Personal Best

***Norway’s GURO MOE on her various projects, ice swimming, playing loud and what’s wrong with Norwegian music; Norwegian guitarist and vocalist CARL MICHAEL EIDE on being inside the metal groove, and not wanting out; THE MENSTRUATION SISTERS’ multi-disciplinary Australian artist NIK KAMVISSIS talks about crying, Moby Dick, primitive art and those times when the human state just isn’t enough; American minimalist legend PHILL NIBLOCK on driving really fast, motorcycle crashes and amnesia; SVARTE GREINER’s Norwegian Prince of Darkness ERIK KNIVE SKODVIN on horror cinema, the Demoscene, his Miasma label and design work; New Zealand’s STEFAN NEVILLE on the lo-fi label (with a drunk PUMICE comic by kiwi-mystic GFRENZY); JUNKY KAO of TORTURING NURSE on the hardships of being tied up at concerts, bodily damage and the current Chinese noise scene; English expat and ex-SHADOW RING member GRRAHAM LAMKBIN on the whys and hows of his art with C. SPENCER YEH; Australian percussionist WILL GUTHRIE on bombing trains, discovering fusion, and how quitting smoking changed the course of his music. 100 pages.