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EDITORIAL STATEMENT
"Firstly, I'd like to wish a very happy birthday - to us! Time flies when you're having fun, so you might not have realised it, but this is edition marks a year's worth of Zero Tolerance... Which reminds me, where's our presents?
Luckily for you, we're all about giving rather than receiving, and so to celebrate, we've prepared a very special birthday issue with a whopping 132 pages, making this by far our biggest offering yet. As well as bumping up the page count, we've expanded our distribution too - this will be the first issue of Zero Tolerance to be available in shops outside of the UK - so a welcome is in order for any overseas readers taking a shine to ZT for the first time.
We've got quality to match the quantity, though, not to mention an unprecedented level of variety. They say it's the spice of life, so tuck in with gusto to what could be our most aromatic issue yet [the entire ZT staff cringed as they read this - MD]. As well as a barrel-load [oh, Jesus Christ! - MD] of up-to-the-minute features, we managed to get our foot in the door to bring you some intriguing advance features on Arcturus, Ephel Duath and Cathedral, as well as a long-overdue catch-up with the infamous Genesis P-Orridge, who shares his throughts on two of his legendary projects, Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle. Fleshing out the content further, we've got a six-page black metal spread, courtesy of our freshly recruited metal maharishi, Ricker Groinley. How's all that for starters?
So here's to the beginning of another fruitful year, and a big thanks to everyone who has bought ZT or supported us in one way or another. We are very pleased that in our first year we managed to introduce plenty of the regular features that readers have been demanding to see in extreme music journalism: features on artists, record labels, film composers and producers; instructional columns for musicians; advice for aspiring bands; and retrospective articles reminding us of forgotten classics and the early days of now-famous names.
As soon as we're done wolfing down birthday cake, guzzling (too much) cheap white wine and blowing out our lone candle (whilst wishing for more than 24 hours in the day, no doubt), we're going to clear our foggy heads and see what else we can come up with for you over the next year. Hip hip hooray!
Lee du-Caine, editor

PROPAGANDA
Russell Garwood sniffs out the strongest stories around to bring you this issue's news.
ZT columnist Danny Lilker is cool, calm and collected for this issue's instalment.
ZT life coach, Tyrone Pow, on the tricky art of practical joking.
This issue's Zero Tolerance Attitude gets Johnny Doom's take on copy cat killings.
Your good friend Martin Ives, aka The Cunning Linguist, deciphers the grunted diction of metal - still none the wiser?

INTERROGATIONS
OPETH PSYCHIC TV CATHEDRAL ARCTURUS
BLACK METAL MAYHEM: Satanic Warmaster, Urgrund, Winter Of Apokalypse, Operation Winter Mist, Twilight, Rites Of Thy Degringolade
SCUM HYPOCRISY ARCH ENEMY EPHEL DUATH GRIMFIST BIOHAZARD NEVERMORE DETONATION SLOUGH FEG FEAR FACTORY SKINNY PUPPY GOJIRA PROSTITUTE DISFIGUREMENT GUTWORM SIEBENBURGEN CHIMAIRA VILE AMORAL THROWDOWN MUNICIPAL WASTE BESEECH NAILED.

RAPID FIRE - GOOD BANDS - SHORT FEATURES.
The River, Richard Cheese And Lounge Against The Machine, Slit, Sothis, Alarum, New Electric, Magrudergrind, Spiritus Mortis, Mortal Torment, The Shattering and The Eschaton Creed

BENEATH THE REMAINS
AUSTRALIA: ZT's Talie Helene reports back from the land down under: Chalice, Pathogen, Stargazer, The Furor.

MOVING TARGETS
SuperSonic Festival, Graspop Festival, London Deathfest, Green Carnation, Slit and Witchcraft, to name just a few, are put to the live test. Plus, live dates and also information about noteworthy ZT endorsed events.

MISSING IN ACTION
Sevenchurch

SENTENCING
ZT's review section has expanded to even bigger proportions than ever, ensuring The ZT Panel are kept away from our celebratory bottle of cheap white wine.

INSIDE INFORMATION
TONY LAUREANO: Filling in again for our usual drum columnist, Derek Roddy, the equally legendary drum tornado Tony Laureano lays down the law on how to develop your percussive proficiency.
MOYSES KOLESNE: Exclusive axe instructions and forbidden information from Krisiun's evil mastermind guitarist.
HOME RECORDING PART VII: Following on from last issue's instalment, underground veteran Richard Johnson talks us through the process of getting signed.
THE PRODUCERS: Calum Harvie talks knobs and sliders with veteran metal producer Andy Sneap.
LABEL FEATURE: 625 Thrashcore Records.
ARTIST FEATURE: Paul Romano.
SHOCK OPERA: Simon Boswell.

20 SHOTS AT GLORY
DECAPITATED's Martin answers the all-important 20 questions.

DR PARSONS' COMIC STRIP: Gort Goes To No. 10