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UNBELIEVABLY Bad

I Suck Harder Than You

About Me

I am a fanzine from Sydney, Australia offering the shoddiest coverage of some truly baaaaaaad rock bands.
I am now 100 pages of complete literary carnage that will set you back seven big ones and approximately seven billion braincells.
In Issue #7, which is currently on sale, I feature interviews with Lubricated Goat, Eyehategod, The Black Lips, 4Dead, High On Fire, Rose Tattoo, Darkthrone, Coliseum, Pelican, M.O.D, and a reprint of a 1984 DNA fanzine interview with Depression, articles on Jay Reatard, Bill Durks, Phlegm, a tour diary by Baseball and festival reports from Wacken Open Air and the Rebellion Fest.
I also feature artwork by Glenn "Glenno" Smith, Rick Chesshire, Ross Tesoriero, Stu Spasm and Dr. Seuss, and photography by Rod Hunt, Richard Sharman, Forcefed, Ben Butcher and more.
I come with a free 21-track CD with tracks by: The Hellmenn, Straight Arrows, 4Dead, Violent Abuse, Kamikaze Trio, Bambi & The Bambis, Baseball, R.U.S.T, Mink Jaguar, Vae Victus, Toecutter, The Veebees, Frank Rizzo, Hotel Wrecking City Traders, Kleber Claux Memorial Singers, Burning Sensation, Dead Farmers, Kill A Celebrity, Slag Dog Afterbirth, Fattura Della Morte and Doomed & Disgusting.
Get me from the following select independent music and book stockists: Paint It Black (Newtown NSW), Resist (Newtown NSW), Redeye (Sydney NSW), Utopia (Sydney NSW), Faster Pussycat (Newtown NSW), Mojo (Sydney NSW), Snapshot Distro (Sydney NSW), Re-Pressed (Penrith NSW), Music Farmers (Wollongong NSW), In Deep (The Entrance NSW), Landspeed (Canberra ACT), Missing Link (Melbourne VIC), Polyester Books (Fitzroy VIC), International Trash (Richmond VIC), Sticky (Melbourne VIC), Off The Hip (Melbourne VIC), We Empty Rooms (Melbourne VIC), Metropolis (Melbourne VIC), Fist2Face (Ringwood VIC), Rockinghorse (Brisbane QLD), Big Star (Adelaide SA), 78 (Perth WA), Tasmanian Alcoholic Distro (Kingston, TAS), Tommy Gun (Hobart, TAS). Or by emailing [email protected].
Issue 3 still available as back issue for $8 each (ppd).

My Interests

Words, pictures, music, trash cinema, beating deadlines, sitting around in toilets waiting to be read.

I'd like to meet:

...my end as soon as possible.

Music:

Issue #1: Turbonegro, The Stabs, The Saints, Hot Snakes, Against Me!, Hard-ons, Gazoonga Attack, Justice Yeldham & The Dynamic Ribbon Device, The Mint Chicks, Grand Fatal, Blood Duster, Ian MacKaye, The Drips, Mouth, Massive Appendage.
Issue #2: The Bronx, The Stooges, SixFtHick, Reverend Kriss Hades, The MC5, Further, Every Time I Die, Rocket From The Crypt, Blacklevel Embassy, My Precious, The Scare, Guitar Wolf, The Sailors, Group Seizure.
Issue #3: The Hard-Ons, Refused, Tucker B's, Os Mutantes, The Drones, The Dead Walk!, Violent Soho, The Stabs, The Mummies, Dead Kennedys, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Doomriders, Made In Mexico, Cosmic Psychos, The Uhohs, Angus McDeth, Paracoccidioidomicosisproctitissarcomucosis.
Issue #4: Massappeal, Comets On Fire, Slayer, The Thaw, Some Girls, The Holy Soul, Municipal Waste, The Mummies, Nashville Pussy, Mission Of Burma, Frank Rizzo, ROFL, Matrimony.
Issue #5: Lobby Loyde, Napalm Death, The Nation Blue, My Disco, Blowfly, Curse Ov Dialect, Converge, Massappeal, Scum System Kill, Terrorizer, Limp Wrist, The Mummies, Isis, Mindsnare, Blood Duster, Mid-Youth Crisis, All You Can Eat, Ian Rilen, Twin City Faction, Grong Grong, Radio Birdman.
Issue #6: Sadistik Exekution, Neurosis, James McCann, Bad Brains, Agents Of Abhorrence, Celtic Frost / Hellhammer, Straightjacket Nation, Mastodon, That1Guy, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, The Blurters, Tenacious D, Depression, S.U.X., Firewitch, Radio Birdman.
Issue #7: Lubricated Goat, Eyehategod, Jay Reatard, 4Dead, High On Fire, Rose Tattoo, Darkthrone, Coliseum, The Black Lips, M.O.D, Depression, Phlegm, Baseball, Pelican.

Movies:

Issue #1: Blood Feast, The Sadist, Stars Wars: Espisode III, Dig!, Shaun Of The Dead, Bubba Ho-Tep, Visitor Q, What About Me.
Issue #2: Two-Thousand Maniacs, Spider Baby, Deadly Weapons, Double Agent 73, Paradise Lost, Punk: Attitude.
Issue #3: Color Me Blood Red, Ilsa: She Wolf Of The SS, We Jam Econo: The Story of The Minutemen, The Aristocrats.
Issue #4: Monster A-Go-Go, Even Dwarves Started Small, Modify, Nacho Libre.
Issue #5: Moonshine Mountain, Peeping Tom, An Inconvenient Truth, The Devil & Daniel Johnston, Sticky Carpet.
Issue #6: The Brain That Wouldn't Die, The Pick Of Destiny.
Issue #7: Shock Corridor, Control, Death Proof.

Television:

The Young Ones
Lancelot Link Secret Chimp
Kingswood Country
Prisoner (Cell Block H)
When Good Times Go Bad
Amazing Medical Stories

Books:

Resistant Harmony
B-Side
DNA
Trousers In Action
Regression
Lemon
Eddie

Heroes:

Herschell Gordon Lewis
Tommy Raudonikis
Shelley Winters
Graham Chapman
Johnny Eck
David Lee Roth
Harry Choad

My Blog

UB.7 - The Turd Hath Risen

We cried like little crack babies, procrastinated like a bunch of public servants, dragged dug in our heels deeper than Johnny Howard [R.I.P], but in the end the turd still floated to the top. So it's...
Posted by UNBELIEVABLY Bad on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:44:00 PST

UB.6 - price hike in the name of SATAN

It's a month or so late, and it SO wasn't worth the fucking wait! Another heap of crap from deep in the bowels of Bexley, NSW, UNBELIEVABLY Bad 6 lowers the tone even further and raises the price ever...
Posted by UNBELIEVABLY Bad on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:00:00 PST

UB.5 now bigger and baaaaadder

Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse, Sydney rock zine UNBELIEVABLY Bad takes your five bucks and increases the dosage to 100 pages with a 4-colour cover illustrated by the UNBELIE...
Posted by UNBELIEVABLY Bad on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:45:00 PST

UB.3 is out there!

Yep, it's really fukking out and it's really fukking ordinary.84 pages (as per usual) with a 4-col cover illustrated by Hard-Ons bassist and all-round good sort, Raymond Ahn.Features shoddy interviews...
Posted by UNBELIEVABLY Bad on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:46:00 PST

UB.4 stinx

You could smell it comin' a mile off couldn't ya?UNBELIEVABLY Bad 4 is out now and it's 84 pages of pure stink-o-rama with a 4-col cover illustrated by legendary art monster Ben Brown. It's on the nos...
Posted by UNBELIEVABLY Bad on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 01:59:00 PST