Progression issue 2 (1998)

Progression was a fanzine published in Berlin at the end of the 1990ies with  Felix Heiduk and Katrin Lindenmann being the two editors.  I remember seeing three issues being distributed by different labels and distros all over Europe. Of course, it was also largely available at shows of that time. 800 copies were made of the second issue, which featured interviews with Trial, Morning Again, Outlast and Serpico - all of them with well thought-out questions that set the zine apart from your standard interview question. I found the one with Serpico's John Lisa memorable as it was the first thing that came to my find when I found the zine im my "immense" (big laughter) fanzine archive a couple of days ago.

It was then Serpico's last tour and the band would eventually disband after the last European show at Cologne. John talks about his memories and why he is fed up with hardcore and that they wanted to end the band so they could "go out with style instead of making it pathetic" - in fact, he had said everything he wanted to do say in music and that he had had a great time with it.  Later in the interview he doubts that people with still talk about his band ten or more years later: "Unfortunately there's a lot (of) bands coming out after us that are doing the same thing we're doing and some of them do it a lot better than us." Well, dear John, we are in 2010 now and there is still people talking about you and your band....

The rest of the zine contains some short colums and essays plus records and fanzine reviews. You can read it in every line that these are not two 14years old writing for the first time making this zine a pleasure to read even 12 years later.