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Active member of alternative underground scene and culture since early 1990-ies. Underground is a way of life!
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Some things never die – a tribute to j-sin trioxin.

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I never knew or got to meet Jason in person to thank him for being there for me. Not being there for me personally but through his music and lyrics.

Like many kids I got into horrorpunk through The Misfits. Afterwards I learned about Blitzkid and all that wonderful extended family around that scene, bands like Darrow Chemical Company, Cryptkeeper Five, Shadow Windhawk and especially one band, Mister Monster. When I first heard one of their songs it was Amy Sue and This Night I Call Bad Luck. I immediately fell in love with this band. Why? Because they are unique. Jason´s voice was so beautiful, so emotional, combining doo wop which I love so much and punk rock into one gripping combination. The melodies, the lyrics, the lifestyle, it was something which helped me through dark times of twenty year long lasting depression which I fight to this day. Every day is a struggle for people who fight with depression. You must always be at least half a step ahead of it, otherwise you will lose the battle and that might mean you lose war, believe me, I lost couple of battles and also couple of times being an inch to lose war if you can read what I mean by that.

All that time Jason´s music and lyrics were there for me, expressing through all that horrorpunk imagery and lyrics in fact the horrors of real life we all must fight and experience every single day. These horrors are more scary than every movie, story, legend or song. I buried my brothers with his music, loved laughed and smiled with his music. I still smile when I hear his songs. They remind me of what he has done for me and I love to believe his music and legacy made me a better man, that I am today, 43 years old and being in this scene for 28 years now.

I wanted to express my gratitude with this column in my zine, because I will never get to meet Jason and tell him in person all that. His legacy lives on!

SKELETON CREW 4EVER!

NEVER SAY GOODBYE, ONLY SAY GOODNIGHT!

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(review) The Inhumans – Double Feature

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The Inhumans from Illinois released their new two songs single. Zombies ate my neighbors is a straightforward fast horrorpunk bomb with nice melody and what I love about this single is raw, almost rehearsal old school production taking me back to the glorious times of early nineties demo tape trading. The vocals are great, melodic yet not cheesy, backing vox harmonies are done with style and both songs are simple but in your face horrorpunk. I wanna be a monster is my personal favorite and a bit better but that is due to my personal taste. Can´t wait for the longer material with more songs.

https://theinhumans.bandcamp.com/

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(review) Lautreamont – The Cult Of Grinning Martyrs

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Lautreamont from Russia are in no way strangers to the pages of this zine. I already listened and wrote a review for the band´s debut album back in 2018.

Now, this Russian duo consisting of Wrath and Dread deliver their second full length album. This new record could be called a concept, but it is also not a concept record. This one is inspired by Thomas Ligotti´s work Conspiracy against human race, also poetry of Edgar Allan Poe and Isidore Ducasse. This 7 song album has a dark, almost touchable atmosphere of thick black/death metal, apocalyptic in its tale of human puppet existence and nothingness.

From the sheer ferociousness of blast beats and destruction of Broken Claws to more melodic and almost cold and space like dissonances of Thanatophobia, one of my highlights on this record, Lautreamont deliver their story with conviction, coldness and relentless march. I am amazed how clean vocals in some song parts can also sound cold and atmospheric and delive coup de grace to the listener as in amazing Brotherhood Of Suffering. Unpersons is a lesson in brutality and quality blackened death metal with blasting brutality and darkness just oozing from your speakers. One more song that I must mention is the title song, being epic soundtrack to your demise, with changing tempo, sharp and brutal riffs, but also total lack of humanity being cold and void.

This second effort is a step further from the debut. Great record.