Dear Maelstrom readers,

In a rush and practically throwing this month’s issue together before I got off to Europe on May 20. So the next couple issues will be a little thin. But it doesn’t mean the content will suffer in quality! For example, this issue features an interview with Marduk guitarist Morgan Håkansson.

Here’s this month’s contest:

Here's the contest for June, 2005, in which we're giving away promotional copies of the new GRAVEWORM album, entitled N(U)topia.

The contest question is:

How many albums has Graveworm released?

Good luck!

And in a final bit of silly news, Maelstrom’s writer Bastiaan de Vries asked me to ask if any of you liked to “trick out” Hot Wheels cars. Yeah, the dinky little toy things. In Basti’s own words:

[Collecting and fiddling with Hot Wheels] keeps me off the street, raping and pillaging and all that stuff you know. Plus, I'm a hotrod lovah. If there are metalheads with ”little dinky cars” that they should be so kind as to send them to me... but none of those stinky new age techy cars, I hate those *snorts*.

Please write Basti directly to be a part of this. I am washing my hands of the entire thing.

- Roberto Martinelli