Thursday, August 2, 2007

Metal Mania zines 1982-83

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Sorry, No music to upload for you today, as I'm rtraveling and on the road. I did recently recover these Old copies of Metal Mania though, so I thought I'd share them with people.
These were put out by Ron Quintana, and were my bible alongside Maximum Rock n roll, and Suburban Voice in the early 80's. I bought all of these at the Record Vault in S.F. during the hey day of the thrash metal shit that was happening there. The zine was seriously great because it was so rawly put together (copy paste style). Thanks to my buddy Devon for returning this safely to me some 15 years later.

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12 comments:

  1. Great blog and great post..metal mania was one of my favorite zines, though nothing beat KICK ASS magazine, wish i had keep those

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  2. Great blog and great post..metal mania was one of my favorite zines, though nothing beat KICK ASS magazine, wish i had keep those

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  3. Congrats dude, you've been doing a grea job around here. A great fan of yours from Brazil.

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  4. .pdf files of these 'zines would be killer!! nice!

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  5. HEAR HEAR!

    www.punksishippies.com needs them scans!!!

    :)

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  6. Hey, who wants to trade XEROX old zines, please get in touch. I an a collector and get itens from 1989 to 2008;
    Enter in contat with Alexandre
    Dompaganus@Hotmail.com

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  7. That's funny you got those mags. I have about 3 of those collected. I also have a couple of "Whiplash" zines. I know Ron from way back when he used to DJ KUSF - we used to stay up late and listen to the latest metal. That's how I heard about Satan, Mercyful Fate, Jaguar and all those other great bands.

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  8. I'm so fucking gushing all over this, makes me wish I was born 10 years earlier so I could have grown up reading and collecting this stuff.

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  9. late to the plate on this one, however you fanzine hounds may like to peep this:

    http://demolishmag.wordpress.com/category/demolish-issue-1/metal-fanzines-spotlight/

    and this one too:

    http://demolishmag.wordpress.com/category/demolish-issue-1/metal-fanzine-adverts/

    Kinger!

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  10. I got numbers 8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,17,18,20 from my friend Ron Quintana. I keep bugging him about numbers 1-7, he says they are scattered about somewhere, Hahaha

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  11. It looks like I have discovered this amazing post far too late :( ...Is there any chance to have it uploaded again?

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  12. metalmania fanzines are a important part of the american metal scene I have issues 1,2,3,4,8,9,and 12 awesome

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