This fanzine (to be contacted in Las Pinas, in the Manila area) was started in the late 80s by Noel/Emmanuel Francia a.k.a. Noel Punxia (plus some other people). His college-friend Regie Pablo was his full-time zine-partner for #4/5 to #8. Their aim was to feature their favourite local & foreign HC/punk bands. It was cut & paste style, photocopied and communication went through snail mail… There were ten issues before it went online in 2000…
Some bands featured: ‘Instigators’, ‘Decadence Within’, ‘7 Minutes Of Nausea’ (#5); ‘Disorder’, ‘Portobello Bones’ (Fra), ‘Spinners’ (Tur), ‘Care Bears’ (Fra), ‘Valse Triste’ (Fin) (#8). Never seen any of these. Noel donated the interviews below: #6 (1990) had interviews with Philippino bands ‘Intoxication Of Violence’ & ‘Dead Ends’, and ‘Chimica Katalypa’ (Gre), ‘Cowboy Killers’, etc.; there was also an article on world-starvation and scene-reports (Holland & Scotland).
Noel also ran a non-profit distribution (Mutilated News distribution; duplicated tapes of mostly classic foreign punk, HC, oi, ska and crust taken from imported material); that developed into the Mutilated Noise recs (label/shop).
Regie did volunteer work for several indigenous tribes and he’s also a mountaineer (a.o. Mount Everest).
Brob
The printed version ran from 1988 to 2000 and featured underground hardcore, punk, crust, thrash bands from the Philippines & the rest of the world. We did 10 issues (bands, scene-reports, political rants and reviews). Our scene was really isolated back then, in the pre-internet era…
Noel Francia
‘Dead Ends‘ (punk; Malabon, Manilla/Quezon area) were: Jay Dimalanta (bass; R.I.P.), Al(fredo) Dimalanta (vocals/guitar), Rouen Pascual/ Harley Alarcon/ Bong Montojo (drums) & Lourd De Veyra (guitar).
‘Intoxication Of Violence’ (HC/thrash; Manila): Xeres Anicete (vocals), Gerri ‘Bagets’ Dueñas (guitar; Blatant Underground zine; R.I.P.), Radzon Medina (bass) & Ruben Querubin jr. (drums).
Brob Tilt's zine-world 2 