Just got some more of these in stock.

The latest (2012) issue of this high-quality annual Italian magazine published by the forces behind the Nil By Mouth label, Exoteric #6 features an improved layout and printing quality and sees the zine evolving into one of the better underground publications coming out of the industrial/noise underground. The fifty-two page magazine is professionally printed on heavy gloss paper in black and white, a smart aesthetic choice that better serves the often stark and morbid artwork that makes up so much of this magazine. There's a lot of "musical" content featured in this issue, with some interesting and fairly lengthy interviews with C-Blast faves like Werewolf Jerusalem and Pestdemon alongside Italian noise artist Elisha Morningstar, Encephalophonic, and Swedish industrialist and label owner Jartecknet. In addition, there's an interesting article titled "Through Your Pain-Filled Eyes, The Urge Of My Rapture" that explores some of the common ground between the aesthetics of power electronics and the extreme cinema of Gasper Noe, Jorg Buttgereit and Matteo Garrone and films like Clean, Shaven, Schramm and In A Glass Cage. There's also an assortment of abject prose, cut-up poetry and experimental writing from George Kanavos, Martin Bladh (IRM / Skin Area), Maerco Wertham, Sick Seed and Sonia Dietrich that I really dug, and the issue is further fleshed out with a visual feast of depravity, decomposition and deformity via full-page collage art, illustrations and photo sets from Ryan Wreck, Mikko Aspa, Si Clark, Bitewerks, Manuel Pereira, Kristian Olsson, Tisbor (Fecalove), humiliHATE, Joran Laperre, Pasi Markkula (Bizarre Uproar / Filth & Violence), Joel Danielsson, Jukka Siikala, and Stephan Bessac. All in all, Exoteric is growing into a neat little magazine dedicated to transgressive art and sound that has earned a spot on my shelf right next to the likes of Special Interests, Terror and Degenerate.