Welcome to the official MySpace page for www.chroniclesofchaos.com - for more than a decade, one of the internet's leading extreme music websites. The intention behind this page is to provide us with a portal to allow you - our faithful readers - to communicate with us more easily and for us to gain some insight into those who support us. We'll be using this page as a means to update our (hopefully) burgeoning network of the latest updates on the site, so be sure to subscribe to our blog and check back here regularly. And of course if you feel like leaving a comment, you're more than free to. Just be forwarned: we will delete all cutsey pictures from the comments page. We are, after all, a bunch of metal-blastin' heathens.
THE STORY SO FAR
Chronicles of Chaos
was founded in the Summer of 1995 by Gino Filicetti and Adrian Bromley. Gino decided to start a different kind of e-zine that would strive to cut through the bullshit of the music community and provide fans of chaotic music with a true and unbiased opinion of current metal music. He turned to Adrian Bromley to get his idea off the ground. Being already involved in the music journalism trade, Adrian provided the magazine with valuable contacts among record labels. It was during a conversation on the phone between Gino and Adrian that the name for this e-zine idea was born. After many attempts at a suitable alliterative title for the 'zine - of which the most famous failure was "The Brutal Bugle" - Gino coined the phrase "Chronicles of Chaos" in a flash of inspiration.
Chronicles of Chaos #1 featured: 8 reviews of albums that were donated to the magazine by a friend in the business; 3 demo reviews; 1 re-used Fear Factory interview written by Adrian; 1 interview with a local band; and 1 concert review. Chronicles of Chaos #1 was originally sent to a mere 80 readers, but in a short time, the number of readers grew to over 1000. After seven years of existence, nearly 60 issues, more than 3000 readers on our mailing list, a countless number of readers browsing our website and more than a dozen people on our staff, Chronicles of Chaos has not lost sight of its roots. The magazine is still completely free of all advertising, freely available to anyone on the internet, and free of all flashy graphics or animation. Chronicles of Chaos' strength is in its writing. From day one, the emphasis has always been on top notch writing and bias-free opinions.
Year 2003 brought the second redoing of the Chronicles of Chaos website, a result of the combined efforts of co-editors Pedro Azevedo and Gino Filicetti and the scripting talents of Chris Flaaten. While the first two iterations of the website were made of static HTML and aimed only to present the webzine .. for the benefit of readers, this third version was an entirely different business. Dynamically generated pages, fed by a database that contains the full Chronicles of Chaos archive, and an integrated submit/proofread/publish cycle allowed Chronicles of Chaos to enter a new age in its history. No longer did the readers have to endure lengthy periods of silence between each issue; articles were now published on an almost daily basis, and a digest regularly sent out to the subscribers by e-mail.
Near its tenth anniversary, in the early stages of 2005, Chronicles of Chaos was given a revamped look, leaving behind some of the vast greyness of old. Although more care was put into presenting a more aesthetically pleasing website to our readers, new features were also added -- including a ubiquitous quick search, an RSS feed, and mobile access.
After all these years, the history of Chronicles of Chaos is still being written every day, and the determination of those involved does not falter.
