Once again, you've got me digging deep into the back alleys of 90s extreme underground counter-culture; I can't stop or slow down my constant addiction to fanzines and DIY publications that showed up way out on the fringes during the decade. A recent coup for me was obtaining nearly the entire (save for issue 3) ten-issue run of this killer Denver-based zine edited and published by the great Jasmine Sailing between 1992 and 2002 (the full title of the zine is Cyber-Psychos And Other Diversities. Although infrequently published - Sailing only averaged one new issue a year during this run - she crammed her zine with a mind-boggling overload of fringe / esoteric / extreme art and culture that just grew fatter and gnarlier with each new issue. You want to see what made yours truly tick during the slacker 90's? Pick up any of these hard-to-find back issues of Cyber-Psychos. These are one of my most cherished new additions to the Crucial Blast library, and each one is a time capsule of frayed nerves, then-cutting-edge-art, occult mania, splatterpunk fiction, and musical violence. One of my few real lifes regrets knows that I never had the chance to submit anything for publication to Cyber-Psychos. It's that rad.

First up is issue #1, of course, the thinnest in the catalog, but what a start. Released in July 1992, this boasted a wild black-and-white cyberpunk-themed cover, and thirty-two pages of sheer weirdness and sardonic humor. The main feature is a lengthy interview with Martin Atkins (Pigface, Killing Joke, Invisible Records), followed by articles on Alien Sex Fiend, original dark bizarro / crime fiction and one-page comics from Brian Cooper and Richard Wilber, interview with experimental sound / video / cassette artist and avant-zine creator Joel Haertling, a profile on visual artist Gordon Klock, vintage photos of assorted underground luminaries and legends, as well as strange cyberpunk art and sculpture, the first of many regular Editorial columns from Sailing, a cool reviews section that covers album, video, performance art, books and comics (reminiscent of Forced Exposure's format); on top of all of that, this has a bunch of cool ads for obscure underground comics publishers and experimental music imprints. I love the mishmash of cyberpunk culture, avant-garde art, dark underground music and literate punk attitude that oozes out of this first issue, and this would only get better and more extensive as it went on. "The Magazine of Mental Aberrations", indeed.

Note: this does NOT come with the bonus Futura Ultima Erotica cassette that came with the original release/subscription.