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Issue #1

(Marhaug Forlag) Magazine $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

With Sindre Bjerga on the Gold Soundz label; Bruce Russell on not listening and natural disasters; Tommi Keranan on Moomin, drones and LSD; stories from the Korean experimental scene by Chulki Hong; C. Spencer Yeh on Dawn of the Dead; Pennti Dassum of Umpio on gear; Sete Star Sept on Japanese grindcore; the Sissy Spacek Interview with John Wiese; black metal singer and toilet artist Zweizz; Vivian Wang of Arcn Templ on Singapore; the Teddy Roosevelt of noise Danciel Menche; and Ronnie Sundin of Very Friendly on comics. Ninety pages.

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Issue #2

(Marhaug Forlag) Magazine $9.00 (Out-of-stock)

Interviews with Mikawa and Kosakai of Incapacitants; Attila Csihar of Mayhem, Sunn O))), and Tormentor; singer/composer Maja S.K. Ratkje; Dylan Carlson of Earth; Phil Blankenship of PacRec, Troniks, and LHD; Misa Moronaga of Damage Digital; enigmatic Norwegian guitarist Fredrik Ness Sevendal; noise whiz Vanhala; turntablist Katsura Mouri; and Don Dietrich of Borbetomagus. Eighty-four pages, full color.

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Issue #3

(Marhaug Forlag) Magazine $15.00

Norway’s Guro Moe on her various projects, ice swimming, playing loud and what’s wrong with Norwegian music; Norwegian guitarist and vocalist Carl Michael Eide on being inside the metal groove, and not wanting out; The Menstruation Sisters’ multi-disciplinary Australian artist Nik Kamvissis talks about crying, Moby Dick, primitive art and those times when the human state just isn’t enough; American minimalist legend Phill Niblock on driving really fast, motorcycle crashes and amnesia; Svarte Greiner’s Norwegian Prince of Darkness Erik Knive Skodvin on horror cinema, the Demoscene, his Miasma label and design work; New Zealand’s Stefan Neville on the lo-fi label (with a drunk Pumice comic by kiwi-mystic GFrenzy); Junky Kao of Torturing Nurse on the hardships of being tied up at concerts, bodily damage and the current Chinese noise scene; English expat and ex-Shadow Ring member Graham Lambkin on the whys and hows of his art with C. Spencer Yeh; Australian percussionist Will Guthrie on bombing trains, discovering fusion, and how quitting smoking changed the course of his music. 100 pages

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Issue #4

(Marhaug Forlag) Magazine $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Interviews with Hogwarts alumni Jim O’Rourke, exiled Norse noise rockers Årabrot, proprietor of the best mailorder company ever Keith Fullerton Whitman, Kai Kobi Mikalsen, guitar marathon champion Marco Fusinato, the Hard-Ons’ Ray Ahn, cellist Okkyung Lee (by C. Spencer Yeh), and Japanese noise pathologist K2. 100 pages

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Issue #5

(Marhaug Forlag) Magazine $11.75 (Out-of-stock)

Interviews with Anla Courtis, Rudolf Eb.er, Makino Takashi, Dennis Tyfus, Jenny Hval, Gfrenzy, and Fecalove. Topics include: how to fall off the Chinese wall and survive, the cosmic soup, 500% inflation, touring discomfort, Japanese tables with integrated heating, meditation, proud roosters, durational performances, fish actions, martial arts, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, working in the sewers, GG Allin, New Zealand rugby, dreams as cinema, that guy from C.C.C.C., Koji Wakamatsu, comatose Mexican drunks, Dracula, cunt vs pussy, witches, feminism, close ups, personal apocalypse, radical pop, studying our subversive past, becoming a book cover, menstrual cups, Catholic masturbation, Russian homophobia, British noise scene drama, Luciano Berio, crying on the train, drawing bears for two years straight, touring with Wolf Eyes, free tattoo for 50 people, Diether Roth, improvised music, flipping burgers for Celine Dion, drawing as mediation, making prank calls to the Antwerp police and more.

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Issue #6

(Marhaug Forlag) Magazine $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Skaset, Lucas Abela, Marcia Bassett, Crys Cole, Joe McPhee, Sodadosa, and PBK talk about meeting Sun Ra, starting to play the sax at 28, Forbidden Planet, The Nihilist Spasm Band, PO, poetry, Chicago, UFO sightings, science fiction, politics, stagnation, the scary middle class, hatred of reverb, changing guitar strings in 23 seconds, that Manowar were never hip, 33 or 45 or in the middle, returning to rock, how to play glass on your face, playing drums on a trampoline, playing power tools on turntables, Loop Station hatred, scares and scars, cutting your throat on purpose, noise scene guilt, INXS as the gateway, art scene carbon print, painting skulls, playing loud, eating lobsters, noise bombing in Indonesia, salt, broken radios, disco tracks that goes nowhere, Albert Ayler’s wonkiness, loosing faith in expressionism, lack of dynamic and textural shifts, shock aesthetics, preserving artist archives, and much more. You’ll have to shell out if you need to know exactly who said what about which. 100 pages