde metal is the art of creating deep and strange atmospheres by experimenting with new instruments and sounds, strange vocals, unconven- tional song structures, rhythms and harmonies, unusual lyrics or uncommon art- work. Others describe avant-garde metal as progressive, psychedelic, surrealis- tic, phantasmagoric, expressionistic, dissonant or extravagant interpretations of extreme metal. But what do such words really mean? We don’t care, because... ...DEFINITION IS THE DEATH OF INDIVIDUALITY! Avantgarde-metal.com was created to provide a home for all those metal bands that try out new things and create their own, individual paths. It was created for everybody who is bored with the petrified spiderwebs of cliché, commerce and convention. Anyway, avant-garde metal is freestyle. We don’t want to judge whether a band or an album is avant-garde or not. All artists who claim to be avant-garde will be featured here. Some of them might seem like ordinary, conventional metal to you. About some others you may think that they are not metal at all anymore, that they are something completely different. We won’t participate in such con- troversies about categorization. Decide for yourself if a band inspires you or not. If you know any weird artists that aren’t featured on this site yet, don’t hesitate and send us an e-mail! And if you are a musician and have produced some weird music, then your CDs are always welcome here. ENTER THE WEIRD SIDES OF METAL! 4 those ones. Pretty much extreme. Other mu- BETHLEHEM sicians surely will be "Olaf Eckhardt" for the second guitars again and of course "Stevo" Dictius Me Spectare on the drums. A very nice line-up we hope- fully also can play life a bit with. By Katja Honeywine van de Barrel In the last years I more cared bout my side- Bethlehem is not only the name of a city project called "Stahlmantel", I did different where Jesus was born and the whole insanity demos for since I started with this shit back of Christianity came to life. It is also a hyper in 1999. Stahlmantel is kinda electro thing, creative bunch of young/old, partly good ourselves do call it, Dark Industrial Elite Sui- looking musicians creating sounds that wanna cide = D.I.E.S. This description of course is make you jump off the bridge or some sky- totally bollocks like nearly all of em are scraper, that make you wanna cut yourself somehow, but anyway. Without stupid crap with a knife, that make you partly wanna like that no one is taking you so serious, masturbate or even cook rotten eggs with right? So give you guys some bone, hope you horse worms and mouldy bread. gonna feel comfortable with. Bethlehem always went their very own way. In 2007 we finished the recordings for our In 1994 they released their debut album latest demo "Satan Snuff Machine". I again called "Dark Metal”, which nowadays is a wrote all the music for this, some dark, dis- synonym for a whole new sub-genre. Their turbing and cold mixture of industrial ele- albums are considered to be idiosyncratic ments in combination with pure metal riffing. masterpieces with weird and enigmatic lyrics. A friend of mine from Seattle/USA, known as Jürgen Bartsch, "Nihilist" wrote creative head, all lyrics this bassist, lyricist time and was and electronic responsible for technician of all vocals as Bethlehem, a well. Pretty dis- band which has turbing black accomplished metal vocals I so much since again have sent the formation thru some dis- in 1991. Jürgen tortion effects to Bartsch, a fan- let it sound tastic interlocu- more brutal and tor who talks cold. Nihilist btw as long and also is singing in much on the "In Memorium" phone as my and "Aba- mother at the zagorath", both hair dressers. US bands. "Sa- tan Snuff Ma- "Mein Weg" has already been released 3 chine" already was released in China as a years ago. What has happened in the limited edition of 500 CDs and also will be in meantime? Will Bethlehem disciples ever Poland thru "Metalrulez Prod." with some new get new fodder? layouts + two bonus tracks, this or next month too.