Carrion Zine #3 (Finland) 1993, Editors: “Antti Luukkanen” and “Santtu Reinikainen”
It might appear that there is an inordinate amount of zines from Finland on this site, and your perceptions are correct. I did a lot of trading with Finnish folks back in the day because well, there was a lot of cool and original music coming out of this peripheral northern European land at the time, and as such I sought to get as many zines as possible, ordering from whatever advert I got that said “Suomi.” That said, this one was a cool digest-sized zine, and I recall distinctly writing back and forth with the editor (Antti)- and at one point, late one night in 1993, I remember coming home after a few drinks and calling him up and trying to talk to him, and perhaps because of the language barrier or the sheer shock of a random call from a foreigner, it went quite…weird. Anyway, he put out a cool zine that was written in better english than most US-based zines, with cool commentary on the scene at the time, and this issue has very timely interviews with Anathema, At the Gates, and The Gathering among others, and there is even an interview with Finnish punk band Hybrid Children, who never made it far outside Suomi, but were actually very good and could have been the bigger than Green Day or whoever if they got the right ‘international push’…anyways, here is (most of) the content…
