Warthog #4

Warthog magazine, issue 4 (1999)
Interviews:
Ancient
Ragnarok
The Second Moon
Dismal Euphony
Anno Daemonicus
Ulver
Myrkskog
Dimmu Borgir
+ The Northwind Manifesto, reviews

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I thought you might like to have something to read on Sunday. Or you might be terribly hungover and feel like your eyes pour out of your head drop by drop for every word you read. Well, that's not my doing, is it? The ones who are in reading shape might remember this name as I posted the third Warthog issue last month. Like that one, this too was sent by brother Kurgan and scanned by yours truly. I used another scanner for the first time for this one and I'm afraid I overdid a little. Well, large pages bring out all the details and so on.

On this issue the editor Grell worked alone and generally it is similar to the previous one, though it looks a bit different with some fortunately subdued background graphics and such. I'm actually reminded of the Oskorei 'zine issue I had (don't remember which one it was). I'm not a big fan of this look, I like 'zines that look like fanzines instead of parading around decked up like top tier prostitutes. But I think I've expressed this opionion before. Clear and easy to read, it's quite ok again despite the initial impression. Again a product of its time, looking at for example The Second Moon I remember how terrible time the late 90's was. The Ancient interview is a bit dated as it was supposed to be one previous issue already but so is everything else. The Northwind Manifesto is taken from I Return To Darkness magazine and feels a bit out of place as well as filler here. Guess he didn't feel like writing articles for this issue. An ok read again but nothing essential.