
The magazine also included a CD, Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles Proudly Presents Blood Tracks II, with the February 1999 edition. A Top Metal Albums of the '80s feature also surfaced around this time. Witchery and a chat with Janie Hendrix (administrator of theĪ large piece focusing on Canadian metal bands was also printed, a reflection of BW&BK's Canadian roots. Events in this period include interviews with Slayer, Inside the issue, interviews withĪC/DC were featured, while Metallica's ReLoad was chastised in BW&BK's Cross-Fire review section.Ī new layout team, Hugues Laflamme and Angie Aue, joined the magazine. By this time, current writersĬarl Begai, Chris Bruni, Mark Gromen, Allan Grusie and Aaron Small had joined the team.īW&BK #21 was the first issue of the magazine to feature a colour cover. Rush (an interview conducted in Lifeson's living room),Īnnihilator and others. In the interim, the magazine had interviewed No ads appeared in the inaugural issue.īW&BK continued to grow, reaching 48 pages by October 1997.

Issue #1 was 16 pages, and featured interviews withīlack Sabbath. HMV stocked the magazine and other record stores followed suit.

March '94 – first issueĢ00 copies of BW&BK #1 were originally printed, and its cover price was $1.95. The two subsequently plotted a magazine creation based on Metal Tim Bits the Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles title was based onĪgony Column's 1990 album of the same name. Tim Hortons), encountered Popoff in the Toronto HMV's metal section and Popoff began discussing his first metal book, Riff Kills Man. Henderson, who had published several photocopied issues of a newsletter called Metal Tim Bits (the title a play on the Tim Bit donut served at the popular Canadian coffee chain
