Rancid Soup Two
June 1991. Welcome, fine and not-so-fine diners, to the menu of Rancid Soup’s second issue — a proper leap forward from number one, served with a free plastic spoon.
In my opinion this was a great leap forward from #1 — and, going by the reviews, plenty of others thought so too.
The second issue crammed in tons of reviews, demonology tales, seven worldwide scene reports, class drawings, a Stephen King works’ debate, a “Flowers & Shovels” doom-metal section, an emotional My Dying Bride article, and a full 34 interviews — all served up with a free plastic spoon to stir the whole bile-mess with.
As with the first, the scans aren’t perfect: the masters are in Malta, and these came from my one and only stapled copy after migrating. Have a look through the slideshow of sample pages on the archived site, grab the PDF, or — where copies survive — a hard copy.
What the press made of it
“A good vibe and feel whilst reading through this zine; the interviews were generally deep and informative, and the occasional blast of humour came through as well.”— Terrorizer (UK)
“These 70 pages of small text contain hours of reading… it never gets boring thanks to Malcolm’s entertaining scribblings and varied, well-performed English. Malcolm throws in some really unexpected questions and his interviews generally hold a good standard.”— Script Infernal (Sweden)
That’s a taste — the full set of reviews and the worldwide distributor list lives on its own page.
Thirty years on, still serving it up.
These days the menu is guitar, bass, uke and theory lessons. Pull up a chair.