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Godvomit ‘zine #4

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At this point, having already put up issues 1 – 3, I shouldn’t have to say that Godvomit should not only not be viewed by children, but probably by anyone.  This issue was probably the most over-the-top stupidly offensive in every way (everything from purposeful grammar Nazi baiting to a  Michael Diana cartoon), however in 1991 and 1992 (when it was produced and released) there wasn’t that much subversive, shock-to-the-system art coming out (that movement was just starting and gaining speed in more than the underground, where it had been going strong for awhile) and offending pretty society was a priority.  Don’t take it too seriously.

Also, several pages of this issue were damaged- the original cover was damaged beyond repair, so a preliminary sketch of the cover is printed here.  Also the Schismopathic interview is damaged beyond repair.  Everything else was fixable.  Enjoy…

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Godvomit ‘zine #3

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Here is the third issue of Godvomit ‘zine.  A couple of notes before you look at it:

1) A couple of pages are a little bit messed up, because it came out in early ’92 (over 20 years ago), so things like this happen.  This issue isn’t too bad.

2) I put out this issue (well, all of the Godvomits) in the early ’90s.  This was before we had Lollapalooza, MINISTRY, the BUTTHOLE SURFERS, NARILYN MANSON,  or even NIRVANA out on the radio and television- if you weren’t alive at that time, you don’t understand how repressed everything was.  Anything ugly, dark, even mildly offensive, “controversial”, or in bad taste  was terribly looked down upon, and pushed to the side, ignored or censored.  The religious right ruled everything.  One of the things that I was trying to accomplish with this ‘zine was to offend these people- I thought everyone was too oversensitive, and that you shouldn’t ignore or hide the ugliness in the world.  So I filled the ‘zine with ugly, offensive, upsetting, dark, disturbing things- I always said “Those who get offended easily should be offended more often, so they get desensitized to it”.  I was trying to do this- desensitize people to offensive things as well as piss off the religious right and the people trying to censor everything.  So it’s more than just an underground music magazine.  It’s a direct attack on censorship and good taste.
Nowadays, things are different- the sickos won.  Things are a lot more loose and free and it’s not as necessary to overload the world with dark and depraved shit.  You can find crazy underground movies and music easily on youtube, and artists are always pushing the envelope farther (although the ridiculous hubbub over Miley Cyrus’ rather tame shenanigans kind of makes me question this a little- maybe we are going back toward the more repressed era?).
Anyway, it kinda goes without saying that kids probably shouldn’t look at this (well, their parents probably shouldn’t, anyway.  The kids have probably watched and laughed at Two Girls One Cup 20 times by now).  Stay sick…
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Godvomit #2

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Godvomit #2 was not near as big as #1, but it was twice as sick.  A lot of people were offended, and I always wondered how they could take something so silly so seriously (I cringe looking at some of it because of how goofy it is).  Looking back, I guess it did have a lot of over-the-top and disturbing things in it (I’d probably get arrested for putting it out nowadays, since everybody is scared of everything), but it was the early ’90s and we were all trying to out-offend each other.  I put a lot more art and comics in this issue, and started doing smaller, one page interviews with some bands  (which was my answer to a lot of music ‘zines who would do one page ‘features’ or biographies on bands- usually just reprinting or rewording their press sheet which I was never a fan of).

I put the first issue up as a PDF, and some people said it took too long to load up on their computer, so I’m doing this one like all the other ‘zines I’ve done, and just putting images of the pages up (except it’s the whole thing).  You can, of course, click on them to make them bigger.

Interviews in this one with CORPSEGRINDER, BATHYM, DR. SHRINKER, DISHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, NOCTURNUS, SUPURATION, EYE GOUGER, and CREMATORY (which I think is the least amount of bands I interviewed in any issue except the half size #8).

Needless to say, VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED, NO ONE UNDER 18 (or really no one at all) SHOULD READ THIS…

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Godvomit #1

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We’re going to start off bursting out the gate with a huge 80 page monster of a ‘zine that specialized in underground hardcore and metal music with a few pages of book and movie reviews thrown in for good measure.  Some might wonder why I’m starting with such a huge but not very famous or wide-spread (compared to other underground music ‘zines of the time like Slayer, Morbid, Uniforce,  MRR, etc) ‘zine.  The answer is because I know the creator/ editor very well.  It’s me.
Godvomit issue 1 came out in 1990, after I had put out a couple of issues of another music ‘zine called Hatefilled (which has been lost to the sands of time, but was basically the same format as Godvomit but smaller and featured interviews with bands such as CRYPTIC SLAUGHTER, FEARLESS IRANIANS FROM HELL, PISSED HAPPY CHILDREN, IMMOLATION, FATAL, CURRICULUM MORTIS, BACCHUS, and New Jersey’s HATRED). Godvomit got it’s name from something it says in the Bible about how God regurgitates every time a Christian follows his rules only because they are afraid of the punishment of hell if they don’t, which leads me to believe that heaven must be knee deep in God’s vomit.  It was purposely chaotic and sloppy looking as an antithesis to all the generic looking desktop publishing fanzines that were coming out at the time.
Unlike the other ‘zines I’m going to take a look at on here, I have permission to scan and post this one in it’s entirety, so I won’t go on much about it, and just let the magazine speak for itself (warts and all)…

Includes interviews with IMPETIGO, MORTICIAN, THERION, WINTER, DEAD HORSE, THE ACCUSED, DEVOID, HIDEOUS MANGLEUS, SPLATTERREAH, NUCLEAR DEATH, SOCIAL DECEIT, NECRO-SCHIZMA, DERKETA, EXIT 13, NUNSLAUGHTER,  and FUNEBRE.

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