Explosive Diarrheic Assault Zine #1 review

EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEIC ASSAULT #1 (France)
2008
50 pages A4 – French written
Again a zine into excremental investigation? Well, here is the first try of a band of young fellows that decided to create a printed zine instead of another more or less useful webzine. This first issue reminds me my first one of Putrefactive Effect (not really a reference for sure) with its load of mistakes and some cool ideas.
You find only five interviews (NIRNAETH, STHYGMA, INHUMATE, GANG and the unavoidable black metal lord of the underground NIHILISTIC HOLOCAUST): these are not bad although the same way of asking the same questions is a bit boring as well as their sense of humour which sometimes turn to ridiculous on a longer basis so I suggest some moderation to avoid falling into parody.
Some pages are filled with numerous flyers but I found there are too many of them (Keep the Putrefactive one and drop the Mumakil’s one!)
The weakest point of the zine is the huge amount of reviews: there are plenty of them from ultra underground gore grind to more “conventional” bands like NILE or DYING FETUS. But there are really, really too short most of the time. Writing a lot of reviews for the sake of having a shitload is the bad deal: it looks like more of comments you find on mailorder lists and sometimes it’s really talking for nothing, filling pages with hollow words or bullshit comments. The zine reviews are completely unsatisfying to me! How can you decently talk about a fanzine with three fucking taking in consideration the amount of work done by the editor? Underground not always mean funderground, so beware.
This said, I think Explosive need a real kick in the ass to completely blast the entrails and blow the shit out of the readers. The zine can only but improved or stop its activities.
Contact: Vincent REYNARD – 380 chemins des pins – 34170 CASTELNAU LE LEZ – FRANCE