Vol. 4 - #4 Issue 22 - June / July 2008 Absolutely FREE WACKEN PREVIEW - IRON MAIDEN, CARCASS, AT THE GATES, KREATOR, 3 INCHES OF BLOOD WE TALK TO METAL DOCUMENTARY FILM INTERVIEWS WITH PRODUCERS SAM DUNN & SCOT MCFADYEN TESTAMENT PLUS: CANADIAN METAL BANDS, TYRANTS BLOOD, DEATH ANGEL OST EST IMA & ELECTRO QUARTERSTAFF OBITUARY Tattoos Music Horror Skate Art Editor - In - Chief - Ira Hunter (BC) Rock Star - Willy Jak (BC) Art Director - Chad Persley (AB) Music Editor - Emily Kendy (BC) Graphic Design - Demonika (AB) Ad Design - Clayton Hearty (BC), table of contents Writers -IE.S. Day, Demonika, Dustin Jak, Emily Kendy, Pauly Hardcore, Bubba, Ty Stranglehold, Billy Hopeless, Chris Walter, locals only - the beaumonts .......................................page 4 Mark Morr, Jym Wilson, Ira Hunter, Ryan Dyer, Mark Morr, Erik Lindholm, Uncle Anus, John Tard, Ricky Jak, Kristin Semchuck, mainland mayhem , the jolts ...................................... page 5 Bumsexjen, David Zunker, Darren Ollinger, Sean McKay, Nick Parsons, Heather Furneaux, Jimmy Vertigo, Grimm Culhane, calgary carnage - ost est ima, colin decker free fall .. page 6 Ronalado Dinkbague, Jason Schmidt, Lethal. Photographers -Ira Hunter, Bubba, Ben Heiderich, Bryn demonika’s symphony of horrors ............................... page 7 Johnson, Pauly Hardcore, Chad Persley, Demonika, Jen Dobbs, Jordana Meilleur/jordanameilleur.com . childsplay.. ..................................................................page 9 Comic Artists – Robin Thompson, Randy Chaos, Dick Kaupf Horoscope - David Zunker - www.mysticmountainlodge.com head charger .............................................................. page 10 Goddesses of Transcription – Chelsea Rotten Wotton, Emily Kendy, Crystal Walts, Sarah Larson death angel ................................................................... page 11 Super Stallions of Transcription – Pauly Hardcore, Chuck Wurley, Michael Motorcycle, Erik Lindholm, Adam Hughes wretched winnipeg - electro quarterstaff .............page 12 Interns – Needed Desperately!!! 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The talent in the subjectline along with a samples of your reader must understand that all information work and or website links, your resume as well as the given is from many various sources, therefore city your are living in... ABSOLUTE UNDERGROUND MAGAZINE cannot be held responsible for any accuracy, completeness or legalities. www.absoluteunderground.ca By Mark “Marlborough” Jak who had previously put together and played guitar in 2 Victoria bands from the early ‘90’s: AssBackwards, ( or the AssBastards as The Beaumonts hail from Victoria BC and consists of erstwhile some called them) featured Dustin Jak previously from Shutdown members Willy Jak and Rhys on guitars, Luke Burgess on drums and on skins and Doug Copley from the Clusterfux on Vox and bass Spider McTerrible on bass. The guys started up in ‘02 and quickly with Willy on guitar. Next, Willy slung together The Pricks, with put together a list of tunes featuring a great cover of The Sonics’ Victoria lokes Rob Handy playing bass and Andrew Walker and then “Strychnine”. Lots of crunchy dual Les Paul downpicking and tough, Dustin on skins. It was a fiery relationship that sometimes resulted snotty vox through each garage rock-esque, blues-ey track. Solid in physical conflict between not only the band members, but also slower- mid temp drumming hits the mark and keeps Willy’s and with patrons at their shows who might be offended by, say, Rob Rhys’s lyrics clear and audible. wearing a dead kitten on a string around his neck while playing at a The Beaumonts came to be through the imagination of Willy Jak PETA benefit (I think it was??). I mean, I can’t see it but the pressure must have been taking its toll on Willy, because he decided to put The Pricks on hold and take a cushy, relaxing job playing bass in The Dayglos for the next near decade! Paired with his continuing Calgary, Innisfail and Edmonton the days before. Armed with their commitment to The Dayglos, 6 song demo and some killer looking shirts and stix, these guys The Beaumonts represents should be able to generate enough revenue to afford the gas bucks the next progression of Willy’s to get them there and back in one piece. dirty, stay at home song writing BEAUMONTS on tour with LA’s Last Priority abilities. July 7 The Cobalt Vancouver BC Not scared to hit the road, The Beaumonts have made it out July 8 The Distillery Calgary AB to southern Alberta 3 times July 9 The Zoo Innisfail AB previous and are now slated to take it one step further and hit July 11 TBA TBA Saskatoon and Winnipeg after July 11 TBA Edmonton, AB gigging through Vancouver, July 12 Ozzie’s Winnipeg MB Glen Bitters: I don’t have a Cadillac Accolade so I aspirations? think I’ll do just fine. Ty Stranglehold: Find a “sugar mamma” to finance Adam Sewer: No comment. your band and start putting out records ASAP! Eat Drink Tour AU: Glen, have you ever driven impaired while Big Rick: Better to burnout than to fade away, son! on tour? Glen Bitters: Find a lot of money. Glen Bitters: Had a couple Don’t live on an island. Buy a van that The Hoosegow Movie! here and there, but I can’t doesn’t have a 180-liter gas tank! really remember. Adam Sewer: I shouldn’t have taken big boys from AU: We didn’t see it in the so many Vicodin! Victoria. documentary, but how do Well, I guess the more things change, Almost two years you guys fend off all the the more they stay the same. Neither later, I’ve finally groupies when on the road? the footage nor the sound is the finished the Ty Stranglehold: I don’t know greatest in this documentary, but it’s documentary and what you’re talking about, very raw and