Kada sam bio klinac, odrastao uz punk i metal muziku koje su ostale moj način života i dan-danas, kada nakon svih tih cirka trideset godina radim ovaj webzine već osmu godinu zaredom, Satan Panonski bio je hit među mladim punkerima u mom soliteru i mom društvu. No, frend mi je posudio kazetu i ja sam si mislio, pa dobro koji je ovo kurac, neko recitiranje, muzika se skoro niti ne čuje, kružio je mit sve veći i veći oko Ivice Čuljka zvanog Satan Panonski, njegove misteriozne smrti na bojištu 1992., njegovih godina provedenih u psihijatrijskoj bolnici Popovača zbog ubojstva i glazbu odnosno art je zamijenilo strahopoštovanje nas kao klinaca. No, tek kasnije, nakon što sam pročitao knjigu ‘Čizme slobode’ Ivana Glišića, te ‘Tijelo otpora Satan Panonskog’ naučio sam cijeniti konceptualnog umjetnika iza svog tog kaosa i krvi, iza Hard blood shocka odnosno načina na koji se Čuljak izražavao samo ozljeđivanjem, krvlju i stihovima. Iza svega toga stoji, danas odgovorno tvrdim jako pametan čovjek, umjetnik ispred svog vremena. Ovu knjigu je izdao Šareni dućan, a sadrži dva dijela odnosno zbirke ‘Mentalni ranjenik’ i ‘Prijatelj’ koje su objavljene zahvaljujući Zdenku Franjiću(Slušaj najglasnije) i obitelji Čuljak. Ovdje, u ovoj knjizi je zapravo sadržan sav Satanov rad, znači sve pjesme i proza koje je napisao i koje između redaka, ako se pažljivo čitaju odaju svašta nepoznatog o osobi Catchera II, Aveti, Satana Panonskog, kako god ga zvali. Ostaje žal da je sa samo 32 godine poginuo, tko zna koju umjetnost bi još dao underground sceni i kako bi se njegov život i rad razvijao. Zato barem imamo ovakvu knjigu kojoj se uvijek dobro vratiti.
Category Archives: books
(book) Adam Nevill – ‘The Vessel’
Those who read this webzine from its inception, know that Adam Nevill is one of my favorite newer generation horror writers. This is his latest work, a bit shorter than previous ones, but king of folk horror works his magic here too. The story evolves around Jess, young mother with daughter Izzy, who starts to work at old people vicarage tending to the older lady called Flo. Her ex husband Tony is around, but acts strangely and you dig that something really terrible happened between those two. As things go, Flo is in wheelchair, suffers from dementia and is at first look and ordinary old lady. But, at night, when Jess’ shift starts, strange things start to happen and Flo walks, wanders and is driven to the nearby pond and all other inhabitants around the vicarage are strange too. Jess starts to suspect that something is at play, and scary and eerie things start to happen. Not to discover just all, so not to spoil your reading of this beauty, you will see that folk horror is in fact so beautiful and scary read because it can happen everywhere and to everyone of us, old gods and beliefs are still out there before plague called christianity soiled this earth and forced upon us their new deity stolen and based upon old beliefs. Now I digress. Well, there is not too much gore in this one, but tension builds as in all Nevill’s works from page to page making it hard to put down page turner. I read all of his books except ‘Cunning Folk’ until now, but I plan to read this one too and of course you will read my review here!
(book) Greg Prato – ‘Survival Of The Fittest: Heavy Metal In The 1990’s’
This almost six hundred pages behemoth was a pleasure to read at most times, although there are couple of to me boring themes in there through couple of chapters. As the title says, the book revolves around alleged death of metal due to grunge explosion early in the nineties, which was not true at all and it is explained in this book why that’s not true and I totally agree with that. There is an interesting divide of parts in this book, like a live show of some sorts, parts being: Load In, Soundcheck, Opener, Headliner, Encore, After Party and Load Out. Something that every musician knows about if he toured and played live gigs. Foreword is written by none other than Rex Brown, bass player of legendary Pantera. The concept of chapters is that metal, let’s call them celebrities namely for example Phil Anselmo, Joe Elliot, Devin Townsend, Dez Fafara, Dani Filth, Kirk Windstein, John Christ and many others talk about nu metal, industrial metal, vocalists leaving legendary bands and returning back, their own albums and how they were conceived in idea and recording and there are lots of anecdotes in this book, like in great documentary movie which is what makes me love this book. But, there are also couple of too long chapters like on prog metal or nu metal that are not my personal tastes so it was quite boring for me to read them, but I did it. So, this is good book full of information and anecdotes especially for us who grew up with these bands and albums in the nineties.
3,5/5


