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CHIPS AND BEER  Issue 4  MAGAZINE   (20 Buck Spin)   7.00


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The fourth issue of this terrific underground metal rag continues to carve out it's own little niche in the subterranean metal press with it's unique combination of weird inside humor, off-beat writing, bad attitude and generally unfuckwithable editorial coverage. At this point I'm totally hooked on this mag; it's got scads of character in a publishing landscape that remains largely bereft of real attitude. The latest issue is loaded with several hours worth of reading and sort of revolves around the theme of the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s, with a lengthy, wonderfully hallucinatory comic drawn by Beaver that's based on the events behind the notorious McMartin Preschool satanic sex scandal. Woven in and around that piece are the regular editorial and columns, psychotic drawings and other short comic pages, Todd DePalma's interview with Lawrence Reed (the guy who painted the iconic cover art for Slayer's Show No Mercy and another essay on their South Of Heaven album; interviews with Teitanblood, New York death metal barbarians Skullshitter, Aussie death metallers Vilifier, and Swedish DM crew Degial; a killer Q&A with composer Jat Chattaway (the guy behind the memorable film scores for William Lustig films like Maniac, Maniac Cop and Vigilanmte); an interview with the amazing Italian painter (and creator of hallucinatory album covers for Blasphemophager and Diocletian) Paolo Girardi; a convoluted piece on Roky Erickson; an interview with artist and Sadistik Exekution member Reverend Kriss Hades; a long and informative article on "Satanic Cinema"; a timeline of Satanism-linked crimes; another article on cult horror movie scores with a bunch of film reviews; a retrospective on Possessed's seminal death metal classic Seven Churches; and Chips & Beer's scathing record reviews section. But the best part of the new issue has got to be the lengthy and in-depth interview that Adam Ganderson did with Bob Daisley, bassist for Rainbow and Ozzy Osbourne's backing band Blizzard Of Oz; it's got a ton of dirt on the man's long career and his dealings with various aspects of the music n' metal biz. A great read, definitely recommended to fans of true underground metal in all of it's many forms.