Metal, Magick and Mythos Issue #1 ( USA )
Review by Dave Wolff
Author: Will Lovelaw

willlovelaw@yahoo.com
I highly recommend this to everyone. The debut issue of a new zine published by contributor Will Lovelaw, Metal, Magick and Mythos #1 is a veritable time bomb of forbidden knowledge, religious heresy and individual will that hasn’t even begun to realize its full potential. It is the strongest representation of the aforementioned concepts I have read since discovering Endemoniada in the mid 90s. Looking back, I consider my discovery of Endemoniada as a source of inspiration the first phase of a journey of knowledge, sacrilege and true personal power that gave way to the second with a fiction zIne from the lands of Gulfport, MS called The Gatekeeper which in turn gave way to the third with this magazine. The wit and wisdom of friends whose work has and will be published in AEA did a great deal to pave the way toward this pantheon, which has been often addressed within these pages. When Lovelaw said he planned to publish a zine covering metal and the left hand path, I was interested in the idea. Having read it firsthand, I am vastly impressed. There is an intriguing section about the late Doors frontman Jim Morrison (or James Douglas Morrison, Poet as he sometimes preferred to be known as) submitted to the zine by Jason Mankey including a lengthy passage about his supposed possession by Native Americans at a young age, followed by a lust-filled, life-celebrating ritual invoking Dionysus, Aphrodite and Eris/Discordia. Lovelaw’s editorial explores the concept of selling one’s soul to Satan which he himself discovered at a young age, and which he explored from listening to record albums by Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin to forging his own occult path. More traditionally there are interviews with Anachronaeon, Onslaught, The Meads Of Asphodel, Bal-Sagoth, Valet Parn, Anguished, A Band Of Orcs, Naet, Lustmord, Beravement and more. There are also talks with occult author Gerald Del Campo and film director Jon Aes Nihil. Plus there are CD reviews I contributed (which can also be read at infernaldreams.net). Rounding out this issue is an invocation ritual by Lovelaw calling forth dread Cthulhu and killer artwork bearing his likeness.