I'm still around, and so is MFTE. I'm unemployed at the moment, which should mean I have more time for reviews, but... well, doing a webzine sucks! Two years from now, who the hell is going to remember a review from a webzine. It gets put online, read once (speaking from personal experience) and that's it. Interviews? Same deal. And when the webzine shuts down, all those reviews and interviews are lost in the land of the web, forgotten by 80 percent of the community. But how many times have you gone back and re-read something from print. Don't know about you, but I remember more from the print pubs than I do the webzines. Ten years from now, anything in print will be valuable information, anything from the web will be... well, lost. Did you know Vanden Plas use to be a frizzy hair band? I found an old issue of Underground Empire (cannot read a damn thing since it's in German) and saw a pic from I'd say from about 1990. Convince me that sixteen years from now you'll be able to find something like that from the web.
I'm piss-poor broke at the moment, but I WILL FUCKING PUBLISH ANOTHER PRINT ISSUE OF MFTE. I've come to the conclusion that if you're going to do a zine, you'll basically have to do a freebie. Of course it'll be photo-copied (today's technology can print photo-copy just as good as a printing press). All I need to do is figure out the logistics - ie, finances and distribution.
Oh yeah, this dude/dudette/it emailed me saying if I didn't send him a few bucks that he was going to hack the website. I emailed him back and told him go right ahead and that they'd be doing me a favor. I noticed Metal Temple is currently hacked (least that's what it look like) - they aren't the first nor will they be the last.
I have interviews from Riverside, Head Control System, Elfonia, Pharoah (excellent and informative one at that), and Green Carnation. So yeah, they'll be published via the old-school way of doing things.
Things that have been rockin my CD player as of late:
1) Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
2) Anathema - Alternative 4
3) The Gathering - Home
4) Red Circuit - Trance State (stupid name for a very, very good Vanden Plas-influenced band)
5) Lake of Tears - BlackBrickRoad
6) Ostinato - Chasing the Form
That's it for my little rant.
-Cam
I'm piss-poor broke at the moment, but I WILL FUCKING PUBLISH ANOTHER PRINT ISSUE OF MFTE. I've come to the conclusion that if you're going to do a zine, you'll basically have to do a freebie. Of course it'll be photo-copied (today's technology can print photo-copy just as good as a printing press). All I need to do is figure out the logistics - ie, finances and distribution.
Oh yeah, this dude/dudette/it emailed me saying if I didn't send him a few bucks that he was going to hack the website. I emailed him back and told him go right ahead and that they'd be doing me a favor. I noticed Metal Temple is currently hacked (least that's what it look like) - they aren't the first nor will they be the last.
I have interviews from Riverside, Head Control System, Elfonia, Pharoah (excellent and informative one at that), and Green Carnation. So yeah, they'll be published via the old-school way of doing things.
Things that have been rockin my CD player as of late:
1) Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
2) Anathema - Alternative 4
3) The Gathering - Home
4) Red Circuit - Trance State (stupid name for a very, very good Vanden Plas-influenced band)
5) Lake of Tears - BlackBrickRoad
6) Ostinato - Chasing the Form
That's it for my little rant.
-Cam
- exception being the death metal craze.
