This is a long awaited debut album, by SLED, released on Bird Attack Records. This band was formerly known as Pinhole Down, but they never released an album, so they changed their name into Slade and made some awesome music and released this album.

Sled was formed by Garrett Wadford, mainman of Bird Attack Records, whom I had an honour to meet and talk to at Punk Rock Holiday in Slovenia in 2016.and this year, so I can say he is a cool and one of the friendliest guys I have met in the punkrock scene nowadays.

Back to the album. It contains ten songs of fast paced and energetic skatepunk/melodic hardcore made with a touch of metal influence and played ferociously and with heart and soul. The guitars are shredding and have more than one awesome melodic hook. The vocals are kinda harsh but at the same time singing great melodies and they are neither snotty or too mellow. The lyrics are as I understand and hear, the nice mix of politics and personal. I really loves this record, it has no instant great hit on it, but it is an excellent energetic melodic hardcore record as a whole. Top songs: “Numb and Dumb”, “Recidivist”.

8/10

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