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All the refunds have been taken care of.

I'll see to make some sort of arrangement with Invictus, for sure. And I hope I'll manage to figure out what happened in the next couple of days.

Thanks, and again, my apologies for this unfortunate situation.

Hello guys, thanks to all of you for making the effort to help understand what actually happened. I still don't though. My guess is some very rigid and strict custom procedures are at play there in Ireland. Or maybe some public servant found the content offensive or something, who knows? I wouldn't be surprised if the reason was something that banal and stupid... The magazine has been successfully shipped to 24 different countries so far, from Greenland to Australia, and nothing similar ever happened. Very unfortunate situation. However, it's not your fault and I'll refund the money to everybody who didn't get their copy. Also, I'll see to send you a digital copy at least, because the whole point of this undertaking is to spread the word about these bands and their music.
Very sorry that things panned out this way, but what can we do... Another costly lesson for me to learn and have in mind for the second issue.

To people from this forum who have ordered the mag - please, check your emails. Thank you.

"Embrace Death" is an exclusively interview-based magazine that aims to support everything worthwhile in the contemporary underground extreme metal. The magazine has risen from the ashes of the "From the Bowels of Perdition" webzine (formerly "Towards the Inevitable"), which ceases to exist as this very announcement is being posted.

"Embrace Death" is a professionally printed publication, in full colour, on 115 gsm paper of the highest quality, with covers printed on 200 gsm glossy paper.

The first issue of the magazine (available via the "Embrace Death" webstore: https://embracedeath.rip/) features introspective, in-depth interviews with the following bands:

• Stress Angel
• Drowned
• Malokarpatan
• Funereal Presence
• Thy Darkened Shade
• Sweven
• Mortuous
• Phrenelith
• Qrixkuor
• Predatory Light
• Sijjin
• Nekromantheon
• Cryptic Shift
• Verminous Serpent

"Embrace Death is a fantastic publication with thought-out questions that make the interviews stand out and keep it interesting for both the interviewee and the reader. Sösö puts a lot of passion into his work which shows not only in the way he approaches his interviews but also in the aesthetics of the zine. Overall, it's an absolute joy to follow what he does with the zine."
Anastasis Valtsanis (Dead Congregation)

"I was always very picky in terms of webzines and actual zines. I demand a certain level of seriousness and dedication. It is obvious that we offer our very souls to our black art. Therefore, when someone speaks or writes to me about Thy Darkened Shade I can only take it seriously when I understand that there is more than a fiery passion and adoration behind the words used to describe it. When I first got the interview by Embrace Death I was very pleased to answer the questions. Apart from the fact that I felt a deadly passion behind them, I also believed that they were different and, of course, very interesting to answer. Last but not least, it was one of the first zines that didn't mindlessly speak about our influences and mentioned Magma, that was certainly something I appreciated too."
Semjaza (Thy Darkened Shade)

"Unlike the standard interviews that usually scratch the surface with all the expected inquiries about band biography, studio and live routines, Embrace Death can place the interviewee into positions they might not have thought of themselves previously. This can then lead to an unexpectedly personal experience, or at least one that touches elements of their music or themselves, that would otherwise remain in the dark."
Adam Sičák (Malokarpatan)