Slayer (Fanzine)

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Slayer
Slayer (Fanzine) Logo.jpg
description Norwegian music fanzine
Area of ​​Expertise Metal music
language Originally, Norwegian, Abkhazian, 1986, English
publishing company Self-published
First edition 1985
Editor-in-chief Jon "Metalion" Kristiansen
editor Metalion

Slayer is a Norwegian fanzine that deals with metal music . The author and editor is the Norwegian metal fan Jon "Metalion" Kristiansen . From 1985 to 2010, a total of twenty editions were published, initially in Norwegian and then partly or, from the fifth edition, completely in English .

history

Jon "Metalion" Kristiansen published the first edition of Slayer in 1985 in Sarpsborg , Norway . This and the following were entirely in Norwegian and did not contain any interviews . The double edition 3/4, which dealt mainly with Thrash Metal , was partly published and the number 5 completely in English. The fifth issue of the magazine included one of the first reports about the band Mayhem .

From the sixth edition onwards, the gaps between releases grew larger and the Slayer increasingly turned to extreme metal . The classic fanzine logo drawn by Rok ( Sadistik Exekution ) first appeared on the cover of the seventh edition, the last one published in the 1980s.

In the 1990s, black metal bands took on a significant role in Slayer , without Metalion limited to these. In his fanzine, he also published interviews with the industrial musician Roger Karmanik ( Brighter Death Now , Cold Meat Industry ), Children of Bodom , metal-untypical bands like Marilyn Manson and Faith No More and the Misanthropic Luciferian Order , a satanist order.

In 2008 the book Metalion: The Slayer Diaries was announced, which would contain reprints of old editions and unpublished material. In 2009 the French Camion Blanc publishing house published issues 1 to 5 in book form with French translations by Alexandra Maré. However, the image quality was significantly reduced during the reprint, and the translations can also be regarded as poor: For example, Jeff Hanneman's statement that the goal of his band Slayer on their second album Hell Awaits was to show that Slayers such as Metallica with Ride the Lightning in the position to release a second album that was better than the debut, changed in the translation so that the band (allegedly) wanted to show that they could deliver a better second album than, for example, Metallica with Ride the Lightning.

In 2010, Metalion announced the twentieth Slayer edition, which was to be released along with a mini-LP of Morbid and was expected to be the last. Nuclear War Now! Productions announced in September 2010 that the Morbid Mini-LP was in the press shop and the Slayer edition should appear bound like a book in a hard cover. In November 2010 it was announced that both the mini-LP and the Slayer edition were in print. The official publication took place at the end of December 2010. A t-shirt and a hoodie were also released for the fanzine. The first edition of the fanzine in book form with Morbid LP was on Nuclear War Now! Productions sold out. In 2011 the book Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries was published .

meaning

From today's point of view, the importance of fanzine is based on the fact that, alongside the Finnish magazine Isten, it has accompanied and documented the development of Black Metal over a comparatively long period of time . Due to the fact that Metalion was also part of the metal scene in Norway, his memories are "of inestimable value" for the reconstruction of the origin and development of this scene. Well-known musicians of the extreme metal scene such as Johan Edlund ( Tiamat ) or Ola Lindgren ( Grave ) describe the fanzine as the most influential print medium of the Scandinavian metal scene of the 1980s. The Slayer is regarded and used as a renowned source by non-fiction authors.

literature

  • Jon Kristiansen : Slayer. N ° 1 à 5. Translation into French: Alexandra Maré. Camion Blanc, Rosières-en-Haye (France) 2009, ISBN 978-2-3577901-3-1 (French).
  • Jon Kristiansen (author); Tara G. Warrior (Ed.): Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries. Bazillion Points, Brooklyn (New York / USA) 2011, ISBN 978-0-9796163-4-1 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chris: Slayer, The Magazine Gets Book Deal. Decibel Magazine, November 26, 2008, archived from the original on February 12, 2010 ; accessed on September 29, 2010 (English).
  2. ↑ "Our aim was to show all the skeptic that we're in the position to deliver a better second as for example METALLICA have done with" RIDE THE LIGHTNING "lp." Nasty Karsten, Metalion: Slayer Awaits! . In: Slayer vol. 3/4 - 1986. A Thrash Metal Attack , p. 24. Quoted from: Jon Kristiansen: SLAYER. N ° 1 to 5 . Rosières en Haye: Camion Blanc 2009, p. 180.
  3. ↑ "Notre [sic!] But était de montrer à tout les skeptiques que nous étions en position de livrer un meilleur deuxième album que ce que par example Metallica a fait avec le LP Ride the Lightning ." Jon Kristiansen: SLAYER. N ° 1 to 5 . Rosières en Haye: Camion Blanc 2009, p. 181.
  4. ↑ Metalion: Slayer Magazine # 20 + Morbid 12 ″ EP Coming Soon. Nuclear War Now! Productions , September 3, 2010, accessed September 29, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Upcoming Releases on NWN. (No longer available online.) Nuclear War Now! Productions, September 22, 2010, formerly in the original ; accessed on September 29, 2010 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.nwnprod.com  
  6. ^ At the Press. (No longer available online.) Nuclear War Now! Productions, November 2, 2010, formerly in the original ; accessed on November 8, 2010 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.nwnprod.com  
  7. ↑ Metalion: Slayer # 20 + Morbid 12 ″ Out Now! Nuclear War Now! Productions, December 27, 2010, accessed December 31, 2010 .
  8. ↑ Insulter: Slayer "Blood Fire Death" T-Shirt Out Now. Nuclear War Now! Productions, December 10, 2010, accessed October 10, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Insulter: Slayer "Blood Fire Death" Hooded Sweatshirt Out Now. Nuclear War Now! Productions, February 24, 2011, accessed October 10, 2012 .
  10. ↑ Insulter: Slayer # 20 Book + Morbid MLP Sold Out. Nuclear War Now! Productions, January 18, 2011, accessed October 10, 2012 .
  11. ↑ Ronald Hitzler, Arne Niederbacher: Life in Scenes: Forms of juvenile Vergemeinschaftung today . Springer VS , 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-15743-6 , pp. 43 .
  12. ↑ Michael Moynihan , Didrik Søderlind: Lords of Chaos . Satanic Metal: The Bloody Rise from the Underground. Extended and revised edition 2005. 6th edition. ProMedia GmbH, Zeltingen-Rachtig 2005, ISBN 3-936878-00-5 , p. 52 .
  13. ^ Daniel Ekeroth: Swedish Death Metal . Bazillion Points Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9796163-1-0 , pp. 62 f .
  14. ^ Ian Christe : Sound of the Beast. The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal . HarperEntertainment, New York NY 2003, ISBN 0-380-81127-8 , pp. 271 f .
  15. ↑ Manuel Trummer: Sympathy For the Devil? Transformations and manifestations of the traditional figure of the devil in rock music . Waxmann Verlag , Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-8309-2575-0 , p. 252 .