Daily Archives: June 15, 2018

Reviews, Various

(record review)MADBALL-“For the Cause”(Nuclear Blast)

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New York hardcore legends Madball just dropped their new full length studio effort via Nuclear Blast. I listened to the new record and reviewed it for this webzine.

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I saw Madball playing live at Punk Rock Holiday festival last Summer in Slovenia and they were awesome, true hardcore energy that could be felt around during their live set was immense and wicked. This record was marked by the absence of long time guitarist Mitts and in his place old time friend and once guitarist Matt Henderson recorded the guitars. Under Tue Madsen doing the mix and mastering and Tim Armstrong who joined forces with the singer Freddy Cricien productionwise, this record was bound to be great. The record contains 12 songs. Besides tried Madball classic sounding songs like “Smile Now Pay Later” or “Old Fashioned” there are couple of songs that stand out and make this album awesome. The first is “Rev Up”, a true hardcore anthem for 21st century with Freddy singing the melodic parts and sounding truely awesome. There are some guest appearances on the record and Ice-T adds coolness and charisma to “Evil Ways”. I love “Lone Wolf” because it is the song and lyrics that I can make the most relation to on this record. Tim Armstrong of Operation Ivy/Rancid fame co produced the record and adds guest vocals on “The Fog”. This is a full blooded punkrock song with some interesting breaks and guitar solo thrown in for good measure. Of course, there would be one song in Spanish, this time “Es Tu Vida” with heavy stomping breaks and hardcore streetwise vibe. “For You” is the most emotional song on this album and it brought tears to my eyes because I remembered my sister and all the other brothers and sisters from the scene no longer with us. For me this song is the best on this album and it makes me going strong and carry on after almost a quarter of century in this scene. The title track is a piece of hardcore history itself. This is a strong album, the material on this album is definitely one of the candidates for hardcore album of the year!

10/10

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(record review)The Flatliners-“Mass Candescence e.p.”(Dine Alone Records)

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The Flatliners released their new e.p. via Dine Alone Records. I count myself lucky that I was able to listen and review the record for this webzine.

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The record contains three songs and it practically continues where the current studio album “Inviting Light” left off. This means melodic punkrock with a lot of emotions behind the music and lyrics. “The Arousal of Repair” is for me the best song on this record being straight in the head and when I listen to this song I am talking about some classy punkrock forya. When I was a younger kid I didn´t like bands like The Flatliners because I thought that they were too slow and calm for my rebel punkrock taste. Nowadays things are different and I dig bands like these a lot. Frontman Chris Cresswell sounds better than ever and “Moves Too Quickly” is a song based on nice vocal melody and great guitar memorable melodies to support it. “Wide eyes” complete the album nicely creating that hole that just leaves you wanting more. I guess that is what makes this record great!

8/10

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(new video and album-punkrock)DEAD GIRLS ACADEMY PREMIERE MUSIC VIDEO FOR “EVERYTHING”, album out on Victory Records

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We recently featured the review for the new Dead Girls Academy that came out on Victory Records in this webzine and now they premiere the new video which you can watch here!

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DEAD GIRLS ACADEMY have premiered their latest visual masterpiece ‘Everything,’ taken from their debut Alchemy. The album hit shelves tomorrow as the band prepare for the their second jaunt on the Vans Warped Tour starting next week, June 21, outside their L.A. hometown in Pomona, CA.

“Many times in my life I’ve been made to feel a lesser person, been told I’m a freak and spoken about negatively just because that person didn’t understand what I was about,” admits vocalist Michael Orlando. “There are so many different types of people in this world, however nobody is better than the other. ‘Everything’ points to the fact that we are all human and I strongly believe we should all have equal respect. It took many years for me to build a solid wall between these sorts of comments and people. When Ronnie (Radke) and I sat down to write, we wanted to speak truths and the truth is not always full of cherries. I want people to understand you’re not alone in this world. Hate is a low vibration and one that can be destroyed by understanding.”

Written and Produced by Ronnie Radke, Michael Orlando

Engineered by Tyler Smith

Mixed by Elvis Baskette