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Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles Issue #104
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| Editor in Chief | Martin Popoff |
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| Categories | Heavy metal music |
| Frequency | 10/year |
| First issue | March 1994 |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Website | Official website |
| ISSN | 1705-3781 |
| OCLC number | 57191652 |
Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles is a Canadian heavy metal magazine.
Founded by former M.E.A.T. magazine staffer "Metal" Tim Henderson and author Martin Popoff in 1994,Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles (BW&BK) has become a globally respected metal publication. Though based in Canada, BW&BK also features writers from the USA, Germany and the UK, allowing the magazine to represent metal's international appeal.
Covering many facets of extreme music, BW&BK's reviews section reports on current records circulating through the underground metal world, and the section called Metal Forecast tracks the release date of upcoming recordings. The magazine's website is BraveWords.com, whose main focus is up-to-the-minute metal news.
BW&BK’s direct precursor can be traced to Tim Henderson and the HMV Superstore in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Publishing a newsletter called Metal Tim Bits (the title a play on the Tim Bit donut served at the popular Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons), Henderson was eager to begin a post-M.E.A.T. metal venture. After several photocopied issues of Metal Tim Bits surfaced, Henderson encountered Popoff in the Toronto HMV’s metal section and Popoff began discussing his first metal book, Riff Kills Man. The two subsequently plotted a magazine creation based on Metal Tim Bits, and Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles was born. Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles’ moniker was inspired by Agony Column’s 1990 album of the same name (which, incidentally, received a perfect 10 rating in Popoff’s Collector’s Guide To Heavy Metal.)
200 copies of BW&BK #1 were originally printed, and its cover price was $1.95. HMV embraced the magazine and other record stores followed suit. Issue #1 was 16 pages on grey stock paper, and featured interviews with Pantera, Entombed, Gwar, Cannibal Corpse and Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath. No ads appeared in the inaugural issue.
BW&BK continued to grow, reaching 48 pages by October 1997. In the interim, the magazine had spoken to such luminaries as Slayer, Alex Lifeson of Rush (an interview conducted in Lifeson's living room), Metallica's Jason Newsted and Lars Ulrich, Megadeth, Mercyful Fate, Iron Maiden, Fear Factory, Cradle of Filth, Venom, Annihilator and many others. By this time, current writers Carl Begai, Chris Bruni, Mark Gromen, Allan Grusie and Aaron Small had joined the team.
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