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HELLAWAITS (Malaysia)
Issue 1, 2003
Half-size, 72 page, xerox, English-written. When looking sample of the pages
of this zine in their website, I was very impressed. Now I have it and this
zine met with some of my expectation. The zine will be better if it is
pro-printed. For a xerox format, I think they should have made the master
copy printed by laser printer. The xerox quality is almost excellent. The
layout is good and looks professional. The drawback is you will have to take
a while to get use to their style (i.e. logo and quotes from the interview
are placed on the center of the page and surrounded by the interview, which
is quite confusing). The interviews are separated in several sections; Asian
Metal Attack (featuring: Manggas, Bilharzia, Dhemit, Kekal, As Sahar,
Negation, Korihor, Rudra, Pyron, Narcotic Greed, The Ravens, Mantak,
Arkhaytulmayt, Raspatul, Demonification, War666, Istidraj) Extreme Features
(Destinity, Kult Ov Azazel, Emperor, Darkfall) and for newcomers (Crimson
Fall, Nosferial, Violator). The questions are interesting and they pick the
right band as well which answers them lengthily. There are also news,
reviews and some interesting columns; Hellish Reveals (info about bands, and
plenty of them), Special Report (a question is asked to some bands. For this
debut, the question is 'Can black metal exist without satanic ideolody?'),
and In Person (with the editor/webmaster of South East Asia Metal Force,
which is the same person who are doing this review…). This zine is packed.
There are lots to read in those 72 pages. Hopefully this zine will keep on
releasing more issues in the future.
c/o Afidz Che Rosli, P.O.Box 1029, 30820 Ipoh, Perak. Vorn666@lycos.com
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