THE EXPLORERS ISSUE
Featuring: Glenn Danzig // Behemoth // High on Fire // Turnstile
Artists have to explore. It's what they do. If they don't, as Behemoth's Adam Nergal Darski says, "it's a paradox." Once they start settling, compromising, copping out, the "art" becomes another thing entirely.
Sometimes that creative exploration is conscious, a deliberate effort to rebuild and redefine; sometimes it's subconscious, guided by instinct, dream logic or drug experience. Sometimes it means traveling the world, communing with shamans and street musicians and rented Japanese dogs; sometimes it means reaching out into different mediums, genres, colors and emotions.
Artists like Nergal, Glenn Danzig, Matt Pike, Turnstile, Cypress Hill, Greg Puciato and John Carpenter are all restless explorers. As fans, we might want to pin them down sometimes, see them play only the "old shit," stick with tried and true formulas, but, as the saying goes, if you love them, let them go. And hope that they drag us, even if it's kicking and screaming, along for the ride.
In that spirit, we present Revolver's "Explorers" issue.
