This Ukrainian magazine started its existence back in 2006. At once I should point out the high-quality offset printing of the content. By the way, the interviews and reviews are written in Russian language. This is the 14th issue already and you can browse the following interviews within the 132 A4 pages: АРКОНА, ENNUI, FUNGOID STREAM, ДО СКОНУ, IMPALED NAZARENE, AMON, ARROGANT DESTRUKTOR, SIMON BELMONT, AURA HIEMIS, SHATTERED HOPE, TWILIGHTFALL, ОТКРОВЕНИЯ ДОЖДЯ, DIATHRA, SIGH, AEONS CONFER, THE NIGHTSTALKER, GRENOUER, VALINOR, МОНСАЛЬВАТ, SINFUL, MONUMENTOMB, DEMONIC MANIFESTATION, LEAVES' EYES, DOOM:VS, FRIGHT NIGHT, INSOMNIUM, MIRZADEH, GALAR, INTERVALS, EUDAIMONY, TALES OF DARKNORD, HELEVORN, VOTUM, THE GATHERING, I MISS MY DEATH, MEKIGAH, КYРСК, ORIGIN, NEGATIVE VOICE, HELENGARD, RAVEN THRONE, APOKEFALE, PULVIS ET UMBRA, WINGS IN MOTION, EARTH, DISTORTED WORLD, SLEETGROUT, DARK FORTRESS, THE COMMITTEE, TODTGELICHTER, SUTEKH HEXEN and FIMBULVET. Quite a lot, isn't it? There are 3 more articles as well: an ALCEST live report, a Black Sea Metal Festival report and a DUB BUK story. You can also read more than 250 reviews on different musical formats and while reading you can put the 17-track compilation disc into your CD-player and enjoy the sounds of some of the interviewed bands. Massive issue for sure! The only thing I disliked a bit is the extremely big amount of ads there, more than 28 pages in total, do you find it normal? Well, despite this it's a very good issue, which reminded me design-like the once well-known but unfortunately inactive Polish THRASH'EM ALL magazine.

Second issue continues where the first ended. Unfortunately, design-wise we have totally no improvements, I would say the letters even more unreadable compared to the debut issue, especially when it goes to some interviews' forewords or the editor's introduction itself. Really hard to read those small, pretty light letters due to the bad-quality xeroxed way. This time we have 36 Russian-written pages kept on A5 format. Interviews are as follows with ATOMIC CARNAGE Records, ARBITRATOR, BLOOD POLLUTION, KOMA, DRAUGGARD, MASTEMAH, SIDUS MORTUORUM, TANTAL and TORTURER. Some of them are interesting and some are not, while some of them are too long or became too short. I would advice to find something in between regarding the length and to have those interviews thrilling from the beginning to the end and to keep the reader always excited and not bored to death while the interview ends. To all this you can add a 2-paged article about the latest gigs of Metal Special Fest, one page full of hot news, 3 pages of reviews, which are still too less for me and as usual a bonus CD-R containing 15 tracks from most of the above interviewed bands. I really do hope that next issues will provide us more reviews & interviews with the deserved thrill & quality!!!

The newest split issue of Thrash Metal Revival finally shows the marks of progression. First of all, the quality of the whole print has been improved thus the letters became enjoyable to read as well. Secondly, the A5 format changed to A4, which is very good! Page-wise we have 48 to explore. You can read on interviews with METAL SPECIAL Fest, VACULA Productions, RAPEN WINTER Records, KARMA RAGE, VIOLENT OMEN, BLOOD POLLUTION, UNGOLIANTHA, ТЕМНИЧ, FROZEN ROCK, AMBIVALENCE, SOMNOLENT, HOLY DRAGONS, SANHEIM, D.ANGER, IMMORALIST, ТРУПНЫЙ ЯД and MAD V. There's also a bunch of articles dealing with festivals & gigs, such as Global East Rock Festival, Metal Special Fest, Metal Freedom Festival, Teutonic Assault Vol.2, Thrash You Ass, Summerhate plus an article covering the rising Thrash Metal movement in Ukraine. Well, really not bad content in general. Although the album/demo/'zine reviews still lack in my opinion as we have only 5 pages with pretty big letters to read about. In comparison to predecessor issues this split one definitely displays a better level. So I keep my fingers crossed to all the future issues!!! The only thing I would still exclude is the presence of free unused spaces on at least 6 pages throughout the issue. Please put there some ads or more band photos, album covers, whatever just not the way it is used for this issue. People who want to know more about the Ukrainian metal underground should get their hands on this edition. The only requirement is the knowledge of Russian language. It comes with a bonus audio compilation, so you can listen to some music as well during your read.