DEMOLISH Launches Contents of Issue #1 (1988)
Metalheads,
We receive many emails every day from all over the world and really appreciate your feedback! We’ve been thoroughly enjoying our presence as an online magazine. In an effort to inform our die-hard fans, blog subscribers and casual onlookers of what lies ahead in the coming months, I am posting this basic outline of what our original début [printed] issue looked like.
The outline below includes some of the main features and articles that we’ve managed to transcribe and post from our vaults. I want to thank everyone who has expressed renewed interest in all things 80′s Metal as the response has been quite overwhelming! We are glad to be able to offer these rare, unpublished interviews, reviews etc. for all the worldwide metal fans.
Please feel free to contact me if you would like to see anything in particular from this wonderful past era and or if you would like to contribute any stories, photos, reviews or memorabilia that is of historic value. Please notice we are starting to make current posts via the Demolish A.D. category [check right side column] and we are thinking about resurrecting this fanzine in the near future. If this is something that interests you then please sound off and let us know. There’s plenty of new Metal to feature and the scene is very healthy at the moment.
I have received lots of emails of encouragement for all the unreleased 80′s material, which appears to be a niche that only we seemed to be able to fill. There are a lot of new blogs that like to write about what it was like back then, but they were not around (many not even born yet)…So – we will gladly continue with the rare stuff as we lived and breathed all things Metal from the front lines!
- My original goal is still in place and that is to keep posting all of my collection until my resources are exhausted and from the looks of things, it’s going to be a long, interesting ride. Buckle up!
*click any band logo below (to go directly to our featured interview when they are transcribed and uploaded).
Issue #1
KING DIAMOND – “King to King” by Curt King
*was on the (color cover) and the main interview and article. one of the best interviews you will ever read – PERIOD!
LETHAL – “The Arrival of LETHAL” by Scott F.
*Killer local Midwest Melodic Metal Band. Is the Midwest the original breeding ground for all things Metal?
INDESTRUCTIBLE NOISE COMMAND - “I.N.C. Thrash-Forward with The Visitor” by Curt King
*Great East Coast Thrash Metal. Bring it on!
BRITNY FOX – “Jersey Rockers Unleashed” by Curt King
*Just what the name says (yes we cover all styles of metal/rock etc.) and besides hot chick dig it!
FLOTSAM & JETSAM – “Accelerating Upward” by Curt King
*Power/Thrash Metal at it’s finest from these Arizona natives. What else can we say?
THE CRUMBSUCKERS – “CK Goes into Detail With Chris Notaro from the almighty “suckers”
*Top-Notch Metal/Hardcore crossover band from the East Coast area. Very under rated band IMO!
ROXX GANG – “Poised for Success” by Curt King
*Hard Rock/Glam Metal from the sunny state of Florida. Oh well, so they didn’t officially “make it big”!
SANCTUARY – “It’s Not Heaven Nor Hell, It’s… SANCTUARY” by Curt King
*Terrific Melodic power metal from the Pacific Northwest Region. Produced by Dave Mustaine. Excellent!
RAGE – “Curt King chats with Peter Wagner, Chris Efthimiadis and Manny Schmidt about the new, slimmed RAGE”
*Classic German Power Metal meisters. Hard core Metallers never die!
AT WAR - “Prepare for AT WAR’s Retaliatory Strike” by Curt King
*Underground Speed/Thrash Metal from Virginia. Who says the U.S. cannot produce Thrash/Power Metal?
WRATHCHILD (AMERICA) – “The Wait Is Over” by Curt King
*American power metal/hard rock masters! Not the UK “glamsters.” F***** damn shame they broke up! Under rated.
QUEENSRYCHE – Geoff Tate discuss Operation Mindcrime (this was a worldwide exclusive interview)
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HEATHEN – On tour and Breaking the Silence
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VENOM – Life Without Mantas
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SACRED REICH – Is Nothing Sacred?
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OTHER Completed Interviews (which still need to be transcribed from cassette):
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ARMORED SAINT
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EXODUS
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NUCLEAR ASSAULT
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DARK ANGEL
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+ many, many more.
Top 25 for 1988: DEMOLISH Staff Picks
These lists were compiled in order for you to get a better understanding of why we (as in the main Demolish staff writers) say the things we do about bands — whether it be in reviews and or feature articles.
By reviewing these lists, you can plainly see who and what we (as in individuals) favor and hopefully you will get a general idea of our journalistic personalities.
~Curt King
Here is my Top 25 Releases for 1988
25. OZZY OSBOURNE – No Rest for the Wicked
24. NUCLEAR ASSAULT – Survive
23. ASSASSIN - Interstellar Experience
22. KING’S X – Out of the Silent Planet
21. CANDLEMASS – Ancient Dreams
20. HITTMAN- Hittman
19. WARGASM – Why Play Around
18. THE ACCUSED - Martha Splatterhead’s Maddest Stories Ever Told
17. FATES WARNING – No Exit
16. TOXIK – World Circus
15. JOE SATRIANI - Surfing With the Alien
14. MEGADETH – So Far, So Good, So What
13. KING DIAMOND – Them
12. SANCTUARY – Refuge Denied
11. VIO-LENCE – Eternal Nightmare
10. JANE’S ADDICTION – Nothings Shocking (*don’t complain -ed)
09. DEATH ANGEL – Frolic Through the Park
08. FLOTSAM & JETSAM – No Place for Disgrace
07. SACRED REICH – Surf Nicaragua (EP)
06. HADES – If At First You Don’t Succeed
05. RIOT – Thundersteel
04. VOIVOD – Dimension Hatross
03. DESTRUCTION – Release from Agony
Number TWO Ended up Being a 4-Way TIE!
02. MEKONG DELTA – The Music of Erich Zann
02. CRUMBSUCKERS – Beast on My Back
02. TESTAMENT – The New Order
02. SLAYER – South of Heaven
01. METALLICA - And Justice For All
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Honorable Mention:
INDESTRUCTIBLE NOISE COMMAND, NUM SKULL, OVER KILL, HOBB’S ANGEL OF DEATH, UNCLE SLAM, ACID REIGN, AT WAR, HALLOWS EVE & ANTHRAX.
See other Staff Picks Top 25 for 88′ Post.
*in order to transport you directly back to 1988 we will continue to keep the language in the posts “present tense” even though this is 2009.
Kinger (ex-SLEEPY TRIP, KURU-AMA drummer), Demolish Mag. Editor/Owner/Publisher etc.
