��� Along with getting the latest (seventh) issue of Convivial Hermit in stock, we've also picked up a couple of older issues of this fantastic underground magazine that we hadn't yet stocked.

��� Issue four of mighty underground metal / neo-folk / experimental music magazine The Convivial Hermit features one hundred and sixteen pages of intelligent, in-depth writing that primarily centers around the lengthy interviews that make up the meat of the magazine, covering an array of artists both known and obscure that run the gamut from black metal to death industrial, neo-folk to dark ambient: you get expansive Q&A sessions with Greek symphonic death metallers Septic Flesh, cult Swedish goth-doom miserablists Equinox Ov The Gods, atmospheric German black metallers Geist, German neo-folk outfit Neun Welten, Argentinean folk metallers Diadema Tristis, Dutch death metal legends Gorefest, Japanese deathgods Intestine Baalism, and Australian funeral doom masters Mournful Congregation. There's also Australian black metallers Austere, Fen Hollen and Nazxul, Canadian black metallers Forteresse and Caliginous, and Quebecois funeral doomsters Longing For Dawn, Teutonic black metal pagans Kerbenok, Finnish death metallers Nerlich and Kataplexia, Japanese/Australian extreme noise outfit Defektro, and acclaimed ambient music artist Jeff Pearce and ethno-ambient polymath Loren Nerell. There's also a pair of interviews with legendary death metal album artists Mark Riddick and Dan Seagrave, oddball British black metallers Ethereal Woods, Iranian black metallers Sorg Innkallelse, a killer interview with Jason Mantis of Malignant Records, a piece on Finnish industrialists Stom.ec, interviews with the folks behind Pagan Herald Magazine and Heathen Harvest webzine, Nathe-Yah and French Viking metal outfit Fjallstorm, and an interesting conversation with Bulgarian NSBM band Aryan Art that questions the band's right-wing philosophies without devolving into hand-wringing hysteria. And as usual, the rest of the magazine is rounded out with an assortment of other writings, from extensive and well-written travel diaries, articles on Tenhi shows and the 2006 Prophecy Festival, an article on Russian animator Yuriy Norshteyn, some amusing Merzbow comics, and the regular massive zine and record review section at the end of the issue that I guarantee will fuel your wish-lists.