英音樂雜誌Terrorizer再次大幅報導閃靈 2007-04-04 09:03 中央社記者黃慧敏台北四日電 曾於一月號以「2007年話題樂團」稱呼台灣閃靈樂團的英國知名音樂雜誌「Terrorizer」 ，在剛發行的四月號中再次以兩頁大篇幅報導閃靈，並獨家刊出閃靈先前在海德公園拍攝 的宣傳照。 報導的標題以「Why does their music soundso beautifully sad？」點出閃靈音樂華麗 卻悲傷的特色，在文中不僅單就閃靈作品探討，更深入探討台灣受殖民統治的歷史以及背 後累積情感所孕育的創作能量，讓英國青年讀者透過閃靈能深入了解台灣的歷史文化背景 。 除了跨頁大篇幅的報導以外，Terrorizer更在本期第一頁的目錄頁中獨家刊登一月底閃靈 在海德公園拍攝的宣傳照片，讓本期雜誌成為許多閃靈歐美樂迷的收藏指標。 http://www.terrorizer.com/index2.php #156 - EDITORIAL With the obvious exception of 'Chinese Democracy', it's unlikely that any album this year will have as much to prove as Mayhem's 'Ordo Ad Chao'. This is a band who are central to the black metal mythology, whose 'De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas' stands as one of the genre's highest standards, and yet for almost a decade have been suffering a crisis of identity. Their last two albums ' the diffuse, experimental 'A Grand Declaration Of War' and the unspectacular attempt to get back on track that was 'Chimera' ' showed a band unsure how to further their legacy, whilst the nihilistic edge that had resulted in the murder and suicide of lore had subsided into addictions to drugs and drink that not only sucked the life out of many of their gigs, but threatened to tear the band apart. Mayhem were lost, their power squandered, and any further disappointments would have cast them as an irrelevance, a hangover to be shrugged off. As it turns out, 'Ordo Ad Chao' is just the revelation we needed. It's not a 'good Mayhem album', it's difficult, demanding, devoid of relief, a turgid miasma like descending to the river Styx only to find that it's in the process of congealing into sludge. With the return of fearless former vocalist Attila Csihar to the fold, Mayhem have rediscovered the vast, barren spirit of 'De Mysteriis...', only to let it loose amongst new, unfathomable terrain. Perhaps they've caught some of the monged-out wrongness of Blut Aus Nord and later Meshuggah, but they've withdrawn it into their own dark night of the soul, touched on black metal's nerve centre and made it resonate once more. Will 'Ordo Ad Chao' prove just as divisive as 'A Grand Declaration...' or a new era for Mayhem? One of the central tenets of black metal is at stake, and inside we get up close and personal with the band as we get the inside story of the tempestuous years that gave rise to such a monster, the internal ructions that led to the departure of Maniac and the personal trials that have been articulated in such disturbing fashion ' a tale not for the faint hearted. This month also brings our Art Special to a close as we look at the psychedelic world of poster art, and get a revealing insight from the revered illustrator, Dave McKean. We also bring you the remarkable story of Taiwanese black metallers, ChthoniC, a band steeped in the turbulence of both ancient and modern history, and next month we take you even further afield to reveal how metal thrives in the harshest of climates; all proof that extreme music plays by the highest of stakes. THEE ED --

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