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Antocularis was an underground music magazine published between 1991-1993. Originally the interviews contained in Antocularis' issues were intended for other publications that either failed or changed their content focus. Frustrated with trying to freelance the material out to other magazines I started my own project. Each issue of Antocularis took a year or so to put together and publish. With a staff of only myself trying to write articles, conduct interviews, and do all the graphic design it was a tough full time job. Unfortunately after the third issue of Antocularis came out in 1993 I decided to kill the magazine. I became burned out as well as financially drained. It was time to lay the project to rest and move on to other things.

Over the years I kept a few remaining issues safely tucked away like a little time capsule buried deep in my filing cabinet. While my skills back then as a young writer weren't very good and the interviews I conducted could have been better, there's still some pretty cool stuff stashed in those pages. Because these articles never really got the attention they deserved I thought it might be fun to republish them here. For the most part nobody has ever really seen them before. I also would like to share many photographs of bands that I never published anywhere, even in Antocularis. In those cases I had gone out to live shows armed with a press pass and multiple cameras to take shots of groups. The intention was to contact them later on and use those photos in the interviews. For whatever reason, sometimes I never pursued asking for interviews with bands even after I had plenty of pictures to use.

Music has always been a big part of my life. Collecting rare records and researching underground or obscure genres of music consumed a large amount of my time from my high school years to my early 20s. I was particularly fascinated with Industrial Music and culture through the late 1980s. Never hearing anything quite like it before I began searching for more information on where Industrial Music came from and what caused a small but motivated group of people to make it. Everything sort of snowballed from there. I got jobs working for a few zines and managed to freelance a couple of articles out. Encouraged by this I then went to work on other collaborative magazine projects. The scope of my interests broadened to a wider spectrum and I began seeking interviews with music groups from many different genres.

During those years the internet wasn't widely available. Interviews had to be conducted either over the phone or by mail. Over the phone interviews were straightforward to record and generally resulted in more elaboration from those being interviewed. The downside however was that the interview had to be transcribed by hand from audio tape, and then re-written from notes to a computer. This was extremely time consuming. Interviews by mail were much easier to dump into a word processor but there would be weeks or months that went by while lists of questions were sent out and written responses returned. They also usually weren't as detailed or elaborate with answers to interview questions.

With that said, over the coming weeks I will post the bulk of Antocularis articles, unpublished photos, music reviews, and a few stories about what it was like working on this project. To those of you who wander in by accident or stumble across this, I hope you find some of it interesting and entertaining. Enjoy the read.