I think Thomas Westphal (editor of NECROMANIAC) should give layouting-lessons even to the big ones, because they look either like a happy Hippie mag or have unreadable letters and a boring design – I think you’ll know what I mean. The NECROMANIAC looks extraordinarily good because of all the small visual gimmicks, frames and small […]
Grandmaster Westphal and his staff of perverted Death / Grind maniacs already delivers his third issue. And he not only managed to keep the high quality of the first two editions of his "sickofanzine", he even added 4 more pages and a full colored, very cool looking self designed (!) coverart for your pleasure, without […]
Main editor Thomas was so kind to send me issue no.2 together with issue no.1 as I had not seen his magazine before. The first thing that really got me was how professionally the magazine looks… The magazine is printed on high-glossy paper and must have been really expensive! Also the layout is really well-done […]
It took them a little bit longer to get this out than originally planned, but the result is more than worth the wait! NECROMANIAC # 1 is without any doubts one of the best debut issues of a fanzine I’ve seen in a long time! High glossy paper, pro-printed, with a proper layout, a killer […]
Writing a SNAKEPIT review has become pretty superfluous these days since Laurent delivers the same high quality with each and every issue for many years by now, so basically all you need to know is the fact that a new issue has been released and what the content consists of. Issue # 19 features former […]
Even after so many issues I’m still heavily impressed by the incredible hard work and true dedication that good ol’ Laurent constantly puts into the creation of each new edition of SNAKEPIT. And of course issue # 18 is no exception to the rule again! You may disagree with Laurent’s opinion on certain bands and […]
In the editorial page of this new, 17th edition of SNAKEPIT, Laurent mentions that it was really tough for him this time around to finish the issue and that he often felt kinda burned out and uninspired while working on its content… Well, even though I know that type of feeling myself too well, it’s […]
Founded may years ago by none other than VFTD’s Frank Stöver, SNAKEPIT MAGAZINE is still flourishing in 2008 thanks to Laurent Ramadier. With this massive undertaking, Laurent has truly proven himself to be a Metal historian. With Issue # 16, Laurent has bestowed upon us yet another volume in this encyclopedic series. Few in the […]
I hope that I won’t have to introduce SNAKEPIT to the readers of VOICES anymore as this zine has been around long enough to establish its good reputation within the underground. For those of you who still haven’t seen a copy of it yet, let me tell you that the 15th edition has just been […]
Writing a review about a zine that I’ve created myself 13 years ago is a pretty strange situation, but as this is the re-print edition from 2010 and current SNAKEPIT editor Laurent asked me to do so, I’ll give it a try nevertheless… When I originally came up with the whole idea of SNAKEPIT, I […]