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- Hey Stein Roger - Hey Kjartan.. - Are you waiting for.. - Immortal? - Look at those Swedes - Are they looking forward to it too? WELCOME TO ROCKSCALIBORGH, Frode\'s new Metal Magazine. This brand new first book of Frode Felipe Schjelderup is the manuscript for a new comic taking place in the North and Middle North, the northern part of a world in which bands, venues, clubs and festivals are countries with capital cities, nature and mountains and where yesterday\'s wild gigs are the prime topics of discussion. OK. Download English translation of ROCKSCALIBORGH here / Translation: Helge Thornes ]]> http://xym.no/?linkedfrom=9

In what is the sequel to “Frode\'s Metal Magazine ROCKSCALIBORGH”, this publication introduces us to the country Middle Black and as suggested in the title, takes a close look at the first wave of black metal. In Middle Black all respectable Thrash Metal bands live on and play all night in their own cities that are named after them.]]> http://xym.no/?linkedfrom=11

This publication is based on the Kiss-You-Through-The-Phone 2010 Calendar that was made for the exhibition Kiss-You-Through-The-Phone held at Paloma Presents in Zürich, Switzerland in February 2010. The exhibition amongst others focuses on the phenomenon of the Long Distance Relationship: It can be stated that culture is a means of converting the impact of such energies as love, sex or aggression. This implies that it is these specific energies that introduce both the incentive to make art, and authorize critique towards a method of artistic production by the subjective level of their presence in the artistic work. Nonetheless, a direct articulation of these energies as topic remains too awkwardly intimate and thus commonly ends up approximating highly platitudinous levels. The exhibition Kiss-You-Through-The-Phone finds itself on the verge of such banalities with its emphasis on the Long Distance Relationship as a phenomenon, underlining the laborious maintenance of love that takes place regardless of distance in both space and time, and supported by as many media tools and channels as possible, through devotion becomes a project of narrative as much as fragmentation.]]>