Just picked up this very cool, quirky underground rag from Wilhelm who runs Starlight Temple Society. This is the latest issue of a unique little black metal fanzine called Gallery Of The Grotesque...actually, it's not really that little - this is a thick, Maxmimum Rock N Roll style zine, 120 pages of offset print, and it is packed, and I mean PACKED with stuff, tons of interviews and artwork and short pieces of splatterpunk fiction. One of the things that gives Gallery Of The Grotesque it's unique personality are the weird cartoons that editor Wilhelm includes every couple of pages; his cartoons depict a gang of animals engaged in assorted barbaric, black metal related activities, like weilding battle axes, sporting spiked gauntlets, decapitations, human sacrifice, teddy bear crucifixion, stuff like that. Wilhelm also injects his weird sense of humor into the interviews he conducts with notable figures in the black metal scene, suddenly asking bizarre questions of his subjects. But the music covered in these pages is the blackest of the black, with fairly extensive interviews with Cult Of Daath, Xasthur, Okkulto, Sataniac from Desaster, Chimera, Orcustus, R. Forster from Revenge/Conqueror, Besatt, Netherealm, Kult Of Azazel, black noise weirdos Rehtaf Ruo, Krieg, Terror Of The Trees, Emit, Anael, Sadomaniac, Vrolok, Varathron, Weakling, Godless North, Bahimiron, and a lengthy interview with Rev. Kriss Hades that includes several pieces of his awesome, fucked up artwork. Along with several nasty short splatterpunk fiction pieces, there are also interviews and articles on some other characters from the periphery of black metal, including Chris Blanc from the well known metal/philosophy site ANUS.com, a short piece on artist and splatterpunk writer Lucy Waters, and informative interviews with Cath from Leather N Spikes fanzine and Jon Kristiansen from the legendary Norwegian black metal zine Slayer, which played a role in the first wave of the Norwegian black metal scene. A massive read that extensively covers the underground black metal scene without taking itself too seriously. Big points for the old school cut and paste punk zine layout too, you don't see that too often anymore. This last issue came out awhile ago but it's still a recommended read for anyone into truly underground BM and satanic metal culture.