After all the tedium, idleness and, conversely, mental overheating of the last seven years, the fifth issue of Qvadrivivm magazine has finally been bludgeoned into form. It is a ravishing, wide-ranging take on heavy metal and topics related, written in an erudite style that shuns the typical confines of obsequious fanzine scribbling. Within its 80 economically laid out A4-sized pages, you will find stories with the following classics and rubble:

Bathory (a 12-page monolith of an interview)
Absu
Agalloch
Anathema
Aphotic
Babylon Whores
Beyond Dawn
Dark Suns
Darkthrone
Deicide
Dernière Volonté
Edge of Sanity
Enslaved
Entombed
Esoteric
Green Carnation
Immortal
In the Woods...
Kaamos
Manes
Mayhem
Morbid Angel
My Dying Bride
Novembre
On Thorns I Lay
Opeth
Rotting Christ
Solefald
Steve Stevens
Tiamat
Thine
Ulver
Ved Buens Ende
Watain
Weltschmerz
(plus a throng of other articles)

It is damn near the best printed publication you will ever get for 5EUR (Finland & Europe) or 7EUR/$10 (World) but it wouldn’t be very ignorant of you to miss it. P&P is included in the prices, and payments through Paypal are possible. Trades and wholesale deals are also welcome.

Send your orders and inquiries to:

mikko . kuronen @ gmail . com or
Qvadrivivm magazine
c/o Mikko Kuronen
Sammonkatu 33 A 2
33540 Tampere
FINLAND

this looks most interesting. I would pay for one now but paypal seems to be being most gay, will have to try again later

does look interesting indeed.

payment sent.

Wow, this looks like a beast of a magazine!

First edition sold out, second underway. Copies should be available again from next Wednesday onwards. Reservations are taken in the interim period, so anyone thinking of getting a copy should get in touch. Thank you for the interest.

After thirty days and two presses, about ten items are available straight from the deadquarters. Copies are, will be or have been available also from the following distros, record labels and webstores:

Ahdistuksen Aihio (Finland)
Aurora Borealis (UK)
Black Seed Productions (Spain)
Breath of Pestilence (Finland)
Drakkar Productions (France)
DTD (Finland)
Firebox (Finland)
Frostscald Records (Russia)
Grimface distro (Norway)
Invictus Productions (Ireland)
Levykauppa Äx (Finland)
Nocturnal Woodlands Productions (Finland)
Northern Heritage (Finland)
No Sign of Life (Finland)
Oniric Records (Spain)
Planet Metal Records (USA)
Raging Bloodlust (Germany)
Sentinel Records (Ireland)
Spread Evil (Finland)
Terratur Possessions (Norway)
The End Records (USA)
Ván Records (Germany)
Vuohi-distro (Finland)
Werewolf Records (Finland)

Thank you to any and all interested parties. In part due to the unexpected amount of attention shown on #5, issue vol. 6 is already being planned. Perhaps to the dismay of some, it will mark the end of Qvadrivivm, as decided years ago.

A most enjoyable read, written with a very dark humour!
Thanks.
Geoff

Brilliant magazine, loving its ridiculous anti-commerical status through a something-like 95 page Bathory interview. Excellent stuff, the spirit of independence reigns!

While we're preparing the final issue of this bastard of a zine for a release later this year, we're also doing the democracy of noizy digital noize an unhealthy service by chucking whatever was worthy of attention about the previous Q issues to a blog, ugh. What it has so far are Aube, Einherjer, Fleurety and Shitter Limited interviews from 1999-2001 plus some updates on the forthcoming issue and general information about the zine. This is the start, more to follow.

Check it out if you're OCD enough: http://qvadrivivm.blogspot.com.