Industrial Nation: Issue 14
With the latest issue of Industrial Nation only three months late, they
actually appear to be getting closer to a regular release schedule. As usual
Industrial Nation is the encyclopedia of the Industrial/Gothic scene and still
arranged in a less than ostentatious style of graphical design. That
particular issue features a huge interview with Survival Research Laboratories,
Scar Tissue, Cubanate, Merzbow, Chemlab & Cobalt 60. It also contains smaller
articles on Dystopia One, Test Dept., Oneroid Psychosis, din_fiv, Black Tape
for a Blue Girl, Cyrnai, Pain Station, New Mind & Christ Analogue. Of course
you can't possibly ignore the over 150 album reviews and two pages of demo
reviews (or the associated spelling errors). The only new change to Industrial
Nation is it's now casual use of color advertisement, not only inside the
covers but scattered throughout the magazine. You'd think with this kind of
advertisement they would finally be able to escape printing the magazine on
newspaper and move to a glossy paper stock. I suppose beggars can't be choosers
since only a handful of other magazines can even begin to compare to the volume
of information present in this magazine. I just hope that eventually someone
with some design and copy editing skills kicks this magazine hard enough to
change it for the better instead of remaining the mediocre quality magazine it
has been for the last several issues.
Contact:
Industrial Nation
P.O. Box 23184
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
E-mail: IN@ripco.com
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