[TORTURER]

One of the best zines around! Total support!
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[Qvadrivivm]

Like most people, bands like to make promises and be more optimistic about the future than they sometimes should be. I don't think 6-9 months is a hopelessly long time to wait for an interview if you've done your work properly with the questions (which I believe was the case with the early TSB #2 interviews), can maintain some level of communication with your interviewee(s) and they're still at least promising to do something. If you've sent pages and pages of questions, it's fair to give people time to think and absorb them and then use some months for the writing process. That is, if you want truly GOOD answers. Otherwise you can go to the jacuzzi and speak about the recent Tokio Hotel embarkings. There are numerous interviews we've done for Q. that have taken 8-10 months to get answered and when the answers have finally arrived, I've pissed my pants because they're so good. Yesterday brought the answers to questions sent last May, and it turned out to be a seventeen-sheet affair. Etc, etc. It's when people turn hostile, produce death threats or simply stop answering your inquiries that you might want to go looking for replacements and curse the losers that failed. As the person before said, it's most definitely about keeping your word and showing some character. There are all kinds of ridiculous excuses I've heard for delayrium in the answering biz as of late, but let's remain encouraging for once.

As for the topic, I'd like to see less regular music industry questions and a certain variation in the structure concerning the interviews in Ancient Spirit Terror. #4 became a somewhat daunting tome in the end because of some of the repetition and uninspired questions. Stefan just helped fixing me up with Mitch Harris for a great Defecation/Righteous Pigs interview, so I shan't complain too much though, haha. Loads of cool bands in the mag.

[christhammer]

Hey Mr Quadrivium, Stefan here...

Thanks actually for the minor criticism, I can say for sure we have improved the quality of questions.

As for waiting for interviews, I hardly send any questions out without having asked before but still it's crazily slow at times. Actually having ABSU was already confirmed by the band 3 years ago but they never answered my questions back then, so I reworked that one and now I got it answered and am happy as hell.

Patience and persistence pay off in the end usually...
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[passetiermes]

I thought that thanks to internet/email, bands nowadays actually bother answering interviews and do that without months of waiting.
When I was making a zine in mid 90s, most of the bands I sent interviews to ( Marduk, Dissection, Fenriz, Throne Of Ahaz, Emperor, etc.) didn't bother answering them, despite of my brilliant questions and many IRCs.
Erik/Watain is not the only one who uses copy paste when answering questions. That Ancient Rites guy took that art to a new level. Once you have read one Ancient Rites interview, you have read them all. I would rather read Harry Potter for the rest of my life, than another Ancient Rites interview.

[Qvadrivivm]

Eleven months ago, I sent an interview request to an American band that released a very good début album in 2009. The band immediately agreed to doing the interview, so I sent them a total of six (6) questions a week after the initial request. Five months and some inquiries later they apologised for not being in touch and said they would get to it soon. Another couple of months went by and nothing was heard from them, despite attempts of getting in touch. In November-December I started e-mailing them on an almost daily basis, just to push it out with a kind of brute force tactic. To no avail. Three weeks ago, as a sort of final attempt, I contacted first the band and then their label to help me with the interview. No answer. A week went by, another attempt to contact the label. Nothing.

Eight hours ago, the answers arrived. With them there was the guitarist's explanation that the band had been "in the studio non stop" to write and rehearse for their second album. I can tell you the music of the band slowly starts to sound good again.

Just a small story to emphasise that you shouldn't stop asking for answers very easily.

[christhammer]

Btw, if you are still interested in ordering ANCIENT SPIRIT TERROR #4 - the issue that came out in 2008, submit your orders to Vasili:
ancientspiritterror@yahoo.de

Bands featured in AST 4:

CELTIC FROST, ASPHYX, GOATLORD, PROTECTOR, HELL MILITIA, ANATOMIA, ETERNAL DARKNESS, FUNEBRARUM, BLOODSTONE, DENIAL OF GOD, IBEX THRONE, GRAVEN, NEGATIVE PLANE, DARKMOON WARRIOR, FLUISTERWOUD, GOAT VOMIT, MORTUARY DRAPE and more. In addition to that there will be live reviews of INQUISITION, ZEMIAL, KAWIR as well as our huge Greek black metal special featuring ZEMIAL, NOCTERNITY, KAWIR, ROTTING CHRIST, NAER MATARON. Over 120 reviews!

Price: 8 Euro + 1,45 Euro Postage (Europe only) 12$ (World).

Just in case...
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[passetiermes]

[BBR]

Any update?

[Lukasz]

[In Solitude]