Cover artist

Derek Hess

Interviews

Swans, Suffocation, Malevolent Creation, Crowbar

Album reviews

Brutal Juice, Argyle Park, Banco De Gaia, Battalion Of Saints, Boy’s Life, Coltrane Wreck, Croatan, Drugstore, Earth Crisis, Ether Net, Everclear, Experiment Fear, Fury In The Slaughterhouse, Grover, Home, Jag Panzer, June Of 44, Kevin K. Brand, Kryptonite Nixon, Kyuss, Latimer, Lizard Music, Mace, Magic Hour, Means To An End, MILF, Mother May I, Mousetrap, Nitzer Ebb, John Norum, The Psyclone Rangers, Pussy Crush, Shallow, Shiner, Silverchair, Six Finger Satellite, Sixteen Deluxe, Skeletal Earth, SMP, Souls At Zero, Space Needle, Uncle Joe’s Big Ol Driver, Unwound, Verbal Abuse, Whipped, Whirlpool, White Zone, more

Live reviews

Clutch, Tad, X-Cops, Brutal Juice, Tripping Daisy, Hagfish, Filter, Die Cheerleader, Disengage, Avail, Ed Hall, Hairy Patt, Duvalby Bros., Engine Kid, Iceburn, Behemoth, Trouser Chili, Morbid Angel, Grip Inc., Crook, Love Battery, Eve’s Plumb, Local H, more

Columnists

Mike Kole, Anastasia Pantsios, Steve Wainstead

Contributing writers

High Ally, Keith Bergman, Craig Bobby, Sean Carnage, P.J. Costello, Deena Dasein, Delerium, Gene Dixon, Neal Filsinger, Sum Guy Fu, Eric Michael Hermann, Martin F. Lance, Justin Husher, Ron Kretsch, Pat Mitchell, Brenda Mullen, Sasha I. Nyktos, Scott Pastorell, Peanuts, Jim Plank, Steve Bostwick, Peter Risser, Mason Boor, Andrew Somlyo, Joe Stankiewicz, Jim Raishart, Andy Weinberg

Photographer

Rob Banks, Anastasia Pantsios

Page count

12