No Bullshit Zine #7 review

NO BULLSHIT ‘Zine #7 (Phillipines)
2007
20 pages A4 – English written
A zine from Phillipines but actually the editor Corix with the help of his wife Fonda released this issue in Saudi Arabia because of their jobs. Can you imagine a few seconds to release a metal fanzine in such a country? I couldn’t think of living there a single day!
So NO BULLSHIT gathers a fanzine section as well a poems, thoughts written as it was a diary, about life in Saudi Arabia, pictures of the editor in the desert, which is also a musical desert according to him.
The zine parts featured the usual interviews (BLACK WINTER, BLOODY SIGN, FARASU, WATCH ME BURN, EXTROVERT ‘Zine, …), as well as some well written reviews. The inties turn to be quite enjoyable depending on the answerer’s mood. Some questions about religion or ideologies are quite lame, certainly because I don’t ask this type of useless questions.
The articles about the editors’ life out there are informative; sometimes surprising like the way you cannot buy alcohol. People use to do it themselves! The metal scene is also very small, almost non-existent. They complained about some middle age behaviour: public execution, woman discrimination, the fact you don’t wear beard makes you being gay so you get ass fucked!!!
NO BULLSHIT kept some roots in their homeland featuring inties and reviews about there and you can read about how they are missing their country.
A modest zine indded but taking in consideration where and how it is done, I may say it’s a good therapy for not being nut in this silly country.
Info: http://nbzine.cjb.net/