the janurary 1996 odium anthology information file ld! well it is officialy the new year now and what better way to start it off then with a god damn brand new odium anthology this month turned out good with most the group releasing and over 10 new members i don t know what else to write here so i ll just give you the news this month s news this month we have decided to open up two new divisions within odium and the first is a coding division in order to be accepted to this position there is one catch and that is that i will be choosing the people capible of handling it since there arent endless jobs floating around that need to be coded there isnt a huge demand for coders in the group and this is why i will be picking the members if your interested though let me know so i can check your work out the second division will be literature consisting of every- thing from stories to poetry we already have two members listed under this position so we are looking forward to it growing the in the future also this month i decided to start doing member profiles this month we featured the silent killer the filename is profile #01! check it out or stuff new members & name changes this being our second month releasing we scored big with new members deciding to join the group starting off this month s new arrivals comes burps one of the first and leading members of my former group bleach and a resident of the euro-scene we are happy to see him join up with us again! another former bleach member and artist from europe whitesnake also joined both artists have amazing talent and we are looking forward to some great work in the months to come calamity formerly of toon joins this month as well bringing with him an incredible style of art former president of bleach and well known ascii artist holocaust also rejoins this month to help out our ascii dept as well as bleys another excellent ascii artist who is also known for his work with the coding group thc another former bleach member celestian previously of the well known group teklordz also joins up once again to help odium regain a known position in the scene another amazing artist tical also joined this month to release his ascii s with us as a project along the side of ice a reletivly new vga artist to the scene thanatos applied this month as well who will be part of the founding ground of our vga dept we are happy to have him in the group and we are looking forward to some productive quality out of him! in addition to new dept s mind bender joined this month to help kick off the start of our literature division as well as releasing art from time to time! helping out our telecom and couriering divisions comes crusader his addition to odium will make gathering work and distrobuting packs easier for the rest of the group and finally for this month s additions moon man and shivian bastard are let into the group this month to help out with our coding assignments in the month s too come both are very experienced coders! as far as name changes this month shattered link changed his handle to sodium which now makes him sodium of odium w0rd words from sodium (formerly shattered link) this is sodium(shatteredlink) you maybe going ballistic saying where the fuk is axis magazine! yer probaly not but here is the story a few weeks ago i got blasted with the tai-pan and whisper along with 40% of my system i lost all my code for axis except my music fading and pcx routines so this is whats up im coding a small ansi review mag called crucifix there isnt any articles or anything just reviews on acid ice legend fire blade and odium by myself and lordjazz no we are not going to be biased like eerie and vote our group #1 we grade the quality of the pack compared to its previous releases all the code and pretty much all of the art will be done by myself im hoping to make it monthly and stuff its basically my project for rite now now that you know i am busy dont dump a shitload of requests on me sodium of odium out odium world headquarters and distrobution sites this month the world headquarters was changed to a different location not much further from the current site defective electrolyte soup the board is still in 619 called photosynthetic shit so if you have any reason to contact one of the senior staff or drop off applications please call here instead the number is 619-744-3113! alot of work has been put into this board and alot more is planned this new site will be much more effective as far as distrobution sites people still dont seem to be reading me so once again for the deaf and the dumb ODIUM IS NOT GIVING OUT DISTRO SITES so do not ask but to clear up confusion if you are a member running a board that IS considered a member board hopefully this will be the last time i have to mention this well thats all for this month s news damnit what a crock of shit lordJAZZ_odIUM