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STRYGA printed zine : Black Metal & Art

Stryga features interviews, articles and creations by an international horde of women/queers/hags.

A zine focused on underground black metal, art, culture, dark old school imagery. We have an affinity for Folklore, History, Litterature, Sociology, and other inspiring fields (no NSBM scum).

STRYGA is sold in supports the NGO Abortion Without Borders.

Available for 5€ + shipping worldwide – without tracking

at the distro La Limou’zine. Ask us for international tracking option.

Distros in FRANCE : Paris > MotorBook&PsychoZines. Lyon > La Luttine & Bigout Recs. Clisson > Librairie Villes Invisibles

Where we can, we sell it at free price for broke like us : on hand at french book festivals, at punk distros.

THE ARTIFACT

Stryga is printed on thick recycled paper, in a traditional offset process with a rough black ink. The raw matte finish gives an organic feeling to delight paper fetishists. Written in English.

A5 ♦ 64 pages ♦ recycled heavy paper ♦ Limited to 380 copies ♦ 23 participants

Issue Zero released in the begining of 2022 (edited in 2021)

An independent fanzine to share our passion for black metal, desecrating conservative ideals of purity in this genre, profaning its codes to reclaim its subversive spirit.

» ~~No fun~~, No profit, No ads, No NSBM «

Our pages are mainly devoted to women and queer folks contributions because, in some metal subgenres, most of the medias are run by men who promote their peers, gatekeeping. However, the taste for auditive violence, the unbridled expression of destructive will, dreadful wrath and rough negative art are not the prerogative of some chauvinists.

FEATURING

Interviews : Feminazgûl (US) ♦ Hulder (US/BEL) ♦ Doodswens (NL)

Reviews : Velchans by Uhl (FR) ♦ Ancient womb of Mercury by Fayenne (SWE) ♦ Curse you all men! by Matriarkathum (SWE) …

Article : Non Serviam : On a few shrieking Sisterhood. About Per Faxneld’s study « Satanic Feminism« .

Artworks : Amina Dargham ♦ Chatonpute ♦ Cloporte ♦ Crossspitter ♦ Dhomth ♦ Fève D ♦ Feminihilist ♦ Ikosidio ♦ Kryptorgeist ♦ Lia Vesperale ♦ Maria Viirros ♦ Maud Amoretti ♦ Vetularum

Writings : Grünewald ♦ Isadora ♦ Lucienne ♦ Luna Baruta

Amina Dargham
Chatonpute
Ciuhatlahueliloc ichiuaYo
Cloporte
Crossspitter
Dhomth
Doodswens
Dysthymie

Fève D
Feminazgûl
Feminihilist
Grünewald
Hulder
Ikosidio
Isadora

[ Edition & layout by Vesperale ]

Kryptorgeist
Lia Vesperale
Lucienne
Luna Baruta
Maria Viirros
Maud Amoretti
Tania Giménez
Vetularum

Read our INTERVIEW if you want to learn more about why and how we make this zine

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Issue #0 Summary

SOLIDARITY

Our first issue is raising money for abortion access in Europe.

This is a non-profit zine : we all work unremunerated, even the editor/graphist/publisher.

A part of the sales of the first issue goes to printing costs and distribution fees, the other will be donated to Abortion Without Borders, an initiative of six NGO from european countries, working together to help people access abortions at home with pills or abroad in clinics, while Polish state denies this vital right.

No Fascism / No racism / No homophobia / No transphobia / No sexism

Despite all of our attention, if you find content not in line with that, please inform us.

appel - open call

Open Call to STRYGA

STRYGA is a printed zine about Black Metal, Art & extreme music culture.

Written in english by a horde of hags from all over the world (published by one of them in Lyon, France)

DEADLINE : May, 31th of 2023

Send your work to : feminihil@hotmail(dot)com

WHAT WE PUBLISH ?

INTERVIEW / REVIEW / Live REPORT

Black Metal (No NSBM) / Blackenend punk / blackened Grindcore / Doom / Sludge / Death Metal / & experimental extreme music (violent noise, power electronics).

You can also ask : Booker, producer, tech, radio or label owner personal view of their work, of the scene …

Stryga prioritize projects including POC, women (trans/cis) & non-binary musicians, because we don’t find in other music zines the real diversity of people bringing the underground alive :

There are already plenty of Metal zines talking about white cis men projetcs only, without aknowledging it (so if you think our selection is unfair, the majority of zines selection should also be). Nevertheless, the main criterion is still the music quality or originality regarding the subgenres we chose to promote … and that is subjective as f**k.

FORMAT : Text in open document format (.odt or .word). No more than 2500 words.

Before interviewing a project for Styga, you can ask us to be sure we will publish it [Some cool bands we’d love to promote : Trespasser, Iskra, Nachtlieder, Turia, Illmara, Coltsblood, Völva, Ragana, Taurus, Body Void, Toul en Ihuern, Fayenne, Bismuth, Tridroid Recs … and a lot more !]

CULTURAL ARTICLE

Text about Mythology, Folklore, Sociology, Art history, Geology, Botany, Cinema, Literature, Witchcraft, Dissent … if you can link the subject to Metal culture, its philosophical inspiration, its dark imagery.

FORMAT : Text in open document format (.odt or .word). No more than 2500 words.

ARTWORK

Drawings, photos, engraving in a Black Metal esthetic. We encourage dark art with a high black and white contrast, medieval engraving style, cathartic bestial illustrations, pictures with occult and witchcraft references …

FORMAT : Only black and white pictures in 300 DPI or more (in .JPEG or .TIFF) vertical A5 format (or horizontal A4).

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IMPORTANT

No sexism / No Fascism / No racism / No homophobia / No transphobia.

Our underground scenes are parasitized by mainstream conservative standards : don’t let them spread.

Contact us if you’re not sure your project fits in the guidelines ! feminihil[at]hotmail[dot]com

STRYGA is a non-profit publishing : the sales contribute to the printing costs and the rest goes in support to activist organizations for human right (our first issue supported the NGO Abortion without Borders). We offer a copy of Stryga to each selected contributor we publish.