Autopsy

Autopsy is a virtual experience commissioned and available for free with issuesix of Buried zine, a heavy metal fanzine dedicated to underground metal.
Autopsy is a future promotional interactive virtual experience for a futuristic
autopsy processing plant, to help the near dead decide on a location for their
autopsy.
Today, most autopsies will only take place where there is a suspicion of
unnatural causes in the case of death. This installation plays with the idea of a
potential architecture for a model of a future autopsy plant that would return to
examining the body in the 'real'.
Issue Six of Buried Zine is now available to order from the Buried webstore.
www.buriedzine.bigcartel.com Autopsy can be purchased separately in the via
the Google Play Store.
Buried is a Fanzine like no other, something akin to a publication from William
Morris’s Kelmscott Press, albeit one drenched in gore. Each meticulously
produced issue is hand bound and filled with original interviews, illustrations
and commissions. The production values aim to be a fitting platform for the craft
of the metal and commissions included within.
This issue, surveys the brutal death metal scene in Japan, looking at both
new bands, and those that have been stalwarts since the scene developed in the
mid-nineties. As with previous editions of Buried, this issue hopes to trace a
corner of the death metal scene. Many of the interviews were conducted in
Japanese, giving access to bands who have not spoken to English language media
before. Bands Included in this issue are VISCERA INFEST, GOREVENT, BUTCHER
ABC, HOSTILE EYES, INFERNAL REVULSION, NEEDLE CONTAMINATED PORK,
and AKIHIRO MUTO of MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION and VEIYADRA In a first for
Buried, the interviewees also include a visual artist, TOSHIHIRO EGAWA, who
has helped create the aesthetic for the Japanese and international brutal and
slam metal scenes.
As well as improving the depth and quality of the interviews section of the zine,
the artist commissions have also increased in number and ambition. Comic book
artist Stephan Sadler illustrates the interview with Naru of BUTCHER ABC. Tai
Shani returns with Phantasmagoregasm, the final part of her feminist horror
trilogy. Tamsin Snow has expanded on her virtual mortuary table commission
from issue five, working with virtual reality specialist PartyTime.jpeg to create a
experience akin to a promotional video for a futuristic autopsy processing plant.
The commission is accessible on the book ribbon USB via HTC Vive or Google
Cardboard and on the Google Play Store.
There are also three artists with début commissions for the Zine. Patrick
Goddard opens the zine with an illuminated Keats Poem. Harman Bains has
written a short story in the tradition of Japanese Nunsploitation movies. The
book ribbon USB also includes a musical composition by Sean Carpio, a piece
which is the synthesis of two mourning rituals, one from Ireland and the other
from Japan.

Issue six is an edition of 35 hand numbered copies available internationally
through the Buried web store.
www.buriedzine.bigcartel.com