(record review)TRASHED AMBULANCE-“Flashes of Competence”(Thousand Islands Records)

Trashed Ambulance are coming from Canada, Alberta.  “Flashes of Competence” is their sophomore album that came out via Thousand Islands Records and I had privilege to hear it and review it for this zine!

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The album contains 12 songs of excellent fast paced melodic skatepunk with a lot of hardcore punk influences. The musicianship on this record is very tight and all the songs sound very uplifting, very energetic and they bring back a smile upon your tired punk face when you listen to the record. If I must draw some comparisons, it all reminds me a lot of early Nofx even in vocal department, which is not a bad thing because Trashed Ambulance doesn´t sound like anyone´s clone, quite the contrary. The other band this music reminds me of is Croatian band One Step Away. For me the hightlights of this album and the best songs are “Relics”, and especially “Swarm” with anthemic singalong which I am sure sounds awesome live. As I understand the lyrics are a fine mix of personal and political issues. The guitar melodies are very catchy in combination with fast paced drumming and the vocal and back vocal harmonies just kick ass! I really love this record, give it a try and get it! Show some love to the guys, it will mean a lot I am sure!

8,5/10

Follow Trashed Ambulance on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/trashedambulance/

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Bandcamp: https://thousandislandsrecords.bandcamp.com/

 

(record review)THE CRIMSON GHOSTS-“Yet Not Human”(Ring of Fire Records)

Yes! Finally, the bloody grin is back on my tired skull, meaning that the new The Crimson Ghosts album is out after long and dark years of waiting for another full length to arrive after the awesome “Generation Gore”.

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“Yet Not Human” is the fifth full length of German horrorpunk legends, the band that inspired me a lot and for me the best European horrorpunk band ever. After eight years and some drummer lineup changes, I was eager to hear how this album will sound like. Judging by the awesome single “Don´t Follow” for which the video was made, I expected something awesome, this song is mid tempo horrorpunk anthem with memorable guitar melody and Vlad´s vocals sound better than ever. Besides that song, there are 12 more songs on this record and this record is in my opinion different than their previous releases. The record is still full of classic The Crimson Ghosts anthemic melodies, choruses made for singing along and I am eager to hear one day how this new material will sound like live. The band managed to find the perfect blend of horrorpunk, metal and harsher fast hardcore punk music. They also managed not to repeat themselves and stay original through all the years. “A Mother´s Heart” is touching Psycho inspired horrorpunk anthem which I love. I also loved “Rebirth” which is one of my favourite songs on the record having a chorus which made goosebumps on my skin. Perfect metal influences can be heard in “S.A.L.I.G.I.A.” and the awesome and mighty “Patient Zero”. There is one unusual, slower, rolling song “Ego sum qui intus habitat” which has a very evil and ominous atmosphere and I loved it. Vlad is singing his dark soul out, proving to be one of the best horrorpunk vocals of all times out there. The rest of the crew is tighter musically than ever, creating an energetic wave with their music. Like it is already tradition, there is also one song with lyrics in German, being “Leichenschmaus”. After hearing this album on repeat for ten times, I can only congratulate The Crimson Ghosts on their triumphant return!

10/10

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(new video)New Lyric Video from Allout Helter feat. Nuno Pereira (A Wilhelm Scream)

Allout Helter just released a radical new music video for their song “Speed of Blight,” off their latest release The Notion of Control.

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 The video was created & edited by their guitarist Ryan Tate and the track even features a guest vocal performance from Nuno Pereira of A Wilhelm Scream.

The Notion of Control was released in October 2017 and was produced by Trevor Reilly. Vinyl is available through Bird Attack Records HERE: https://birdattackrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-notion-of-control