Staff

EDITOR - PATRICK

I am the editor of Painful Reality. Originally, it started out as a fanzine back in the early 2000s. With three issues down I had some other stuff come up, so I had to stop doing the fanzine for various reasons. Over the years I have done some other various webzines and also written for the amazing Canadian Assault. The most recent and longest-running webzine I have worked on is Winter Torment, which originally started out as a black/dark metal webzine but over time I started to add more genres. 

The reason I decided to resurrect Painful Reality is because I wanted to expose the underground to the more extreme side of metal. I am only going to showcase unsigned, independent bands or smaller DIY labels that support the following genres: old-school death, black, and thrash metal, black/death, and war metal. I hope you find some bands or labels to your liking.

CONTRIBUTOR - ANDREW

I will occasionally provide material for Patrick's resurrected Painful Reality in the form of reviews. I have a knack for finding obscure bands, and this is the perfect place to showcase some of them. I helped lay out those original issues of Painful Reality, and it was a damn fine fanzine, and I'm glad I could be of assistance in getting this name back up and running.