ISSUE #2 - News

*It has been reported that eight members of an Italian satanic black metal sect, "Beasts of Satan", were ordered to stand trial in Italian court Thursday, Jan.13 in connection with 3 supposed ritual killings. Three of the suspects have been ordered to trial Feb. 21, with the remaining suspects to stand trial in June. *Nuclear Blast Records are currently preparing to re-release the IRON MAIDEN "Number Of The Beast" single from '82. The single will contain two unreleased live audio tracks & two videos. The label also will be releasing KREATOR's new opus, "Enemy Of God", MORGOTH's "1987-1997 Best of..." as well as BELPHEGOR's two out of print classics "The Last Supper/Blutsabbath". *GORGOROTH postpones plans for studio time due to conflicting recording scheduales with an already booked timestable at Grieghallen Studios. The band will however lay down drum tracks for their upcoming album "Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam". *The Vatican officially denounces black metal. Due to satanism & black metal's rapid growing worldwide, as of next month, a papal university in Rome will offer courses on the frightening phenomenon. *Lost Disciple Records have signed Denmark's COMPOS MENTIS. *Guitarists for Norwegian black metal band SATYRICON have been arrested in Toronto Canada for allegedly drugging & raping a woman following a show at the Fun Haus in Toronto. A.O. Grombech & Steinar Gundersen (also of SPIRAL ARCHITECT) are currently being detained & DNA samples have been taken. The two could each face up to 10 years in prison if convicted. Needless to say, SATYRICON's remaining tour dates have been cancelled. *On the night of January 24, Anthony Patrick Panter (a.k.a. Daggeth), vocalist/guitarist of the Huntsville, AL- based black metal band BLOODSTAINED DUSK, was killed in a terrible car crash on his way home. He was 24 years of age. A memorial for Panter was attended by his bandmates, family, friends, fans & members of acts FLESHTIZED, SPINECAST, CONVERGENCE FROM WITHIN, TEMPLE OF BLOOD & more. He will be missed. * Matthew D. LaPlante of The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting that a Midvale concert promoter whose heavy metal concert was ruined last week when fans started fighting with band members & with security is blaming local devotees of the Straight Edge movement & he now plans to exclude members of the anti-establishment group from future shows."Every band I talk to is worried to come to Salt Lake because they're worried about the Straight Edgers here," said Solid Entertainment promoter Bobby Baugh, who noted that the group, in most other communities, practices a  lifestyle free of violence. Baugh said a metal group known as DIECAST was on stage at a downtown Midvale Club on Saturday evening when several Straight Edgers took the stage & began to attack the singer. When members from another band, HATEPIECE, attempted to intervene, they were attacked as well. No arrests have been made in the fight, in which several security guards & band members were injured. Officers from six agencies responded, but those involved in the fight had left.