Well, here is the long-awaited (?) second installment of the Apt. 2324 Records E-zine. This will probably be the last issue for a while....I got next to no feedback on the first issue, hell, I don't even know if anyone read the damn thing (actually I do know a few of you who did). Plus, I think this issue turned out pretty damn good...and if there is another issue, I want it to be just as good. Feedback is appreciated...even if you think this sucks. Sign the guestbook or drop me a quick e-mail letting me know what you think. I will probably do another issue regardless just because I like writing and I like music and putting the two together makes a damn good combination if I do say so myself.

The main feature this issue was supposed to be a review/feature on the Confederacy of Scum Supershow 98. My ride for this event fell through however, so I wasn't there so no feature on that. There ended being another big show that weekend featuring JFA and a bunch of other bands in southern Ohio at a place called Skatopia. You can read about my experience with that in the Skatopia article. Also, to make up for the COS report, I decided to finally do an interview with Dr. Heathen Scum of the Mentors which you can also check out. I also did an interview with REO Speedealer after their show - due to drunkeness and lack of a tape recorder, it's not very long. A band called the Plague played in Cleveland the same weekend as the COS Supershow, I was hoping it was the old Cleveland band the Plague but it wasn't. So I did a short article on the REAL Plague.

I may not have received much feedback from last issue but I did receive a couple letters from people whose bands were featured in last issue's 80s metal retrospective. First off, I heard from Gord (Sofa-Q and ex-Piledriver), he has a great website explaining the history of Piledriver as well as what he is up to these days. You can find the address in the guestbook (sorry I have been writing this thing forever tonight, and am too lazy to look it up right now). I also just heard from Pungent Vomit of Intense Mutilation fame...those guys just recently put up a website - and I decided an interview would be in order - this is the only interview with them that I have seen this decade....so enjoy. There are also a lot more record and show reviews than last time around. If you check out a band, tell them you heard about them here. Thanks! Enough BS here's the contents this time around....

Apt. 2324 E-zine #2

Intense Mutilation Interview
Mentors Interview
REO Speedealer Interview
Russ' Skatopia Disaster
A Look Back At The Plague
Record Reviews
Live Reviews

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