Monthly Archives: November 2017

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(record review)COFFIN CAROUSEL-“Between Death&Dead”(Eclipse Records)

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Coffin Carousel are coming from Australia, Melbourne. The Australian scene is great, with so many punk, hardcore and metal bands coming out nowadays.

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This record came out on Eclipse Records and it contains 17 songs of dark and emotional music. Coffin Carousel play a mixture of doom metal and goth rock(more) with horrorpunk and hardcore influences(less). Lyrically they deal with some personal demons and the lyrics are very deep and not your conventional generic horror stuff, not that it is something wrong with that. While listening to this record you can actually feel the sun setting down or darkening in the sky. There is one little thing that bothered me on this record and that is the vocal lines and melodies, I think the singing could be a little bolder and with more emotions behind it on some songs, and I am sure that the singer can do it because he has an awesome voice. But, thats only me. Maybe they just wanted it this way. What I personally loved the most on this record is the feeling of coldness and nothingness in this music and the atmosphere that they managed to get on this record makes it worth listening.

7/10

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(record review)Radioactive Chicken Heads-“Tales From The Coop”

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Now, this is one of the more original bands in the scene. Coming from California, these are Radioactive Chicken Heads and this is their new album “Tales From The Coop”.

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The album contains 13 hilarious songs of horrorpunk mixed with some rock and surf influences and old school horror movie vibe.

Now, lyrically the album deals with tales from the coop. Done in a parody way, but I am not sure if it was meant to be parody. You cant go wrong with song titles like “Wiccan Chicken” with great female vocal melodies or “Frankenchicken” or an excellent cover of “Somebodys Watching Me” by Rockwell and Michael Jackson. I really enjoyed the song structures varying from almost cabaret singing and melodies to more punkish stuff. I am usually very careful considering the bands that are original an unique but this one is definitely something new, fresh and different. I would like to see and listen to this band live because I am sure that their live show would be awesome. I really enjoyed this record.

7,5/10

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(record review)ANTI FLAG-“American Fall”(Spinefarm Records)

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I saw Anti Flag play live for the first time in my life this year at Punk Rock Holiday festival in Slovenia. It was an awesome experience and I still get goosebumps when I remember their set because they were totally the winner that day and one of the festival definitive highlights.

The fans of the band including me were eager to listen how this new album will sound like and it did not disappoint me. After the last one, “American Spring” comes “American Fall” and it is an awesome package of 11 songs. The music is as before melodic punk with some hardcore influences and ultra political lyrics dealing with racism, homophobia, current situation in America and the world which more and more becomes the slave playground for the rich and poorer get poor, so the world is just the baloon waiting to blow up and what will become of it, nobody knows.

As always, there are tracks that are for us who listen highlights and for me “Racists” and “The Criminals” are total standout tracks on this record and I hope that the band will include it in their live set because I am sure it will be fantastic live. This is an awesome album so check it out!

9/10

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