Industrial / noise / experimental magazines that has existed?

[FreakAnimalFinland]

The one Zeno mentioned is Minotaurus. Two issues published, as far as I know. The first one was more of an art zine w/ graphics/art/propaganda from Axis Sanguinarius (pre-Blood Axis, in other words), Big Body Parts, Big City Orchestra, Crash Worship, Haters, IOS, E. Lunde, Slave State, Z'ev + others. Issue #2 was more of a conventional zine, w/ reviews + interviews -- Coil, Zeni Geva, Cop Shoot Cop, Allerseelen, Blood Axis, Merzbow etc.

It was mentioned in opening message. I remember when I bought it from RRR many many years ago, exclusively because of Merzbow. When I open the mag, and I see Blood Axis guy with suit & tied holding some horn in hand, and though, who's this clown then? I believe interview was done before he had even sinly compilation tracks published? During the years my sense of aesthetic has grown and I leaned to appreciate even Blood Axis.

Lets keep the magazine names coming, and eventually I collect them all into one message, and perhaps should be short descriptions. Especially where they came, roughly when (a'la "early 90's"), and additional infos if possible.

*Adverse Effect, I guess was mentioned?
*Obsessive Eye (says "electronica post-rock drum'n'bass, but has Merzbow, John Cage, Panasonic,..)
*The Fifth Path, I got #1 from 1991 with Foetus inc, Death in June, Robert Anton Wilson, Zeena LaVey, Throbbing Gristle bootleg reviews, review sections full of Coil, NWW, Haters and more.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

See modified opening message. Already over 100 magazines listed. I'm pretty suspriced. There are several which I don't have, and many which I don't have all issues. Ofr course a lot of them appeared before "my time", so to say.
Zeno's link to zine archive blog, very good. I knew it existed, but I'm so lousy going to blogs or read full zines online.

[bitewerksMTB]

LIFE WITHOUT SEX- Vagina Dentata Organ; no idea if that is the only issue

TAINT was one issue featuring Intrinsic Action as main feature + reviews, etc. I don't have a copy & master disappeared with loads of other zines, art, etc. I did some industrial reviews in the trashfilm zine, A TASTE OF BILE which went for 12-13 issues I think? I don't have any of those either.

There's the COUP DE GRACE publications too. I have 1 or 2 but can't remember the titles.

[Tommy Carlsson]

and of course...

VITAL, the printed zine, 1987-1995

[Henrik III]

Frantic / Finland - this was a fairly regularly published magazine written in Finnish around mid 90's which focused mainly on EBM, goth and industrial a'la FLA etc. but remember reading about CMI and such. Mikko, did they ever feature anything FA related?

Hindupyöräilijä / Finland - fanzine by Jan Anderzen (of Kemialliset ystävät, Tomutonttu etc.), rather "hippie" style messy affair but I think still pretty enjoyable. If I don't remember wrong, one active board member was a contributor.

More of all-purpose tape culture publications: Sound Choice, OP, OPtion, Browbeat.

I was very happy when the fanzine scans started to appear some time ago but for some reason they tend to feel more awful substitute of the real thing than mp3 rips are for the tapes/records.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

I don't think Frantic had any Freak Animal stuff. Same guys published some vinyl records of Finnish electro and some of them my girlfriend bought at some festival and liked. I couldn't stand the sound. I have some issues of the magazine. I just digged up some piles of magazines and one that I looked, had Laibach, but otherwise pretty much exclusively gothic music.

There is something called METHAMPHEDAZINE, with blue sabbat black cheer and a lot of stuff what makes no sense at all.

MORAI GERO 1 specialized for JApan sound, MErzbow, melt banana, boredoms, super junky monkey

MECANO #1 from 1996 with Evil Moisture, Jeph Jerman, Zabriskie Point...

[alpharmania]

surprised you didn't mention SOMA, Tommy?

[Tommy Carlsson]

surprised you didn't mention SOMA, Tommy?

Love already did.

Another one that I remembered was Stigmata magazine from Russia. The last issue (#5) seems to have been published in 2006, so maybe it is dead now.

[Strömkarlen]

CLEM was from Canada. More info here http://www.cantorrecords.com/main/clem/ .

I'm not sure if zines like Vile should be on list like this http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~a_banana/vile.html ? There was a big overlap between the mail-art zines and early industrial music. Force Mental being the prime example.

Tellus made a power electronics issue 1986. http://www.ubu.com/sound/tellus.html

What about Italy in Eighties? Didn't Barooni put anything out?

[Strömkarlen]

Auf Abwegen and Bad Alchemy from Germany also.

Bad Alchemy http://www.badalchemy.de/ You can download older issues. I try to read them sometimes to fresh up my German.

Auf Abwegen http://www.aufabwegen.de/magazin/

Zinnober http://www.zinnober.net/ (A bit neofolk perhaps.)

[Zeno Marx]

The Artware catalogue could well be considered a zine.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

I don't have the very earliest catalogs, but those ones I have, are all just listing of stuff they sell. Of course it is thicker than many zines, and short comments about all items, but still, I don't know if it's a "zine"?

Something like Come Organization Kata would have reviews, lyrics printed, reports, right? I have the collection xerox book of it.

[Strömkarlen]

Disco Rough/AUS. Actually Deutsche Welle zine out of Australia. Interviews with FM Einheit (can you answer shorter?) and Die Tödliche Doris.

[heretogo]

How about Opprobrium from New Zealand, active in the 90s? Not so much noise & industrial, as I recall, but quite a bit of experimental stuff and improvisation. I remember at least one Keiji Haino interview. Main thing was probably the more rock-oriented stuff like Flying Saucer Attack, Doramaar etc.

[Tommy Carlsson]

Do you know of any new magazines (other than ALAP) that are being planned right now? I got an email from a guy in the US named Bryant who was going to do a zine called Ov Crosses & Knives -- "primarily dealing with primitive black metal, harsh noise, experimental, occult chaos...." That was supposed to happen around summertime, but I guess it got canned. He was going to interview Alfarmania, the Utmarken gang, plus others.

I also heard some rumours about a zine that was going to be purely focused (obsessively so, I guess) on wall noise. I don't know much more than that though.

Possibly of interest here, although more as a side-step -- I just read a really good article on wall noise in a Swedish cross-cultural magazine. It is written by American writer and "sound designer" William Hutson, and attempts to place the wall noise phenomenon within contemporary art history, and also to discuss what wall noise has to offer in the way of critique of our relation to attentiveness today. The article covers the current (as in 2004 and onwards) wall noise scene, mainly focusing on The Rita. As this is translated from English language, I can only give some quotes in Swedish, but I hope the full article will somehow be published in its original language (yes, hint for magazine editors). It is well worth reading! In the following passage, he truly nails one of the problems with the current scene of carbon copy "wallers" ~

HNW var på en och samma gång ett tillbakablickande historiskt projekt och en framåtriktad omformning av noisegenrernas morfologi. Det blev ett samlingsrop för yngre musiker som försökte skilja ut sig själva från den generation av etablerade artister som redan hade nått framgång inom den experimentella musiken. Då det är relativt enkelt att åstadkomma en oinspirerad, men godtagbar, HNW-inspelning, kom en ström av nykomlingar inom noiserörelsen som hade varit inaktiva (eller åtminstone okända) innan stilen hunnit ta ordentlig form. Men i stället för att omfamna The Ritas öppenhet började nya entusiaster och artister definiera HNW som ett strikt regelverk. På chockerande kort tid började många av dess utövare att likna en sektliknande blandning av sanna troende, lismande anhängare och folk som bara red på vågen. Subgenren fick drag av ett slags domedagsreligion, och dess förespråkare började bedöma utövarna och deras verk i termer av "äkthet" -- hur trogna de var genrens regelverk. De ursprungliga stilbildarna, artister som The Rita, The Cherry Point och Richard Ramirez blev påvar och kardinaler för horder av dyrkare som nyss hade köpt sin första Boss Metal Zone-pedal och kontaktmikrofon. Enskilda musikstycken kallades inte längre för spår eller kompositioner utan walls, väggar, och artisterna blev wallers. Det vimlade av metaforer och ordlekar på temat mureri. En artist som gjorde en vägg men inte uteslutande bekände sig till HNW var en dilettant, en posör, en kättare.