IN THE HALLOWEEN ISSUE OF COSMIK DEBRIS: Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi; Evan Foster, Freddie Fortune and a handful of the artists on MuSick's new Monster Party 2000 Halloween compilation CD. Plus an archive of great interviews from Halloweens past, reviews, and a special Halloween edition of Cosmik Radio.

COSMIK RADIO!: It's that time of year again, and Cosmik Radio has another 90 minutes of Halloween-fiendly music for you. You just need a RealAudio Player to listen. If you don't have one, go pick one up. Cosmik Radio is just the kind of Net-Only audio that radio station program directors don't want you getting hooked on. So go ahead. Inhale!

Tony Iommi - His guitar produced the sound that produced a genre that produced a dozen sub-genres. Most heavy metal bands owe a huge debt to Tony Iommi. His band, Black Sabbath, invented the genre as it is known today and defined the word "heavy" for generations to come. After a successful reunion tour with Sabbath, Iommi goes it alone on his first solo album. Interview by DJ Johnson.

MONSTER PARTY 2000 - They were working in the lab late one night and lookie what they came up with! Monster Party 2000 is a killer Halloween party CD with a big slate of ultra-cool bands, and we have members of a handful of them right here, captured in our first ever interview that absolutely, positively HAD to be finished before the sun came up.



We've brought back all the interviews and articles from Halloweens past. Rob Zombie, The Cramps, Groovie Ghoulies, Man Or Astro-Man, Hypnomen, Space Ghost, The Misfits, The Boss Martians, Alice Cooper... Okay, they weren't ALL from Halloween issues, but they shoulda been! So use the menu strip on the left side of the screen to take a cosmik time trip.


CD & RECORD REVIEWS - Everything from rock to jazz to reggae and back again.


CREDITS - The names and e-mail addresses of the people responsible for this thing.

COSMIK RADIO - Want an hour of music that fits the personality of Cosmik Debris Magazine? That's right, Sinatra segues into Megadeth into Peter Tosh into Man Or Astro-Man into... well, you get the picture. It's a little something we like to call Genre Whiplash. Or maybe you're in the mood for a trip into The Fog Machine, our mix of music of the ethereal variety. All you need is a RealAudio player. Come on in.

INTERNET RADIO STATIONS - Great radio is alive and well on the Net! Cosmik Debris presents links to take you where the good ones are hiding, from St. Louis to Dublin. You're no longer stuck with just the "classic rock," "young country" and "24-hour talk" that has your town held hostage.

OUR OWN WEBSITES - Many of the Cosmik Debris writers have websites of their own. We have some links right here.



Did you miss an issue? We now have many of our back issues online, including sound clips and extras. Check out interviews with The Witches, Electric Frankenstein, the Vampire Beach Babes, Jeff Berlin, Curve, Michael Shermer, Steel Pulse, Transglobal Underground, Mark Helm, The Southern Rock All-Stars, Ottmar Liebert, Jason Noble of Shipping News, Phil Vassar, Joel Dorn, Mark Cline of Love Tractor, Texas Terri (of Texas Terri & The Stiff Ones), Mike Keneally, Chris Shinn of Unified Theory, Alley of Wise Monkey Orchestra, Mario Escovedo of The Dragons, The Clarks, Big Ass Truck, Richard Cheese, Paul Krassner, Tony Iommi, Ron Dante... and too many more to list!!



Cosmik Debris Magazine comes out on the first Monday of every month... usually. Or close to it. This month, as you probably noticed, it didn't happen. I'm writing this on October 13th. Friday the 13th, actually, the day many believe all luck will be bad luck. I'm thinking any bad luck today would be overkill. Surely Cosmik has some good karma stored up by now.

The last few weeks have been trying, to say the least. Without getting into too much technical detail, here's what happened to Cosmik Debris. We got hit where we live: on a hard drive.

As I was working away on title graphics one morning, a warning popped up on my screen telling me that illegal functions were happening all over my computer. Thinking I'd just over-taxed ol' Betsy, as I often do, having ten or more applications running at once, I rebooted. Seems logical, no? The screen then informed me that the boot sector had been changed and asked if I was authorizing that. Now, I'm no techie, but I've heard stories! Boot sector change.... bad! BAD!! I slowly backed away from the computer, careful not to make any sound that might trigger an explosion. Then I called my hero and computer guru, who also happens to be my wife, Louise. After about five minutes of narrowing down possibilities, it was decided that my computer -- the computer that houses Cosmik Debris and all its back issues and virtual office and all that good stuff -- was the victim of a virus.

We've had a few of those. Usually they're no problem to banish. This one was different. It's called Win32/KRIZ. Let me tell you something. If you see this pop up on your warning screens, your best bet is to do nothing. Do NOT reboot your computer. Call Norton. Get the Norton Anti-Virus package and get on the phone with their tech support so they can talk you through it. Because you don't want to let this nasty little virus do what it is written to do, which is infect every .exe file on your system and down the network, into your backup systems, and anywhere else it can reach. It even infects your screensavers. And then it drops the biggest bomb: it wipes out your BIOS. I don't know what the BIOS does. I only know that when techies speak of it, they lower their eyes and voices, and when they hear what Win32/KRIZ does to it... they scream. Loud.

After several days of dealing with other virus scanner companies and getting nowhere (one tech support person even said "gee, I don't think anyone here is qualified to help you on this. What was it called again?"), we called Norton, and soon all was well. Except that it wasn't, because we lost everything. We lost back issues of Cosmik Debris, all business-related information including a huge electronic phone book of industry contacts, and some really great porn. ... kidding.

The October (Halloween) issue was within 6 hours of completion when the virus struck. It, too, went bye bye. Hundreds of hours of graphics work and writing: kaput. The issue had to be restarted from scratch with no time left to do the work. We're slowly recovering here, trying our best to put pieces back together, and we do have an issue for you. It's not exactly the issue it was supposed to be. There will be no columns this month and only a fraction of our usual number of reviews, and most of those won't have CD cover images. We'll be back to full strength next month. We hope you'll forgive our tardiness. And I hope the scum bag who wrote that virus (and all dirt wads who do such things) develops an incurable itch in the anal region. Most of all, I hope you enjoy this issue, which was written twice just for you. Our main features are intact, and we've added a stack of interviews and articles from Halloween issues past. Thanks for your patience, and here's hoping you never have to deal with this #*!$ing virus.

DJ Johnson
Editor