Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:49 am
I know I'm a little late to the party and this thread covers so much of what I'd like to put my two pence worth in (this is essentially my first 'proper' post after trawling and loving this forum for a while so let's take it easy), so anyway... let's focus on one thing, and that is about Enforcer's so-called popularity. What? I just saw them play to about 100-150 in Norway. Not a bad turnout, a fair few were singing along and raising their fists, but it's hardly Wembley fucking stadium. And they've not sold that many records, they're not #1 chart-topper (who is #1 in the UK at the moment... oh wait... Maiden 
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They've played a few shows outta Sweden, granted. First UK shows were in tiny bars to not many people, then they came back this May, again tiny bars, very few people, they're slowly building up, having just played Bloodstock and Sonisphere thanks to "that" cover. This is no shoe-in, this is no manufactured band put together by the bigwigs at Earache. The band were licenced by Dan Tobin, a full-on metalhead who would fit in here with tales of trawling charity shops to find rare metal gems on 12". He loved them and wanted to help, simple as. Then I, as editor of Terrorizer, heard them, loved them and wanted to do my bit. I think it was pure chance that both Dan and I got together years after originally getting into them and thought we could push this band and push 'heavy metal' back into our own agendas. Do you think I sold many magazines? Do you think my boss is pleased with me right now? Do you think that she wouldn't have much rather me put, I dunno, Arch fucking Enemy on the cover? Of course she would but that's not my jam. When I see a band as passionate about heavy metal as I am I want to support them and with Enforcer I saw a chance to put my stamp on the magazine and somehow help them and bands like them, new and old, get heard.
I just wanted to come on and explain the story behind that cover, if I'd known that people were calling this band sellouts because of what I did then I need to apologise because they're not, I just dig them a lot and since becoming editor I'm trying to crowbar as much of the good shit in that mag as I can. It'll take a while but I'll get there.
)They've played a few shows outta Sweden, granted. First UK shows were in tiny bars to not many people, then they came back this May, again tiny bars, very few people, they're slowly building up, having just played Bloodstock and Sonisphere thanks to "that" cover. This is no shoe-in, this is no manufactured band put together by the bigwigs at Earache. The band were licenced by Dan Tobin, a full-on metalhead who would fit in here with tales of trawling charity shops to find rare metal gems on 12". He loved them and wanted to help, simple as. Then I, as editor of Terrorizer, heard them, loved them and wanted to do my bit. I think it was pure chance that both Dan and I got together years after originally getting into them and thought we could push this band and push 'heavy metal' back into our own agendas. Do you think I sold many magazines? Do you think my boss is pleased with me right now? Do you think that she wouldn't have much rather me put, I dunno, Arch fucking Enemy on the cover? Of course she would but that's not my jam. When I see a band as passionate about heavy metal as I am I want to support them and with Enforcer I saw a chance to put my stamp on the magazine and somehow help them and bands like them, new and old, get heard.
I just wanted to come on and explain the story behind that cover, if I'd known that people were calling this band sellouts because of what I did then I need to apologise because they're not, I just dig them a lot and since becoming editor I'm trying to crowbar as much of the good shit in that mag as I can. It'll take a while but I'll get there.
