10 Year Anniversary

I wanted to point out today that ten years ago on May 14th 2001 I gave birth to a 'zine named Lunar Hypnosis. I think originally with the name I wanted something that sounded black metal, but I ended up just mixing an In Flames and Sepultura song together to come up with Lunar Hypnosis (In Flames = Lunar Strain / Sepultura = Mass Hypnosis). The 'zine was also initially on a crude server with a terrible design and rather poor content if I do say so myself.

Looking back I was only 19 years old and had never given much time or thought to writing, which I suppose makes the whole idea of doing a 'zine a little absurd. Absurd or not I remember back then I was still fairly new to underground metal and I just wanted to have something to do with the musical phenomenon I had discovered just a few years earlier. I seem to also remember thinking that back then there really wasn't any other review sites that were solely dedicated to metal, but I'm fairly sure there were others.

After doing an Internet search recently I came upon something. Its hard for me to imagine this, but somehow this old site is still on the Internet. If you'd like to see Lunar Hypnosis in its most primordial form then head on over HERE

Mind you again its rather lo-fi in design and quality, but its fun to look through it anyway and read those old reviews... just don't give me shit for some of the bands I used to enjoy... or my terrible writing. :D

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In other news you've probably noticed that I've been slow with the updates again. No excuse I suppose other than I haven't felt much motivation for writing recently. I'm sure it will come back in at least semi-full force eventually, especially since I've recently picked up some new CDs that are totally worth reporting on. If not that then I'm sure the occasional retro review will pop up when the feeling grabs me. In fact I was thinking of doing some sort of full band discographies review soon, but will see.

Other than that thanks for following and for those that have been following for years, well, fuck let's do it for another ten!