Life sucks. More specifically, love sucks. Life sucks when you’re in love; or, rather, life sucks when you’re in love and it doesn’t work out. Big time.

And although we’re like, totally metal over here and there in all of Maelstrom’s worldwide offices, we’re still highly susceptible to being reduced to utterly pathetic whiny bitches when romance causes us to take a nasty fall. This was the case for no fewer than three of Maelstrom’s otherwise iron-willed staff this month. As a result, the issue’s a little late. Hey, we’re only (in)human.

Consider we’ve still got 100 reviews this month — not even soap opera-esque drama can get in our way to advise you about what to check out and what to steer clear of.

There are two interviews this month, one with guitarist John McEntee of Incantation, and the other a little geek-out session with Hammerfall drummer Anders Johansson.

I forgot to welcome the newest member of Maelstrom’s elite staff last month. Introducing Jeremy Beals, a college student in California. Jeremy has already impressed us last month with insightful and amusing reviews. We hope he sticks around.

This month, we're giving away copies of Dimmu Borgir's latest album, In Sorte Diaboli.

To win, correctly answer the following question:

Which Dimmu Borgir member once wore a top hat in a studio album's photo layout?

Thanks to all!

Roberto Martinelli
Maelstrom.nu
1573 Dolores St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
USA

Note: we don’t normally run news articles, but we thought it was worthwhile to let you know about Fabchannel.com, which is entirely dedicated to running concerts at the extraordinary Paradiso concert hall in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and runs them in their ENTIRETY. There are literally days upon days’ worth of live shows you can watch for free. You might know that Paradiso is a converted church, and as such, boasts an atmosphere like no other. The following is but one example of what Fabchannel.com has to offer.

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Rick de Graaf" <rickg@fabchannel.com>
Reply-To: "Rick de Graaf" <rickg@fabchannel.com>
To: "Rick de Graaf" <rickg@fabchannel.com>
Subject: Press release; Isis Live on Fabchannel.com
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 16:21:50 +0200

Press release

Amsterdam, June 7th 2007

Isis live on Fabchannel.com

Watch the entire Amsterdam concert online, for free

June 11th American metal band Isis will perform at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. Their entire concert will be webcast live, in video and audio, on online-concert-channel Fabchannel.com. The webcast starts at 20:30 CET. Afterwards the concert will be included to the online video archive at www.fabchannel.com. Live as well as on demand the Isis concert is free for everybody to watch.

. see the included press release for more information.

Would you be so kind to let us know if you are going to make this news item public.

FABCHANNEL
Rick de Graaf, Intern Business Affairs & Publicity

Weteringsschans 6 - 8
1017 SG Amsterdam
The Netherlands