ISSUE #002 CONTENTS
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Due to hit the newsstands on the 28th of October 2004, and with 16 more pages than the launch issue, 002 brings you all this, not to mention the rest:

PROPAGANDA
Martin Ives casts his other beady eye over recent events in the world of extreme music and charts the dates you could do worse than entering in your little black book.
ZT columnist Danny Lilker takes a deep breath to tell us why he traded blastbeats for phat beats.
ZT's very own life coach, Tyrone Pow, points us in the direction of organised chaos.

INTERROGATIONS
The Haunted: Original vocalist Peter Dolving returns to the fold for the band's Century Media debut, Revolver. Does this new shift in label and rekindling of members hail a new phase in the ever-popular Swedish thrasher's career? ZT's Chris Kee gets the band's take on things by means of an open and frank conversation with the frontman himself.
Danzig: Glenn Danzig goes tête à tête with Chris Alo on the band's eighth studio album, Circle Of Snakes, and in a rare turn of events, gives us some very personal thoughts on his legendary times with The Misfits…
Dio: A veteran of extreme music and one time Sabbath vocalist, Ronnie James Dio tells Alex S. Johnson what it is that keeps him ticking…
Behemoth: Nergal, the mastermind behind Poland's finest export, talks to ZT's Glenn Burston about the new album, Demigod - a release that could very well earn the band the same title, in plural.
Vader: Is world domination on the cards for Poland? Could Vader's latest addition to the country's death metal arsenal finally tip the balance of power? Glenn Burston joins the band as they huddle around the Armageddon button and argue over who gets to push it.
Nebelhexë: Norwegian 'Fog-Witch' Andrea Haugen talks to Alex S. Johnson about life after Hagalaz' Runedance and her latest incarnation, the expressive dark-folk project Nebelhexë.
Forefather: Following on from the kudos of their Album Of The Issue for Ours Is The Kingdom, ZT's Simon Gausden crosses paths with Pagan 'evangelists' and modern-day saviours of Old England, Wulfstan and Athelstan, to attain enlightenment on their individual brand of Anglo-Saxon metal.
Napalm Death: Barney Greenway sets us straight on why an album full of covers is more relevant than ever and gives an insightful lecture on the past, present and future of Napalm Death and the grindcore scene - Chris Kee is the man on the front row furiously taking notes.
The Amenta: As if appearing from a black void, Australia has spewed forth The Amenta, one of the most exciting industrial-tinged extreme metal acts to be revealed in recent years. ZT's Adam Chapman prepares to fire off his questions into the abyss, only to find that the band's answers have mysteriously materialised before he has had a chance to do so. The responses confirm that they are indeed real and are doing a sterling job of fusing themselves with the future.
Wintersun: Nuclear Blast's freshest release of the season prompts Lee du-Caine to give Wintersun's very own iceman Jari a grilling in an attempt to pin the genre-defining tail on the donkey. Will he succeed?
Bethlehem: Oliver Holm experiences his darkest hour as he descends into der Alexander Welt. With only Bethlehem's Jürgen Bartsch to show him the way (but not necessarily the way out), Oliver leaves no stone unturned as he forages for any pointers as to the band's motives and attempts to unravel the intrigue surrounding their new album, Mein Weg.

PLUS:
Esoteric
Thanatos
Arkhon Infaustus
Aura Noir
Arum
Immemorial

BENEATH THE REMAINS
The Midlands' Metal Heartland
Sarpanitum, Imindain, Amputated, Pulverized
ZT's Sarah Bennett scratches the surface of her home surroundings and its local metal night, BILSKIRNIR, to find that Birmingham has a lot more to offer than an interesting accent.

MENTAL MACHINE MUSIC
ZT's Lee Seafood exposes the weird and wonderful worlds of Andrew Liles, Shitkatapult Records, Henrik Rylander, Irritant Records and Modified Toy Orchestra proving that experimentalists really are mentalists…

DECORATED CAREERS
Pestilence: A band ahead of their time, long ago wiped out due to the wave of indifference following their refusal to "play it safe", Chris Kee re-examines the career of the sorely-missed Pestilence, from their initial outbreak, to widespread epidemic, and eventual eradication.

MOVING TARGETS
Rush, Bloodstock, Slayer, to name but a few.

MISSING IN ACTION
Fallen Christ: Gone but not quite forgotten, ZT blows the cobwebs from one of extreme metal's best kept secrets and gives their one and only official release a fresh airing.

SENTENCING
115 extreme releases go under close inspection of The ZT Panel in this fair and trusty review section.

INSIDE INFORMATION
Digital Dictator with Moyses Kolesne: Dust off that guitar you got three Christmases ago and follow the commands of Krisiun's evil mastermind in the first of his articles on the black art of death metal guitar.
Damn & Blast with Derek Roddy: Hurricanes and power-cuts conspire against Florida-based Derek this issue, but with a bit of luck he will still be able to deliver the goods and show us all how to drum up a storm of our own.
Home Recording: If you are going to learn how to play an instrument, then you'll want it to be heard "in the mix" too, right? Following on from issue #001, ZT points you in the right direction with a handy guide to obtaining decent mix with your home computer.
Osmose Productions: Osmose's big, bad boss, Hervé Herbault, comes clean on all the outrageous goings-on reported at Osmose Towers - a life of street-lethal cars, heavy metal orgies, non-stop chemical binges, torture chambers for the punishment of poor-selling bands... OK, it's nothing like that, but it is almost as interesting (and we hear there is perhaps more than a grain of truth to the torture chamber rumour).
Kris Verwimp: Everyone likes to own the official CD / Vinyl / Cassette / Shirt / Teatowel of their favourite acts and not least because with these formats we can admire the splendid artwork with which many acts are blessed. Plenty of people have made it clear that they'd like to see articles with a focus on the artists behind these images that we hold so dear, but, luckily for you ZT readers, it's something that we've had up our sleeves for a while. In the first of our artist-oriented articles we examine the work of Kris Verwimp, a man who has provided suitably ill-omened covers for more than just a few albums in his time.

20 SHOTS AT GLORY
Dani Filth gets 20 chances at retribution. Will he or won't he make a bloody mess of things?

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