Salve!

Long time no seen, eh? Ok, you have to understand that I had lots of reasons which caused this (yet one more) delay; such as job, study as well as various personal problems. Just try to excuse me, ok? (this ‘sorry’ mostly goes for those who were interviewed (or whose stuff was reviewed) by me long time ago and published only now.)
Once I hoped that those who helped me to create the former issue will stay in Vae Solis crew further, however, as you see, it didn’t happen. Silvanus is the only one who still stays the true member of our staff. Orkkh disappeared into (alcoholic) oblivion, while Branko Roric could offer only one interview and Lazar was able to contribute few reviews and nothing else. NARGOTROND and I’MMORTAL were interviewed by a friend of mine, HILLITROOT, although he is just a freelance contributor. Moreover, his works won’t appear in the forthcoming issues.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have any time to translate my articles, therefore this volume won’t feature any of them. That’s really sad, indeed, although I hope to place them into the sixth number of my mag. Which, by the way, will contain the inties with such acts as ANARAZEL, AVULSED, BEWITCHED (Chile), CARDIOVASCULAR SUB-HYPOTHERMIA, CENTINEX, DEUTERONOMIUM (interviewing the christian black metal band definitely will be an interesting experience!), ESOTERIC, FATAL INFLUENCE, INCANTATION, INDUNGEON / THY PRIMORDIAL / NIDEN DIV. 187 (this one will be combined), INSANIA, LAMENT, MOONSORROW, NOXIOUS EMOTION, PROPHET, RAVENS OVER GOMORRAH, RESURRECTURIS, SCHOLOMANCE, SEASONS OF THE WOLF, VANAHEIM, VLAD, WINTERNIGHT OVERTURE + Discorporate Music and Repulse Records. I truly hope that this time I will contrive to do everything in few months and release it somewhere in August / September…
But this is what goes for the future deeds of mine. And right now we have the fifth issue which, I hope, is as good as the previous ones. Hence, read and enjoy!

Darkest regards,
Kai Mathias Stalhammar
(editor-in-chief)