Dispatches, thoughts, and miscellanea from writer Jon Konrath

Tag: xenocide

  • Twenty years of e-publishing

    I have been e-publishing for just a few days shy of twenty years.  Not twenty months.  Twenty years. Back in 1989, my friend Ray started a zine.  We listened to a lot of obscure metal, thrash and death metal, and you could barely find Metallica tapes in northern Indiana back then, let alone underground music.…

  • Cardiac arrest is self-expression

    Peter Steele, the bassist and singer of Type O Negative died on Wednesday, something that came completely out of left field for me.  He was only 48, and apparently died of heart failure after a short illness.  It took a few google searches for this to really sink in, since he (or maybe his record…

  • Anacrusis – Screams and Whispers (1993)

    Not many people remember this St. Louis-based metal unit, except for the music critics who claim they were one of the era’s best bands, but were simply lost in the shuffle of the whole Death Metal craze of the time. And guess what – I’m a bit of an amateur music critic, and when Marco…