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JUDAS KISS # 8 Release year: 2002 Format: A5 magazine Number of pages: 100 pages General facts: Judas Kiss is an English magazine maintained by Lee Powell with the help of various guest writers. It offers interviews with musicians, album reviews and live-reports. There is also articles on legendary Industrial projects as well as other articles on various esoteric subjects. Issue 8 is completely computer-made and pro-printed on quality paper. Review: The eight issue of Judas Kiss contains a wide array of interesting features. Besides a massive amount of well-written reviews, there are a number of other interesting features. Lee Powell and his co-workers have managed to get hold of none other than Boyd Rice for an interview. Other projects to be interviewed are Propergol, Coph Nia, As All Die, V/Vm, Axon Neuron/Vagwa and Karjalan Sissit - though the last project ended up on a separate sheet due to some deadline problems. As an editor myself, I must say that Judas Kiss way of interviewing bands is a very favourable one. The interviews consists of interesting and unique questions that speak of insight and dedication from the interviewer's side. As a result, the answers are equally interesting to read and the final result is definitely price-worthy. Besides the interviewed composers, there's also an interview with an "internationally famous ex-dominatrix, writer, sex educator and SM coach to couples" named Fetish Diva Midori. Along with the earlier mentioned Boyd Rice interview, these sure are among the highlights of this issue. I never thought there was so much to know about BDSM but now I know better. Other than these interviews, there's also an article on the history of Whitehouse and Suttcliffe Jugend, a report on Death in June and NON live in London, a review on a book on Karl Wiligut as well as an article on Savoy Books and Lord Horror. As with the interviews, the articles are well-written and perfectly succeeds in maintaining the interest of the reader. This skilful journalism seems to be a pervading aspect in Judas Kiss. As a reviewer, I of course also have to look at the negative aspects of reviewed object. When it comes to this eight issue of Judas Kiss, the only negative aspects I can think of are the format and the typesetting. I am not all that fond of the A5 format when it comes to zines. Especially when there are 100 pages, it tends to make the zine a bit clumsy and uncomfortable to handle as it wants to close itself all the time when being read. When it comes to the text, I have no problems whatsoever with it being of relatively small size, yet I think the use of columns could have been more plentiful as it makes the text easier to read. Still Judas Kiss is a perfect example of a splendid magazine with a varied and skilfully presented content. The quality and enthusiasm shown in the interviews, reviews and articles undoubtedly makes up for any minor flaws that can be detected and the layout in general is definitely ok. I find it very easy to recommend Judas Kiss to all you fans of Industrial music all esoteric stuff out there. This is a magazine you do not want to miss. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Price: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Click here to contact Judas Kiss by E-mail |