No Bullshit Webzine is Back From The Dead!

No Bullshit Web Zine is back from the Dead! 

In 2003, when I first released the printed version, it was a mix of typewriter and handwritten cut and paste. At that time, my older sister bought a personal computer, and that's how I started to learn and browse the fucking internet, which amazed me a lot. I remember it was a dial-up thing through a modem, and you needed to load a prepaid internet card to activate the internet connection. I really forgot the brand of that internet card, but they offered free browsing from 12 midnight to 6 am, so I waited for that free service like a nocturnal creature, haha! Only the fucking rich had the DSL connection at that time, and it was very limited in certain areas.

My bandmate Berlin in my defunct punk band AFM taught me how to create an email and browse the internet. afm_120ml@yahoo.com was created, and I am still using it until now. Of corpse, porn comes first! Haha! And since my friend was a punk guy, he introduced me to a website called Punkcore Records. There, I discovered Defiance, The Casualties, Total Chaos, etc. At that time, it was easy to follow the right path of the scene and the underground. You just clicked on their link section, and there you would find a bunch of them.

I discovered local webzines such as Tripalium Zine, Trendcrusher/Underworld Zine, In Dark Purity Zine, Davao Death Metal, Sullen Seed Project, Radiation Area, NoiseAttack Webzine, SRA in Cebu City, Grand Peligro Zine, to name a few. I was amazed! These webzines and bands had a website while I was still just learning how to browse the fucking internet. If "sana all" was already a thing back then, mapapa “sana all” ka! Hahaha! Suddenly, I stumbled upon the Crapsalad Zine site by Sannee. I liked his website because it was very simple and informative. Eventually, I met him at gigs and he created my website. That's how No Bullshit Web Zine was born. After a couple of years, it was re-developed by Michael of the band Watuzi and Buried Undead Creation. Slowly but surely, I learned how to re-edit basic HTML and eventually, learned how to create a website through basic HTML in notepad, just by copying and pasting the HTML codes they created.

Before Myspace existed, bands at that time had websites. The networking was through exchanging links to each other's websites. Some websites had a link banner that looked fucking killer. Do you still remember the "guest book" where you could comment anything? Some webzines had a forum section where metalheads gathered and discussed underground music, scene, and culture. Trades of demos, zines, tapes, and CDs were also common. Remember Yahoo Messenger? It was fucking kickass at that time. I remember interviewing a band live through that platform.

It wasn't easy to create a website before because you had to do it manually through HTML. Unlike today, where you can just paste everything and there you go, you've got a killer one. But the good thing is that there are lots of free web hosting and domains like cjb dot net, dot.tk, etc.

My webzine existed until 2013, it lasted for ten goddamn years. Even with the boom of Myspace, there were still a shitload of webzines and band sites. But then free web hosting shut down because of the rise of social media. So many free web domain webzines, labels, and bands vanished, while some fuckin’ survived because of their paid domains.

I remember back in the day when webzines were often ridiculed by print zinesters. They would say shit like, 'You can't read a webzine or bring that inside the toilet.' But now you can use your fucking phone or tablet to do that.

No Bullshit Web Zine was born in 2003 and died in 2013. The good thing is, I was able to archive all the data files of the website on a CD. I just found it a while back. All the interviews, reviews, and articles were there. Now I'm bringing this bitch back from the dead. Do check out the new site, maybe your band was featured. There are tons of interviews and reviews from local and global bands now online.

I was laughing while reading my old interviews while transferring them to a new site, my line of questioning was really a total fucked up at that time, or maybe until now? Hahaha

I will be uploading new interviews and reviews next update, some reviews in the Reviews section are dead links, I'll fix them soon.

- Corix