Welcome to a new issue. #66, to be exact. We’re now on a schedule of posting every season, which allows us (me, mostly) to maintain personal musical pursuits/ career / personal life / sanity and general well-being.

But Maelstrom.nu is no slouch, and issue #66 comes with 131 total album reviews and two interviews, with French black metallers Glorior Belli and American noise / experimental / instrumental act Gog.

Announcing the “Send Alisa Z to Summer Camp” drive!

Our dear staff member Alisa Z wants to go to camp this summer. By camp, we’re talking about Metal Camp, the music festival in Slovenia, from July 2-8 (www.metalcamp.com). She’s also trying to get to Wacken 2009 (7/30 - 08/01 www.wacken.com), and Summer Breeze (13-15 of August www.summer-breeze.de). Won’t you help her? All you need to do is nothing. Or perhaps just read this notice, and go check out the links to these fun festivals!

Thanks for reading!

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

Hooray! Fan mail!

To: giorgio75@hotmail.com
From: tristan@efsa.ee
Subject: Kudos
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:40:10 +0200

Cheers guys,

I stumbled upon your mag in the net, and couldn't stop reading. Your publication (if you can call it that in the web) is the best, most intelligent, well informed and, best of all, tasteful magazine I have read. I am a music journo in Estonia for a biggest daily, and I writer about absolutely anything, but I've been into metal since I was nine or something.

I am trying to reconnect on a deeper level now and then. Seems like Maelstrom is a good place to do that.
Anyway, keep up the good work, employ all these great writes (I remembered Mladen Skot, Ignacio sth and this Dutch guy called Pal if Im not mistaken), I'll be with you now.

Just tell me, is it only web-based? How often do you refresh the material?

Best regards,

Tristan

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Tristan Priimägi
International Relations
Estonian Film Foundation
Uus 3
10111 Tallinn, Estonia
e-mail: tristan@efsa.ee
phone: +372 627 6068
fax: +372 627 6061
mobile: +372 53 402 010
http://www.efsa.ee

Dear Tristan,

Thanks for writing. I forwarded your email to our staff and I believe you've pumped up a few egos.

We try to make Maelstrom offer as high-quality a coverage as possible of music we're enthusiastic about.

Here's a tip or two. If you like a particular writer's style, you can enter his/her name in the search box, and the engine will display every article that person has written.

Once upon a time, I posted a new issue every other month. Then, for years, it was monthly. Now, I'm too busy with my own music and life, so it's 4 times a year. New issue is coming in early July.

It's only web, but if you want to print out any of the 66 issues, you can click on "complete issue" and then press print.

Pretty cool that you work for a film foundation. What do you do?

thanks for reading!

Roberto Martinelli