Fistful of Metal (New Magazine)

[Eoin McLove]

 

[son of the Morrigan]

No Cd no, that's a tenner including postage though. Who needs promo cds these days anyway?

Ah jaysus, I love those CDs.  I have fucking hundreds of them here and I do often do an auld lucky dip, stick whatever one comes to hand on and ya never know what your going to get.
I had to separate the Metal Hammer ones out from the Terrorizer, ZT  and Metal Maniacs ones though on account of the Hammer ones being filled with awful muck.
Got out of buying mags a fair few years ago for one reason and another but Christ I used to look foward to getting a new mag, sticking on the CD and reading about my favorite bands, happy times.

[Thorn]

Yeah, I have boxes of 'em and because I have a random system of listening to things they come up regularly to hang around my stereo but, big BUT, try out your third or fourth Terrorizer CD against the latest few. When record labels stopped stumping up the cash to have their shining lights on there, well, we were left with some shit

[son of the Morrigan]

Yeah, I have boxes of 'em and because I have a random system of listening to things they come up regularly to hang around my stereo but, big BUT, try out your third or fourth Terrorizer CD against the latest few. When record labels stopped stumping up the cash to have their shining lights on there, well, we were left with some shit

I'm sure your right man, as I said, I got out of buying mags a fair few years ago so I must have missed the decline in Quality.
When they stopped printing Metal Maniacs I died a little inside and fell out of love with mags.

[ochoill]

Second time in an evening this came up (Magazines in general).  I used to buy a lot of the usual suspects in my teens but would say it's been a decade or more since I even considered buying a Metal Hammer.  Still bought Terrorizer fairly frequently up to a few years back and stopped after getting a run of dud issues.  All the CDs on any of them turned to complete shit at some point too, but I loved them when I was younger.  Was lucky enough that by the time I was getting into metal properly, the brothers had rakes of 90s Kerrang and Metal Hammers knocking about that were of fairly decent quality, I remember sifting through them for ages reading old articles.

Never actually bought a ZT but read a few on shelves passing time and they seemed decent enough.

[son of the Morrigan]

Remember when Metal Hammer stopped printing sleeves for the CDs and instead had the info that should be on the sleeve printed in the magazine, so if ya didn't keep the CD with the issue it came with ya didn't have a clue what was on it.
That was the last straw for me with Fucking Metal Hammer.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Remember when Metal Hammer stopped printing sleeves for the CDs and instead had the info that should be on the sleeve printed in the magazine, so if ya didn't keep the CD with the issue it came with ya didn't have a clue what was on it.
That was the last straw for me with Fucking Metal Hammer.

It had long gone to shit while they still had the CD slipcovers. Only the most morbid of curiosities would drive one to want to know whether the bilge currently afflicting one's ears was created by Atreyu, or The Devil Wears Prada, or Gay For Johnny Depp, or whatever other fashioncore band was flavour of the month.

[open face surgery]

I stopped buying MH in my mid teens due to that exact reason. Shcutther.

[John Kimble]

I got the postal subscription to ZT as I was finding it near impossible to locate it in any of my local Easons. I bought a few Iron Fist issues but Mc Loves criticisms pretty much echo my own sentiments, this new mag doesn't sound great tbh. Couldn't give a fuck about cover mount cds, much as I like ZT, the vast majority of the bands on their cds are muck and they generally go straight in the bin.

[son of the Morrigan]

Remember when Metal Hammer stopped printing sleeves for the CDs and instead had the info that should be on the sleeve printed in the magazine, so if ya didn't keep the CD with the issue it came with ya didn't have a clue what was on it.
That was the last straw for me with Fucking Metal Hammer.

It had long gone to shit while they still had the CD slipcovers. Only the most morbid of curiosities would drive one to want to know whether the bilge currently afflicting one's ears was created by Atreyu, or The Devil Wears Prada, or Gay For Johnny Depp, or whatever other fashioncore band was flavour of the month.

You'r dead right there man, awful tripe alltogether, the sleeve debacle was just the last straw, the straw that broke the camels back if you will.
Another straw was the fact that every second issue had become an Iron Maiden appreciation society publication.
"Oh look, Bruce did a poo. Isn't it amazing, look how wonderfully brown it is, and doesn't it smell fragrant. Here's a 16 page supplement about Bruces poo with loads of photos of Bruce having another poo in the cockpit of his fucking plane."
Fuck off ye cunts.