Out Of The Darkness fanzine is no stranger to the pages of this zine, because this is one of the rare hardcore punk fanzines still standing strong in this regional scene, namely from Serbia. Led by veterans of the scene, helped with couple of younger forces, this machine gets better from number to number, being one of my all time favorite fanzines besides long gone Tri Drugara, Ponos provincije and Lifeline, speaking of fanzines from this region. This number twelve brings excellent interview with Fistra, long time scene lifer, I know him from 1995 when he was singing in Verbalni Delikt, later on in AK-47 and Ljubiša Samardžić, now the interview is based on history, but also on his work with new band called Sukob, whose review you were able to read in this zine a while ago. Also, there are couple of interviews that I read, but they do not stand in memory as great, but I must also mention interview with Felix, singer of The Truth, about label Mad Schnauzer Records. Excellent, informative and inspiring. There is also beautiful special about Fugazi gigs in Yugoslavia and later on in ex Yugoslavia, great Vipera/Rules tour report, couple of columns and gig reports, also reviews. This one only proofs what I said above. How great this fanzine really is. Review of number 13 coming soon.
Category Archives: Reviews
(review) Darkthrone – Astral Fortress(Peaceville Records)
You may say what you want but Darkthrone are explorers. Besides being black metal legends who released couple of milestone albums in black metal genre they decided to explore metal and musical boundaries and not giving a fuck what anybody thinks about that. Main occupation of Darkthrone’s music last couple of years is 80ies metal with Fenriz being an absolute encyclopedia of metal and underground. For me personally, the best phase in last couple of years of so, was more melodic punky crust phase with Circle The Wagons coming to mind immediately. On to this opus. This one contains seven songs, with one called Koboltn, West Of The Wast Forests being eerie piano synth instrumental. On this opus Darkthrone mix eighties metal with doom metal slower side of things but retaining enough melody in guitar riffs to keep songs interesting and good listening. My personal favorites are Eon 2 having such nice main guitar melody, also Kevorkian Times. There are no blast beats on this album, but there are synth parts smartly thrown in some songs, also acoustic atmospheric parts and varied yet hypnotic riffing topped with Nocturno Culto’s trade mark voice. Maybe it takes couple of listenings to get to love this album, but once you do it, it is superb like all Darkthrone releases.
8/10
(review) Lost Shade – Feinde des Glaubens (Wolfmond Production)
Germany has been always great black metal scene and Wolfmond Production brings us some really awesome releases. This time it is a new opus by Lost Shade. This is their fourth full length opus being in the scene since 1999. This opus contains ten songs. Music of Lost Shade is fast and kind of raw black metal, but also song structures have some epic warrior battle melodies, with lyrics more oriented towards pagan side of things. Vocals are black metal screaming, not too extreme but I can also hear some chanting and some spoken word in some songs depending on the atmosphere. As I said, this is black battle pagan metal par excellence. Lyrics are in German, but I understand the language so my personal favorites on this one are Ewige Vergeltung, great epic song with such eerie piano song ending, also Hexentanz and Leichenmarsch. It kind of reminds me of old school Mystic Circle in its epicness, but without synth and symphonic passages. Good epic pagan battle black metal.
8/10


