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- Editorial
- Issue 15 - Where the Wild Things Are
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- Hello…
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- Just when you thought it was safe to
ignore the underground’s grubbier little corners, back we come again.
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- I’ve a really frightening
mountain of work to clear from my desk so I’ll not keep you – Issue 15 is a bit
of an assault on the 2009’s Autumn and Winter, so forgive me if you’re reading
this, it’s already 2010 and you’re clamouring for our ‘end of year’
lists – they’ll be with you in the first issue of 2010 ‘proper’, the
date for which you can find below.
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- As in the previous editorial, it must
be said that various factors have contrived to make H-Nox a less productive, efficient
place over the past couple of months, so apologies to anyone who’s been kept waiting
to hear our chin-strokingly profound verdicts on your musical oeuvre. I hope the quality
of our turns of phrase make up for our lousy organisational skills.
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- I’ve re-arranged many of the
aspects of, well, my life really, in order to make things run more smoothly in 2010, and
as a result have a long list of ‘office days’, where you will catch me firmly
entrenched behind my desk, putting each issue in order. A good 30% of these are weekdays,
which I hope will make facilitating interviews a little easier. You all want to be onstage
(or even in the crowd) on a Saturday night, and I somewhat object to setting my alarm for
4am to talk to someone on the other side of the world about the deeper meaning of corpse
paint, so we’ll cut out the fuss by opening up the switchboard/skype account/ICQ on a
range of days throughout the month, and meeting in the middle. I will post more details in
time, but please, as always, hit me up at hierophantnox@gmail.com
if there’s anything you want to know – my reply will have a panoply of
alternative contact details at the end too.
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- There’s already an excitingly
large box of promos awaiting my attention for Issue 16, including my favourite band
Slagmaur, as well as actual handfuls of releases from No Colours Records and
Painkiller/Apollon Records, some intimidating discs from Cold Spring which Muttley and I
will divide between us (we’ll share the pillow to hide behind, don’t worry), and
a whole host of the independent releases which make my postman nervous, so be sure to
check back with us for our reviews. We’ve a strong collection of interviews in the
pipeline as well as our first Special Feature of the year later in Jan, and of course,
only because we HAVE to, we’ll let you know our favourite albums of 2009.
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- Thanks as always to the bands, labels
and promoters who have supported us despite our wobbliness, and to the extreme metal fans
who read our work and agree/disagree vocally, constantly, all the time, in my face. And a
special thanks from me to Patricia Thomas, Bahn, Satanic Muttley, Helvetia, Paul, Simon
M-J, the Daniels, Luci, Pete, Stephanie and Carrie and everyone else who believes, cheers,
lends a hand, props me up, chats shit to me, posts things on Facebook that make me laugh…the
general necessities of life.
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- Here’s to good times and a
stronger zine in 2010,
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- Dark regards
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- Ellen
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- HIEROPHANT ISSUE DATES 2010 (NO,
REALLY...)
- JANUARY - 14th, 28th
- FEBRUARY - 11th, 25th
- MARCH - 11th, 25th
- APRIL - 8th, 22nd
- MAY - 6th, 20th
- JUNE - 3rd, 17th
- JULY - 1st, 15th, 29th
- AUGUST - 12th, 26th
- SEPTEMBER - 9th, 23rd
- OCTOBER - 7th, 21st
- NOVEMBER - 4th, 18th
- DECEMBER - 2nd, 16th, 30th
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