英音乐杂志Terrorizer再次大幅报导闪灵 2007-04-04 09:03 中央社记者黄慧敏台北四日电 曾於一月号以「2007年话题乐团」称呼台湾闪灵乐团的英国知名音乐杂志「Terrorizer」 ，在刚发行的四月号中再次以两页大篇幅报导闪灵，并独家刊出闪灵先前在海德公园拍摄 的宣传照。 报导的标题以「Why does their music soundso beautifully sad？」点出闪灵音乐华丽 却悲伤的特色，在文中不仅单就闪灵作品探讨，更深入探讨台湾受殖民统治的历史以及背 後累积情感所孕育的创作能量，让英国青年读者透过闪灵能深入了解台湾的历史文化背景 。 除了跨页大篇幅的报导以外，Terrorizer更在本期第一页的目录页中独家刊登一月底闪灵 在海德公园拍摄的宣传照片，让本期杂志成为许多闪灵欧美乐迷的收藏指标。 http://www.terrorizer.com/index2.php #156 - EDITORIAL With the obvious exception of 'Chinese Democracy', it's unlikely that any album this year will have as much to prove as Mayhem's 'Ordo Ad Chao'. This is a band who are central to the black metal mythology, whose 'De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas' stands as one of the genre's highest standards, and yet for almost a decade have been suffering a crisis of identity. Their last two albums ' the diffuse, experimental 'A Grand Declaration Of War' and the unspectacular attempt to get back on track that was 'Chimera' ' showed a band unsure how to further their legacy, whilst the nihilistic edge that had resulted in the murder and suicide of lore had subsided into addictions to drugs and drink that not only sucked the life out of many of their gigs, but threatened to tear the band apart. Mayhem were lost, their power squandered, and any further disappointments would have cast them as an irrelevance, a hangover to be shrugged off. As it turns out, 'Ordo Ad Chao' is just the revelation we needed. It's not a 'good Mayhem album', it's difficult, demanding, devoid of relief, a turgid miasma like descending to the river Styx only to find that it's in the process of congealing into sludge. With the return of fearless former vocalist Attila Csihar to the fold, Mayhem have rediscovered the vast, barren spirit of 'De Mysteriis...', only to let it loose amongst new, unfathomable terrain. Perhaps they've caught some of the monged-out wrongness of Blut Aus Nord and later Meshuggah, but they've withdrawn it into their own dark night of the soul, touched on black metal's nerve centre and made it resonate once more. Will 'Ordo Ad Chao' prove just as divisive as 'A Grand Declaration...' or a new era for Mayhem? One of the central tenets of black metal is at stake, and inside we get up close and personal with the band as we get the inside story of the tempestuous years that gave rise to such a monster, the internal ructions that led to the departure of Maniac and the personal trials that have been articulated in such disturbing fashion ' a tale not for the faint hearted. This month also brings our Art Special to a close as we look at the psychedelic world of poster art, and get a revealing insight from the revered illustrator, Dave McKean. We also bring you the remarkable story of Taiwanese black metallers, ChthoniC, a band steeped in the turbulence of both ancient and modern history, and next month we take you even further afield to reveal how metal thrives in the harshest of climates; all proof that extreme music plays by the highest of stakes. THEE ED --

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