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Adrenicide Interview

 

I received their "Drunk With Power" album in the mail. I was caught off guard by how good these blokes are and even more surprised that they played Crossover Thrash. I think it is safe to say this is a very rare genre to come across these days. There are not many...

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Evil Incarnate Interview

 

It is probably about time Evil Incarnate was interviewed in Canadian Assault. I have been in touch with Mike from E.I. for many a year. After a short hiatus they are set to record their newest piece of blasphemy. The latest big news as well is... 

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Misery's Omen

 Interview

 

I first came in contact with Anthony of MIsery's Omen. Some time shortly after the conception of the band. So we are coming up on decade soon since that fateful meeting. Anthony sent me their 2000 demo tape upon it's release. I immediately... 

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Maledicere Interview

 

Maledicere is a new American band playing in a style that is very dark and aggressive; quite similar actually to Nightbringer (signed to Full Moon Productions). I was completely surprised by the quality of...

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FLAGELLUM DEI

“Under The Might…” CD

(Bloody Productions)

 

Almost 40 minutes of unmitigated cold and dark black metal coming from these Portugese warriors. There is no doubt right from the first seconds that this band plays some great early 90s second wave of bm dipped in audio black blood of the Scandinavian variety. I do not think it is out of line to state that the early works of bands like Darkthrone, Dark Funeral, Gorgoroth and the like are an influence. I have heard this bands...

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BALMOG

“Nausea” 7inch EP

(Bloody Productions)

 

A lovely piece of vinyl comes our way courtesy of Bloody Productions. There are 2 songs of Spanish black metal for us to spin and this is hand numbered & limited to only 500 copies. The release comes with a cool little parchment style booklet. Some good classic style riffing and the hymns just seem to drip with hate and darkness. The vocals are a little more on the...

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CEREBRAL TURBULENCY

“Segregace K 0” CD

(Khaaranus Productions)

 

Czech grind is a thing of legend in the UG and one of the best and most prolific grind scenes around. One of the good ones and one of the well-known are Cerebral Turbulency. Who are coming fresh from going off the rails last album with the semi-awful and decidedly bland “Crash Test” mallcore train wreck. Will Cerebral look to get back on track and make amends to the loyal followers...

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CELESTIA

"Frigidiis Apotheosia: Abstinencia Genesiis” CD

(Paragon Records)

 

It has been a while for me since I have heard any Celestia stuff. I think the last thing I got my hands on may have been their 2001 promo tape. Which I quite enjoyed thoroughly. Despite that 8 year gap, I see, looking through their discography that they only released an album, ep and demo during that period of time. Though of course let us not forget the band...

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The Editorial rambling of old metal fan...

A man is never too drunk, so long as he can hold onto one blade of grass and not fall off the face of the earth.

Here we are again, round and round the hallowed bend. As you may have figured out I have decided to put the print version of Canadian Assault to rest. I do not want to dwell too long on the reasons why I made this decision. It was a hard one to make but also necessary like so many things in this cursed life.

It is a combination of things from having less time with the family, having a kid now, just more responsibilities in general that getting older inevitably brings along for the ride. That coupled with the fact that interest in print fanzines, especially in North America, has been on a serious decline for a decade and accelerating at a quickened pace the last four or five years. Not to mention as I stated above I have other things going on that not only restricts my time but also income that previously was not as big of a deal to lose. Anyone currently doing a print fanzine can tell you it is not like the early 90s when you made your money back or even a couple bucks to rent a few videos or buy a 6 pack. No it is generally speaking a money pit, rising print costs, rising postal costs, rising paper costs etc... All of that and more led to the demise of the printed version of Canadian Assault.

Everyone wants free webzines now anyways right? That is the message I seem to keep getting. Our culture wants everything fast and easy and preferably cheap as hell (if it is not made in China it is too expensive right? *sigh*) and well webzines fit that bill so I guess it is not such a surprise even the metal underground has followed suit. It is not that I did not expect that to happen but how quickly it followed suit is slightly surprising to me. But I am one of those crusty old school metal bastards that loved cassette tapes and getting my hands on a photo-copied fanzine that made my fingers black and had shitty photos was a thing of beauty and a definite highlight to my day / week. Remember tape trading? Yeah I was guilty as hell on that account as well, those were the fucking days let me tell you. Wanna trade an mp3? Yeah not quite the same thing and leaves empty. But the world moves on and unless we want to hole ourselves up in the basement, board up the windows and try to pretend that time has not marched onward, then you are bound to get swept up in progress (whether it is better is another story I believe for another time) eventually.

But a new day dawns at the end of the long dark night. Every other fucking thing in this world is going online these days, I suppose it was time for me to dust off the cobwebs and at least attempt to properly utilize the important tool that the internet can be. So yes Canadian Assault lives on, we are like some kind venereal disease you can not get rid of, we are a plague upon the earth and yes we are that chill that is in the air.

So have you taken the new site a spin? I am not sure it will show but I have been putting a lot of work into getting this thing together and not just a start like the last version and left largely unattended. No I plan to keep this updated and up to date. Bookmark it and check back often, I promise to try my best to make it worth your time. Back to what I was saying I put a lot of time going through archives and have put up a boat load of old shit from the past 9 issues of Canadian Assault. It is an on going process, I had wanted to have everything completely done before going online but it is just taking too long so it will have to be a work in progress for a while. Yet I think I managed to slap some meat in just about every section of the site. You can spend a long ass time drinking a ton of metal through the years.  

Not to take anything away from new content as there are plenty of new interviews and new reviews and semi new reviews. I have a lot more to say but this is dragging on a little too long for my liking so I will wrap things up and I hope you guys like the continuation of Canadian Assault. Thanks for the support guys, it is appreciated and I have nothing respect for everyone supporting the scene. Metal and you guys sick, dedicated bastards are the reason I keep going.

Cheers,

Dale Roy

 

 

The Canadian Assault print issue zineography:

 

I am not really trying to sell these back issues any longer. I am most definitely sold out of issue 1 & 9, with 2 and 4 well on their way to selling out. With a lot of the content from these issues now archived on this site I am guessing interest will not be that high. However if you are really dying check out one of these back issues then Email me and we can work something out. ~ Dale

 

ISSUE # 1:

 

The debut issue is xeroxed and contains 56 pages and has inteviews with: Infernal Majesty, Stratorvarius, Fleshgrind, Tenebrae, Rotting, Eternal Darkness Recs/magAZINE/DistrIBUTION, Arch Enemy, a 2 page Venom tribute section and more...

 

ISSUE # 2:

 

the sophmore release with the following interviews: Gorguts, Incantation, Intestine, Headache Described fanzine, Lust, Quo Vadis, plus more. It is pro-printed on high quality newsprint and is 48 pages. Also it has new feature the killer quotes section that takes juicy quotes from all over the underground scene and reprints them. A ton of reviews and many other surprises.

 

ISSUE # 3:

 

pro printed on newsprint but added this time is a glossy black & white cover! the Interviews include: Skinless, Athotorgh, October 31, United Guttural Records, all 3 female editors of Metal Mafia fanzine, Darkthrone, Pegazus & lots more. Again we have the Killer Quotes section, a ton of reviews, Ancient album reviews. Articles on Canadian deathrash legends Disciples Of Power and big jugged porno actress Christy Canyon. All of this and much more in a 52 page package on high quality newsprint with a black & white glossy cover.

 

ISSUE # 4:

 

the historic sPlit issue with Eternal Darkness with their 13th issue. you get 2 dedicated underground fanzines for the price of 1!! It has a black & white glossy cover, pro-printed at a immensely packed 68 pages! Some of the cult interviews included are: Pagan Records, Nunslaughter, Immolation, Kaamos, Damnation Records, Unpure, Rites Of Thy Degringolade, Lust, Vulpecula, Ultra hot porn actress Shane and A FUCKING TON MORE!!!! Including a pictorial of the almighty Venom!! Diehard features such as Killer QuOtes and Ancient Album Reviews.

 

ISSUE # 5:

 

Issue 5 comes in a half-size form, pro-printed with black & white glossy cover and is 68 fucking pages! Interviews include Denial Of God, Rebaelliun, Tales Of The Macabre zine, Destruktor, Disgorge, Necrodeath, Svartsyn, Dekapitator, Urgrund, Desecration and a shitload more!! Including 2 porn actress interviews!! As well as kult features returning like Ancient album reviews, Killer Quotes, Ye Olde flyer pages (Including cult OLD flyers from Sacrifice, Slaughter, King Diamond, Necrovore, Repulsion etc...

 

ISSUE # 6:

 

100 packed Half size pages of damnation, alcohol & metal lust! Everything you expect from Canadian Assault is here. the  Interviews include: Bloodstorm, Thornspawn, Leather ?N Spikes zine, Gospel Of The Horns, Bestial Mockery, Darkness Eternal, Slaughter and tons more.

 

ISSUE # 7:

 

FEATURES INTERVIEWS WITH DEEDS OF FLESH, GRAND BELIAL'S KEY, WITCHBURNER / IRON BONEHEAD RECORDS, PAINIAC RECORDS, POSSIBLY THE LONGEST INTERVIEW EVER WITH NUNSLAUGHTER! ALSO A RE-PRINT OF AN OLD BLASPHEMY INTERVIEW PRE-FALLEN ANGEL OF DOOM COURTESY OF ETERNAL DARKNESS 'ZINE! FEATURES ALSO THE FIRST INSTALLMENT OF THE NOW NOTORIOUS ROUNDTABLE OF RANTING & RAVING INSANITY...

 

ISSUE # 8:

 

YES WE DECIDED TO TRY AGAIN THE SPLIT ISSUE THING, THIS TIME WITH MY CANADIAN BRETHREN, CATH AND HER MIGHTY LEATHER 'N SPIKES. SEEMED NATURAL SINCE THIS IS BOTH ZINES 8TH ISSUE. 116 FULL SIZE pages with b&w glossy cover! INTERVIEWS ARE: Pentagram (US doom legends!), Destroyer 666, Abigail, Lust, Cobalt, Insision, Hellflame Productions, Goatfire, Terrorama, Misery?s Omen, Drakkar Productions, Possessed (yes a new one), a new PC killing brutal Ranting Roundtable...

 

ISSUE # 9:

 

INTERVIEWS INCLUDE: Terrorama / I Hate Records, Nocturnal / Deathstrike Records, Victimizer + more! WE HAVE GONE BACK TO OUR ROOTS WITH THIS FINAL PRINT ISSUE, It is PHOTO-COPIED BUT this time but with excellent presentation of photo's / graphics and a cardboard full colour front and back cover! A ton of reviews, demos, horror flicks, a big vinyl review section, fanzines and many other surprises!

 

 


WHO ARE CANADIAN ASSAULT?

WELL LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING YOU NOSY, PRETENTIOUS MOTHERFUCKER! Please Read below to find out...

 

 

Dale Roy

Dale Roy Creator / Writer / Editor & Webmaster of all things Canadian Assault

Yes the name was taken from the almighty Venom

What is there to tell really? I started out with fanzine writing at the start of the 90s writing for fanzines like Atheist Anthems, Devourment of Souls, Growling Brutality and a bunch more but the main one I wrote for was the notorious Canadian zine The Sepulchural Voice - just a great fanzine with a fuck you attitude. I remember for a while in the early 90s we were banned by Century Media and others for the lewd behaviour exhibited within. Anyway I decided to do my own thing in late 1997 and work on Canadian Assault issue 1 began in earnest and the debut seen the light of day and the dark of night in early 1998. Which of course means a whole motherfucking decade of existence come 2008! Oh yes I am an old man, I have a wife now, a child, a house, a mortgage and all that fun shit. But I still keep soldering onward, like old man river. Enough about me enjoy the fucking zine and support the scene!

                                                                              

 

Top 10 Album playlist:

THOU - Peasant 2008

The Accursed - Seasons of the Scythe 2005

ATROPHY - Violent By Nature 1990

DARKTHRONE - Under A Funeral Moon 1993

ACCEPT - Metal Heart 1985

MEAT SHITS - Ecstasy of Death 1993

DAYGLO ABORTIONS - Here Today, Guono Tomorrow 1988

THE OBSESSED - The Church Within 1994

IMMORTAL - Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism 1992

FUNEBRARUM / INTERMENT - Conjuration of the Sepulchral 2007 Split

Top 10 Demo / 7" / Live playlist:

AUTOPSY - Dead As Fuck: Live in '91 + '93

GUT - Tracks from 1993 split demo with Abortus

MORNING STAR - Inside The Circle of The Pentagram Demo 1996

PROFANATICA - Weeping In Heaven 1991 EP

CHEMIKILLER - Demos 2001 / 2002

IRONSWORD - Promo Cassette 1998

IMMORTAL POSSESSION - Delicacy of Disease Demo 1992

BEGRIME EXEMIOUS - Demo Tape 2006

SACRIPHYX - Lone Pine Demo CD 2007

TOIL - Demos # 1

ADRENICIDE - Drunk With Power Demo CD

Reading:
THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE by Max Brooks

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH by William L. Shirer

SOUND OF THE BEAST by Ian Christe

 

 

Aleksandr Maksymov

Spreading Brutality and Darkness!

He hails from the Ukraine. Aleksandr runs a small distro label by the name of Dead Center Productions. He also produces a print fanzine by the name of Antichrist. I am fucking glad and proud to have this metal soldier and dedicated UG maniac as part of Canadian Assault. Not much else to say except go read his stuff...now!

 

 

www.deadshop.info      http://www.myspace.com/deadcenterprod

 

 

Wilhelm

Writer for Canadian Assault

 

Although Wilhelm's identity is a closely guarded secret, much of it relegated to ancient mythos, it is rumored that he was born after Satan, Zeus and Odin took turns fornicating with Lilith near the Red Sea thousands of years before Al Gore invented the internet. Because Wilhelm is the progeny of the most unholy union the world has ever known, and ever will know, and because Al Gore recently invented the internet, Wilhelm is now able to use the information superhighway in order to pervert minds and dictate his supreme will to the ignorant masses in hopes that a new Satanic aeon will usurp the mantle of power and bring about his earthly cult which will rid the world once & for all of poseurs, false black metal bands, those trendy little coffee shops that pop up in every conceivable place like malignant tumors.

When Wilhelm isn't busy mapping out his plans for complete & utter universal annexation and spreading mighty Hellenic wisdom to all of human civilization for their own good you'll find him editing his own fanzine called "Gallery of the Grotesque", hailed by The London News Daily as "The most historically significant extreme metal magazine of all time." and praised by Euronymous via Ouija board as "Fascinating; a triumph! True Unholy Black metal is ALIVE, and Wilhelm is the NEW King of Black Metal.". (Note- copies of 'Gallery of the Grotesque' are now archived at the Library of Congress).....

....And when Wilhelm isn't editing the world renowned fanzine "Gallery of the Grotesque" you'll discover that he is in fact a humble, sensitive gent with an exceedingly high IQ, a dry sense of humor, and a passion for long walks on the beach, candlelight dinners, romantic cinema and evenings by the fire discussing strict eugenics and the elimination of most of Earth's population.

Wilhelm is also an outspoken critic of egoism (because only HIS ego matters, and yours does NOT).
  

 


 

 

Jeffrey Kusbel

Writer for Canadian Assault

Death before Dishonor

Well unfortunately after about 6 years or so of writing for the Assault Jeffrey has decided to retire from fanzine life to concentrate solely on the label. Though is one ever 100% retired in this life? Do not be surprised if Jeffrey contributes the odd    vinyl review and maybe an interview once in a blue moon. Either way his writing will be missed but with the extensive archiving of past issues and so many of Jeffrey's reviews and a number of interviews included in the archives I thought he deserved a spot in the Canadian Assault roster listings. UP THE IRONS BROTHER!!!