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"THE ALTERNATIVE TO CREEM"

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Part I Title: Exorcism Year: 1975 Director: Jess Franco Starring: Lina Romay, Jess Franco, Lynn Monteil & Catherine Lafferière Satanic Sleaze Score: 5/10

Dropped eaves, misunderstandings and murder of the most naked ilk.

Franco himself stars as ex-priest Mathis Vogel.Now these days, predatory, sexually repressed pervert priests might be quite common but back in '75 that combo must have surprised many viewers (outwith the Catholic community of course). So anyway what we have here a basically a moral lesson, don't eavesdrop. Ecclesiastes said “Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant organising a fake black mass and accidentally go on a misguided killing spree” (ish). So old cocknose Vogel more or less romps around in a Quixotic fashion murdering tarts in needlessly sexualised forms of exorcism, suggestively chibbing them in the guts with his tiny knife. An oddly farcical and perverse response to a misheard and thus misunderstood subculture, it's not a subtle metaphor, this is Franco's dig at the endless hypocrisy and innate corruption of religion in the hands of the ignorant and the stupid. Quite apt actually given the current environment where there seems to be some sort of global competition between Islam and Christianity to see who has the most ignorant supporters.

My favourite scene is actually quite unrelated to the plot and involves this old scumbag getting humiliated then ridden by Sadistic escort Maria as she shouts insults at him “Dirty pig, Leper's sore, Shit eater etc”. Classy broad, classy scene.

Typically pish storyline aside this film is loaded with nudity, occult rituals, perversity and murder. x

I've been hearing for a whole-lotta life that rock n roll is either dead or dying, binary like 0 or 1. This is ultimately what most over 30's say, but I ken for a fact that somewhere, at any given time of day, a 15 year old kid has just had his mind blown by Sam the Sham and The Pharoes belting out Wully Bully, try telling him that it's dead...

That's the whole point of it shit, what records out of though isn't it? That there your collection would you ain't no point! As one of be drawn to had you just these afore mentioned had your memory wiped? How ancient husks, I no longer many are there because have the tools to enjoy rock somehow you feel they n roll right. I pile endless should be, "No collection meaning, inter-pretation and should be without (Insert importance onto it, when in 'Classic' album title reality it's just the noise here)". I can say with of adolescence. Inane absolute certainty that I energy, frustration and have listened to a whole boredom. The senseless host of shitty, dull music desire to move and con-sume purely because while it among the ferment. drones on in the background I can sit there and think My introduction to music was about how important it was similar to most of my when it came out or how it generation, I reckon. My defined a generation or parents records, I plundered kick started some new that record collection with direction in rock, trying neither reverence nor pre- to explain this to an conception. I made no adolescent would be like distinction between Sgt. when my dad tried to Pepper, Sabbath Bloody educate me on the Sabbath or fucking Salisbury brilliance of Chris Rea (I Hill, for me it was just still think he's shit but I music and it was all brand wouldn't be surprised if new. Stripped of all the one day I just 'got it' and history and high falutin starting digging that boring old cunts sizeable inseparable from a life pebble dashed back catalogue long obsession with music. of croon. That sucks.

About a month ago I listened So now musically I'm more to Trout Mask Replica and or less just a tribute to the weirdest thing happened, myself from 15 years ago. it just clicked and I Lame. Or is it? Isn't started to enjoy it, now experience and knowledge a that might not seem weird to valuable way of increasing you but the fact of it is appreciation? Don't I still that I've hated that album enjoy listening to music, (and band) since I first whether I'm stomping (and heard it probably when I was indeed romping) around the about 17, despite a fair few room in a demented fashion re-visits. Trout Mask or kicking back Replica hasn't changed, I contemplating cultural have. It's virtually shit? Of course I fucking impossible for me to unlike do, and the fact of the it now, conversely it's matter is that 17 year old impossible for me to enjoy me wouldn't have written Seasons in the Abyss the diddly shit about any bands same way I did when it first or albums because back then came out. I fucking loved it all seemed too real, too that album far more than vital, too fast to even anything else at the time, contemplate getting off and now though, having been told looking back in to get a Reign in Blood is the best better view, fuck the view, Slayer album over and over I'm in it, I am the fucking again relentlessly for the view (or I thought I was, past decade by pretty much which adds up basically to every-bastard, I now the same thing anyway, actually believe it is. And right?). they're probably right but 17 year old me didn't give a So what's my point? I'm not fidgety fuck about critics, sure but I think it's genres, readers polls or far something like music never reaching musical influence, dies, people do. The bands I just wanted rock n roll, and fans that start the the louder and uglier the movement will almost better, simple as that. I invariably declare it's can't listen to Louie Louie demise about five years or Prowler or Hit The Lights after declaring it into without the accumulated life. Why? Could be because baggage that is seemingly while rock is international and universal maybe its not inter generational, basic- The irony of this lyric 51 ally old people are boring years on is hard to ignore and young people are if you're old enough to obnoxious. It has always remember it first time been thus. But the music; round. But, (and it's a that doesn't age, doesn't sizeable but at that) get old, never dies even there's no irony in this though it can kind of get song for today's youth, if clogged by the greying we just get out of the road masses, they swarm jealously and let 'em on through. onto a song or a band and Don't burden the next encase it, mummify it with generation with your their decaying bodies, baggage, your regrets, your entwine it with arcane triumphs, your halcyon symbolism, obscure meaning days, just get out the and reverential importance. fucking way. Rock n Roll It wasn't meant for this isn't a museum or a hall of fate though was it? Wasn't fame, it's not a historical it just about fucking and document, it's not being bored or getting important at all. Don't wasted? look back, keep on moving, keep on consuming, live “Your sons and your daughters forever, don't kill it to Are beyond your command preserve it, break it upon Your old road is a wheel and pin it in a Rapidly agin' display case. Don't get old Please get out of the new one by numbers, it's got fuck If you can't lend your hand all to do with maths. For the times they are a- changin" End of rant.

io show in e last rock n roll rad "Quite Literally th !" yer hips n get rodded existence today, shake dude, Where's my Sixties?

So, getting to the point, a little, who or what killed the sixties? Pay attention nerk! It ain't dead, right? BUT it did die for a lot of people, death is after all relative and if some dude tells me the sixties died in 1972 who am I to argue? Maybe for him it did, but then Ghost Ship for me ended after 20 minutes because I got up and walked out of the cinema (I just couldn't bear the shitness, true story). So perhaps a better question to pose would be "Who stole the sixties from whom" or "Dude, where's my sixties?". I blame The Stooges! Those lousy punk bastards crashed the love in and bummed all the hippies man. They reminded everyone what rock n roll was, not everyone needed reminding o' course but you see, sometime in the middle there was a mass infiltration of the scene

Bob Dylan goes electric at Newport Folk Festival, 1965.

ck n roll can be harmful to ro Warning: This machine by intellectuals. These the joke. Arguably the best bookish radicals 'elevated' joke of the past 100 years. rock out of the gutter, But the Velvets joke had an hijacked it to their own agenda beyond poking fun at ends. 1965, Newport, Bob the four sided Dylan plugged in and I like establishment, the to imagine that somewhere in reclamation of rock n roll the distance, behind the by the destruction of the (alleged) booing and jeering high falutin highjackers from Bob Seeger, some who'd bent it to their own scumbag went "Hey Bob, get ends and dumped in a ditch your hands off my rock n roll". Of course after that the Intellectuali- sation or 'dumbing-up' Of rock n roll grew exponen- tially, the hippies came and bored the fuck out of the greasers. Drove 'em underground. They were still Andy n Lou: In joke on the in crowd there of course. Grovelling Bent it right over and in the dark. In fact one such emasculated it before our dirty scallywag pulled off a very eyes. And before you great coup by disguising his ask, yes, rock is male. The rock n roll as art disguised velvets plied their bluff, as rock n roll, the triple some got it, most hated it. bluff, and neatest part was Which was good... the beardies never even seen Rock needed a clear-out, it coming. Congratulations to the Hells Angels were Lou Reed and the Velvet hanging out with poets for Underground, they took fucks sake, something had Warhol's joke on the world of to give. For some it gave art and made it music, rock at Altamont, when the music. Warhol's art is utter Angels unleashed their shit, tons of perfect shit by world of murder and design churned out en mass, violence on a rock which the more you make the better had grown soft on poetry "High Times, Low Lifes" and politics, there was no The Fucking Stooges that's place for them in the rock hoo! of the time, it had outgrown them and they responded with thuggery and simple violence. All in though I don't think the Angels were ever self aware enough to really be termed revolutionaries or counter- revolutionaries, whatever. But they did serve to demonstrate the growing divide between rocks past and present in 1969

“The difference between the student radicals and the They played rock n roll, Hell's Angels is that the stupid, pure and students are rebelling meaningless rock n roll and against the past, while the it routed them hipsters and Angels are fighting the oldies like ne'er afore. future. Their only common Plain chased 'em away in ground is their disdain for droves, a mass retreat back the present, or the status into folk, pop, easy quo.” listening or what the fuck -Hunter S. Thompson - hell's ever man. They brought the Angels: A Strange and danger back, the energy of Terrible Saga youth, the boredom, the frustration, the sex, the drugs. California Dreamin' So who did save rock n roll? this ain't. This was I hear you mutter through a Detroit, these guys knew stifled yawn. Who fought the before everyone else hippies for the hearts and cottoned on that the minds of snot nosed kids the American dream was dog world over? Who killed the shit. And that nothing was sixties, dropped it in a ever gonna change, not with bath full of electric eels politics and not with and straight up brought the poetry, drop out, get down, motherfucker back from the fuck up. beyond, more raw'n twisted'n ever? Change it for yourself and a tribute. I have been as ignore the rest. Rock n Roll guilty as the next arse in ain't for the squares propagating this anyway, who cares what they cannibalistic curse, I've think? With the stooges rock used genre words as stopped preaching to the man descriptors almost as often and just plain ignored him. as I've said a bass line It would be genius if it rumbles and a drum weren't so stoopid. If it clatters. Thing is though, weren't so stoopid it over the past few months wouldn't be genius. There in I've gotten pretty bored of lies the Möbius strip of review writing, to the rock n roll that really lies extent that in my apathetic at the heart of this lengthy laziness I started doing and most ineloquent piece. one word reviews, usually At it's best it's disposable this word was 'doom'...that and yet utterly vital, it's says as much about me as a for the young but it's music fan and writer (Pah!) wasted on them, it's so as it does about the band. simple that it's depth is We're both to blame. I hard to grasp, it means asked for doom, they made nothing to them what need it doom, I said doom. Which most and means everything to came first the genre or the them what should really know music? better. All and Nothing. The music of course. I've But wait, this is a “heavy deliberately limited my metal” rag right? So where's musical consumption to the metal? Metal is rock n specific genres and sub- roll, well...good metal is genres, I exist in a at any rate. metallic bubble, oblivious to the conceived offensive My increasing issue with nature of say, pop, rap or metal is two fold a) The dance. But I've realised fans obsession with genre's that that was in fact more and classifications b) The than a little bit weird, bands designing themselves earlier I talked about to fit said genre's. So mummifying the music, well yeah, basically my problem I mummified myself. Using with metal is just the endless facsimiles of a fucking bands and the handful of bands as fucking fuckers that listen bandages. Fuck the sub to 'em, all contributing to genres and heavy metals this weird vicious feedback infinite divisions, for riven fuck loop thing that therein lies nought but more or less renders all art tribute. Hail diversity, long live heavy metal. Rick Wakeman's Pointy Hat

Hey you, you on the beach soaking up rays n drinkin' rotgut rum, hold tight! Don't run, don't hide, don't try'n fight the clear out. There's a new wave coming over the horizon, ready to drag all the flotsam back out to the sea, get it moving again for the first time in a decade, rip it right up off the beach and spin it off into the future. When that wave hits we're all gonna get lost and turn up someplace else and start the imperceptible descent all over again. Sink and desist, bed in, wait it out, pebbles on the shore...The existence of the wave is clear and undeniable, what's sometimes less clear is what set it going? You could argue that it's always been coming, building forward momentum fed by the lunarian power of youth and energy. Or was it a reaction? A push back? An equal and opposite response to a stimulus, a rock n roll wrong-doing? Was ground zero for the 1977 wave actually an eviscerating response to Rick Wakemans pointy hat? insult to rock, repaid by pistols for the destruction hordes of unruly punks, of a unified rock music, the who's derision of pomp cracks were already showing caused it to melt away into in 1970 when Sabbath maybe the cracks and seep into got a bit “dark” for some, the underground. What I'm who then chose to just ignore saying now is that Wakemans them and focus their hat and to an extent, his attention on bands still cape were pivotal in making the stuff they dug summoning a tidal wave of (starting to mummify). rock n roll redemption (or Either way, we got genre's death depending on how deep from the fragmentation of you were buried). Just like rock, and we're still stuck Dylan plugging in a decade with 'em today. The main earlier, it set off a thing with genre's I suppose cascade of regression. So is that they have a great here's to Rick and Bob, tendency to look inwards, your music imploded rock. crowded tables in the rock Expansion and contraction. bar each with their own Our universe is currently jukebox, some can over hear expanding, what expands the table next door, others a contracts, cyclical like. little bit further away and Same can be said 'bout rock can't hear fuck all over the n roll. It absorbs music, relentless din of their trve the ranks swell, it black metal dirge...each to expands, goes as far as it their own. And therein lies can, stretched and the problem, each to their misshapen beyond almost all own. No-ones fighting, no- recognition then suddenly, ones trying to invade the POP! (as in the short, other tables to steal all the sharp sound and genre). The crisps and beer. How can the whole tangled mess springs revolutions of decades past back more or less to what take place in such an it was before, brass tacks environment? You don't have rock n roll. But here's the to listen to the other thing (we're getting to the tables, you can wander if you metal now) when punk went want to but the craic's light pop in the late 70's just a and passive, apathetic. And couple of years after it so the genre's (let's fuck began, the whole fabric the pub table metaphor off) ofrock n roll fractured. just feed off themselves, Shattered into myriad fat, bloated cannibals pieces, scattered far and basking in the eternal glory wide. Well actually I of their mummified followers. suppose it's a little This set-up suits the record unfair to blame the sex companies, it guarantees an income, black metal will always be bought by black metal fans so long as it sounds a enough like black metal, OK so the money mightn't be as big as pop but it's a lot easier to predict, children are fickle consumers after all and have no loyalty, that comes later when they've identified which records they're going to keep buying over and over again. Back when there was just rock it was hard to make an impact, you had to be good enough to convince the majority, that was your goal, to impact as many lives as possible with your music, to make a difference. Not so much now. Where are all next the headline acts? I hear Metal Hammer et al ask on a more or less monthly cycle, well there's your answer...the headliners are all there, headlining fragmented rock festivals, genre specific gatherings, group masturbation sessions headed up by “underground” heroes.

Revolution is impossible, no one gives a fuck. So where does that leave metal now? Waiting for the next sub-genre that's where, and no I don't think Djent counts, the last we had was probably Nu-Metal; Not looked back on fondly, it made us look preposterous, it made Manowar look preposterous, and they are. And we are. Someone turned on the lights at the Dungeons & Dragons all nighter and revealed us all to be nerds, and we could all see it. We don't want the spotlight, leave that to One Direction. Metals been inbreeding for so long it just looks completely absurd and incoherent to outsiders. Parody enshrined, mistaken tradition, lumpen tribute giving endless head to the ancient dead, art and elitism...What's the point if virtually no-ones listening? And those that actually are listening have heard it all before. Easy. open up, explore the depth and variety of rock n roll spin new records. Right now as you sit reading this pish there is more music in the world than at any other point in history (and guess what if you re-read it in 10 minutes there'll be even more!), don't be a mummy, don't sink in the sand. Be offended and offensive, keep revising. Argue about it, don't keep it to yourselves, spread it with utter abandon like some wild eyed zealot on the high street screaming at passers by. Why waste time preaching to the converted when you could be a metal missionary? And most important of all, don't tolerate shit, demand more, always more. ee Cap'n Elm L PS I still believe rock n roll can save the world...

eS) rWelevanc oEf ir Iia Vrnucop E a co R(or and formulaic approach to metal writing. Now, there's nothing wrong with a tribute, fuck, 90% of the music I end up liking is more or less tribute. But to be good, Cloven Altar it needs to capture at “Demon of the Night" least some of the life of Nov 2015 the original, not just Stormspell Records the structure. Kinda=like ------Sex vs Porn. So, let's Cloven Alter? It does make see...if Cloven Hoof is you wonder what names fuck then Cloven Altar is didn't make the cut wank (in a nice way). And doesn't it? Hairy Plinth, as "purveyors of "wank" Furry Stoop, Hirsute they have the glorious Tabernacle perhaps... unfettered capacity for Anyway like the name, the depraved invention and music here will sound adventure, or alter- familiar to fans of 80's natively they could just metal. So far so trad, do the same old jig, except of course this silently hunched double being 2015 the "band" over the keyboard. Hey, consists of two dudes wouldn't it be cool if a pinging emails between tribute band did covers America and Sweden, Dustin of other bands? Like, how and Ced. So, does all that would The Doors do Run to distance and reliance on the Hills? Anyway, technology make for ultimately I suppose I'm sterility? Well, for me, saying that this is OK, sort of, because it and you know I kind of depends on how ya listen get the feeling that's to it. If you just play it all they were going for, while something else holds a reasonable approxima- your attention then it tion of a handful of does a convincing job of quite frankly better re-creating a sound from a bands. bygone age. Closer attention though reveals an underlying cynicism, a calculated immersed themselves in it and actually added to it, bringing fresh vigour to a glorious yet necessarily static past. You know what they've done? Them meddlin' punks have gone 'n broken the Temporal Prime Directive, and for that I can only applaud their reckl- Seven Sisters essness. We're all still "Lost in Time 7" here after all, doubtless June 2015 there are countless Self Released alternative universes ------where rather than Follow up to last years creating this great Warden demo (very much metal, they instead tore worth a listen by the apart the fabric of way) and Seven Sisters reality resulting in continue to put out solid utter annihilation. Not and above all, believable in this timeline though, metal. Whats-his-face here we can all bask in from Dark Forest has been the gleaming brilliance boosted and replaced by of Lost in Time. Wait a founding dude and minute! This is all original bass player Kyle sounding a bit too McNeil. The sound here is positive isn't it? OK, so vintage (rather than I think the artwork is retro) and belays a deep kind of shit. understanding of not only the British bands of the early 80's but also everything that came before that. The thing that I like most about Seven Sisters (this and their demo both) is that rather than re-hashing the past they have Starborn Cherokee "The Dreaming City" “Ridin' Free demo" June 2015 June 2015 Stormspell Records Van Records ------I really liked last years This is pure brilliance. Born by the Wind ep, The influence is pretty mainly for it's bullshit obvious but there's an free take on the 80's energy and passion at European metal formula. work here that quells my The production was so innate cynicism. Probably shoddy that there were my favourite release of occasional hints of the year. Go give “necro”, while the speed Cherokee money in and ambition left me exchange for this music. thinking of a scummy Play said music dragonforce (awesome!) repeatedly and it will This time though, it's raise the quality of your all a lot cleaner, life to previously slicker and more unexplored heights. If I proficient. I however assigned arbitrary liked the dirt, this one numbers to music I love has slipped over into then this would get 10 pastiche territory for out of 10. me. No idea at all why bands do this, maybe it's my masochistic streak but I nearly always prefer The Night the vitality of the "Scream Into" scuzzball demo to the June 2015 lifeless over thought Self Released follow-ups. Meh, my ------advice is go get Born by Now then, this I like. the Wind instead. Over in some place in America called Portland, The Night are doing rock n roll, attitude and speed. Simple and catchy, this is one for all you trve lowlifes absorbing this most pishy rag and for a change I'm not gonna over think it.

The Ginger Faye Bakers “Smoke Signals" June 2015 Atco Records ------Second album from this Bastard Lord Rochester (NY) three “Bastard Lord" piece. This is what I'm July 2015 talking about, so it's 2015 and Rock n Roll's Self Released been around for like at ------least 65 years. We have at I've always been a our fingertips more music sucker for green skinned than at any other time in women, and I find 'em human history. So does more often than you that mean it's all been might think without even done before, we're forced looking for them. One to just rehash clumsily such verdant beauty the work of our forebears? (with a tail no less) Do you set up your canvas, lured me to this album open the paintbox, look with her bared inside and sigh because hemispherical bum all them colours have been cheeks, this excellent used before. If only you cover art also featured had a new colour in there, a boob being groped by right? Right, so start some sort of abraded mixing, get it wrong and appendage. OK so Bastard it'll surely fade to Lord aren't doing brown, get it right and anything new, at all in you end up with at least a fact. And I'm positive new hue, the possibilities that there are myriad are virtually endless. bands both past and These baker bastards have present which are mixed up a beauty that sonically indistingui- sounds like everything we shable. However in this (the humons) ever did, case I don't really care good times. This is good about originality or the tunes for good times, lack of, I like these people come on. four songs s man l hu ONLY "Al for" red cate (£pl 10 us p&p) Order yours from https://bloodbathfanzine.bigcartel.com Death Alley “Black Magic Boogieland" July 2015 Tee Pee Records ------Rock from Amsterdam. For some Amsterdam will invoke images of decadence and degeneracy Black Tower but for me I cant help “Secret Fire" but picture a small June 2015 river, the flow of which No Idea Records (LP) / has been impeded by a Unspeakable Axe (CD) bunch of hamsters. So ------this records got some Grand ol' Lady Canada yet good stuff goin' on; the again hunches up on one riffs. Butt it's also got cheek to birth another a fairly sizeable piss solid gold heavy metal stain on the trousers of nugget. Black Tower are decency that I find very total genius'. This hard to ignore. On racket is contagiously balance I find it energetic and at times slightly more shit than just plain nuts, weaving good, purely down to the together a seamless vocals which seem to me patchwork of punk, to be at best generic and classic and black metal a bit like Rob Zombie stylings with stories of singing rawk, letting fantastical derring-do. down an otherwise decent Every song is in a state album of fuzzy, mid to of perfect balance late 70's style between extremity and metal/rock. I enjoyed the melody (Catchy chorus' pacier, bordering frantic too, thanks to a mispent “Dead Man's Bones”, the youth of pop punk tight rythym and riff indulgence). This is keeping my attention off fucking good rock n roll, the anoying singing, sort ”The time has come to of... take back what was ours. We’re ready to die", eh! with a heavily flared butt plug stuffed in, and secondly they just cancelled their sub- scripion to Calendar Dark Confidant Club. Sounds good back in '85 don't it? Well OK so “The Colossus Falls" the Pepsi is made with July 2015 real sugar but there's no Self Released Nicki Minaj, decide for ------yourself, and while you Sub-bargain-basement pro- try make your mind up duction, strong writing listen to this. See you and playing add up to a earlier, bozo's good release from this Ohio 4-piece (50% of whom appear to be from the Old Testament). The clock at Dark Confidant HQ in The Workhorse III Eugene runs currently at “The Workhorse III" GMT-269880, this is a July 2015 unique time zone that is DRP Records in a state of constant ------flux. Adapting a It's 2015, everyone fantastic 24 times a day loves a list right? relative to a clock Well, here's a shitty hanging on a woodchipped list* of three things kitchen wall in Greenwich other bands should learn (UK) just to retain its from Workhorse III's static place within the self titled second universe. Mathematically record 1) Rock it hard here exists only space, n' keep it raw don't time is frozen, here it waste time/money on is and always will be production. 2) Play what January 1st 1985. How did you want, fuck genres they achieve this and tags. 3) Rock n Roll astounding perversion of will never die, do it physics I hear you ask? fast and do it loud and Well, firstly they have a you won't either. tiny black hole PS I have no evidence to support point 3...yet. South The sleeve has a picture “EP 2015" of a biplane and track 1 July 2015 is called 'Chopper Self Released Wired'. I had a good idea ------of what this was going to Danish debutants dealin' sound like, but I bought deadly dounble-d doom-n- it anyway. Boring and roll directly down generic. I mean does yer...er. OK what the fuck anyone actually say was all that alliteration “chasin' tail” anymore? about? Moving on to more Honestly, I need to know. important matters, namely Shit this one off friend. this most unimaginitively named EP. I can take absolutely no offence to anything contained herein, Sump this is afterall a very “II" standard fare. What more Feb 2015 can I say about such a Self Released middle of the road rock ------release? I mean, it does Found these guys on a all the things i'm sure cool compilation tape I the band wanted it to and got; The Solid 7 vol.1 i'm sure it'll appeal to a from Solid 7 records. It wide audience. So why featured a bunch of UK can't I be bothered with 'stoner' bands, several it? Probably because I'm of which I kinda like, an idiot and i'm easily one of 'em was Sump. The bored (or not?) riffs are simple, seeming to draw from pools a little farther afield than the norm, with the repetition War Cloud forcing impact (John "Hurricane EP" Cale got it and so do June 2015 Sump). The vocals are Self Released warm n' bluesy sitting ------easy atop the distortion Right so these guys come and drone, etc., from Oakland, CA. Home of etc...it's good. Get it the Hells Angels most got. famous 'Son-ny' Barger. Scarab Var Aldrig Jag, Det Var “Hell Hotel" Du” and they were August 2015 definitely smiling, you High Roller Records know like when they're a fraction higher on your ------head than normal? If I Old guys still got fire. was a 'proper' music Sounding as good as ever, writer i'd probably say could show the Retro-Swede something like “This crowd a thing or two about album presents a authentic metal. Show 'em beautiful example of some love (and by love I music's and particular mean money) rock's ability to Hrom transcend paltry poli- “Legends of Powerheart tical / racial divisions Pt 1" and bring people April 2015 together with a common Steel Legacy Records appreciation...” as it ------goes though i'm just a Total shit. I mean you nerd with seemingly could spend some time happy ears on, so i'll sifting through it and say it's a good record maybe glean some weird and leave it at that. scatological pleasure, but why bother getting it under your fingernails? Just gonnea no.

Second Sun “Hopp / Fortvivian” April 2015 Electric Assault Records ------OK so I don't speak Swedish but my ears are fluent in rock and they get pretty excited when I play this album for them, in fact they love it! I checked 'em out in the Bangers, Unite! mirror during “Det Bloodthirsty Virgins – “Fistful of Demos” The “scoop” is that the two bands are from June 2015 Koln and they share a Self Released singer; Katharina ------Heldt. So given this I bought this 'cos if the slightly weird cover, it looked cool, situation i dont know like rock n roll cowboys. if i'd be doing the And really, if you like Superlords a dis- the idea of countless service by dubbing them trashy spaghetti westerns a doom Cherokee or if i translated into rock then should conversely dub this is definitely for you Cherokee a rock bub. Tales of revenge and Superlords...who cares? murder abound amid dust They're both fucking bowl atmospherics. It's good bands putting out good but I cant help but great stuff, get over wonder how far this it already and go buy concept can go. Then again both. look at surf rock, that's still going strong (isn't it?)

Galactic Superlords – “Eagle EP / Galactic Superlords EP” January / August 2015 Self Released ------Earlier on in this most grating and unsatisfactory publication I declared (as good as) Cherokee to be my new favourite band. You can imagine my surprise when I stumbled upon this bunch given that they sound almost identical to the afore mentioned Cherokee. Straight away I emailed my Cherokeean contact to get the scoop. Psychic Wounds “Twisted Visions” August 2015 Self Released ------The trip continues for Psychic Wounds, this second release picks up exactly where the last one left off (reviewed in issue 4). Still sounding like a bastardized Wolfmother on acid. Nice.

Wild Savages “Wild Savages” September 2015 Worshipper Self Released “Place Beyond the ------Light / Step Behind” Rock n Roll scumbags, Wild Augusr 2015 Savages have gone and put Self Released together a whole album of ------sweaty patatas con carne So I loved the demo from degeneracy. I said their January, now seven demo was like “Lemmy months on we get another Kilminsters very own two songs. Now I may be psychedelic biker gang” wrong but it seems like last issue, has anything they've eased off on the changed? No. It's still doom/stoner riffs to get dumb and I still like it, a little more chug n' and if you like biker rock melody here, and i'm that isnt played by hairy pleased to say it works. old arseholes in dusty These guys are surely desert shacks but rather by doomed to obscurity by angry city grease-balls this modern age but for then there's a high those of us who can possibility that you will still feel and think for too! I Have every intention ourselves there's a lot of printing their tiger to enjoy with logo on to a pair of my Worshipper. knickers, photo to follow in issue 7. Pastor Where am I going with “Evoke” this? Oh yeah, fucking August 2015 get over it, if you're Who Can You Trust gonna plaster yourself in ------old music then you might OK first off let's get as well dig on some new this straight. I dig this bands making it and give album, I really do. It is the oldies a break. brazenly old fashioned, it does very little that *Elmlea is a Unilever hasn't been done before, long life cream they've more or less substitute, a cream pigeon-holed themselves tribute as it were. Fuck! as 70's also ran Is there a Cream tribute obscurities. As an band out there called artistic goal you've got Elmlea? That would be to at least appreciate awesome (and obviously the inherent nihilism of shit at the same time). such a concept. Why go to all the effort of recreating a musical style which has long since past it's “important” era? Probably because they love it and they're not in it for fame and money (at least you'd hope not). Now I know that earlier on I was banging on about musical mummification etc and this review may now seem contradictory. Well I suppose it is contradictory, You might not care for Elmlea*, you ELMLEA might be like, fuck that ALTERNATIVE TO CREAM shit, I got the real thing in my fridge, pal. Appearing tonite at But after about three Penryn Miners Insititute days you won't be so keen Covering all your Cream will ya? No. Favourites Cheap Booze & loose morals Riprats Antioch “Rip or Whatever” “Antioch II: First August 2015 Stryke” Self Released September 2015 ------Self Released Stuck somewhere in a ------garage for the past 50 Now I really liked the years, these verminous first Antioch record, but bozo's make punk rock while it had some hints that sounds like it was of 3 inches of blood to made before punk rock was it, this one here can even a thing. All white best be summed up as 3 socks and attitude, this inches of Manowar (or collection of six tracks Manoblood if you prefer). zips along at a fair old Just now I prefer the pace, makes you feel all first record to this but warm and scuzzy inside. all things can, and often And in this modern age I do change so maybe it's a think we could all do grower. My personal with a wee bit more scuzz favourite is the final in our lives self titled track because it is completely qnd utterly absurd in the way that only metal can be.

Saturn. The second largest planet in our solar system. The one with the rings swirling round it, composed of billions of small pieces of icy rocks. To many people - one might say most - it is just this big gas giant hanging in the sky that you can occasionally see at night and sort of focus on with a fancy telescope. To others it’s a cult symbol, a statement, a proof, a confirmation of something greater, a way of life, and perhaps even an inextricable link to the lord of darkness himself... The Saturn Myth planet below. This image is The “Saturnists” believe a common one depicted something else when it throughout history, in comes to the history of Mayan astrological charts, our solar system. Egyptian pictographs, and Apparently, the specific even ancient cave orbits of the planets is paintings. Scientists and a recent event, and long historians have attributed ago our planets traveled it as most likely being the on very different sun, though when seen with orbits. Specifically the naked eye these images Mars, Venus, and most bear little resemblance to importantly Saturn form- that hot ball in the sky erly occupied orbits and share much more with that had them becoming a this piercing, focused eye. lot more apparent in the night sky. There was a Saturn Worship special astronomical Humanity has apparently event, much like been worshiping Saturn for eclipses and planetary millennia and the cult alignments, where the practices have never three planets would line stopped, with rites still up atop the North polar taking place today. Saturn axis with Venus in is apparently the origin to front, Mars behind, and the practice of adding massive Saturn behind halos to the heads of all three creating this “godly” people, as well as dominating eye watching why we exchange rings at the creatures on the marriage ceremonies; the pope even has a red with death and decay. In “Saturn” hat he occasion- Greek mythology the god’s ally wears. The planet name was Kronos, ruler of has been dubbed by these time and ultimately the worshipers as “The Lord end of time: death. This of the Rings” for some naturally leads to the important reasons. Saturn ominous image of the grim was seen as the supreme reaper; the sickle was a god and king over all common weapon beheld by others before the great Saturn with which, flood; he was the ruler incidentally, he slew his of Atlantis. Isis, own father. arguably the most important goddess in Saturn and Satan Egyptian mythology is And then of course there daughter to Saturn. are the many links between Semitic civilizations Saturn and Satan. First, referred to the god there are those that Saturn as “El,” whose contend that the word symbol and representation Satan is derived from is a black cube; an image Saturn. Both are that is not only common associated with the color throughout history, but black. To the ancients, very visible in today’s Saturn was considered the world. Google it if farthest planet from the you’re not sure. Ancient sun, which was the source Hebrews represented of all that was good and Saturn with the six- pure; making Saturn pointed star, which later distant, cold and evil. became the Star of David. The horned deity, Pan, In Roman and Greek represented Saturn in mythology, Saturn is ancient paganism, and is omnipresent and indeed thought to be the ubiquitous. precursor to the modern However, Saturn has also depictions of Satan. Pan tends to have negative was the controlling spirit connotations in history, of the lower worlds, one might even say evil. frolicking with nymphs, In ancient times it was linked with drinking and called the “Greater phallic imagery; showing Malefic” to Jupiter being the animal side of the “Greater Benefic,” as humanity. Sounds a lot well as being associated like a certain other horned (or is it horny?) guardian to an elevated devil. 666 is the devil’s plane of existence.” The number, but the single cult has been associated digit is a common one not just with dark occult with Saturn also, such as practices, but specific- the aforementioned six- ally sexual ones, with an pointed star, atmospheric organizational structure formations occurring on similar to that of the planet that NASA has Freemasons. dubbed as “hexagon” and the fact that it is Conspiracies Saturn-day, the sixth day (aka The Crazy Shit) of the week...The Black If all the above hasn’t Sabbath. made you question and wonder about the large, ringed planet, as well as making you doubt the sanity of some of the people who said and believe this, feast yours eyes on some of the more interesting ideas below.

From “Saturn: Why Are We Worshiping The Cult Of EL?” - It’s not a coincidence that Saturn is called, “The Lord of the Rings”. If Lord = God, The Saturnalian Brotherhood then is it possible that The Fraternis Saturni is during a wedding ceremony, an ancient occult order we are giving our energy of Saturn worshipers. An to Saturn through the offshoot of Aleister exchange of rings? Is it a Crowley’s Thelema, it was coincidence that most founded by Gregor A. people get married on a Gregorius, and is one of Saturday (Saturn’s Day)? Germany’s oldest secret It’s also more costly to societies. Members be- marry on Saturday, so we lieve that Lucifer is the also give away the energy “Light Bearer of Mankind” of money to the Saturn who shines through the cult. planet Saturn, “as a From “Saturn, Satan, and (Stargate!). They arrived 666” - The 6th chakra of on this planet and were the human energy system called the fallen angEL's is the 3rd eye/pineal or the ELohim or the gland (6, 3 times = 666). nephELim. In the movie When your 3rd eye chakra Superman they came from opens you develop your Kal-EL. Kal-EL refers to 6th sense of intuition Saturn. So we now have the and spirituality. From a ELite, holding ELections, consciousness perspec- hoping to get ELected, so tive, the 6th sense, your they can ELevate intuitions/hunches, are themselves. They are the messengers of god, your all powerful ones that guardian angels. Isn’t it control the four (5) interesting that angels ELements. Their magic have haloes/rings around number is ELeven (911 their heads and Saturn is ritual). They are as the only planet with a powerful as ELectricity halo/ring around it? and control everything down to the tiniest From message board post ELectron. They are the “All seeing eye of ELephants of the human saturn/satan,lucifer” - jungle. And now they are The old word for Saturn searching for their ELixir was EL. Hence the word to give them eternal life Bab-El or Gate of God in israEL.

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Look out next issue for more tales of the weird, the wyrd and the macabre courtesy of Bloodbath's California Office (SANDRO) Well, you made it this far eh? Nice one! This is the interviews section. Here are just some of the questions you won't find answers to.

1) Who are your main influences?

2) What was it like recording in the studio?

3) Any cool stories from the tourbus?

4) How would you describe your music?

5) Where can we buy your CD?

6) What's it like being a girl in rock band?

7) Who else should we be listening to right now? Bloodbath: So would you musical elements say you guys are punks typically found in playing metal or various styles of metal metalheads playing punk? and blend them with my experience playing punk Erin (Vocals & Guitar): music. I showed the first Haha, hey, We're couple of songs I had definitely of the first written to Skottie, and variety - punks playing asked him if he'd like to metal join me in this project on bass. Skottie and I Bloodbath: So what made then recorded the bass, you want to move into a guitar, and vocal tracks more metal direction? to our demo. We then sent the demo to Dave and Erin: I did cut my teeth asked if he'd be on punk music, however my interested in joining us true love, musically on drums. Luckily for us speaking that is, lies he was. Like myself, Dave with metal. The first and Skottie both have notions of Black Tower most of their experience came a few years ago, when playing in punk bands, I decided that I wanted to but have also have a love try and start a new for metal. project. I had been playing in punk bands for Bloodbath: Ultimately several years and I guess it's all just rock n I reached a point where I roll, that said i think wasn't entirely passionate certainly it's easy to about that style of music get stuck in a genre anymore. I do still love (both as a musician and a certain aspects of punk - listener). What i love the community, ethics, most about Black Tower rawness, and the energy, though is that you've however musically, I just stomped all over the wanted to branch out into old genre boundaries, what was truly appealing metal needs punk. Have to me. When I wrote the you managed to 'transfer' first few demo songs for your old fans or is it Black Tower, I wanted to just like startin' over? take the Erin: It’s hard to say we’ve been met with a if fans of our past lot of familiar and/or current punk smiling faces along endeavours dig Black the way Tower or not. After the demo and CD/LP came out, Bloodbath: I know, we were initially surprised on how little it's weird right? It's crossover there actually like the whole was between the punk and thrash / hardcore love metal worlds. The lines in never even that divide the two happened. Maybe it's genres became more just because of the apparent to us. We’re sheer quantity of fortunate that our music that's available record was released by now that people just two incredible labels tend towards that cover both ends of specialisation / genre the spectrum – isolation...Anyway, Unspeakable Axe who would you say Black cover the metal end and Tower was a reaction? No Idea who cover the As in, like a reaction punk. Having the to the current combination of the two rigidity of rocks sub labels has definitely genres? I mean it's a helped us reach a wider risky record in some audience. Crossing into ways because it can a genre that is outside either re-invigorate of what we’ve become an increasingly accustomed to with our stagnant pool or just other projects is piss off the die hards something that we find on both sides of the exciting and challenging divide. in the best possible way. I’d say that with Erin: Yeah, just Black Tower it sort of before The Secret Fire feels like we’re was released the starting over in terms thought definitely of our audience, crossed my mind that especially when we play our music might not go a more traditionally over so well with metal show for example, people that we real but at the same time genre/sub-genre sticklers. Ha, yeah, it said our music comes out kinda freaked me out for a naturally, the last thing bit, however ultimately I that I think we wanted didn’t, and don’t care. I was to create something wouldn’t say that Black safe that has been done Tower is reaction to before. I’ve always been anything. The music that attracted to records and we write comes out very bands that are unique naturally. It was actually from their contemporaries very surprising when we and have sort of a first started playing “special flavour” if you together. I think we were will. Master’s Hammer all a little shocked after “Ritual” and the early our very first jam. At Dissection records fall least I was kind of half into that category for expecting it to not really me. I’m glad that being work, or that it would unique is something that feel somehow contrived and we’re able to make an unnatural, but at the end attempt at with Black we were all like “OK, well Tower. that went pretty great!” We just meshed really well Bloodbath: Certainly from the beginning, and doesn't sound like any our ideas fit together other records I could nicely. I think the fact name so you're on to a that the three of us are winner there. You could very good friends that be the band that brings have known each other for the rock tribes back a long time makes the together again, I can't writing process work so help but picture some well. We’re very dating site with comfortable around each "metal's" profile saying other so we’re not afraid something like "would to take risks in our like to meet energetic music, try new things, and young punk for fun times no one’s afraid to say and maybe more"...anyway. “Dude, that sucks.” I take so who writes the lyrics? calling The Secret Fire And what came first, the “risky” as a big music or the lyrical complement. Thank you! concept? Although I Erin: Ha, yeah unite the be a nerd! Resistance is tribes! The more the utterly futile for those merrier, right? The lyrics who currently reside are written by me. The outside of the nerd’s lyrical concept emerged realm. That is a very first, with the music not interesting question. really taking its full It’s something that I am form until after we’d had conscious of when I’m our first few practices writing, and it can be together. I’m a nerd and difficult to avoid. love storytelling and Lyrically, I try to get fantasy, and I love around imitating, or writing fantasy-based simply re-telling someone lyrics. They guys aren’t else’s stories, by using nearly as nerdy about that existing stories as stuff as me. They give me springboards for my own a hard time when I start imagination to take over. going on about Balrogs and I’ve got a pretty vivid stuff imagination, so it’s usually no big deal to Bloodbath: Haha they'll conjure up some fantastic get there in the end, tis story to write about, or the golden age of the nerd put a different spin on after all. When writing an existing one. metal with a fantasy slant Musically speaking, we’ve (or infact any strong all got a wide variety of concept) it's easy to slip influences that we pull into homage, to from which helps to keep unconsciously start things fresh and, I writing someone else's think, interesting. We’ve songs, like manilla road actually got a good start or manowar for example. on the second record now! Going forward do you think We’re pretty stoked on you'll be able to resist what we’ve got written so the pull of the pastiche? far. Retain the edge that punk gives you? (It's possibly Bloodbath: That's good a little early to be news! Can you tell me talking "difficult second anything about the new album" I know) record yet? Titles, themes, sounds etc Erin: It is a good time to Erin: It’s still a little I played clarinet in the early yet so we haven’t concert band throughout quite figured the shape high school and after that it’s going to take. listening to that CD We’ve got the first few incessantly, I begged my songs written. I’ll say conductor to let me that they are in the same switch from the clarinet vein as the last record, to the bass guitar. He however perhaps they’re a wasn’t happy about it, little more intricate with but eventually I got my respect to vocal melodies way. A few years later I and instrument parts. Now discovered Iron Maiden, that we’ve gelled as a and that’s when my world band, it’s much easier to got totally flipped write songs togethe around. I had never heard them before, but I saw Bloodbath: so back to the Powerslave CD in the business. Last question is HMV and I was totally one I always ask, what got mesmerized by the artwork you started with rock on the cover. I had to music? And in addition; have it and so I bought what is it that drives you it. Haha, I remember that to make the music you do? my brain totally melted when I got home and Erin: It’s something that listened to it for the I was drawn to on my own first time! It was a during high school. No one magical experience. I in my family is very guess the thing that interested in music, and drives me to make the it wasn’t something my music that I do is just young friends were very my deep love of music and interested either. My being creative. I’m very first exposure was just passionate about it and through listening to the it’s kind of the thing radio and watching music that keeps me going and videos on television. The moving forward in life first CD I bought was a used copy of Green Day’s Dookie from a flea market, Go get some of this into and that’s what introduced your ears this instant! me to punk. https://blacktower. bandcamp.com "Colour your own poster" Bloodbath: So let's get right now there are tons to it, who are you and of occult Rock and Metal just what is it that you Bands, beside the usual do in this band? themes like drinking, fighting, horror etc. I Cherokee person: OK, i'm like the idea of doing Beda i play guitar. something uncommon. So when we got the other Bloodbath: Cool, so can guys into the Band and we you tell me a bit about discussed the idea with the name and that Native them and they liked it American sorta theme? too. Why we chose Cherokee in particular i Beda: Well, the band was can't say, maybe for us founded by Simon, the it's just the coolest other guitarist and me a name. And some of the year ago. Back then we other names were already both played in a Speed taken by other Bands. Metal Band called Speedbreaker. We just Bloodbath: Well it's started playing around certainly not easy these with licks and riffs days to differentiate while we had rehearsal yourself from the myriad with Speedbreaker, In a other bands out there. Do very short time we'd you find it easier to finished the first songs write songs with a and we both knew that we specific theme in mind had to find a new band to rather than like the perform these songs. usual booze, horror etc? Simon had already had the idea of naming the band Beda: In fact we write after some Native the music and then the American clan like lyrics. But yes for me it Cheyenne, Apache, Yellow is easier to have a Knife etc. I liked that specific theme in mind very much since it was when i write lyrics. So really refreshing for me Simon does most of the to get into that stuff, music which is later like reading books about arranged by the band. And native clans watching Fabian, the bass player, documentaries, or simply and i do all the lyrics. old movies etc. I mean Bloodbath: So, going from Bloodbath: Well it's Speedbreaker to Cherokee certainly easy to play you've kind of just taken certain genre's of metal, a further leap back in i mean it can be pretty time with your sound. How formulaic or maybe like come? i mean, why the restricted when you get change of musical into the specific genres. direction? I love metal but honestly sometimes i listen to an Beda: In fact we wanted album and literally every to go on with song is basically the speedbreaker aswell as same song with a slight Cherokee. But we just had tweak. It's like metal to split up with has become completely speedbreaker because obsessed with labels, to right now we all live in the point where bands are four different cities and actually writing to order rehearsing wasnt easy you know? That said, it this last few months. must be quite liberating Anyway i think its not a to get out there and just real change of musicial be like, "we're a rock direction because Simon band, here's some tunes", and me just listened to i mean there's more all the hardrock stuff freedom to do what you before we got into metal want, right? and we did when we played metal and we still do. So Beda: Exactly! And right for myself i think it is now we' ve gathered quite easier to play good metal a range of different than playing good hard tunes. I mean during our rock. So the new band is writing process all our quite challenging. songs are named after the Especially as a main riffs influence, guitarist. In metal you like so in the rehearsal can hide behind the room it goes like "uh distortion of the guitar let's do the police, the sound but if you play rainbow, the wishbone ash with cleaner guitars you or the thin lizzy" and so have to be right on time on. I mean we're not and always play clear. about to invent the wheel for a second time but i think we worship all the great hard rock bands from trying to do all the the past that we love to things we do in our own hear. way. But as a young band it is really hard to Bloodbath: So those guys define our own style. I created music which went think this is something on to influence heavy that comes with the time. metal in a huge way. So We're just evolving so bands like Maiden took let's see what will huge inspiration from happen. Lizzy and made it heavier But your last question is and faster, can you see a really tough one. I your band doing that? don't think that it is like, evolving from your impossible but it's influences to make really, really hard. I something new? further to think i couldn't do that, that, do you think it's i am just to limited by even possible to make the things i listen to. truly new rock music But take Bölzer as an anymore? example they created something i haven't heard Beda: Yeah we definetly do ever before and they are that in a Maiden way. But just awesome i really i don't think we sound love those guys. like maiden at all. I mean no band can deny their Bloodbath: Yeah Bölzer roots. If you create music are pretty cool. Are you you can only work with the planning on recording things you know. The good again soon? thing in our constellation is that we all got a Beda: Yeah, of course different musical we're planning on background. like our bass recording again. By the player is more the black end of the year we're metal guy, our drummer entering the same studio isn't to metal at all and where we did our demo to so on. It's like cooking a record an Ep of 4-6 soup, your brewing all the Songs, but this time we different things together will take more time than that you wouldnt eat but just the one day to all together it tastes record everything. The very good. Of course we're reason why we'll do an Ep and not an album is that recording with a good old are a few Labels out sound like back in the there that are very good day is very expensive in what they are doing. nowadays, and we hope For example Svart Records that we can get a a from Finnland and Ván little more recognition Records from Germany. with that ep, so we can These Labels are small play more gigs and get but i like them much more signed by a record label. than Nuclear Blast or And next year we want to Napalm Records etc. record and release our Yes we got contactet by first album, if High Roller Records, they everything works out cool are doing a rerelease of for us. But first, one our demo on vinyl as 7". step at a time. But since the vinyl pressings are all Bloodbath: That's good overbooked it will take a news! A lot if bands are long time until these are just self releasing their finnished. And HRR is stuff these days, cutting also interested in out the label, using releasing more Cherokee things like bandcamp, big stuff when it is cartel etc to sell direct recorded. to the fans. I guess a We're also in touch with label (a good one at Ván Records, since they least) could spend a bit are selling our demo Tape of cash on promotion, pay online in their shop for studio time, handle the distro etc but then Bloodbath: Would you like in most cases their drive to be making music for a is commerce rather than living? Or do you think art. Have any labels got that the pressure of in touch yet? relying on it as a main source of income Beda: Yeah you're right. necessarily compromises But you need a large the art or like changes amount of money to start the focus of the band with, doing everything by from music to money? yourself costs a lot of Like a job vs a hobbu... money. Money that most young bands just don't Beda: Of course i would have. Just like us, we're like to do that, i guess all poor. Yes, there that is every musicians dream. But i'm not quite and i always loved sure if i could take all cruising with my dad, the business stuff beside blasting the ACDC, just playing music. singing along with Bon I don't like it when Scott. Back then i loved bands lose their focus. the power and the energy But i guess sometimes it of that kind of music it is a very hard decision. was somehow dangerous, Just imagine you've got even though i couldn't one or two little kids at understand a word of the home you have to take lyrics. And of course my care of. In that case mother didn't like it money is the more when i listened to that important thing. But kind of music. right now in my situation So since then I'm a it wouldn't distract me, Rocker. Rockmusic is right now i only want to simply one of the most play rock music together important things in my with my mates. life. Festivals, concerts, playing in a Bloodbath: Thats the best band, collecting, reading reason to play rock n fanzines etc. Everything roll there is! is based on Rock and Possibly the only reason focused on it. in fact Well thanks for your Bloodbath: Well here's to time, it was good the mighty Bon and your chatting to you Beda good old man, without their luck with the band, I'll killer taste and tunes we do what I can to spread might not have heard the the word. Actually I have cherokee demo! Which so one final question if far is the best thing that's ok? What got you I've heard all year! into rock music in the Thanks for your time first place? What does it Beda, keep on keepin' on! mean to you?

Beda: Well my Father Get involved with this always listened ACDC in stuff, free downloads @ his Car and since i can remember i've always been https://cherokeehardrock an ACDC Fan .bandcamp.com/