How to order Asgard Root Magazine
Issue 1 contains in-depth interviews with Wolves in the Throne Room, Abigor, Forgotten Tomb, Elysian Blaze, Ludicra, Orthodox, The River and Alex Kurtagic plus a plethora of considered reviews, literary features, art and dark photography
Please read carefully before ordering.
Payment Information:
To order Asgard Root Magazine you may visit
My Big Cartel
and order via paypal.
Alternatively please pay the following depending on your location by Paypal to [email protected]:
£5.00 including postage (UK)
£6.85 including airmail shipping (Europe)
£7.50 including airmail shipping (Rest Of the World)
Please feel free to paypal the correct amount based on these figures to [email protected] to complete your order or use the same email address for correspondance. Much obliged, Geoff.
A Word From the Author
I make my introduction to you as creator of Asgard Root Magazine, the first issue of which is now available. The inaugural issue was printed in a limited edition of 400 with just over 40 remaining as I've discovered some more in a box! Issue 2 is being plotted as I write, with some truly splendid bands involved. Please, if you are interested in the magazine and its content, or would like to offer financial support in return for an ad do not hesitate to contact me and together we can light the black flame.
The plans for the second issue are progressing on a daily basis with the following interviews completed and being moulded into features:
Enslaved, Agalloch, Akitsa, Lifelover, Arckanum, Musk Ox, A Forest Of Stars, Janus, Caina, David Galas, ColdWorld, Lyrinx, Paragon Belial, Freya Aswynn and Dead Raven Choir.
I shall confirm more details nearer the time but for now i shall leave you to browse...
I'd like to introduce you to a selection of photographs of various pages within the first issue of the magazine...
Photographic Evidence
Cover of Asgard Root, Issue 1
Recommended suppliers of Asgard Root
Obviously, from some countries it'll suit you to purchase my zine from a distro with your CDs/Vinyl etc. Here are some links to some great ones that stock Asgard Root. Support the underground and pay them a visit.
Supernal Music
Cold Spring
Under the Dark Soil
Todestrieb
Aurora Borealis
Blackscaped (GER)
Aquarius Records (US)
Eisatz Kommando (GER)
Frostscald Records(RUS)
Valse Sinistre (ROM)
Oniric Records (SPA)
Raging Bloodlust (GER)
Feedback for Issue 1
I wanted to share my excitement at the fine work that you have done! I am very impressed by the quality of your writing and the unusual layout. Your introduction is also one of the best I have read in any metal magazine...the magazine really has its own unique spirit - your spirit, I would say It feels very personal... and the paper quality - fuck. I have read dozens of magazines over the years and have never felt paper quite as thick as this. (Yury, Convivial Hermit Magazine)
"This is probably by far the best UK fanzine in recent years, to be honest" (Nova, Under the Dark Soil Distro)
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Just wanted to say well done on your excellent first issue. Having been a fanzine writer myself for many years I fully understand the work an effort that you have put in, and I also realise what a few words of praise can do to your soul. Your knowledge seems faultless and your crafting of verse sits perfectly with the whole feel and look of the artwork and layout. The ability to form constructive opinion does not go without note and I for one will be looking forward to the next installment. A true underground publication."
(Gnosis of Proxenus)
"...your interviews are more interesting to read than 90% of all the other zines I've read - the Wolves in the Throne Room one is fascinating..." (Andrew, Caina)
"Wow, it's really a great quality magazine for sure! I can easily say that this is the best looking underground magazine I have seen in years and years." (Lars, Wallachia)
"Great work. I am sure you are pleased." (Alex Kurtagic, Supernal Music)
"The world can always use another great metal magazine... Thus we have Asgard Root... the list of the contents practically screams aQ!...There are tons of record reviews, lots of cool creepy photos, artwork and poetry, so obviously a labor of love, and the fact that they love lots of the same kind of stuff we do, makes this well worth investigating...We're already looking forward to the second..." (Aquarius Records, San Francisco)
"I thought the content was perfect. The zine is a grim as the music it covers. It fits perfectly. As you yourself have already noticed, that music and design go hand in hand. Asgard roots has my full support, congratz on a great testament to ones will, putting yourself amongst the elite." (Donn, Teutoburg Forest)
Further Information
Your support and interest is greatly appreciated. I sincerely hope that Asgard Root satisfies your need for quality control and provides an interesting and stimulating journey. If you'd like to make multiple purchases please contact me for a total cost.
The inaugural issue of Asgard Root comprises of 60 professionally printed black and white A4, heavy duty graphic novel style pages and lovely quality (matt). Whilst I have endeavoured to keep the price as low as possible it does entirely reflect the quality of the print and of course - content. This magazine has been lovingly detailed by myself as a labour of love and not in any way a money-making scheme (quite the opposite actually!) At the moment you can obtain the magazine from myself,Rapture (Witney), Beatdown Records (Newcastle), Hellraiser Records (Leeds & Wakefield), Supernal Music, Todestrieb Records, Aurora Borealis, Cold Spring, Aquarius Records, Einsatzkommando, Raging Bloodlust, No Colours, Blackscaped, Oniric Records and Under the Dark Soil.
Issue 1 houses in-depth interviews with
Wolves in The Throne Room, Abigor, Ludicra, Elysian Blaze, Forgotten Tomb, Orthodox, The River and
Benighted Leams' Supernal Music man,
Alex Kurtagic . There is also a literary focus, poetry, artwork and photography and a highly thought-out reviews section. It is now available to order directly from me by using paypal or by the old-fashioned method of sending a cheque. Details above.
The magazine's raison d'etre is the exploration of dark and diabolical musics in the form of black metal, doom and ambient despair. I have carried out a number of high quality interviews with an elite selection of bands, including Forgotten Tomb, Wolves in the Throne Room, Abigor, Ludicra and Orthodox.
Issue 1 features superlative artwork from Sidhe, photography by yours truly and literary features and short stories. I have been overwhelmed and invigorated by the immense interest attracted by my ideas and offer my eternal thanks to the bands who have further sparked my enthusiasm and unbridled excitement.
I live in daily despair at the general mundaneness of our world today and firmly believe that it is only through the individual awareness and continual and relentless voyaging through mental (including music, films literature and late night conversation) and physical landscapes (travel) so prevalent in extreme music that an albeit small light will shine in the name of cultural validity and purity. By starting this magazine my hope is to provide an entry point for those seeking light through darkness, hope through despair and to give my hammer blow to the nail in the coffin of organized religion and its maladies. 'Light through darkness' - paradoxical I know, but the light of which I speak is representative of an antidote to the pervasive dross and disgusting liberal mediocrity that today is not only acceptable but encouraged and expected to keep the world in a state of zombified idiocy.
I am interested in the feeling of power imbued in the works of frostbitten artists such as Immortal, Gorgoroth, Trelldom, Darkthrone and In the Woods; the feelings of solitude and despair so eloquently carved by Xasthur, Leviathan, Elysian Blaze, Velvet Cacoon, Beatrik and of course the mighty Burzum. There is more vitality, purity, atmosphere, genius and profundity in one single note played by a 'Wolves in the Throne Room' or a 'Velvet Cacoon' than in a lifetime of mainstream music culture.
Yours eternally, Geoff, Asgard Root Magazine
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