This is a review of a fanzine from Chile called "Tempestous" that focuses more on the more occult and satanic style of black, doom, death metal and dark ambient and has also been released in both paper and pdf formats.
A lot of the zine has the look of a underground paper zine that was very common in the 90's and early 200's with a good amount of photos. The first interview is with a very obscure fanzine from Mexico where the editor explains his misanthropic, violent and anti Christian worldviews while also mentioning past bands he has interviewed which are more closer to the occult side of black metal as well as the editor mentioning an article he has written before in the past about Gilles de Rais a violent serial killer from 15th century France and he also goes into details about his occult writings and books which lean more towards Satanic, Luciferian and Left Hand Path Magick.
Some of the articles also go into non musical territory with one article covering a CIA document dealing with the nature of reality and human consciousness which would be of great interest to those that have an interest in mind control and psychical warfare before going back into a short article which also explains the editor's views on extreme metal and his vision for Tempestous Fanzine.
The zine also does an interview with U.S.A black metal project Drape where he explains his musical style, lyrics, views and also talks about the term 'funeral black metal'. There is also an interview with Sanctum Satanas where he explains his view on the Order OF The nine Angles as well as going into details on other occult and left hand path practices that he has studied and worked with which was different from other interviews since it focused less on music.
One of the pages reviews the different recordings from Feeble Deity and goes very in depth with the demo's, singles and albums that are reviewed before going into an interview with the artist involved where he goes more into details of his musical style, the lyrics and the approaches he has brought to his recordings.
One article moves away from music and explains the relation of the Annunaki's and how they are related to the left hand path tradition of vampyre magick before returning back to music. The next interview is with Argentina's Nefario where he explains his music style, influences, authors he has studied and views on Zionism as well as explaining it from a more esoteric worldview.
Next interview is with Umbria where the main person explains his music and views which is a little bit different from the previous interviews. The next interview is with Targarien which goes into the history of the project as well as explaining the music and lyrics which are more ancient cultures and mysticism
Next interview is with Count Vindalf where he explains his interest in the Middle Ages, the writings of J.R..R Tolkien before going more into detail about his music and recordings before going into an interview with Spectral Ancient Lands of Asmoondeii where explains the underground metal scene in Peru, his own musical projects as well as how his interest in the black arts and the occult also plays a role in his music.
Next interview is with Chile's Bewitched which was originally released in the 90's in an older zine which is very brief and gives you an insight about their musical style and there thoughts on what was going on underground metal at the time. Next interview moves away from music and goes more into the occult with Zeena Schreckwhich starts out with her falling out with the Church Of Satan in the introduction before going into detail with her interest in Germanic Occultism and Northern Magick and the interview was also written in the 90's.
One of the articles also goes into Western Philosophy and Existentialism which also shows their relation to magick, occultism and alchemy. Next article goes into detail with Chile's grindcore act S,D,N which also gives a brief detail about their musical style before going into album, ep and demo reviews which focuses on bands the black, doom, death, metal, ethereal, avantgarde and ambient genres which is 14 pages in length and goes very much into depth on describing the music before going into the fanzine reviews which cover the publications that focus on more of the underground, occult and satanic forms of black and death metal
In my opinion Tempestous Fanzine is a very great underground metal blog that focuses more on the underground and occult forms of black/death metal and if you want to learn about underground bands devoted to the black arts from different parts of the world, you should check out this zine. 8/5 out of 10.
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