The Convivial Hermit - Issue 8 - BOOK

The 8th issue was a monster that somehow blew up to 136 pages (144 if counting the added 8.1 booklet which is still part of the package), the largest in all of our history, and it was the first (and last, as of now) issue to include the fantasy writer, Owen Wears, from Meridian 9 Magazine and Exterus, who filled its pages with the short story The Apprentice, a number of reviews, and several concert reports from his native Colorado. It stands out as not only having the most content, but also the most concert reports with bands like Brighter Death Now, Robert Rich, Napalm Death and others. Of the eight articles I still find apposite the ode to Cherry Springs Park, the report from the Wolf Sanctuary of Lititz, Pennsylvania, the Eternal Black Screen of Death article and the special on Philly Metal, which I guess no other magazine in history ever cared to do up to this point in time. Both Deteriorate and T.O.M.B., having members in common, are important contributions from my side, no less the introduction of Zuriaake as the main feature (who have since blown it hard with a completely lame EP, but that's a story for another time!), while Bertrand brought the fatal blow with interviews with Godkiller, Noltem and Darkenhöld, to name just a few. I don't advertise it but this issue contained a comic called Year 2222 which was my ode to the old Marvel What If... comics I used to read in my teenage years.

ABJECTION RITUAL (USA), ATHOR (TUR), BAL-SAGOTH (ENG), BETHLEHEM (GER), BLASPHERIAN (USA), DARKENHÖLD (FRA), DER BLUTHARSCH (AUS), DETERIORATE (USA), FALGAR (USA), GLIMMER ROOM (ENG), GODKILLER (FRA), HJARNIDAUDI (NOR), IMAGO MORTIS (ITA), KRYNITZA (RUS), LIFEBLOOD (JAP), MALPHAS (USA), MARE COGNITUM (USA), MELKOR (GER), NOLTEM (USA), PICTURE ANN (DEN), RUDE (USA), SANGRE DE MUERDAGO (SPA), SYRGÐR SKÓGR (GER), T.O.M.B. (USA), WAXEN (USA), WOMAN IS THE EARTH (USA), ZUD (USA) and ZURIAAKE (CHI)