Fangoria: Issues 1-100 (1979-1991)



"Fangoria is an internationally acclaimed American horror media magazine in on and off publication since 1979. It was originally released in an era when horror fandom was still a burgeoning subculture. Fangoria rose to prominence by running exclusive interviews with horror filmmakers and offering behind the scenes photos and stories that were otherwise unavailable to fans at that time. It eventually rose to become a major influencer in the horror world itself. Kerry O'Quinn and Norman Jacobs first conceived of Fangoria under the name 'Fantastica' in 1978, intending it to be a companion publication to their science fiction themed 'Starlog'. Just as Starlog covered science fiction media for a mostly teenage audience, Fantastica was intended to cover fantasy in a similar fashion. The first issue was assembled under the editorship of 'Joe Bonham', a pseudonym taken from the quadriplegic hero of Dalton Trumbo's novel 'Johnny Got His Gun'. This was a cover for Rolling Stone contributor and screenwriter Ed Naha, and writer Ric Meyers. Shortly after the announcement of Fantastica's coming debut, the magazine was delayed by several months when the publishers of Starlog's competitor, Fantastic Films, threatened a lawsuit because of the similarity in titles. Emergency brainstorming sessions resulted in the name Fangoria (fan/fantasy + fantasmagoria), with the first issue finally going to print on July 31st 1979. That first issue still retained focus on fantasy media but proved to be a financial failure. Because of unexpected reader enthusiasm for an illustrated article on Tom Savini's makeup effects for Dawn Of The Dead, the magazine shifted its attention to the macabre, monsters, and gore. By issue 7 Fangoria became profitable, and only continued to grow in success alongside the horror genre's burgeoning golden age: the 1980s."

Dissecting Table – "Complete Early Recordings 1986-1991" Military Bag 2011 + Steinklang/Denzatsu Comp CDs 2003/2004 (320)



"What is the main inspiration of my work with Dissecting Table? Observing death through life."

--Ichiro Tsuji

"Scrap-metal ambience, ultrafast multi-layered chime, double barreled bass-trumping, faintly whining knife-sharpeners and hacking cough, heavy rhythms, sheets of noise, samples clangs and screams, and very harsh, gutteral vocals create an aura of dread. This is the sort of dense, intense, rhythmic sound that so-called agro-tech bands attempt and fail to achieve: incredible intensity of sound and rhythmically-brutal mechanisms of horror, claustrophobia of environment, reality images, dark omen and furious noise-metal frustration, extreme anger and transparency of eternal fog, violent and devastating for mind, combines Japanese musical traditions with western decadence in EBM/digital/dark-trance hybrid. Dissecting Table is the exclusive child of Ichiro Tsuji, computer engineer. Imagination confirms again own cult status of one of the best harsh industrial projects, born under bloodless axis of country of rising noise. Being a part of 'UPD Organization' (Ultimate Psychological Description) and its main propagandist. He concentrates on investigating interest of physical energy-bond between sound and our perception of it...special density of audio power fluctuations in experimental music in its relation to human consciousness. Established in 1986, Dissecting Table has been managing to develop and embody these ideas in extremely limited-run albums, being provided by support of leading world labels like 'Dark Vinyl' and 'Relapse'."

--Heavily edited from Russian "Achtung Baby" website, 1997