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I generally read only two on a regular basis now: Classic Rock, and Black Velvet.
K! has too much Limp Wristlet-type crap now, and so does Metal Hammer. BW&BK has gone too far into Black/Death metal for my liking. It might as well fold into Terroriser, a more honestly black/death mag.
<font color="#FF0000" size="1">[ March 31, 2005 04:31 PM: Message edited by: JayForSure ]</font>
Ummmm...my favorite is Glitzine. Sheesh. [img]wink.gif[/img]
Well, yes, but I meant print. You know, that thin sheeted stuff that is folded down the middle and ackschul pikschures, and werds.
K!, Limp Bizkit are never in now (which is a good thing), unfortunetly its pop-punk bitches and emo at the moment, [img]graemlins/gulp.gif[/img] seen as they jump on whatever bangwaggon is happening at the time.
Althought it did have Trent Reznor on the cover today other highlights a section on Cinderella, and mini reviews of Vain, Junkyard, Sea Hags and KIX!
the only two that i read on a regular basis are AMP and Industrial Nation. i'll grab K! or Metal Hammer if there is reason to but i don't look for them. I only have one issue of Black Velvet but it's a good one and Classic Rock is good but not too many places carry it around here. They did in the beginning but now only one, maybe two stores carry it.
In this country, Barnes & Nobles and BORDERS carry it. The only thing that irritates me is that the occassional CDs are not on them. I mean, if MOJO and UNCUT send their CDs to this country, then why can't CR?
I read the latter two occasionally, just not always like the two I mentioned.
i asked about that once before. i asked a girl at Border's why there was no 'free cd' included with K! like the cover said there was. she mumbled something about how they (don't really know who they are) couldn't legally send the cds over to the US. i also thought, somewhere in very fine print, it stated something to the affect 'free cd not available outside of the UK' or something like that. this would only be for K! that i am talking about. the free cassettes used to make their way over but i have never seen the mag come with the cds. I think it?s a conspiracy.
Glitzine all the way baby
I quite like the look of this:
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One dollar? I don't trust ebay myself.
<font size="4" face="Arial">That's the excuse they use for any mag that doesn't have the CD.Quote:
Originally posted by creeper2:
i asked about that once before. i asked a girl at Border's why there was no 'free cd' included with K! like the cover said there was. she mumbled something about how they (don't really know who they are) couldn't legally send the cds over to the US. i also thought, somewhere in very fine print, it stated something to the affect 'free cd not available outside of the UK' or something like that. this would only be for K! that i am talking about. the free cassettes used to make their way over but i have never seen the mag come with the cds. I think it?s a conspiracy.
The same thing in Finland too with cd?s in Classic Rock. And also, the DVD is there on the new issue.
I sent them e-mail and asked about it a while ago; they said it was due contractual reasons that they couldn?t have those cd?s outside UK.
It?s funny that every Metal Hammer has a cd here in Finland, too. And Metal hammer and Classic Rock have the same publisher. It shouldn?t be too hard to make contracts for CR too.
It was same with Mojo when they first had cd?s with, but now we can have those here too.
It works in what I was trying it, so something must be universal.
As for CR itself, notice the shift to accommodate the Metal Hammer crowd. The new layout even resembles it. Expect more blather on the so-called "rock revival".
I've picked up a few Blenders lately. Anyone else read Blender? Not the best but not bad.
Interesting development. The latest, in the USA anyway, issue of CR has a DVD. Tell me, why would they NOT send the CDs which would work in any player, but send DVDs which don't?
Once in awhile they will have an article or three worth reading. They do have interesting covers at times, almost pin-up material, La Lopez on the most recent one.
Too bad there is nothing as good as early K! around now. But then, there is almost no music around to write about. Everything now is either so firmly nostalgic, and nostalgia by definition is a distorted view of the past, or it is so PC that it is its sole reason for being.