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“Avant-garde” is the French term for “advance guard” or “vanguard”. It refers to people, who venture into the unknown. Sometimes they find the shining shores of the future there, the visions and ideas of tomorrow. Sometimes they get lost in the forests of insanity, in the whirls of chaos and confusion. But it’s always new worlds that they discover. Sometimes the avant-garde of today will become the mainstream of tomorrow. But most avant-garde will always ...
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Chrystof Niederwieser (ChN) Origin: Tyrolean Alps  Admiral of the Editorship across the Seas of Waves and Sounds far unto the unknown Shores of sparkling Worlds yet undiscovered Contributions to Avantgarde-Metal.com |
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Katja Honeywine van de Barrel Origin: Ex-GDR, Pearl of the East, Germany  Responsibilites: editing, advertising, myspace, organisation, coffee and cake Music: everything weird and beautiful Other: I also make interviews for "The Grimoire of Exalted Deeds" Contributions to Avantgarde-Metal.com |
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aVoid Origin: the southern Swedish woods  Musical references: Satanic, Occult, Morbid and Obscure Metal; evil metal, funeral doom, primitive black (legions) metal, NWOBHM, progthrash, Canadian and Floridan death, most things Norwegian, + all I write about here. Some fancy art music and prog rock and power electronics. New wave/Postpunk/ Gothic/Crust. All forms of musical extremism, no morals or boundaries - no gods, no masters. Make war, not money. Top 37 albums (and counting): Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale Ved Buens Ende - Written In Waters Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come Metallica - Master Of Puppets King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King Ulver - complete catalogue Bal-Sagoth - complete catalogue Darkthrone - complete catalogue Other deviations: Bassplayer; active in Havok (metal of death), Strange Calm (pop), Infernal Hellfire (thrash), plus a few clandestine projekts; nameless and hideous. Current worldly aims are various degrees in Musicology and Librarian(ism). Thrives in: Weird & supernatural pre-WWII horror (Lovecraft, Meyrink, Hope Hodgson, et c), Science Fiction (Asimov, Clarke, Lem, Reynolds) & Nikanor. Religion, mythology and mysticism. Lynch, Kubrik, Carpenter & Schwarzenegger. Forests, outer space, Lyssa the Cat (rabid tormentor) and The Lady. Old FPS and MYST-clones. Most things unwholesome, ancient and forgotten. Terathology. Scandinavia. Where you'll find me after death: Wandering a dark murky forest with the occasional glens and streams, surrounded by the music of Cintecele Diavolui and Moëvöt, shrouded in mist gazing at distant gloomy mountains. Contributions to Avantgarde-Metal.com |
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Olivier Côté Origin: Montreal, Canada  Musical references: I'm mostly into surprisingly trance-inducing music nowadays, whatever the genre; the impact on the mind is more important than what causes it. Techno and all of its sub-genres, Rock in Opposition, Ambient, Extreme Metal, New Jazz, Tribal Jams, Drone Blues, Noise Terror, Cartoon Soul Mania and experiments of all kinds. I'm basically open-minded and enjoy being shocked, frightened, mesmerized, seduced and everything in between. I intend to interview some of the most fascinating artists of our great century for the avant-garde metal webzine, so let's guess that you'll slowly but surely discover who I am, musically speaking. Present-day fave bands: Freeform DHG The Psychic Paramount Guapo Thomas Fehlmann Astrobotnia Diskord Circle Pharaoh Overlord Other deviations: Well I do actually study Philosophy at the University of Montreal and am interested in natural sciences in general. I enjoy writing but have never published anything. My passion for Cinema is limitless and I simply love discovering new directors with edge from all countries. Once again, a movie has to bring me up to another unknown level of reality, whatever its subject and genre. Mind you, there are so many psychedelic movie-makers out there that it is impossible to only name a few of them. Last but not least, eroticism is part of my everyday life and I do personally believe that without it, there's no expanding existence. You have to free yourself from basically every psychic and muscular cramp, in order to taste the most elemental of all pulsing substantial energies, namely EROS. Live, learn and love - since that's all there really is. Contributions to Avantgarde-Metal.com |
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Jegger Origin: Austria  Musical references: innovative metal, rock and electronics. Top 10 artists: 1. Opeth 2. Gadget 3. Hacride 4. Ephel Duath 5. Emperor 6. Katatonia 7. Meshuggah 8. Hawkwind 9. Testament 10. Moijtnsula Other Deviations: Guitarplayer, active in Tristwood and Bearcht. Thrives in: Ransmayr, Focault, Assmann, Aly, Popper, Barthes, Luhmann, Konersmann, Stifter, Kleist, Steininger, Lynch, Diskursanalyse, Kulturwissenschaften, History, Deutsche Philologie (Cultural Studies), Sports, Travelling to the Near East Contributions to Avantgarde-Metal.com |
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Jobst (in real-life realms known as Nofar) Origin: Tel Aviv, Israel  Musical references: Metal is the eternal basis - Ranged from the most common genres to the eerie and profound. Above and beyond breathes entities such as Neo - Folk and Folk, Dark Ambient and Industrial, Goth rock and electronics, New Wave and 80's, Classical and some Indie. Top 7 albums: Only because they made me... Amorphis - Elegy Dornenreich - Nicht um zu sterben Emperor - Anthems to the welkin at dusk Katatonia - Brave Murder Day Opeth - My arms, your hearse Primordial - Spirit the earth aflame Void of Silence - Human antithesis Other deviations: Author at its first novel peak. Writer and co-editor in the Israeli reviews website, "The Blind Janitor". Keen traveler with mind and soul abroad. Thrives in: Words, sounds, landscapes. Contributions to Avantgarde-Metal.com |
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Jonny Lignano Musical references: everything that does not involve a saxophone. Favorite guitar chord: e Favorite letter: l Favorite addition: c + l = d Other deviations: currently developing a dictionary of imperatives that are no real imperatives (i.e. Drehtüre) Thrives in: hobbies Contributions to Avantgarde-Metal.com |
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James Slone Origin: Lost Wages, Nevada. Currently lives in Seattle, Washington (USA) Music preferences: Various metal genres, post punk, crust, shoegaze, prog rock, kraut, psych, jazz, Downtown NYC (early 80s), industrial, experimental, soul, funk, avant garde, romantic/modern music, Motown, hip hop, smooth pop, noise rock, klezmer, and whatever's clever. Current Top 10 albums: Death "Symbolic" Arcturus "La Masquerade Infernal" Closedown "Nearfield" Air "Talkie Walkie" Entombed "Clandestine" John Coltrane "A Love Supreme" Sade "Love Delux" John Zorn "Naked City" Summoning "Nightshade Forests" Roxy Music "Siren" Other deviations: Freelance writer, film blogger, radical activist, performance artist, amateur guitarist, lover of the good things in life: beautiful women, well made Mojitos, yachting the Horn, and spellbinding adventure. Digs: Film, pulp lit, writing charged polemics, the outdoors. Contributions to Avantgarde-Metal.com |
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Polygon Settlement: Bamberg (Franconia/Germany) Possessed by: All kinds of dark, negative and lunatic soundscapes, especially: Elend, Phelios, Desiderii Marginis, Aborym, Korova (-kill), Tsatthoggua, Adversam, Arcturus, Polygon, Horna, Abigor and last but not least the mighty Lunar Aurora (R.I.P.) Houellebecq, Kleist, Kundera, Schlink Any kind of emotional and physical ecstasy Personal doom: The Umbersun Purpose in life: Sound-wizard of the German Black Metal collective Membaris. Searching for: A bracket to slow down Contributions to Avantgarde-Metal.com |
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Tentakel P. Settlement: Germany- Hamburg, pearl of the north Musical preferences: Black/ Death and any other kind of metal… and then everything else dark and twisted. Eternal heroes: Enslaved, Emperor, Ulver, Nile, Abigor, Lunar Aurora, Dead Can Dance, Die Ärzte, Björk. Visionary visualists: Hayao Myazaki, Quentin Tarantino. Some films the koreans produce recently like “A Bittersweet life”, “Oldboy” a.o. The Star Trek Universe. Monty Python. Outstanding books: Terry Pratchett (rules!), Stephen King. German authors: Kleist, Hoffmann, Tieck and the like. Russian literature: Tolstoj, Dostojevski, Nabokov. Although there´s much I still need to read… Other nonsense: Bashing drums in Todtgelichter, playing RPG´s and Beat ´em Ups on Playstation plus heavy retro-gaming (NES and so on…). Contributions to Avantgarde-Metal.com |
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revon Writing from: Hungary Preferable musical styles: Avantgarde, experimental, progressive, drone, industrial, psytrance, darkpsy, trip-hop, nu-jazz, deephouse, minimal techno, dubstep, world music, classical and symphonic music, and blablabla... Likes: Geometry Can't stand: Logarithm Interested in: Becoming the new Homer with awfully long and boring reviews. He even dares to call those "deep" and "detailed". Contributions to Avantgarde-Metal.com |
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Suleiman Ali Origin: Pakistan Occupation: Electronics - Planning Engineer by Profession / Metalhead, musician, scholar, artist, mystic, ex-stoner, family man by calling Top 14 albums (not in any order and only a chunk of about 200 records): Piper at the Gates of Dawn – Pink
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Trident Origin: Europe The mystery of life is not a mystery to be solved but a reality to be experienced. Contributions to Avantgarde-Metal.com |
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Ulv Origin: In the middle of Croatia Musical references: weird and normal music ranging from avantmetal to ambient and ethno, namely: Arcturus, Ved Buens Ende, Ulver, In The Woods..., Smohala, Emperor, Negura Bunget, Letum, Empyrium, Stravinsky, Tangerine Dream, Death in June... Swarms through: literature (ancient to modern), nature, architecture,all other forms of arts, Europe, languages, cheese You must read: E. Ionesco, Leonid Andreyev, Danilo Kis, G. Trackl, A.G. Matoš A thought: "Gold is to give silence a form" Favorite addition: d + c = Lignano The meaning of life is to: .... create Contributions to Avantgarde-Metal.com |
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MvH Origin: Wiesbaden, Germany Favorite composers/bands: Ulver, Pan-Thy-Monium, Beethoven, Arcturus, Dissection, Tchaikovsky, Benoit Jutras (Cirque du Soleil), Enslaved, Woods of Ypres, Slayer and many more... Other deviations: Musician, Military History, Astronomy, Photography, Philosophy, Reading, Writing etc... One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see fine pictures, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Contributions to Avantgarde-Metal.com |
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Martin Cermak Origin: city of Prague, Czech republic Musical evolution (chronologically from childhood to present times): 1. Classic music (mainly the weird, such as Prokofiev) 2. Depeche Mode 3. Kraftwerk, Jarre & different synth music 4. Electronic Body Music, Industrial, Ambient 5. Metal – doom, black, death, goth... everything atmospheric 6. Avant-garde metal 7. Intelligent pop, electro, trip-hop, nu-jazz & lots of different stuff Top 10 of metal avant-garde (in alphabetical order): Carnival In Coal: Fear Not Carnival In Coal Emperor – Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire & Demise Ephel Duath – The Painter’s Palette Hacride – Amoeba Madder Mortem – All Flesh Is Grass Misanthrope – Visionnaire Orphaned Land – Mabool Sirrah – Did Tomorrow Come... Solefald – The Linear Scaffold / Neonism Textures – Drawing Circles Fields & deviations: * Extern regular writer/editor for Spark mag. (the leading Czech/Slovak hard & heavy magazine) and its more alternative side project Spike mag., occasionally contributing in the sci-fi & fantasy mag. Ikarie (all as a hobby). Publicist and editor in a medical journal (as a job). * Master degree in Czech language and literature, philosophy, social sciences, journalism. Just now starting the psychotherapeutic training. * Playing piano, keyboards and bass. Amongst others projects played in the Czech avant-garde metal commando Demimonde and released two albums with them some years ago. * Beside music am into fantastic and biographic literature, social psychology, education and tactical desk games... Contributions to Avantgarde-Metal.com |
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C. L. Edwards Standing in: Simi Valley, CA Id: Musky autumn wind, open space, abandoned things, horizon ignition, taiga, lycanthropy, cold candleglow, sapphire heavens, lightless movement Hearing: Opeth, Ulver, Akercocke, Katatonia, Meshuggah, Blut Aus Nord, Ved Buens Ende, Enslaved, Agalloch, Wolves in the Throne Room, Abigor, and many more fine institutions of sylvan alloy experiments Soundsmithing: Aurorum, Lore, Varcolac (all bands: wires, cables and cords; of razor, nickel, and flesh, respectively) Contributions to Avantgarde-Metal.com |
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mang tsze Origin: underground Reference: http://maddox.xmission.com Contributions to Avantgarde-Metal.com |
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Thor Wanzek Origin: Sauerland / Germany Fave music: The Brimstone Solar Radiation Band Fave question: If God was almighty, would he be able to construct a stone so heavy that he himself couldn’t pick it up? Contributions to Avantgarde-Metal.com |
