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EDITORS LETTER

This was the month when everything

went insane. South Africa, California, Florida,
Manchester and London. We had photo shoots,
saw mountain bikers, got blown away by skaters
and scared/impressed by MMA fighters.
Then we remembered it all had to actually go in
that magazine thingy we do in our spare time.
The normal stresses that come with putting the
magazine together started and everything was
moving along fine. Then the newsflash that some
madman had done something crazy and terrible
in London came on.
That put everyone in a pretty sad mood here
at Front and, Im sure, across the country. But
the way the media covered it took it to all new
levels of hysteria. The guy is a lunatic, but not an
invading army. You have to wonder what the suits
running the countrys press are up to sometimes.
Anyway, in true Front fashion, theres a story about
the refugee crisis right next to our Agony Aunt
talking about butt plugs this month.
Some of us are puking up or passed out on page
114. Some of us are playing old school extreme
sports video games on page 78. And some
of us are calling Katie Price a slag on page 80
something.
We hope you enjoy this edition of Front and,
of course, our thoughts are with the families
affected in late March.

RYAN CHILD
FRONT MAGAZINE EDITOR
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98 MY INK
Eliza Winn loves Front Magazine
and Dave Grohl, shes also up for
risking her life just for a
little swim!
75 EXTREME MOVIES
Decapitations are just for starters
in this very course menu of the
most extreme films of all time.
18 DRUNKEN VOLUNTEERS
AND DRUG
DEALER REFUGEES
We went off to northern France
to see what all the fuss was about
near the Jungle in Calais. Turns
out its not what it seems.
114 MATE IN A STATE
Your favourite alcohol-related
passing out feature returns.
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33 FRONTS STREET ARTIST
Our writer Tori Scholes is a big fan
of this months street artist
Kimmybeatbox. Its pretty
obvious why.
26 WARBRINGER INTERVIEW
We go deep into the thrash metal
bands song writing process, as
well as finding out all that other
stuff you want to know.
30 MUSINK FESTIVAL
Our heavy drinking foreign
correspondent tries to remember
Travis Barkers seminal Socal
festival. It was last week...
24 REVIEWS
Deez Nuts, No Sin Evades His
Gaze and 3teeth all get the Front
treatment from Sophie Maughan.
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33 ALT GIRL
Sometimes Alt Girls need to enjoy
the countryside too. So off we
went outside with our t-shirts
and shorts.
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Front took the big show to
Manchester this month, hanging
out on the roof and trying to
act cool.
36 GIRLS OF INSTAGRAM
Nobody moans about being given
this job each month. Yea, we paid
someone to do this. Unbelievable.
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Sam Reynolds and the Darkfest
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60 KELLY HART INTERVIEW
The Expedition skater talks about
how skating is getting back to
basics and THAT treflip with our
man in America.
44 UFC LONDON
Luke Byron reports from UFC
London, along with an interview
with headline fighter Jimi Manuwa
the week before.
51 PAUL DALEY INTERVIEW
The Bellator fighter doesnt rate
MVP or the UFC, and isnt worried
about his next opponent either
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104 BRAND KNEW
We invited brands over to the
Manchester shoot, with some
exclusive Front Girl pics and the
lowdown from Imfawni.
106 SPLASH YOUR CASH
More stuff you probably dont
need but definitely should have.
94 TATTOO SUBMISSIONS
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Hi Ryan,
Me and my mates saw a guy with a
Front T-shirt on with loads of models
walking around in Manchester last
week. What were you doing in my
neck of the woods. Was it you?
Logan, Manchester

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Morning Logan,
They were having a photo shoot and
I was eating pizza.
You can find some of the pictures at
Frontmagazine.co and also in
this magazine.
If it looks like theres a useless
person not doing much, thats me.
Cheers
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By RC

F
rom the sea,
aboard theSpirit of
Burgundy,Calais is
brutalist Berlin of the
Cold War, split and sectioned by

i s m o r e e x t reme aggressive razor wire fences.

Nothing f u g e e c r i s i s at Thick white smoke pours out

r e
than the . So Front decided
over industrial factories and
contaminated water. The boat

t h e m o m e n t k e a l o o k at i t i n
chugs into port and France pulls

t o g o a n d ta a n c e .
us in. From the railroad tracks,
migrants look out to the channel,

northern Fr
drawn to the light of paradise.
Its just the white cliffs of Dover,
though, reflecting the same light
they have in northern France.

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 FRONTLINE

FROTHING AT THE PROVERBIAL Its embarrassing. Both groups do

Paradise in England is a dream sold
by gangsters and smugglers, who
headlock vulnerable migrants up
through authoritarian Turkey, through
austerity Greece and nationalist
Hungary, running past the Balkans and
into Schengen. Following the whispers
to Paradiso Brittania, the secret land
behind the fence.
The biggest secret we faced was
finding the donation warehouse in
Calais, which was a mystery that took
2 hours to unlock and finished with a
quick realisation that nothing in this
migrant fiasco is what it seems. It
didnt help I was still hungover. Walking
around softer than a peach in whiskey.
Some of the volunteers were going
on about the over politicizing of
the migrant crisis. How much of the
security measures - riot vans on every
corner, A4 paper warnings from the
UK border force before leaving - are
just governments playing politics. Yet
when I informed one volunteer that we
were registered with Help Refugees
she sneered, Oh those guys, thats a
shame.
Her group, Utopia 56, founded in
Brittany, runs in quasi-competition with
Help Refugees, creating a party political
chasm that gets young idealistic
women frothing at the proverbial.
fantastic work, however, and the divide
is superficial in reality. But its there
nonetheless. Everyone is friendly.
Some have come to help, others to be
helped. Many are high, some are drunk.
Everyone is loaded with something.
The warehouse itself is an amazing
example of the resourcefulness of the
volunteers who have shaped it. There
are shelves specifically for yeast and
marzipan, with colourful signs directing
people to the right sections. Clothes
are painstakingly separated, food is
stored regimentally and the Asda-
car-park-sized building is instantly
impressive.

TRAVELLER SITE
The LAuburge/Free Refugees
warehouse is a traveller site tucked
away next to some industrial units in
Calais. Caravans and fires and the smell
of overused spices. Its Mad Maxs idea
of Glastonbury festival, with shoulder
padded freaks floating aimlessly
around the subject of their lives.
We unloaded our donations, No
pasta, please, with the help of
volunteers with good and bad teeth,
with overfed and lean stomachs. They
are a tribe not unlike the Kurds that
live in the refugee camps. Many feel
persecuted at home. They talk about
the police states they have left. So
they moved to Calais, the most heavily
policed city in Western Europe. Its
all classic bullshit. Behind all the new
age bravado is a need to be helped.
Me and my mate felt the same as the
hangovers hit peak deep sigh.

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 WAITING FOR A SAGE
Outside, a forklift is accidentally
reversed into a pallet of wood as we
waited for a man called Sage who
never turned up. Luckily, the non-herb
named Henry White was on hand. He
was in charge of supplying and sorting
firewood for the Jungle Camp before
it was torn down.
It was so stressful, he said. Just
trying to make sure you prioritise
women and children, so they have the
firewood they need. But at the same
time Ive got people shouting at me,
telling me they need more wood.
Henry is heading home back to his
mums house in Somerset.
Ill have to find a job at some point,
he said.
TIME TO GO
After eating some donated coffee
with donated milk and a few donated
biscuits, the two of us in our van and
hangovers left for the Grand Synthe
Camp 30km away. The volunteers
waved and said thanks for the canvas
and wood and we headed off, east
across the A16 and its Disney-Giant like
pylons attacking the serene flatness,
mainlining south to the France you see
on postcards. We were in human power
country, where metal makes energy and
the water cries.
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DARKNESS IN CAMP
In 30 minutes we slipped off the
motorway and into the camp. Police
in 6 foot 5 inch bodies looked down
on us as we bumbled through the
gates. Grainy men kicked comets
through the fading light. Fires made
from plastic coughed black from the
concrete, circled by tracksuits and no
sleep.
This place is darkness, man, Alex
said.
Running the camp construction
was Ono, half French, half Japanese,
full on wonder. His teeth were white
and he smiled a lot. Things became
brighter. He showed us around the
camp, which holds 1,500 migrants, penchant for hair gel and a touch of
officially, although the real number is
definitely higher.
Nobody can admit this, though,
because 1,500 is the current limit set
by the national government alongside
a list of other requirements, including
building regulations and fire safety.
Dunkirks Mayor, the Green Partys
Damien Careme, defied the government
by committing more than a million
Euros to help Medicines Sans Frontiers
build the camp.
Despite this effort, there are still
thousands of refugees in the area living
in the forests of Belgium and also
further south, on the streets of Paris.
The next day: Refugee Cricket
A man and his wife look like Tibetans.
Crimson cheeks and skin like caramel.
They leave the camp and collect their
twigs and branches from the woodland
nearby. Their fire burns the same as
it does in northern Afghanistan, but
it cracks into a smaller sky. A toddler
leaves its mother and points at some
blue wellies in the back of our van.
Next door a doctor in a bright white
T-shirt wears an uncertain smile and
blue jeans. He walked from Iraq. We
pulled out some cricket bats and
laughed and bowled. He couldnt hit a
barn door. He lives in a 2.5 x 4m shed.
As we played a generator ticked over,
feeding into a pair of hair clippers. The
male grooming here is impressive.
The Kurds are known for their
Brut. Huge blue letters, PKK, shine
in blue glossy paint on the back of
a shed, while Ahmed contours his
friends seagull of an eyebrow.
The doctor balloons an ugly slog
sweep into the air, watching on as it
drops beautifully over deep square leg
for four runs. He throws up his hands
like any other man with any other bat
anywhere else in the world.
The Doctors name was Talan.
Another Piss Up
That second night we drank strong
beer in the Family Bar in Calais with
a table full of other volunteers. A
table full of white twentysomethings. I
wonder how many facebook likes this
trip will get us all, combined. Im not
sure if it was the beer that made me
vomit.
Cynicism is a mood. The toddler
greeted us with a smile in the
morning, kicking around with
his new blue wellies. A grizzled
Syrian Kurd had taken over the
Bike Repair Shop, helping a
teenage boy fix his red Raleigh
racer. Along the gravel and dust
we listen to broken English from a
man dressed in black, pinching his
floppy hat, squinting into the sun.
He showed us how to build
prefabricated extensions, which
are then fixed to the sheds as
porches. Then off he went, rotating
in another roll-up.
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PEOPLE SMUGGLERS
Inside the sheds, eyes stare out from
everywhere.
Eight, maybe ten people. They are
tired from the night before, their
energy spent on trying to get into
England. One boy walks out on
crutches.
The police hit me and beat my
friend, he said. They spray us with gas
and hit us. His face is animated and far
older than his body will probably ever
be.
Next door, theres no answer. We
decide to build anyway. The boy
on crutches tries to light a fire and
watches us. Then from the corner of an
eye, or wherever he normally lurks, a
heavy set bald Kurd appeared.
You make good on that, yes, he
said, sneering through golden incisors.
I have big family and need space.
His bright white Nike Air Maxs flash
the sun and spark the fire. Or maybe it
was his gold necklace and watch, both
strangling a jungle of black body hair.
You help my friend as well, he said, OLD FAKE SHOES
removing a padlock from the next shed At Grand Synthe they use old This is another universe we live in,
along. shoes to make it look like people are where the volunteers, including myself,
Why is it padlocked? I asked. staying in the cabin. Then they offer are here because its a kind of hub of
I keep it safe from the gang-stars. newcomers a key to their new home. human activity, he said.
The obvious truth is that hes a people The going rate is 2000 Euros, which Something is happening thats more
trafficker. I wanted to punch him. rises if the shed has a shiny new porch interesting than many other places.
built by idiots. Thats why I came for a weekend. Six
Its excruciating at first. But then months bloody laterPlus you cant
you realise this is the world we live in. trust any media to show you what its
Vulnerable people get exploited. Other actually like.
vulnerable people, namely volunteers, Talan, the low order batsman doctor,
are the ones who offer help. came to sit by us.
And everyone else just gets on Its you that wants? he said, looking
with reading the Guardian. Armchair at me.
outrage. At least right wingers are Me matey, the scotsman said.
getting on with spreading lies and What have you got left
hatred. They lent into each other and looked
into that middle distance under the
table, where all good drug deals
FUNNY DEAL happen.
From about midday to 3pm It cost you 30 Euro
volunteers in old burger vans serve Ive got 20 pal.
up food to everyone on the camp. 20?
Mountains of chick peas, salad and 20.
curried vegetables. Ok.
On our last day in the camp I sat at Ok.
one of the pub benches eating alone. And there it was. A volunteer buying
A Scottish man with bright white weed from a refugee.
tombstone teeth and long black hair Nothing in this migrant crisis makes
sat opposite me. any sense. Not to someone from the
I wondered why he was here. bubble beyond.

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REVIEWED

NO SIN EVADES HIS GAZE

ENDLESSD ISCONNECT
Record Union

WIt takes an exceptional talent to stand

out from the ever-increasing over-rans
within an oversaturated scene. And with
a slew of high-profile appearances at
UK Tech-Metal Festival, with Bloodstock
and Euroblast already under their
young belts, the smart money is on Brit
prog-metal upstarts No Sin Evades His
Gaze to leap off the precipice into tech
greatness. If 2014sAge of Sedationwas
a statement of voracious intent,
sophomore effortEndless Disconnectis
indicative of a band who have
delivered on their earlier potential.
Theres a newfound sense of
maturity to the albums ten tracks,
but at no point do the four-piece
compromise on blistering power.
Melding intoxicating Eastern-tinged
melodies and polyrhythmic wizardry,
its impossible not to be mesmerized
by the cinematic title track, whilst the
likes ofHeavy DaysandIf Only To
Fallhighlight vocalist James Dentons
innateability to veer seamlessly
between guttural barks and searing
cleans the latter of which may
induce unnatural states of euphoria.
Sledgehammer riffs permeate
through the blackened core of current
singleDoomsday Generation, and
there are sufficient grime-ridden
breakdowns elsewhere to thrill the
most ardent of pit-ragingmetalheads.
Beautiful bursts of proggy noodling
sit alongside immense down-tuned
grooves, not to mention the glorious
curveball that isFeels A Lot Like
Hell which proves to be the musical
antithesis of its moniker. Harnessing
focus and ferocity in equal measure,
2017 promises to be a year of endless
possibilities for these guys.

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OPHIE MAUGHAN HAS ROOTED AROUND THE FRONT WORLD FOR A
FEW NEW ALBUMS WORTH REVIEWING THIS MONTH. AND, WHILE
SHE WAS FEVERISHLY WORKING HERSELF INTO THE GROUND, WE
SENT CORY OVER TO ORANGE COUNTRY TO DRINK ALL THE BEER HE COULD
GET HIS HANDS ON AT MUSINK. SORRY SOPHIE, WELL MAKE IT UP TO YOU !
THERES ALSO AN INTERVIEW TUCKED UP IN FRONTS MUSIC CORNER WITH
WARBRINGER, THE THRASH METAL BAND YOU PROBABLY DONT LISTEN TO
WHEN YOURE FALLING ASLEEP. ENJOY FRONTIERS !
REVIEWED
3TEETH
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EXE>
OMF Records
With one foot planted in the gritty
depths of 90s industrial and the other
reaching towards an experimental future,
LAs 3TEETH are gearing up to hack
into your consciousness and install their
own brand of creative anarchy with
sophomore full-length<shutdown.exe>.
With thirteen tracks sounding like the
bastard spawn ofToo Dark Park-era
Skinny Puppy and Ministry, the four-
piece deliver the kind of vicious grooves
and teutonic swagger guaranteed to
have genre aficionados frothing from
every orifice. Chilling, Eastern-inspired
chants give way to an explosion of
N blackened noise and distorted vocals
CAPTIO ASE on openerDivine Weapon, whilst the
RE PL E
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REVIEWED
DEEZ NUTS
BINGE &
PURGATORY
Century Media
Once upon a time, people would be
quick to dismiss Deez Nuts as credible
musicians based purely on that comical
moniker along with their reputation as
being a party band - the exact type of
misconceptions that give adage to the
phrase dont judge a book by its cover.
With four ARIA-charting records and a
worldwide tour already under their belts,
the Aussie-American hardcore bruisers
have been melting faces - from New York
MUSIC
coursing through current anthem-
cum-singleAtrophyandVoicelesswill
hypnotise and horrify in equal measure.
Scathing social commentaries and the
bands signature sound collide as vocalist
Alexis Mincolla rages against the machine
onDegrade; but its the hulking dirge
ofSlaveGod all post-apocalyptic synths,
sampling and sense-withering chaos
that truly assaults the senses. With their
ever-increasing notoriety, not to mention
a handpicked support slot on alt-rock
behemoths Tools 2016 US tour already in
the bag - watch this space. 3TEETH have
arrived and they look certain to inject
that potency back into the scene.
to New South Wales - since 2007.
Dont be fooled by the calm
atmospherics of instrumental
openerBinge what follows suit is a
thirty-minute no-holds-barred blitzkrieg
of unbridled swagger. From the riff-
soakedCommas & Zerosto the shit-
kicking, Grade A brutality ofLessons
Learned, these tracks come in hard; yet
for all their raging aggression, the Nuts
arent short on melodies and pummelling
grooves. Owing as much to Pantera as it
does Refused,Binge & Purgatoryis the
perfect choice to transform any bedroom
into a thrashing pit. The quartet might
not be breaking new ground with album
number five, but its omnipresent white-
hot fury is well worth celebrating.
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Hi There Kevill !
Hi Rob!
I saw you guys all the way back in
2009 supporting Evile at a venue in
Leeds, UK and remember it being a
crazy show! How do you feel you have
come along since then?
I remember that tour, good fellas, Evile. We
have come along almost every way since then
with all kinds of ups and downs but Im glad
to say we are going strong currently, full of
fury and riffs.
Have you had any favourite bands
you have played with over the years?
Many favourite bands--too many to name.
Kreator, Exodus, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, are
some of my favourite bands weve played
with. From our own scene and age I have to
mention bands I am great friends with like
Exmortus, Havok and Vektor.
Wow thats some list. So how about
a band youve never played with. Can
choose any era but have to name the
venue.
Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell era. Since
place is unrestricted and Ronnie James Dio is
around, it would be held in a castle.
As a teen I was a huge Megadeth
fan and they have had big influence
on me like many people out there!
Growing up who did you listen to
religiously.
Black Sabbath was my first big love in music,
but around that time much classic-era hard
rock was (and still is) a big part of my musical
taste. Zep, Floyd, Purple, Lizzy, Rainbow, etc.
Some of those I got into later than others. Iron
Maiden was a band that when I first found I
listened to little else for damn near a year, as I
just gobbled up all of their albums.
Back in 2013 you celebrated the
release of Warbringer IV: Empires
Collapse, which was your fourth
album! After that release and touring
cycle, did you find it easy breaking
into the writing phase for your next
album Woe to the Vanquished?
Oh man, the phase between these records

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TRACK: DIVINITY OF FLESH
My own secular humanitarian philosophy (Carl
Sagan is the man). Talks about how the power
of flesh-meaning humanity- is that though we
die as individuals, our works, knowledge, and
ideas can outlive us. Each generation builds
on the last, and we have come so far.
I believe the next era will be for humans to
journey beyond this world and achieve the
true destiny which all other human lives have
led us to.
The end of the song has my own personal
touch to this- it ends with the My words
will live on! line. I got chills while we were
recording that, as those very words are now
recorded and will live on when I am dead.
Powerful stuff for me, and a lot of the reason
I am so drawn to make music, that people
who have and will never met me may know
something of me, my life, and ideas. May my
offerings be worthy.
was rough. In short- the band imploded at
the end of recording Empires Collapse (fitting
title oddly) and I had to reconstruct it twice
during the phase of 2014-2016. During 2016
is when work began in earnest on Woe to the
Vanquished but I had so many ideas that had
been floating around in my head for so long
that I was just bursting with inspiration for this
one.
Looking back, do you feel the band
has matured in sound since your last
release and how do you anticipate
the fans will receive your new slab
of tasty thrash metal! Can we expect
it to be like your previous albums or
something completely different?
I think it is a significantly refined and
expanded version of what the band has
offered before. The basic thought process
TRACK: WHEN THE GUNS FELL SILENT
The armistice of 1918, the end of World War
1. This whole era has a really soul-crushing
theme to it, of gallant soldiers who were cut
down in the millions by devastating industrial
firepower. And yet, on they fought. In a sad
and paradoxical way, the honour and resolve
of the two armies condemned them to suffer
and bleed, as so many would not have died
had the lines on either side broken. I wanted
a song suitable to this epic and monolithic
subject, and this is what we made.
TRACK: SOME FUN TRIVIA
FRONT READERS?
The narration in the beginning is me speaking,
it is a quote from a poem Prelude: The
Troops from British warrior-poet Siegfried
Sassoon. The We are the Guns section is
paraphrased and set to music from another
piece of WW1 literature- Gilbert Frankau,
The Voice of the Guns. Lastly, the song
runs11:11in length, and the titular event
happened at11:00 AMonNovember
the 11th. Got to put in so much cool
easter egg stuff in this song.
was to continue some of the progressive and
melodic elements on Empires Collapse, but
to put it all together with the sheer ferocity
of the first two albums. The album is a total
bullet to the face, but it is a very meticulously-
crafted one that I think will reveal much with
multiple listens.
Woe to the Vanquished has a grand
total of 8 glorious tracks with some
pretty awesome names! Can you tell
us about your favourite songs off the
album and how they were named?
Thanks! I think names and lyrics are important
and Ive grown a lot as a writer over our
career. Ill explain a few for you once you have
the other answers you need.
Ok great. You will be heading out
this spring hitting the UK and much
of Europe supporting the awesome
MUSIC
TRACK: SILHOUETTES
This was the first single, and first song
concept for the record. Atomic bombs
have a really terrifying detail about them
(as if they arent scary enough) where
victims hit directly by the blast will have
their bodies completely vaporized, but
their shadow burned into the ground or
wall behind them. The song takes place in
a future where this has happened, and the
souls of all the millions of future dead are
trapped in those shadows. They look back
at us today who could bring about peace
but did not, and point an accusing finger,
What have you done?
Creepy, chilling stuff, I think. Had to write
this song, part of the motivation behind
the record.
Havok, along with Gorod and
Exmortus! How excited are you for
this tour and are you hitting up any
places you havent played before?
I think weve been everywhere on tour, or
damn near. Warbringer is a well-travelled
band.
But yes! This tour will rule. Havok and
Exmortus are dudes we already know well,
we all started around the same time and were
aware of each others bands before any of us
had records or anything. I am looking forward
to meeting Gorod . Great lineup and pure
fucking metal.
Finally is there anything else you
would love to tell our wonderful
FRONT readers?
Thanks for reading! Check out the new
Warbringer record Woe to the Vanquished,
and be sure to play at deafening volumes. See
you guys out on the road! Keep it heavy my
friends
Cheers! - Kevill
SEE THIS SUMMER WARBRINGER !!
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 SUICIDE SILENCE SMASH SET
IN RUSSIA, EVERYONE LAUGHS
Apart from not taking into account the sound
of a noose creaking, suicide silence have
made some pretty bad faux pas
recently. Well, it wasnt all their
fault. It was a fan, after all, that ARE YOU HAVING
FUN YET?
said this about the deathcore
bands new music. NO! !
NOOOO AY!
Nickelbacks new track NO W
is heavier. 0!
NO000
This is why you remind me
of a really fun-ny fan.
(Sing in appropriate tune).

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SMASH TIME
So then, after all that,
they go and smash
a set up in Russia
because theyre Im
hard Bruce Lee.
Check the video out
over at frontmagazine.co. Cmon,
laugh with us. Then lock your doors.

E
SUICIDESILENC
FACEBOOK: @ IDESILENCE
IC
TWITTER: @SU E
: @ SUICIDESILENC
INSTAGRAM

BITCHFEST
Then vocalist Eddie Hermida decided to call
his contemporary over at Thy Art is Murder a
sellout. Now, we arent going to be the judge
of sellouts over here at Chox backpacks
favourite magazine, but he got some pretty
hard shots for saying those words. Luckily he
was on hand to fire straight back.
Every shot that tries to get fired at me just
makes me a stronger person, he said, crying
into a gallon of cookie dough, slowly turning
down David Grey down to hear the cute bit
with Hugh Grant at the end of Love Actually.
Deathcore baby, yea !

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 ile ry
Ba Co
y
By
F r o n t L iv e at M u s in k
h o s t e d b y T r a v is B a r k
er
O r a n g e C o u n t y, C a li fo
r n ia
M a r c h 1 9 ,2 0 1 7

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 MUSIC

L et me start out by saying I wish I

wouldve attended all three days of
Musink. However, after how crazy just
that Sunday was, I honestly dont think I
could have handled it.
Musink is a three-day tattoo convention,
car show and concert series in Orange
County, CA. The lineup for this madness
was intense. Featuring Punkrock legends
like NOFX, The Used, Bad Religion and
IMAGE CREDIT: www.elo7.com, Metro.co.uk
with some old friends from BlackFlys and
Sullen Clothing. Brands Front has a lot of
time for, especially after what happened
next.
First of all, these guys like to party just as
much as we do. Second of all, because
we arrived on the last day our VIP
bracelets had somehow become useless.
Third of all, Jeremy Hanna, co-owner at
Sullen, hooked us up with free drinks all

Pennywise. day and the real VIP treatment.

Our adventure started with my friend And fourth of all, that made us nearly
Holly. Who is my driver for events, as useless as the bracelets in a few solid
normally because Im hammered hours of drinking.
throughout.
First stop inside was the
Famous Stars and Straps/
Tribal Streetwear Slow n
Low Car Show. These cars
are amazing and its crazy
how much work goes into
making them. Everything from
the paint and chrome to the
upholstery and ashtrays is
given a ridiculous amount of
attention.
So its not exactly surprising
that the owners arent letting
them go for less than $60k, with
some as much as $125K.

FREE DRINKS ALL DAY

We had arrived early that day
so took the time to meet up

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IMAGE CREDIT: sullentv
TATTOOS
Luckily the artist talent on show was just
about the opposite of useless, with Jack
Rudy, Nikko Hurtado, Big Gus, Bob Tyrell
all hard at work. Ok, so opposite
of useless is the understatement of the
year. Those guys are stupidly talented.
By 2pm the place was crawling with
spectators and revellers to the point you
really couldnt even walk the inside of the
convention. So we headed outside to see
our good friends at The Body Art Bus
before their appointments filled all the
way up.
They told us about a second bus,
which is an unbelievable, state of the art
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tattoo shop on wheels.
Trust us when we say we are going to
start doing FRONT events in Southern
California, and the Body Art Bus will be
FRONT and centre.
PENNYWISE
After that it was back to the bar for some
more drinks before we headed up to
take the stage again, only this time it was
full backstage access for Pennywise. As
always they put on one hell of a show to
what had to be more than 2,000 people,
all crammed into an indoor/outdoor
venue.
If you have never been in front of a
crowd that size, lets just say its fucking
amazing. And yea, I stood there and just
pretended I was in the band.
The show went off without a hitch and
ended with what looked like 100 people
on stage singing along to Pennywises
infamous Bro Hymn.
BAD RELIGION
Backstage, Bad Religion were getting
ready, so I grabbed another beer and
enjoyed the BBQ. Fuck, this is a difficult
job sometimes.
Being backstage was an experience in
itself but you really dont get the full
experience of the show, so we decided
to take full advantage of the VIP area for
the finale.
Bad Religion just absolutely killed it. I
havent seen them perform since I was a
teenager during the palladium days and
the show has only got better over the
years.
Musink was one of those shows where
if you know, then you just know. A blast
from the past hosted by the brilliant
Travis Barker.
See you next year everyone. Now can
someone pass me a beer?
 MUSIC

WHAT?
Shes been beatboxing
for nearly five years now,
which started off as a
party trick.

WHERE?
On the streets of
Manchester, Liverpool
and London.

MULAH?
On average she makes
between 40-225
an hour. (Who did this
average?)
She gathers inspiration
FACEBOOK for new sounds from
@kimmybeatbox everyday life.

TWITTER WORST DAY?

@KIMMYbeatbox A group of kids in
Liverpool egged her while
INSTAGRAM she was busking on a
@kimmybeatbox Saturday night.

street artists
By Tori
Scholes

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 Geeks and
Because sometimes
theres fun outside
of the magic box.

EXPLODING KITTENS GLOOMHAVEN

Welcome to the brilliantly drawn We keep hearing about the Kickstarter
world of cat-based Russian roulette, beast of 2017, a game with more
where only diffuser cards stop you twists and turns in its fantasy world
from being blown up. There is also than James Mcavoys most recent
a NSFW version which makes this personality. Unlike a lot of other card
game even better. Mainly because and dice dungeon crawler games, you
the cards are funny, illustrated really can actually get Gloomhaven done in
well by Oatmeal, and basically make less than 10 years. About an hour and a
you laugh while hoping not to get half actually. So theres huge scope for
ripped into tiny little kitten pieces. getting to know the different scenarios,
EDITORS characters and distant lands. Is it
INSANE CLOWN PICK completely fantasy geeky? Yes. Is that
PRESIDENT
WE DO NOT WANTITTOH
actually pretty sick if its raining and
By Matt Taibbi youre bored of getting lost searching
Everyone is already bored of reading BE ASSOCIATED W! through Netflix? Yes, yes it is. Will need
and hearing and talking about the THAT LUNATIC friends though...
Donald. But then not everyone is
looking in the right places. And
Matt Taibbis brain is the right place,
just in case you were wondering
where we were going with that. The
Rolling Stone contributing editor
starts us back at the beginning of
the campaign trail, when old thick
mop was a still just a reality star
shouting nonsense. You know, before
he became El Presidente of the free
world. Shouting nonsense. The big
thing about this book is the context.
Of how nobody saw what was
coming. Even on the night of the
election. Trump was never going to
be president. It wasnt possible. The
fact he did is still confusing for a lot
of people but Taibbi does a good
job of explaining why, using real
facts. Pretty SAD, really, but worth a
read if youre completely Pathetic
and Boring.

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 @TheofficialKittyCrystal
Whats the most extreme
thing you have ever
done?
I once rode a childs
tricycle down the middle
of Hollywood Boulevard
at 3 am topless!

Craziest thing youve

said to get a guy/girl?
Craziest thing is
absolutely nothing. Just
took him home and he
stayed for week. I didnt
@TheofficialKittyCrystal

even know his name till

day 3! ??

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@littleinkeddreamer
Something Extreme?
The most extreme thing
Ive ever done for a guy
was get his name tattooed
on me! Yes, Im one of
those people lol but I did
get it very small! The most
extreme thing Ive ever
said was I love you I think muse
thats about as extreme as @daedra
it gets.

@Daedramuse
Whats the most extreme thing you
have ever done?
Id say the most extreme thing Ive
@littleinkeddreamer

ever done is parasailed over 100ft in

the air above an estuary in the outer
banks NC.

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to help

@leila_rose_
Favourite thing on four wheels? elucy
e t t y l it t l
My favourite thing on four wheels @ m is s p r
was just recently sold ::majorsadface::
it was a black 67 Chevy II (box nova)
powered by a 434 small block Chevy
on nitrous that was also owned by Ed @missprettylittlelucy
the GTO owner and driven by Joe. Favourite thing on four wheels?
We just didnt have enough time to Definitely my favourite thing on 4
run both cars so its in Chicago now at wheels is a quad bike.
its hopefully forever home. We have a Most extreme thing youve ever
lot of winners circle pics with it from done?
events weve won, and I even got to Well when I was younger I got both
line Joe up at the starting line a few my collarbones pierced and I tattooed
times for some races #crewchiefwas myself with a needle and Indian Ink, it
I love you I think thats about as was the powerpuff which later I got
extreme as it gets. redone..

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 @bitterbrue
@BitterBrue
Whats the most extreme
thing you have ever done?
When my closest friend invited
me to move to another country,
with him, I just packed my bags
and left that same week. It was
the best decision in my life. I
fell hopelessly in love with the
place, the people, the country
and the person I became
here. I became a backpacker,
a nude model, a gamer;
things I always wanted but
was too afraid to try
Craziest thing youve said to
get a guy/girl?
When my best friend started
in photography I knew I had my
chance to fulfill my two fantasies;
to have sex with him and to have
photos of me having sex. The problem
was how to approach it. So, I told him
that I loved his photos (which I do)
and just wanted to be captured by
his camera in my most lewd and sexy
facet. He agreed, and it was one of my
best experiences ever!

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@xocloe

@xocloe
Whats the most extreme
thing you have ever done?
Probably the time I walked
along the edge of a cliff 80ft
above the ground just to get
the perfect Instagram picture.

Craziest thing youve said to

get a guy/girl?
Ive never had to say
anything too crazy to get
someone I want; I usually let
them come to me instead.
Ive heard some pretty
crazy things before from
guys trying to get my
attention though!

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 JIMI MANUWA:
PREPARING FOR UFC LONDON
Luke Byron talks to Jimi Manuwa before UFC London.

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YAHTZE

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 SPORT

RESISTING THE UFC

Just two years later and still yet to hear the
final bell of a contest, the UFC would come
calling for Manuwa.
The biggest MMA promotion in the world
didnt get the answer they expected.
Id only been training two years, I was the

N
ine years ago, a 28 year old
Jimi Manuwa went to see a
Cage Rage show in London
and wasnt impressed, in his own
words he thought I could
do better.
As an avid fan of the UFC already, the
inspiration from the Cage Rage show was all
the Londoner needed to get him into training.
Two weeks later he fought and won his first
fight. The rest is history he said.
number one in Britain, but I knew I was still
learning, he said. Id seen a lot of British
fighters go into the UFC and get chewed
up and spat back out because they
werent ready.
A year later the UFC came calling again.
They got the same answer.
Finally, in 2012 he accepted the UFCs
advances, content that he was ready for the
rise in competition.
I was 13-0 with 12 KOs. I always knew that
with my knockout record and with the way I
fight, that eventually the UFC would be back.
he said.
Manuwa would set the UFC alight in his first
3 performances, recording 3 knockouts and
making waves in the division.
Then there was the loss to Alexander
Gustafsson in London.
It goes to show that Im a true warrior,
he said in a reflective mood. It was a great
night in my hometown, but at the time I just
wasnt ready for him, but I didnt know that. I
did a few things wrong and a few things right,
but thats just how fighting goes.
Manuwa said he took a lot away from that
fight, which is demonstrated by the fact he
now trains with Gustafsson at the AllStar Gym
I can finish any fighter on the planet,
not many can take what Ive got to give,
Manuwa said.
So the big question is if the American
Corey overtime Anderson can make the
Londoner come unstuck on home turf.
The winner of Ultimate Fighter 19 arrives
in England with outstanding wrestling
credentials and an all business style.
Manuwa, though, seems relaxed, ready to
fight again where he feels most comfortable.
This is a knockout machine that gets
homesick training away from his kids, even
more motivated when hes defending the
place they live.
Even now in Stockholm, its a beautiful
city but I miss home a lot, I really miss my
kids, he said. I love fighting in the UK,
people say you have to go to America and
fight, but I dont really give a shit.

IMAGE CREDIT: Photo Credit: Cage Warriors / Dolly Clew.

in Sweden.
That loss did me a lot of good, he said.
And it did. His next fight was a unanimous
decision victory against Jan Blachowicz,
setting up a bout with Anthony Rumble
Johnson.
Cue the second loss and more
development, more learning, and, scarily for
the rest of the division, more power.
From the Rumble fight, I realised I can be
a lot more powerful, he said. Were the two
hardest hitters in the division and I came in
too small, all this time Ive been too small.
Manuwa now describes himself as a static
puncher-finisher rather than a mover.
And as the bright lights hit Manchester for
Michael Bispings first title defence against
Dan Henderson, Manuwa was the chief
support, knocking out Ovince Saint Preux in
vicious fashion. Saint Preaux had just gone
five rounds with Jon Jones.

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F
or those of you that didnt
know yet, Jimi Manuwa
knocked Cory Anderson
out with a precise, almost surgical
left hook at UFC London. Making a
prophet of himself, He cant handle
what Ive got, and a mockery of his
doubters. But among the London
crowd, buzzing with a sense of
collective achievement, there was
also a sense of sadness.
Another native, from the east of the city, had
gone. Brad Pickett was defeated by Marlon
Vera and father time, knocked out by a
head kick The younger me would have
chewed up.
It was true. But there was the problem.
Pickett fought like the younger him when a
more tactical approach would have seen him
win. Again and again he charged forward,
boxing inside with that street fighter
elegance he has always had. He was
ahead with the judges after two
rounds. But in the third and
final still he came forward,
eventually walking into a
sharp, practical head kick.
DESPITE THE BLURRED
HINDSIGHT, WE SHOULDNT
HAVE EXPECTED
ANYTHING LESS.
A tactical, tentative strategy wouldnt have
been true to Picketts legacy. This is the
man they call one punch, who walked out
to the Octagon holding a newspaper and
wearing his trademark trilby, tears rolling
down his face. He was here to put on a show.
The hometown kid saying one final goodbye.
After the fight Vera spent his entire victory
speech talking about Pickett, with a mention
also for his ill daughter for whom he fights.
Everyone has a story in this game. So as one
finishes another starts.
LONDON
ARNOLD ALLEN
This young Englishman can expect a strong
following in his career if he keeps fighting
and talking the way he did at UFC London.
I owe my girlfriend at least a weeks worth
of loving, he said after the fight, sending
the crowd into raptures.
The victory that set up the punchline was
extremely impressive, not least because his
opponent Makwan Amirkhani had a terrific
amount of Finnish support behind him. Hes
also a hugely underrated fighter.
The bout itself was technically excellent,
with the type of groundwork, countering
and constant place changing that makes for
engaging fare. None of that cage leaning
slouching you often get with middle skilled
heavyweights. By the end Allen probably
took the victory on account of his more
frequent takedowns, but Amirkhani will be
back and avoided by many.
UFC London was a night full of the type of
narratives the UFC brand has become so
good at writing, with retiring greats, talented
prospects and knockout masters all
sticking to their iconic, intriguing and
explosive scripts.
TA
AAAAR
SPAAAA
 D O N
SPORT

U F C L O N
02 Arena London
March 18th, 2017
Marc Diakieses knockout of Teemu Packalen
arguably stole the show on Saturday night.
The Brit came out quickly, he missed a
spinning kick by an inch and then landed a
spinning back kick to the body. This prompted
? something out of a horror film but it was
Following his explosive knockout win,
Manuwa called out the winner of Johnson and
Cormier at UFC 210, David Haye when his leg
gets put back together, and later had
some harsh words for Jon Jones in the
post-fight press conference. Its near
certain that Jones will get the first shot
at the winner of the belt at UFC 210. If
the winner of Johnson and Cormier is out
for a while, then Manuwa could potentially
face Jones in the comeback, if not then
a top 5 contender is likely before a title shot.
the Finnish Lightweight to push forwards
before Diakiese nearly took his head off with
a brutal one punch knockout that brought the
arena to its feet and sent a message to the
rest of the division. (Below)
LINA LANSBERG V
LUCIE PUDILOVA.
After losing the first two
rounds and being behind
on the scorecards, Lucie
Pudilova went into the final round
knowing that she had to produce something
spectacular. She nearly did just that, Pudilova
did all but stop Lansberg in the final round as
she butchered her with elbows in the clinch
and a variety of kicks and punches elsewhere
in the round. Lansberg was left looking like
a really dramatic start to an excellent card.
Lansberg scraped through the contest on the
basis of her work in the first 2 rounds and
went to 2-0 against Pudilova.
After fighting Cyborg in her
previous fight, its not been an
easy start in the UFC for Lina.

WHAT NEXT FOR

GUNNAR NELSON?
After a stellar performance at UFC London, in
which Nelson submitted Jouban in the second
round. The SBG Ireland stablemate should get
a tougher test up next. Coach John Kavanagh
has called for a Karate faceoff against
Wonderboy but its unlikely the pair will fight
next. Nelson was ranked at 9 going into the
contest and so will have risen by the time
the next sets are completed. A fight against
similarly ranked Neil Magny, Dong Hyun Kim
or even Donald Cerrone would make a lot of
sense next.

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CAGE WAR
WARRIORS
BRAD WHEELER V WARREN KEE
The chief support on the night didnt
disappoint, with Wheeler combining a perfect
mix of aggression and technique as he
stopped Kee in the second round. This fight
stood out for me because of how quickly it
started. Wheeler stormed in and backed his
IMAGE CREDIT: Photo Credit: Cage Warriors / Dxxxxxxxx
man up against the fence with a flurry
of strikes.
Then Kee proved just how tough he was and
came back swinging. The fight continued
largely back and forth with Wheeler just about
getting the better of the exchanges. Early in
the second round, Wheeler backed Kee up
once again and this time landed a brutal body
shot to sink his man into the canvas, before
landing another strike to end it all. It was a
really great performance and got Wheeler
back to winning ways.
CHRIS AMOUSSOU V NIC INMAN
Chris came in with a clear game plan.
Blitz Nic into the cage and work in
takedowns as soon as possible. It worked
a treat in the early rounds, with a bit of
ground and pound thrown in for good
measure.
CAGE WARRIORS
BAD BLOOD
Following a tense face off, concluding with
the pair refusing to touch gloves, Inman opted
to begin tentatively, throwing kicks from
the outside, whereas Amoussou was able to
establish an early jab and continually cracked
the Brit on the nose.
After measuring his opponent for long enough,
Amoussou launched a devastating right hand
that dropped Inman to the canvas. Referee
Marc Goddard had seen enough, and called a
stop to the action following the pressure the
Frenchman had piled on with ground strikes.
The bout ended at the 3:13 mark of Round
One and thus continued Amoussous streak
of not entering the second round in over two
years.
AMOUSSOU MAY HAVE TO WAIT?
With the UFC currently hosting a stacked
Welterweight division, its hard to see the
bright lights coming calling for Amoussou in
the near future; The likes of Maia, Masvidal,
Lawler, Diaz, Nelson, Cerrone and Kim are all
plying for the big fights in the division and so
youd imagine theyll keep each other busy for
a while.
But if the Frenchman can keep winning,
and almost more importantly keep looking
impressive, then Dana and the UFC will come
calling eventually and continue the long list
of fighters who have made the leap from
Cage Warriors Gold to trading leather on the
big stage. Cage Warriors are returning to the
O2 Arena on June 2nd and Im expecting
Amoussou to be defending his new title.
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PAUL DALEY
BY SAM VICKERY
INTERVIEW
O
nMay 19thBellator MMA makes
its return to London Wembley
Arena. The main event will pit
British MMA legend Paul Semtex
Daley against Rory The Red King
MacDonald. A huge Welterweight
affair with definite implications for
a title shot. The bout is particularly
intriguing as it will be MacDonalds
first appearance post UFC, where
he was ranked number two in the
organisation.
A massive coup for Bellator it might
be, but Paul Daley wants to spoil
Macdonalds party. I recently sat down
with Paul to discuss the upcoming fight
and his thoughts on why Bellator is
better than the UFC. A little MVP shit
talking is also thrown in for
good measure.
SPORT
So first things first, Rory MacDonald is a
well rounded, versatile and gritty fighter.
HOW WILL DALEY DEAL WITH THAT?
Its going to be a hard fight, he said.
If I land a clean shot on him hes going
to be knocked out, its as simple as that
Thats just the truth.
Is he not concerned about MacDonald
potentially using his strong wrestling and
taking the fight to the canvas?
Maybe hell try and do that, maybe he
wont. Ive done it all, faced every type of
opponentso it doesnt matter to me.
The man they call Semtex, with a
combined 43 knockouts in 55 MMA
bouts and 21 Kickboxing bouts, seems
confident and relaxed, but will need all of
his experience to prove the bookmakers
wrong.
Ive got such a laid back attitude
I dont care if Im the favourite or the
underdog, he said. I believe in my ability
and I believe I can knock anybody out,
and so well see what happens on the
night.
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SO IF HE WERE TO WIN THIS FIGHT,
WHATS NEXT
Definitely the rematch with Lima, he
says, without hesitation.
Douglas Lima is the current Bellator
170 champ.
I mention to Paul that Michael Venom
Page (MVP) wants him after the
MacDonald fight. Does he want
that fight?
Nah, MVP isnt even in my next 4 fights
in all honesty. For me hes got a lot more
to prove yet, hes been fighting old men
and people that nobody has ever
heard of.
Maybe they should put him in there
with someone with a bit of experience
who is still able to get in and out of the
bath without help.
Daley doesnt stop at calling MVP
overrated and his fans deluded.
People are urging me just to bang him
out now, Daley said. If I can squeeze him
in between big marquees or champions
or former champions that I want to fight,
then Ill put him in there, but otherwise its
not a fight that will happen.
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NICK DIAZ
RORY
MACDONALD
BELLATOR OVER UFC
So why does Daley believe people
should be watching Bellator over UFC? MICHAEL
Everything you know. The freedoms VENOM PAGE
you have, everyone is an individual. You
look at the UFC, guys walking in and
theyve got all the same Reebok shit on
and nobody has their own character. At
Bellator everyone is their own person,
Tito still came out in his flame shorts,
weve got all our sponsors and come out HANG ON. RETIREMENT?
to fireworks. I want to retire when Im 35. By that
time I would have been doing this 15
AND WHAT ABOUT FIREWORKS years non-stop and so it would be about
INSIDE THE OCTAGON? time to chill out for a while.
Its massively more entertaining, even In the MMA game 35 is still a relatively
from the fans viewpoint, therere more young age to retire.
fun match ups because they match well.
They match to entertain. They (Bellator) WOULD THERE BE A FIGHT HE WOULD
make the fights the fans want to see RECONSIDER HIS DECISION FOR?
rather than make fights that advance the Well, there is one fight I would
guy that gets the most viewing figures. definitely take if it came up as it would
be a big money fight, and that would
WOULD DALEY EVER ENTERTAIN A be the Nick Diaz rematch. I would get
RETURN TO UFC? in shape for that fight. Why not?
Not unless it happens in the next 18
months, because in the next 18 months
I want to be hanging my gloves up,
concentrating full time on my gym,
running that as a business and maybe
putting out a few fighters.
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 K a y
Pos s i b l e
A So what's the fuck up Kay you blazed
or what?
It's my day off work and I'm high af.

Glad you took time from your daily to

chill with me. What's new in the life of
Kay Possible, besides 15 hrs of tending
bar last night (Brutal)?
I do it every Sunday. It's not that bad
really. It's not like doing 15hrs behind a
desk although,
I've stopped drinking for "lent" so
maybe it is like being behind a desk. I miss
whiskey.

So you are Catholic? What is that like

40 days of no whiskey? I praise you ..... I
can't do it!
I was raised Catholic. I love the idea. But I
am by no means a Catholic. The stories in
the bible are amazing to read.
"Lent" was an excuse for me to do this.
And it's all booze dude. Not just whiskey.
I particularly miss drinking whiskey
because it is my holy water. ???? I have 4
weeks and 2 days left.

Well I give you mad props either way!

So what's the deal with skating?
Do you collect, ride or what? Our
riders (Readers) wanna know!
Well I used to skate a ton more
when I was a teenager. My first
deck was a hook-ups board. So
back in 1998-99 I was skating at
the Brooklyn Banks and Tony
Hawk was there filming a video.
It was cool. So far I've met two
out of my top 3. I still ride around
to this day. I have a fun skate
shoot booked with Steve Prue-
topless skating with my dog pulling
me around. I collect by proxy.

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Who's your top 3?

I got a little side tracked; weed will
do that to you especially when
you're hungry. Met Daewon, That
was cool and very recent. Last
summer in Tompkins Square Park.
So all that's left is Rodney Mullen.

That's pretty sick! So what do you

have coming up for shoot's any St.
Patrick's Day naughtiness?
Nah I don't do shit like that.
Themed holiday shoots make me
awkward. I have some shoots in the
mix, it's just sorting out the details.
I'm also waiting on my gym body
to spring.

I think it already sprung! Which

brings me to my next question?
What's the craziest thing you ever
said to get a guy?
This is a huge time travel..
I don't think I've ever had to say
anything crazy? That or I can't
remember. But I was a Dominatrix
for a while...

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Oh that's a story for another time..... stay

tuned folks! Thank you for spending your
day off with me and we will def get that in
another feature. You rock Kay!
Thanks so much for having me. I wanna
give love to my girls in

Tattoos where and why?

I pick artists whose work speaks to me.
It doesn't necessarily mean anything. Well,
there's one swallow bird tattoo which
represents a drunken time in Magaluf.

@LADIESOFMETAL!

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I
left for Tampa on February 28th,
flying the red eye flight. Everything
was good, had a few beers before
I boarded the plane. It was 12:15 am and
I remember that shit because we were just
getting ready to take off when the pilot
announced that we had to turn back!
A PASSENGER WAS HAVING A
HEART ATTACK!
That shit delayed us another 45 min. Turns
out all this mayhem caused me to miss my
connecting flight in Miami. Seeing I now had
an 8 hour layover, I did what any normal
person would do...I drank my ass off in Miami!
Now if you read my Tampa AM article from
the Christmas issue youre gonna see a
pattern here.
INTO FLORIDA
Finally made it into beautiful Tampa, Florida
where my great friend and fellow deviant,
John Montessi, scooped me up for some
much needed R&R before heading out for
dinner and drinks in Ybor.
WEDNESDAY
Woke up early and headed out to Skatepark
of Tampa for some serious park sessions with
the fellas. Also grabbed my all access bands.
The sessions were fire and we worked up an
appetite for some late night parties! So with
that in mind we got cleaned up and headed
out, only to find police absolutely everywhere.
WE TOOK A DETOUR ONLY TO
GET STOPPED ANYWAY.
Turns out there was a shooting, poor sap.
Not trying to mess around and kill our mood
for the night, we headed to the bar with the
homies for a long night of drinking. Nothing
beats a night out with friends and serious
intoxication! As you know, FRONT readers.
FINAL POSITIONS
THURSDAY
Up and early for another
beautiful day. Left the
hotel and hit the Uber
to this amazing house
John Montessi rented for the
week. It was super nice (who writes this shit?).
Anyway, we hung out, opened a few cold
ones and chilled, smoking this place out! John
had to take off and grab Tyrone Olson from
the airport...Thats when the party got started!
After a few more rounds at the rented crib
we headed out for a night on the town. Last
call at the Chop House, yeah we got bounced.
It happens.
FRIDAY
Tyron and I hit the Uber for SpotTampa,
getting some practice runs in before the
competition. All the homies were just killing
it! Everything was kosher as fuck when some
kid who didnt belong on the course shot his
board right into me, causing a broken BIG
toe!
Made the rest of the jam and the contest
hard as hell to skate.
Still, managed to finish the day and get
back to, hey youre catching along, DRINKING!
So we headed to the crib for some much
needed partying with good people.
We hit the crib, got cleaned up and headed
for dinner at the Shrimp Company. I dont like
seafood so I ate a lousy hamburger.
Luckily, the house was lit with the whole
crew when we got back. Too many names
to drop but I def remember Chris Joslin,
Nick Matlin, Jake Wooten, Torey Pudwill, Eric
Dressen, Wes Kremer, TJ Rodgers, Tom Asta
and more.
Like I said, the place was lit!
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SATURDAY
Contest pre-qualifier time.
There is just so much amazing skating that
takes place inside Skatepark of Tampa.
Everyone was just dropping hammers.
The scene was intense and filled with pure
laughter.
Skateboarding is the only competition
activity where no matter who you are, you are
a brother. Everyone cheers for you even more
when there are 30 skaters from all over the
world competing for only 10 spots.
CONVERSE JAM
Day turned to night and the Converse Jam
was starting. Converse built these insane
plexi-extensions and if that isnt enough, they
lit that shit on fire!
Big ups to Charlie Blair for destroying it as
always. And also Even Smith with his band
and Ray Barbee all providing some killer
tunes for the night. As the night winded
down we headed out to some Columbian
restaurant. This place was awesome! The
dancers, the food and the vibe just presented
an amazing experience.
SUNDAY
Hectic skating all the way around.
Everyone was on point and the course was
full of sweat and fire as the top skaters from
around the world sought out to be Tampa Pro
2017. In the end there could only be 1 winner.
Congratulations to Louie Lopez for taking
the title.
It was an amazing trip and the Tampa
experience is always the best. Once again if
you havent been, you need to hop a flight
and enjoy all that Skatepark of Tampa has to
offer!
Huge shout out to FRONT Magazine for
all the love and support. John Montessi for
always taking care of me. Brian Schafer, Gabe
Clement and of course Westside Skateshop.
Nothing but love for Explosive Industries for
sponsoring my trip, you guys ROCK!
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Our man in America GrindThis caught up with Legendary skateborder
Kelly Hart to talk about Expedition, treflipping the Macabre Gap and how
skateboarding is going back to basics.
Thanks for taking time to sit with us
at Agenda.
Totally rad to be here.
Lets start off with Expedition
Skateboards. Whats the difference
between when you left and came
back?
Nothing was wrong with Expedition when
I left, it was more that it just had a different
vision. So then I just went out and had fun
skating without the pressure until Troy Morgan
hit me up again. He said Why dont you come
in here and bring Expedition back the way you
and I envisioned it?
So thats what Im here to do, bring it back
with the clean, athletic look and feel that
Expedition is really all about.
WHATS THE DEAL WITH KAYO AND
EVERYONE LEAVING?
The brands are re-branding themselves and
finding their own styles and going again.
Stevie is still holding it down for DGK and the
riders are still sick. They are just doing what
we are. Finding themselves and bringing it
back to basics. The organic way.
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INSIDE LOOK
One of my riders, Dave wanted to
So getting back onto four wheels,
how did it feel doing the treflip at
the Macbre Gap?
I dont know, that was a funny one. I was
just skating one day with a bunch of friends
and I remember Ruben Garcia had nollie
hardflipped off of it. That was the first time
I had seen it. It looked like a lot of fun. But
no one really skated it and the the filmer/
photographer said: It doesnt look that cool,
I dont know if we are gonna film it.
So I had to wait for my friend Derrick to film
me and it has become my most talked about
trick. To think they thought it was gonna be
stupid (laughs).
You know there was a kid that
tre flipped the gap to land into a
nocomply 180.
Really? The thing I love about skating is
that people will bring their own style into it.
Everyone does the same thing but they add
their own twists to it. It makes it awesome.
know how the hell you kept a straight
face during the SLS (Street League
of Skateboarding) commercial? How
many takes was that?
(Laughs, very loudly) You know it was kinda
funny, they were like this is what you gotta
say. It was my first time rehearsing lines
since like grade school plays. You know what I
mean? Can I ask if I add my own lines? It was
actually easy.
I was surrounded by all my friends doing
the filming and recording. It was fun and
I actually liked acting. They put me in this
scenario with a dope house filled with
killer stuff.
Did you actually win the
Rolls Royce?
Yeah, that was sick!
I have been in and out of skating
since 1981 and dont follow the whole
circuit like these kids today in the last
10 years. You used to have to sit on
a clip forever. How has that changed
for you? If you dont get the film or
photo out, you will get snaked on that
trick or spot.
(Pierre Andre (Owner of Sole Tech)
jumps in to say hello.)
Personally I would just post them immediately
after doing them. I might save certain things
but like I said before I dont care if anyone
does the same trick. Not to say Im gonna go
do someones trick.
I havent had a photo in a magazine for

awhile. If Im gonna have a sequence or ad
in a magazine, I will hold on to that footage.
Some filmers dont get paid for the footage.
Thats what Im getting at, what
happens to them?
I was filming basically in 2016 with this
(Shows iPhone), thats it. One of my boys is
the best iPhone filmer I have ever seen. We
go out and just have fun! The only way I
thought Skateboarding is ever gonna grow
is if skateboarders have fun. Skateboarding
got really serious for awhile. It was about
whos in the mags and whos progressing.
Lets Talk about the Nine Club? I
love that show! We wanna know
about the button, did you get
suckered in and stuck with
the button?
Im not suckered into nothing, I think
its cool!
Well it seems like Chris Roberts
dogged you a little bit on the show?
Hell we dog each other, its just how we are.
We have been friends a long time. I was
always there and lived there. All the guests
would be talking to me. The button is so
that people can hear me in the conversation.
Theres only one episode I didnt
watch and that was the Lil Wayne
episode. Just not a fan of him
in skateboarding.
That one is cool though. Its one of my
favorites. The cool thing with Lil Wayne is
that, I look at it from his world. He came in
and we talked about skating and he was
all into it! He had a perspective that was so
into skateboarding that I was like, this
is dope.
Did his music move you into
skateboarding?
His music influenced me to go skate. I
started listening to him when I was 18 and
Im 32 now (Josh Kings, pops in and says If
it wasnt for LilWayne I wouldnt be skating.).
That dude.... when he eats shit, he gets up
and starts skating again. After every show
hes out skating.
Whats the next move for
Expedition?
Im so stoked on whats going on. New
graphics are so dope, the people working
there are just killer and I have a new squad of
young rippers that are tearing it up. Im now
in a new position to mentor these kids and
help them out promoting the brand. Maybe
make a career out of skateboarding.
There are so many different types of
skateboarding now that you can exist in. 10
years ago if youre not in magazines or videos,
you dont exist. Now with social media anyone
can bring their own fashion into it and exist
in skateboarding. They can grow their own
audience. Thats whats so awesome about
skateboarding!
Just look at Welcome Skateboards (Already
one of my favourite brands) they are killing
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it right now. They are so unique and they
brought different things to skateboarding and
they are having fun! Ryan Lay is on there and
one of my favorite skaters, totally ripping it.
Ryan Townly, they have a certain style that is
so different people can associate with it.
What is Expeditions style or look
compared to other brands?
Expedition is more of a clean athletic style.
Its fun to watch. Im not saying Im fun to
watch, the brand is clean and fresh to watch.
Not trying to put us in a category but we
would fit more with the athletic feel. We are
bringing back polos and nicer t-shirts and
chinos. Its a Nautica, Tommy look
for skateboarding.
Last question, who do you think will
win Trick of the Year with SLS?
Kyle Walker (50-50 grind the kinked rail)
Im gonna say if every person at Agenda tried
that trick, 99% of them would really
hurt themselves. I think thats the most
Insane trick.
Thanks for chilling with me and Josh
Kings for Front Magazine Kelly.....
Time to get drunk with BlackFlys.
Thanks for the good times!
By the time you are reading this...... Kelly called
it! Kyle Walker took the cheese at SLS 2016
Trick of the Year. Congrats to Kyle Walker and
that fresh triple set kink! You earned it!
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Photo: N. Torres

L
ate last year, under the cover
of dawn, a lone figure ghosted
into the Garden Route Trail Park
and left with blood on its teeth. Before
the kill it had stopped, hearing music,
pricking its ears, listening as another
beast stirred in the mountains. Pure
Darkness fell.
An hour later and the leopard had gone. So
had the farmers Great Dane. But the music
hadnt. Further up the track, in a big shared
house, Sam Reynolds stirred a big pot of
coffee and decided to cut the music. It was
time to go to work.
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By Ryan Child
INSIDE LOOK
THE LOOP OF DOOM
Fast forward a few weeks and Darkfest is one
week away. The rain is pouring. Matt Macduff,
a Canadian rider, shovels his feet through the
muddy course.
So this is the Loop of Doom, he says,
pointing to a mad max, 40ft structure of
wood and bolts. Its the biggest loop de loop
in the world and it almost killed me. He also
built it, which gives you an idea of the people
we are dealing with here.
Macduff was helped in the construction
by carpenter Marshal Marc-Andre Lucat as
well as a former movie set builder, the aptly
named Gunter Brainstorm. Together, the three
of them set on an engineering mission that
lasted a month. It was supposed to last two
weeks. To say there was pressure on Macduff,
that evening a year ago when he hit the loop,
would be an understatement.
The almost evangelical apostle to the
mountain bike gods took too much speed
with him that night, and was slingshotted
back the way he came, falling from the
highest point. His wrist and ankle were
smashed to pieces. So was the dream. To
some anyway.
But to think that would be to misinterpret
what the Pure Darkness guys are about. This
is legacy, and Macduff will be back.
I dont want to be some Mountain biker that
doesnt have an impact on the sport, he said.
Ive learnt so much from this, and Ill be back
on my bike again soon.

SAM REYNOLDS
While Macduff is the loop specialist, Sam
Reynolds is the chief instigator. A softly
spoken professional Freeride mountain biker
with a slightly sadistic side.
To see the gnarliest riders in the world kind
of crawling at the top of the roll in tower
we built shows you just how crazy it is, he
said, laughing. But obviously we arent here
to hurt anyone. Theres nothing better than
having that scared feeling in your stomach,
for sure thats why we do it.
Reynolds has been building this place for
three years now, with help pulled in this year
from Nico Vink and Clemens Kaudela. All
three of them painstakingly building with
heavy, blunt diggers, creating jumps where
one, fine inch can mean success or failure.
We built this because nobody else in the
world is building jumps as big as we want
them, Reynolds said. Understated and
modest, he forgets to mention the incredible
amount of work he and his team have put in.
Digging, raking and shovelling, reshaping a
few acres of land in the Barrington hills for
their riding pleasure.
SO WHAT HAVE THEY
BUILT EXACTLY?
The step up has a 35ft lip that sends riders
flying 60ft in the air. Thats two yellow school
buses stacked longways.
And then theres the biggest Rollin Tower in
the world, a six storey building riders attack
this incredible and unique set of jumps from.
One of those jumps is the Stepdown, which
catapults riders So high on takeoff and
so low on landing, that its probably the
gnarliest jump here.
We just thought fuck it, Reynolds says,
laughing again. Lets build a huge tower
and then build the jumps from there. And its
about giving something back. To the legends
we grew up watching and also to the young
kids that are really impressing me.
One of those young kids is 19 year old Adolf
Silva, the man one camera guy said was so
fucking crazy I would be scared if he wasnt
so fucking good as well.
Yea, Silva says. I like to do crazy stuff, but
mainly I want to do different stuff. Go big and,
yea, be doing different stuff.
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TRIPLE BACKFLIP
On the final day of Darkfest he did just that,
attempting the first ever triple backflip
again and again and again. The other riders,
crowded behind the step up muttered
technical changes he could make, wide eyed,
like football players discussing the best way
to score an overhead kick from the opposite
end of the pitch. You cant imagine its
possible, but it just takes one visionary to pull
it off.
Silva never landed it, but that doesnt mean
he wont. This is a guy who woke up one
morning, walked into the shared house living
room with his parachute on and told everyone
he was jumping out of the chopper. There was
no chopper. There was a parachute though.
And its this kind of thing that goes best to
defining not just Reynolds, Silva or Macduff,
but the whole crew of riders here.
They see things from a different perspective,
that the right answer isnt always the best one.
Maybe thats because theyre visionaries, or
maybe its just because they spend so much
of their time upside down.
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MONET ROSE ADAMS
At the bottom of the Rollin Tower, a bearded
guy started rushing around. Who is that at
the top? he said, pulling his facial hair out. I
dont recognise that helmet, is it just a local?
They shouldnt be up there its dangerous.
The unidentified rider steadied themselves
and raced down without trouble. One of the
other riders calmed the beard down. Its
Monet dude. Shes all good.
After she dropped down the 67 ft, almost
vertical ramp, she took a few obligatory high
fives and walked back up towards the big
Monster truck.
I knew I had to do it before I left, she said. I
would have been gutted if I hadnt.
Adams is a sponsored rider and the only
woman riding at Darkfest.
Does she feel a level of responsibility?
In a way, she said. But not to the point
where Ive actually thought about it without
you saying it. I was inspired by women in
other action sports so I suppose if I can, in
some way, do that as well then thats good.
Its worth saying here that Adams was
modest in the extreme, and probably felt
more comfortable hurtling at speed than
talking about herself as a role model.
I do think its important though, she said.
But I have a lot more I want to do in the
sport before I start talking about being an
inspiration to other girls.
She went on to talk about the fine balance
between having an equal ride for men and
women and understanding the differences.
If you wont hit a trail because youre
worried about being caught up, but you
are complaining about not being treated
as equally as the boys, then somethings
obviously wrong there.
Personally, Im just pushing myself as hard as
I can and seeing how far I can go, she said.
And the last time we checked that was full
speed down the biggest Rollin Tower in
the world.

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H
aving had a ten year career
as a Glamour model, Im
no stranger to the action
sports world, so when
Front told me this issue was all about
that, I racked my brains for what I
could write about this month.
Then I thought why not take you
down memory lane with me, as pretty
much most of my career highlights in
modelling have had something
to do with some kind of extreme/
action sport!

My Maxpower days are still some of my

Winning the last EVER nuts bikini
competition at surfing festival
Boardmasters....Far out duuuuude!!
fondest memories, being on the road
with them was amazing and I loved
dragging randoms up on stage to play
weird and pretty fucked up games
with us!

Then there was being a ring girl

for The Bamma fight between Tom
Watson & Alex Reid.

recently Ive worked with Arena Cross, a

Being taken for a drive round the
Silverstone circuit with the Touring car
world champion for the racing sponsors
Mountune.
live motor cross show, watching it blew
my mind, how they have the stomach
to do all those air flips and jumping off
their bikes mid air and landing back on
them I have no idea!! I got a tight chest
just watching them!! I became the place car model at my
But I first fell in love with pretty local meet in St.Day Cornwall until I
mental sports when I started watching was 18 which led me to modelling at
banger racing- Bet your werent Autosports and the rest as they say
expecting that !! is History!!

Two years ago when I went to

interview Dan Bilzerian, he flew me
out in his private jet and his pilot let
me flip the plane 360 - Id say to this
date thats still the most thrilling thing
I SAID HUMA
Ive done!! N
CENTIPEDE
GARY

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 FASHION
BY ANDREW MARSHALL. @SEM IPROGEEK

THE
E D G E OF
DECENCY

A lot of cinema is
made as pure
entertainment, but
occasionally films are
made to push the
boundaries of what might
be deemed acceptable,
sometimes presenting wild
rides of implausible histrionics,
other times plunging to the lower
limits of what people are capable of.
Presented here for your reading
EXTREME
pleasure is an international assortment
of films that, one way or another,
take things to the extreme.
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Ricky is a young man sent to prison in a
corporation-controlled future, but the system
will soon realise it has taken on more than
it can handle. A practitioner of energy
channelling art Quigong, Ricky is a living
weapon possessed of superhuman strength
and a near immunity to pain, and can dish out
even more punishment than he can take.
NAILS IMPALING FACES, HEADS TORN
BY RAZORS, AND A BODY MINCED IN A
MEAT GRINDER
Hong Kong action movies are renowned for
their lack of plausibility, but Riki-Oh stands
out as a result of its supremely gory and
hyper-stylised violence realised by painfully
obvious props work. As well as Ricky regularly
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punching straight through the bodies of his
enemies with blood and bone bursting out of
them in gory explosions of viscera, the film is
peppered with such sights as decapitations,
dismemberments, nails impaling faces, heads
torn by razors, and a climactic bloodbath of an
entire body being minced from the feet up in
an industrial meat grinder.
HE TIES HIS TENDONS BACK TOGETHER
WITH HIS TEETH
In one of the most infamous scenes where
Ricky faces a powerful knife-fighter, after
having the tendons and veins in his arm
severed he simply ties them back together
with his hand and teeth, before smashing
his opponent on the back of the head,
whereupon his eye flies right out of its socket
and is immediately set upon by crows. After
disembowelling himself in a botched attempt
to commit hara-kiri, he attempts to strangle
Ricky with his intestines, and is then finally
finished off with a punch that shatters his skull,
complete with an X-ray shot demonstrating it.
Riki-Oh thrives on the same kind of brazen
depravity that makes the early works of Peter
Jackson and Sam Raimi such demented fun,
but dialled up to eleven and every minute of it
an experience of raucous joy.
ETS
TRE HT
CKS
BA K, ALRIG
BAC
After the pregnant fiance of intelligence
agent Kim is brutally murdered by serial
killer Jang, he devotes all the resources
and sanity at his disposal to hunt down
the murderer and subject him to a fitting
revenge.
A SWIFT DEATH IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH
A frequent theme of vengeance thrillers
is the suggestion that pursuing a path of
retribution pushes you towards becoming
that which you hate, but I Saw the Devil
takes this to a different extreme. Although
Kim tracks Jang with little effort, he
decides that a swift death is not enough
of a punishment, and after half-suffocating
Jang, beating him unconscious and
implanting a tracker inside him, he then
leaves him to escape so he can hunt him
down again and subject him to further
indignities and suffering. However, this
also leaves Jang free to instigate further
atrocities, the victims of which are merely
collateral damage in Kims cyclical
vendetta.
A JAW RIPPED OPEN AND BALLS
SMASHED WITH A WRENCH
The implacable stygian rage driving Kim
arguably makes him little better than the
psychotic murderer he is toying with, and
a few of his inventively brutal bursts of
fury include a graphic depiction of Jang
having his Achilles tendon severed, and
some other undesirables having a jaw
ripped open, balls smashed with a wrench
and hands impaled to a table while being
throttled with a chain. The film culminates
in a climactic connivance of pure spite
inspired by contemptuous hatred, and
brings the sadistic infliction of suffering
full circle.

Although A Serbian Film got all the infamy,
its potency is diminished once you get past
its artificial litany of shock tactics, whereas
this Serbian film makes far more of a lasting
impression.
CONVINCED TO MAKE SNUFF FILMS
Shot in a faux documentary style, The
Life and Death of a Porno Gang sees film
graduate Marko become frustrated with
financers unwillingness to fund his grand but
pretentious artistic visions, and after a stint
shooting cheap porn he gathers together a
group of like-minded reprobates who form
a live sex cabaret touring the backwoods
provinces. Soon afterwards, a German
ex-journalist convinces him to branch out into
the extremities of moviemaking and make
snuff films.
After being kidnapped and gang-raped,
slacker Manu kills her brother when he
suggests she enjoyed it. During a heated
argument, part-time prostitute Nadine kills
her flatmate and runs off with the rent money,
then witnesses her best friends murder. Upon
a chance encounter between the two women
each intuitively recognises how adrift and
angry the other feels, and they embark on a
nihilistic road trip of sex and violence against
the society that has rejected them.
M OV I E S
A RAPIST IS DECAPITATED WITH A Sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara
CHAINSAW becomes obsessed with hunting down
As well as its boundary-pushing content, Ichi, a mysterious madman who kills
which includes horse fellatio and a without impunity and leaves behind
Deliverance-style gang rape, the film is visceral massacres of blood and body
most distinctive from its titular group being parts strewn liberally about the place.
ordinary people. Even though their snuff
films feature mostly willing victims, they soon
begin to react accordingly as the extent of
their complicity in murder as vaguely justified
art sinks in. Its only a matter of time before
someone is adversely affected by being
involved in deaths such as a terminally ill
man slashing himself with a straight razor,
a traumatised army sniper having his head
repeatedly smashed in with a hammer, or a
rapist being decapitated with a chainsaw, and
before long misfortune and tragedy make
good on the films title and gradually claim
their lives one by one.
A PROTRACTED TONGUE SLICING AND A
MAN BEING VERTICALLY BISECTED
Over the top violence can often be more
funny than it is scary, but what makes
Ichi the Killer different from Riki-Oh
and others of its ilk (and the source of
much controversy) is its bleak tone of
unapologetic spite. Scenes of torture
punctuate the film, such as a man hung
suspended from the ceiling by numerous
meat hooks lodged in his back, while
other moments of graphic violence
include a protracted tongue slicing, a man
being vertically bisected, various gory
dismemberments and blood spraying
NOTORIOUS FOR ITS UN-SIMULATED
in vibrant arterial geysers. Every female
SEX SCENES
character in the film is a prostitute, and
Upon Baise-Mois release it became
each invariably meets an abusive and
notorious for its un-simulated sex scenes
unpleasant fate.
and subsequent accusations of being thinly
disguised pornography (the title quite literally
YOU ARE COMPLICIT IN THE
translates to Fuck Me) but upon actually
UNREPENTANT CRUELTY
watching the film it becomes clear that
For all his deadly prowess, nominal hero
nothing about it is intended to be in any way
Ichi is so pathetic he inspires contempt
arousing. What gives the film such an impact
rather than pity, and is revealed as being
is, paradoxically, just how meaningless it is.
manipulated to the extent he is barely in
The sex is hollow and without emotion, and
possession of his own personality, while
the violence is most vicious not in its goriness
his arousal by sexual violence purposely
but its casual spontaneity. Manu and Nadine
defies any attempts to feel empathy
become beings of pure id, driven by nothing
for him.
but the basest of impulses to fight and screw.
The biggest source of unease comes
We dont have extenuating circumstances,
from the films lack of moral stance over
its content, which leaves its brutality
NADINE COMMENTS WHEN THEIR MOTIVES
presented solely for the viewing of the
ARE QUESTIONED.
audience, thus making them complicit in
Shot on digital video, the grainy visuals match
the unrepentant cruelty.
the seediness of the societal underbelly
the film wades through, as though its very
presentation is a reflection of the nadir of
humanity it portrays.
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 By Lukas Chomicki

D IS C L A IM E
R:
HEAVY
NOSTALGIA
AHEAD!

KICKING IT
OLD SKOOL
DIRT RALLY
Lets go a bit more modern. Codemasters
have done some experimenting with
their Dirt games, giving them a more
arcady vibe.
Their latest instalment: Dirt Rally, goes
back to the simulation gameplay roots of
the Colin McRae series.
Its not a game for everyone. It is
challenging, time-consuming and at times
frustrating (a lot like my girlfriend). Dont
let this put you off however. Dirt Rally
is a very good game. With its beautiful
graphics, sharp controls, satisfying
gameplay and painstaking attention to
detail, its a driving game thats better
than the (already high) sum of its parts
and will keep you coming back for more.
As already mentioned, the game is
difficult but if you stick at it, it will give
you a sense of accomplishment that only
a few games can manage to do this well.
Think Dark Souls, which also reminds me
of my girlfriend.

1080 SNOWBOARDING
For its time, this 19-year-old game was
quite a ground breaker. The resolution
may not be quite 1080p and the graphics
may appear poor, but in its day 1080
looked almost like digital photorealism.
Okay, thats pushing it a bit but you get
the gist.
Its a game thats easy to learn but hard
to master. It offered around 30 tricks
which if you think about it, is loads when
you have to remember 30 different
button combinations.
The authentic sense of sheer speed,
leaping through the air past the tree tops
and the feeling of achievement after
youve pulled off your favourite stunt will
always live long in our hearts.

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ND
GRI
E TO S
IK
I L THING
ON
SSX (2000)
Heres some more of that lovely nostalgia
for you.
Many extreme sport games try to have a
combination of racing and over-the-top
stunt performing. Most of those games
usually tend to put too much focus
on either one, or the other. Its almost
bi-polar. However, one of the best things
about SSX is that it found that perfect
blend of both. Allowing you to go crazy
but also keeping you down to earth.
Something like controlled chaos.
SSX 2000 is fun and it turned gamers
onto snowboarding. It gives you
complete control over your character and
allows you to do insane stunts at high
speed without going all Fifa Street on us.
This snowboarding funfest was one of
PlayStation 2s launch titles and with
its graphics, gameplay and size it was
the perfect game to show off the PS2s
power. EA did Sony a huge favour
there. Yep, you read that right. EA did
something good for the gaming industry.
GAMES
TONY HAWKS PRO SKATER 3
Is anyone surprised to see a Tony Hawk
game here? The series may not be what
it once was, but the legacy from its early
games will live on.
It was hard to choose which game we
should feature but Tony Hawks Pro
Skater 3 took the cake. And what a cake
it was! With the introduction of Revert,
the unforgettable soundtrack (Motrhead
or Red Hot Chili Peppers anyone?),
pedestrians to pester and the option
to create female skaters, Pro Skater 3
managed to keep the captivating magic
of the old while mixing it up with some
new stuff.
THPS3 was first and foremost a PS2
game but was also ported for PS1.
Regardless of which version you played,
the games were a laugh. It also holds the
highest metacritic score of 97% on the
PS2, tied only with GTA III.
MAT HOFFMANS PRO BMX
After the huge success of the Tony
Hawks games, it was only a matter of
time before Activision expanded their
Pro franchise onto other extreme sports
games. These included Shaun Palmers
Pro Snowboarder, Kelly Slaters Pro Surfer
and Mat Hoffmans Pro BMX.
While all three games are good, Mr
Hoffmans BMX title was the one that
fully lived up to the high standard set
by Hawk and Co. It was developed on
the same engine as its skateboarding
counterpart and even included Tony
Hawk as a secret character: Granny.
Pro BMX had the same controls as Pro
Skater but it felt different, as you would
expect when changing from four wheels
to two. Activision also did not disappoint
with the music, which had some pretty
heavy rock and even our very own Stone
Roses.
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 GAME OF THE MONTH
SNIPER ELITE 4
FORMAT: PLAYSTION 4, XBOX ONE, PC
Sequels are usually a cause for some
concern. They raise a lot of questions,
or are met with a derisive eye-roll and
sighs of oh, another one. Cool I guess.
At best, a sequel can elevate the existing
franchise, but the worst case scenario is
like sleeping with your ex. Sad, tired, and
probably dry in the areas it shouldnt be.
Luckily for everyone involved, In Sniper
Elite 4 (which came out a few weeks
ago) Rebellion Studios have cooked us
a nice meal, put on our favourite lets
smash playlist, and given us the night
of our lives. For those of you that cant
read past the first 131 words of a review
in a sexy, cool magazine full of sexy, cool
stuff: Buy this game. You need it. You
need it more than oral sex and
ice cream.
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THE DIMPLED ASSCHEEKS OF
THE ONE YOU LOVE
In what couldve been a much
overlooked, quickly rushed out cash in,
SE 4 has clearly learned and evolved
from its predecessors, improving on
the already rock-solid game mechanics
and giving the player an explicit sense
that their actions affect the world they
inhabit. And oh, what a world you
inhabit! Graphically SE 4 is the dimpled
asscheeks of the person you love. Its
the morning dew you spot during
your Sunday morning walk of shame.
The landscapes are stunning and the
improved X-Ray KillCam is blisteringly,
savagely beautiful.
For those that know me via YouTube/
Twitter, you will know that I have
a disdain for AAA gimmicks:
Collectibles, point-and click waypoints,
Open World environments. Most of
the time these cut-and-paste mechanics
are the result of lazy developing and are
a corner cutting excuse for gameplay
longevity.
What SE 4 manages to do with these
features, however, is nothing short of
a miracle. Nothing in the game feels
forced, with the player deciding how
much of the mission they consider a
pass. The level design informs the payer
of the best path to take, but not in a way
that feels like your hand is
being held.
NAZI BOLLOCK SHOTS
The story is the only minor criticism of
this stunning release. Its a little samey
to that of previous releases, but honestly
who the fuck cares when youre shooting
Nazis in the bollocks from 200 yards?
The execution of the narrative is
perfectly acceptable, putting most of
Steams Greenlight hopefuls to absolute
shame. This isnt your typical run-and-
gun, despite being able to be played
that way the game is at its best when
youve accidentally sunk an hour into
completing a level because you were so
drawn into patrolling guards, waiting for
a plane to go over to mask the sounds of
your shots, and hiding bodies so as not
to get discovered.
This game is Metal Gear Solid 5, with
all the nonsense stripped away. Its
diluted brilliance that everyone whos
ever called themselves a gamer should
experience for themselves at least once.
Did I mention you can shoot Nazis in the
balls? Cos you can totally shoot Nazis in
the balls.

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Fronts explosive
cover girl laughs,
fights and reminisces
her way through an
interview with Editor
Ryan Child.

THE STAR
& STRIPES
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WHEN YOURE NOT DRESSED UP

LIKE A SUPER VILLAIN WHAT ARE
YOU DOING?
Well later Im getting my hair done and
heading to boxing tonight.

BOXING? I DIDNT EXPECT YOU TO

SAY THAT.
Yea I absolutely love boxing. Im planning
on having a fight.

LIKE A CELEBRITY FIGHT?

No, away from all of the celebrity stuff.
Ive got so into it and just want to be the
absolute best, which is my attitude to
everything I do. So, yea, Im going to have
a fight but not as some publicity stunt.
Away from the ring, controversy seems
to follow you around. Whats the big
obsession with Jem Lucy?
I dont think people are obsessed exactly.
I think that its that people are intrigued
because they dont understand who I am.
They are trying to work me out, maybe.

YOU SEEM TO BE A BIT OF A

MENTOR/COUNSELOR ONLINE,
PARTICULARLY WITH ADVICE ON
TWITTER. A LOT OF PEOPLE SEE
YOU AS A ROLE MODEL NOW
BECAUSE OF IT. HOW DO YOU FEEL
ABOUT THAT?
If I can give advice it makes me feel good
because I know how hard shit can be.
Especially because loads of people give
me shit, and so if I can relay some advice
to others, then I want to do that.

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SO YOU ARE A BIT OF A ROLE
MODEL THEN?
Well, Ive never, ever once said I should be
a role model. And I get slagged off a lot
with people saying that I am and should
do this or do that.
But Im still young and learning myself. Im
not 65 looking back and reflecting yet.
Im doing what I want and Im living and
learning. And I think thats what people
should do. Dont do what youre told,
go for what you want and learn from it
yourself.

SOMEONE YOURE DEFINITELY NOT

A ROLE MODEL TO IS CHARLOTTE
CROSBY, CAN YOU CLEAR UP THE
WHOLE DEAL WITH HER ONCE AND
FOR ALL ?
All I can say is she is a Cunt. And thats it.
Everything that happened between usis
because shes a cunt. I can be one but Im
not deep down. She is. End of.

RIGHT, NOW THATS OUT OF

THE WAY. YOUVE BEEN MAINLY
MODELING DURING YOUR CAREER,
IS THAT THE MAIN THING ON
YOUR HORIZON?
Well, apart from the boxing, Ive got a
dating app that focuses on people with
tattoos. Others can of course join as well,
but the main idea is to provide a platform
for people looking for love who have
tattoos.

WHATS IT CALLED?
Datingink. Oh, can I just mention my
boxing trainer Lyndon King Arthur.

I THINK YOU JUST DID! WHERE ARE

YOU TRAINING?
At the Collyhurst and Mosten Amateur
Boxing Club. Theres no pretty boys, no
girls with makeup on pretending to work
out. Its a proper gym and I love it.

BACK TO THE MODELING FOR A SEC.

DO HAVE ANY TIPS FOR YOUNG
GIRLS STARTING OUT?
When I got started there were so many
magazines, which are all gone now. So
its just so different now. God I sound old
saying that!
But its true. Social media is massive now,
so its probably easier to get spotted.
But it also means making a career out of
modeling is a lot harder. All the content is
free and there are just so many girls out
there sharing their pictures. And I feel for
them because its always going to be hard
to be the one who gets successful with so
many doing it now.
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TATTOO! FIRST ONE AND WHY?
I got a weed leaf on my bum when I was
14. I suppose it was the Xmost rebellious
thing I could think of at the time. Plus we
used to smoke back then. I dont now, by
the way.

ANY ONES WITH A SIGNIFICANT

MEANING?
Yea, my Eminem tattoo on my arm
definitely means a lot. He was my
obsession and still is, as a person and a
rapper.
We love Eminem as well. Especially his
first album ! Any plans for a new one. A
tattoo, not a new Eminem album.
Well right now Im getting a full leg
sleeve. Its going to be made up of the
cities Ive been to, including the landmarks
and themes of those places. There will also
be a few other things inside it, like exotic
dancers because I used to be a dancer,
and other things I like.

ANY FAVOURITE ARTISTS?

Ken Patten in Newcastle and Tommi Crazy
in Manchester. Love them both.

ANY THINGS THAT YOU DONT LOVE?

Uhh, yea a few (Laughs). I really dont like
people being slow about things and not
doing what they say. And people moaning
about things they cant change.
Like someone sitting their eating
doughnuts and complaining about their
body. No thanks. No time for that.

GUILTY PLEASURE?
Justin Beiber. I love him.

IDEAL NIGHT IN?

Naked movie night.

IDEAL NIGHT OUT?

Me and Chantelle going everywhere.
Talking of Chantelle, so much
has been written and gone
back and forth about you and these
three people recently.
In two words, can you sum
them up?

CHANTELLE CONNELLY?
Loyal. Crazy.

KATIE PRICE?
Slag. Bigger slag.

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PHOTOS By Ohrangutang
Hi Eliza, welcome to Front Magazines
Extreme Edition. Whats the most
mental thing you have ever done?
Hi Front !
There is a spot in Aspen, Colorado, called
the Devils Punchbowl where I grew up. In
the summertime my friends and I would
all go over there and jump off these
mountain cliffs into an almost freezing
cold river. You have to jump about a 4-5
foot gap to even get to the spot that you
take the jump from. If you miss that gap,
youre hitting rocks down into the river
and youre done. Thinking back on that,
we were totally mental and we did it all
the time !

Can you tell us about your tattoos?

My Tattoos are a mixture of memories
and art pieces by friends or tattoo artists
that I appreciate. I seem to have collected
a lot of band tattoos. My side reads
Sex, Love and Rock n Roll, which is an
album by Social Distortion.
My leg says Survival Never Goes Out of
Style, thats a lyric by Jawbreaker. I have
a lot of rock/punk eclectic stuff. And then
theres just art and things that I like. I also
have the names of family and loved ones
tattooed on my right arm.

Most Meaningful bit of Ink?

I think the tattoo that means the most to
me has to be my little brothers name. I
have my mom and older brother too, but
hell always be my little baby bro, and
that makes me smile.

Any favourite artists?

Ive always been a huge fan of Nikko
Hurtados work. I absolutely love ONEQs
art work. He has an art nouveau meets
pinup geisha style that my jaw drops
over.

Whos your hero?

Dave Grohl.

Guilty Pleasure?
Reading magazines like Front and Maxim
and eating dark chocolate. I cant tell you
any others because theyre not all legal
haha.

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Thanks Eliza, Hope you enjoyed MUSINK
as much as we did !
Thanks Front xx Come say hello on my
social media

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 P H O T O :
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Brand
Knew
We had some great brands join
us in Manchester on March 18th,
covering our models up with
posh cloths and the rest. So here
are some of our favourites for
your viewing pleasure
SPOILER ALERT!
spot the bunny from next
months shoot
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SEXTOYS.CO.UK
I mean, use your imagination.
Ughhh, not that much.
CHOX
Life is like a box of chox
Well actually life is a bag from
chox... and its true; you never know
what youre gonna get cos theres
that many styles and colours to
choose from. Kin the creator, apart
from having such a good new
nickname, has pretty much covered
everything by making these robust
backpacks with water and laptop
protection as standard.
The HOLO range embodies the
crazy cyber look which I love,
however, for the more low key
personalities theres a Commuter
and Camo range so you can blend
into a wall, but also look like youre
going to do some work instead
of heading off to a mad rave. Oh
and there are drinks (beer) holders
on either side too. Youll never be
bagless or beerless again!
FREEMIND
Freemind
The idea behind FREEMIND is to
promote positivity and to empower
self confidence. In a world where
not everyone can be themselves
this t-shirt screams F you to the
convention and judgement of
society. And you can see that from
the logo, a little crazy brain on the
wings of freedom.
FREEMIND isnt just a brand; theyre
here to promote that its okay to
be different; have different ideals,
different likes and different interests.
Its what makes the person (the
wearer) them. Help them spread
good vibes one T-shirt at a time.
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She was born slippy
Slippys main motif is a
banana, so obviously we had
to give some of our in-house
models a real banana and
do something suggestive. It
would be rude not to. If you
like the film trainspotting
then youll get this brands
vibe, bringing you a bit of
instant 90s nostalgia. The
creators, based in Sheffield,
say the brand has been
heavily influenced by the
underground music scene
which is clearly reflected
by their gritty edge and
bold designs. So go and get
yourself a glass of perno in
a sweaty basement and slip
yourself into a right little
pickle, just like these lot !

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