METAL

Editorial

 

Letter from the Editor

by Carleigh Baker

 

Letter from the Editor

by David James Brock

 

Essay

 

Fives Times Metal Jmped the Three-Headed Hydra

by Luke Meat

 

Poems

 

hephaestus, at the forge

by Brittney Hubley

 

Satan, at Pandemonium

by Chris Koenig-Woodyard

 

a love poem for Nathan Explosion

by Dessa Bayrock

 

Interview with the Dummer

by Adam Pottle

 

buying Tramadol at El Ture while listening to Brujeria

by Aldona Dziekdziejko

 

for kim gordon

by buster frequency

 

A Teenage Hymn

by Khashayar Mohammadi

 

Metaloid

by John Barton

 

Live from the Battery

by Joe Bishop

 

god 

by Anne Schernekau

 

rosaries in hand

by Tawahum Justin Bige

 

APOCALYPSE PARROT SCREAMS FOR VENGEANCE

by MA|DE

soft mosh 1

by Simon Brown

 

soft mosh 2

by Simon Brown

 

soft mosh 3

by Simon Brown

poem in the style of zakk wylde's siganture gibson les paul

by Andrew Zuliani

 

Bloodbuzz, New Brunswick

by Matt Stranach

 

Crush 'em on the Coast

By Kevin Spenst

 

Your Lair is My Lair, Apparently

by Penn Kemp

 

Threshold

by Mikaela Asfour

 

Cosmetics

by Leanne Dunic

 

Bicycle

by Hannah Hackney

 

KOKUM IS SO METAL

by Jessica Johns

 

The End of Metal (2009)

by Catherine Owen

 

Reviews

 

I left nothing inside on purpose by Stevie Howell
reviewed by Matthew Walsh

The Tide by Jake Byrne

reviewed by David Ly

 

Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Ackbar

reviewed by Anna Maxymiw

 

Interview

An Interview with Waubgeshig Rice
conducted by Carleigh Baker

 

Due to errors in editing, the print edition did not include an artist credit for Owen Plummer, who collaborated on a set of illustrations with Kevin Spenst. We sincerely apologize for this error and are making a corrected version available here.  We would also like to include a corrected version of Mikaela Joy Asfour's Threshold. We are truly honoured to have published beautiful work by both Owen and Mikaela. Again, we are sorry for these errors.