Law of Inertia is another zine that mainly focuses on interviews, this time going with bands as diverse as The Aeffect, Princess Superstar, and Strife, and I can honestly say that I don’t have the problem that I typically do with these interview-focused ‘zines : boredom. Law of Inertia has an extremely competent set of writers that honestly know about the bands they interview and make each interview a completely different experience from the others in the zine. However, the layout (which is physically brilliant) give Law of Inertia a slight black mark – some pages are literally just the title of the band that is being interview, and the one or two non-interview pieces or sections are stuck at the end of the magazine. What might make the zine easier to read as a whole in one setting would be to throw one or two pages of reviews between each interview, to break up the sheer amount of question-answer back and forth. While each interview might be this differing experience, lets’ be honest here: you can only spin a thinly-veiled advertisement for a band so many ways. Still, if I actually bought glossy magazines like Law of Inertia, I think LOI would probably be the one I would go for after Punk Planet. For 5 bucks, the zine and the disc that comes with each issue makes this package one that would be hard to pass up.
John Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as Sargeant, is the founder and editor-in-chief of NeuFutur Magazine, where he has covered independent music, PC hardware, consumer tech, and gaming culture since 1998. With over 25 years of continuous digital publishing experience, he has written thousands of hands-on game and record reviews, conducted in-depth hardware field testing, and analyzed digital media monetization trends. His work prioritizes first-hand evaluation and long-term product testing.
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