** INTERMOSH VOL. 4 ** Sept. 9 1992 Welcome back to school you folk! Time for another famous installment of the newsletter for the scary people.. oops, let me rephrase that, the newsletter for the scared peo.. oh nevermind... How was your Labor Day weekend? If you were in LA it had to have been loud with the Sanctuary Church benefit concert for their 1-800 lines, including performances by Tourniquet and Precious Death.. Tourniquet played their first tune, "Ark of Suffering", with Eric on vocals (normally on guitar), Ted on guitar (normally on drums), Guy on drums (normally vocals), Gary on bass (normally guitar) and Victor on guitar (normally bass). I always thought they were out there! :-) If you were in Chicago for the weekend, did you catch the big celebration party for Scizm? Scizm is now a 4-piece heavy progressive thrash band whose former drummer, Terry Cvengros, is now full time in Ordained Fate, the 3/4 female gothic metal band.. and congrats to Terry and wife, guitarist Annette for the birth of their baby daughter! If you were in DC for the weekend, did you see Sabaoth headline a 10-band secular death metal show in Virginia? Yes, it's true, at Bender's in Manassas Sabaoth, a 5-piece neoclassical death metal (I kid you not! Mix George Lynch with Obituary!) played and will be releasing a new demo soon... If you were also in LA this weekend then you heard about the new California Metal III album coming out this fall.. all thrash! One of the confirmed bands is Judgement - from San Diego, not to be confused with Final Judgement from Atlanta... In other news.. Arbitrage, industrial/death band from near Vancouver (oops, not Seattle, sorry folks), has released their second demo entitled "The Healing Power of Death".. they told me their influences include Believer, Godflesh, Einstzurzende Neubaten (sp?) and Napalm Death.. the Japanese secular metal mag Burrrn lists Seventh Angel, "Lament for the Weary" at #24 on the Japanese charts while Czech hard rockers Kreyson are at #18 with "Angel on the Run", now in English on Flametrader Records. Burrn (August 1992) also has a special feature on Holy Soldier... Believer is currently in the studio for their long-awaited third album entitled "Dimensions" according to Metal Maniacs Mag (thanx Brody!).. OOPS.. the band from Australia is called SIBORIUS not Siborium.. I goofeth (like you all had your life pinned on that one!).. Sacred Warrior should be releasing their 5th album this fall entitled "New World Order", while Bride's new one "Snakes in the Playground" will be out Sept. 15 along with Sacrament, "Haunts of Violence".. Chosen Stranger has released their long-awaited second demo with a new bass player, Kevin Dunkel. The new demo is called "Deathwalker".. Overdrive recently replaced their drummer and has an interim bassist and only one guitar but will still be doing the Battle of the Bands in Lynchburg in October, and look for a concert with Oracle in North Carolina soon.. Recluse Chant, DC's progressive speed metal band, will be playing at Bender's on Sept. 19 with 9 other bands in a metal fest, while Sacrament will be playing in Virginia Beach on the 19th hopefully with Sabaoth... Check out the next Intermosh with a late-breaking bulletin on Stryper!!!! (not yet confirmed!) ** END OF INTERMOSH ** Latuh dudes! Romans 9:29 if you dare! Phil --