The year was 1996, we have been working like hell since May '1995. The local metal scene was brimming with power, fully supported by fanzines from every corner of MALAYSIA. AMIR has just released THY UNHOLY ABYSS issue # 3 in Jan '1996. While, HIMI and AZRIL were working on RAHAB issue # 2 (released in Aug '1996). Darkness was everywhere !There are goin' to be 12 in-depth interviews, that's the highlight. We were selective, hand-picked dedicated and potential bands only.
With exception of VOCIFERATION ETERNITY, PERAK's finest LANGSUIR and HAYAGRIVA were the earliest to reply. While, SINGAPORE's blackness ITNOS dropped us a mere biography in return. But AS SAHAR replied with all questions well answered.
Suprisingly, it took BEHEMOTH (Pol) only 1 month to answer. They have earlier released their debut album - 'Sventevith - Storming Near The Baltic' under PAGAN RECORDS. But it took 4 - 6 months for SETHERIAL (Swe) and ZEPHYROUS (Gre) to reply - SETHERIAL stormed the scene with their excellent 'A Hail To The Faceless Angels' demo 1994, while, ZEPHYROUS impressed us with their 'Entrance And Wandering On The Seven Zones' demo 1994. Doing mail interviews really test our patience to the limit. The best part was interviews send to ROTTING CHRIST (Gre), THRONE OF AHAZ (Swe) and IN THE WOODS (Nor) didn't even came back to Malaysian shore. Whether the letters were misled to hell, we have no answer. We also have no problem if bands find our questions uninteresting. While OHURA MAZDO (Jap) slightly missed the dateline.
But looking back, we tend to agree with ANTOINETTE (of now defunct English label MISANTHROPY RECORDS) that these bands have so much mail and interviews to do all the time. So sometimes it is impossible for them to answer everything. If they can answer it they surely will ...
Mac '1996 saw the released of our debut issue, purposely circulated in limited copies. Response was mostly overwhelming. Sales figure was not our concern. But we believe that we have so much to offer ...
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