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Please help Seiichi / BLOWBACK
hello everyone
I got an e-mail from TADASHI / HG fact that a memeber of my japanese punk family Seiichi the guitar player from BLOWBACK/niigata, japan, is very sick and needs support. I met him on my Japan trip and he’s an ace and helpful guy.
On August 30th, right after paintbox/world burns to death/blowback tour, he collapsed after a malignant virus in his liver caused the liver & some other internal organs to stop working and his body poisoned itself. He is still in intensive care and danger and only slowly comes out of coma. the medical treatment he gets already costs him & his family a huge amount of money and still not sure when he can get out of hospital and when/if he can work again.
I want to help collect donations for him and his family to support them to go through this horrible situation.
Please send money to: TADASHI / HG fact PAYPAL ACCOUNT: hgfact(at)japan.interq.or.jp - write “MONEY TO HELP SEIICHI” on the paypal payment message
I know what it means to be on the edge and the support of friends and the punk community helps so much.
I really wish him, his family and friends from my heart that he’ll recover soon and good!!!
Holidays, Suomi trip, Martyrdöd
Moi Moi
back from holidays i am. Already for 10 days and just really arrived back here and off i am again. Vacation was great, meeting my parents and my sister rocked and having my best friend Lisa on my side is always good. Sorry for taxing your patience so much by being so moody and thanks for staying with me.
Next days i am off to Suomi with Disfear to have my road and punk show fix and see my Mumin friends.
Martyrdöd LP is still in a complete new mastering process to hopefully get a satisfying result on vinyl. Everything we tried by now didn’t really convince us so now my soundmaster Frank “SAW” Bolz is sitting over it… stay tuned, it will come out one day!!!
Fuck Nazi Tolerance - Take a stand fuckers!!!
I was shocked to see Relapse sells the label Drakkar Productions which
also releases NSBM records like Blackdeath which is even reviewed as
“Russian NSBM!” in the Relapse shop. Other explicit items are a CD of
Germany’s best known NSBM band Absurd, records of the far right,
anti-semitic band Grand Belial’s Key, polish band Graveland (A quote of Rob
Darken (born Robert Fudali) in an interview to Decibel magazine
“I do not think Graveland is an NSBM band. Graveland is regarded as a
NSBM band because of my political convictions, [which] most people would
call extreme right-wing National Socialist convictions.”) which are
released on No Colours records which is as Drakkar productions a label
that releases national socialist records next to so called apolitical
bands. Also in the shop is Nokturnal Mortum which is quoted as NSBM band
on Wikipedia. Nearly all details here come from Wikipedia so they might
not be 100% correct but give me enough of a picture of the tolerance
level of Relapse records nowadays. I am pretty shocked and disappointed
cause i have contact with some great people who work at Relapse and
even licensed the DISFEAR - Misanthropic Generation LP from them. Also a
shock was that it seems Swedish punk, metal and more distribution Sound
Pollution also carries stuff like Burzum and Drakkar production releases such as Blackdeath.
I am so tired of the Nazi tolerance in the metal scene, i don’t need
everyone being political activist or whatsoever but there should be a
common sense when it comes to Nazi bullshit. I would say no tolerance for
the intolerant. But it seems the so called apolitical/neutral people in
metal and also in punk nowadays have no problem with nazi tolerance and
cooperation (see a bigger band like Nachtmystium who are no Nazis but
seem to have quite some collaboration with right wing dudes). I am
really tired of all this, i don’t care about apolitical people but they
should behave apolitical and not collaborate with nazis and support
them with their “tolerance”. Nowadays it seems Burzum is cool, and NSBM
seems to be trendy no matter what assholes are behind. Also VICE magazin
wrote about Burzum just on a musical base and ignored all the
political background. All this troubles my enjoyment of metal.
I hope there will be a backlash on all this shit at one point and metal
zines and metal heads will start commenting/criticizing it again like in the 80s, early 90s and not
hyping it.
Stockholm var jävla fantastisk
The Stockholm trip, the 2 shows (Sonic Ritual and the Victims, Mob 47 show) were brilliant, the nights at Bröderna Olssons with great Metal DJing and the rock’n'roll night at Debaser too and having Lisa and Mikisch with me and meeting so many good friends was the best. Breakfast in Nyköping was a perfect ending. Tack för allt!!!
I am back home trying to solve some controversial and also get ready for a short trip in the sun. More soon.
Back i am and over it is
The FU Tour was a blast and a worthy farewell to touring Europe. I had good times with the kick ass Canadians and the days with my comrades Victims in Suomi were brilliant like always too. Thanks to the Canadians and Swedes and Fins for great days and nights. Also the tour(s) gave me the affirmations i expected. I still could tour and can have good times on tour but i don’t need and don’t want it anymore. I for sure will be seen on the road here and there at weekends with good friends but the tourbiz is done for me for now. Back home is great. A lot of rehab aftercare like muscle training, physiotherapy and doctor appointments and checks but also a lot of walks, meeting with friends… By the way: HARDSKIN + Flo ruled OiOiOi
NIGHTMARE, BURIAL, CRUDE - Split 12inch DELAYED… shit!!!
My sample copy of the NIGHTMARE, BURIAL, CRUDE - Split 12inch arrived yesterday. The pressing plant MPO made two little mistakes i didn’t order and i don’t like so the complete pressing has to be done again. My pressing agent Bieber is on it and pushing them to see their mistakes and press again fast. Stay tuned.
Malakas, Family and Hospital
I’m back in the hospital. Hope to get my shoulder surgery on Friday so i’m out next week. Plans for combining the mailorder/wholesale with 2 other labels/friends are looking good. Graspop was ok, time with Disfear great. Meeting Jack and WBTD was great. Antimob and Bombenalarm in Hannover was a blast and a relief. Great to finally meet my fetah Boy Panos in real. The weekend at my parents with my good friend Lisa was great. Thanks Mum, Dad an Jürgen. Samurai exhibition in Speyer rules, sightseeing with my parents anyway. Ella is back home in Malmö, enjoy it but come back! BURIAL / NIGHTMARE / CRUDE 12inch testpress turned out brutal. Some layout stuff needs to be fixed and then the pressing starts. I added some more shows, tours, check it out.
Metal, friends and surgery
Hellfest last weekend was a blast. The night before at 1st Class Suicide (best cocktailbar ever) was killer, the time with the Disfears and Johan was so nice, inspiring and brilliant, meeting the RottenSound mumins was fun too. Seeing Watain and Satyricon ruled. Satyr looks like a norwegian jeans model and acts like it (ruins the great music) and Watain well, great show but fuck their Elite. Municipal Waste that’s the real ‘Elite’ :-)!!! Party on dudes and Scotty. I might have to cancel my Japan trip in August cause of my health, would suck. Other things suck too but tomorrow is cocktailnight with Ella and that makes life better and the weekend will too. GraspopMetalMeeting with Disfear then another surgery on my shoulder and so on. BURIAL / NIGHTMARE / CRUDE 12inch is in progress. Testpressing should arrive next week. Skitkids stuff sells good, limited editions are still available though.
Stuttgart Festival and more
Back from Stuttgart and it was big fun. Still too many bands every day but the organisation felt much better than the last years and i had good times. Two days and two times driving 10 hours was still to much for me even though the drives were fun cause of my mobile disco = the AssAssinators esp. Anna banan. Also it was a blast having my swedish family around and many others of my punk family. Love you! Thanks to the organizers, bands and catering crews. And thanks to everyone who bought records from me, this weekend kind of saved the label cause i can pay off debts this week. Now up to two more weekends of festivals, metal fests though, but it will be a blast with my friends. And one more thing: Farewell Ethan!!! Sucks you are leaving to the USSA and i will miss you huge neanderthal punk but have a great start over there.
No Trades!? Paypal Address?
Some people took it a little offensive i wrote >> WE DON’T TRADE !!! - Sorry, but the pressing plant does not take vinyl as payment! << Ok, stupid humor so now a short explanation. I don’t trade my limited stuff and i have no working distro so can’t really sell traded records and postage became so stupid high, buying is often better affordable than trading. BUT i might trade again when i have the chance to sell trade records again and when i paid my debts and i also have others trading my stuff (as written at the end of the newsletter too!!!) Sorry to who took it offensive, i didn’t mean it but i have to face all the above facts. Understand it or just ban/ignore me!!! And my paypal address is the address the newsletter came from: hellache@unsociable.net.