Well, here we are. issue #3, and still going strong.

This month, we are very pleased to present to you four band interviews, featuring the French black metal band Antaeus, San Francisco heavy metal opera group Hammers of Misfortune, Tasmanian technical death metal outfit Psycroptic, and endearingly weird dark ambient/concept album project Za Frumi. This is in addition to a good forty reviews, and a new installment of From the Vault.

I am especially pleased with the very quality and rich job ~Vargscarr~ did in covering the Marduk show he attended. The photos and accounts of the set are great. Check 'em out.

We are always looking to expand and improve Maelstrom. For this issue, some logos for our zine have been created by Kris Hammond, and put up as a sort of a gateway page to our site (these have since been removed in favor of our new design. You can still see the old logos in the links page). Thanks, Kris!

We are also hoping to have a section in which we post letters from our readers. So, if you you'd like to start a discussion, or have something nice or not so nice to say about something we wrote, then let us know about it!

I'm about to embark on a major life change. I got accepted to Northwestern University in Chicago, where I will be studying to get a master's degree in broadcast journalism. The first step in the odyssey is to drive there from my home in San Francisco, which will be interesting. While the move to Chicago will undoubtedly bring many new responsibilities, I will continue my commitment to Maelstrom. Please enjoy this third installment of our zine!

- Roberto