Here is issue number two of the early 90s extreme counterculture zine Cyber-Psychos, this one published in 1992 and subtitled "the special theological issue.

Once again, you've got me digging deep into the back alleys of 90s extreme underground counter-culture; I can't stop or slow down my constant addiction to fanzines and DIY publications that showed up way out on the fringes during the decade. A recent coup for me was obtaining nearly the entire (save for issue 3) ten-issue run of this killer Denver-based zine edited and published by the great Jasmine Sailing between 1992 and 2002 (the full title of the zine is Cyber-Psychos And Other Diversities. Although infrequently published - Sailing only averaged one new issue a year during this run - she crammed her zine with a mind-boggling overload of fringe / esoteric / extreme art and culture that just grew fatter and gnarlier with each new issue. You want to see what made yours truly tick during the slacker 90's? Pick up any of these hard-to-find back issues of Cyber-Psychos. These are one of my most cherished new additions to the Crucial Blast library, and each one is a time capsule of frayed nerves, then-cutting-edge-art, occult mania, splatterpunk fiction, and musical violence. One of my few real lifes regrets knows that I never had the chance to submit anything for publication to Cyber-Psychos. It's that rad.

The featured articles in this forty-page issue include more in-depth interviews with occult industrial-rock legends The Electric Hellfire Club (who were an extremely controversial band at the time), a revealing discussion with industrial metal gods Godflesh conducted by Michael Moynihan (Lords Of Chaos, Blood Axis), an interview with Front Line Assembly, and a fascinating talk with experimental voice / electronics / multimedia artist Pamela Z being interviewed by famed cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling and Sailing. There are original fiction pieces from DF Lewis ("War And Peace"), S. Darnbrook Colson ("Midnight Mass"), and Gregory Hyde ("Cold-Hearted Orb") that range from unsettling surrealism to nihilistic neo-noir. Another installment of their underground Colorado column explores The Cuthroat Empire (a pair of psychotronic collage artists and zine makers outta Denver); Bruce Young's "Cybercents" cyberpunk / phreaker column; an article on nomadic tattoo artist Voodoo, and wild original illustrations from Brian Cooper, Alan Smith, Gordon Klock, N.TRO.P, and Kay Cochran. Live reviews of the legendary Crash Worship, along with pages of Cyber-Psychos thoughtful reviews of cult and extreme music, a Michael Moynihan review of live performances from Swans; and reviews of books, zines, underground comics, videocassettes, and bizarre vintage B-films from around the globe. And of course, the regular fiery "Editorial Babble" column from Sailing, which sets the tone for the whole issue. Great stuff. A smattering of underground art, chapbook and music ads fills this out; in addition, there is a copy of an underground comic book The Leather Pope from Father Theresa, who I'm entirely unfamiliar with, but whose work ties together blasphemous imagery, explicit BDSM concepts, and gnarly ultraviolence. This booklet comes attached to the inside of the magazine, easily pulled out by careful staple wrangling.

For what it's worth, there is a drawing of a giant Mantid creature assembling Stonehenge in here that I would really like to get tattooed on my leg.