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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
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Bernd Grünwald
Origin: Vienna, Austria

- Webmaster and design of Avantgarde-Metal.com
- Design with Eclipse
New Media
- Organizing concerts with KV
Kaltenbach
- Music with Sternenstaub
A selection of bands I like most: Aborym, And Oceans, Arcturus,
Blacklodge, Bloodline, Devil Doll, DHG, Emperor, Malignant Eternal,
Oxiplegatz, Ram-Zet, Red Harvest, Samael, Thorns, Ulver, ...
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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"
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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…).
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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".
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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
Floyd
South of Heaven – Slayer
Master of Puppets – Metallica
Into the Nightside Eclipse – Emperor
Dusk and Her Embrace – Cradle of Filth
Controlled by Hatred – Suicidal Tendencies
Coma of Souls – Kreator
Human – Death
Scum – Napalm Death
City – Strapping Young Lad
Blessed are the Sick – Morbid Angel
Through Silver and Blood – Neurosis
Elizium – Fields of Nephilim
Killers – Iron Maiden
Love: Allah, my wonderful parents , adorable wife
and kid and metal
Pet Peeves: Racism, Imperialism, Colonization.
Authoritarians, crappy lo-fi Black Metal and its legions
Favourite Books: Focault's Pendulum-Umberto Eco,
Ghost Story- Peter Straub, Most stuff by Alan Moore, Six Million
Reconsidered – Various and thousands of other works as well
as the Quran which I am just discovering
Indulgences: quality hashish, good whiskies, dark
chocolates, shawermas and greek sandwiches
Download: Burzukh – Orion http://www.zshare.net/download/29189248ea2fd4/
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Trident

Origin: Europe
The mystery of life is not a mystery to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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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
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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
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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...
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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)
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mang tsze

Origin: underground
Reference: http://maddox.xmission.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?
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