Epitaph Romance are coming from El Paso, Texas and they are playing horrorpunk with metal and horrorrock influences and I had the privilege to listen and review their awesome new album for this webzine.
The album contains 13 songs of full-on energy and darkness with great melodies. The opening samples of “Army of bones” take the listener into triple vocal hell, combining hellish catchy guitar melodies with clean melodic vocals, almost death metal growls and screaming and the combination is awesome. I loved the faster songs like “Ghoul of my dreams” which is one of the best songs on the album in my opinion. The real winner and one of the absolute highlights of the album is “Last goodbye” a perfect hybrid mix of death metal and horrorpunk in one hell of a song with anthemic chorus. I listened to that one on repeat a couple of times! Keyboard parts surprised me in the middle of the song but that only added to the overall drama and gloominess. “The night he came home” is a beautiful ode to Michael Myers, one of the greatest horror legendary characters of all times. “London fog” is a classic horrorpunk anthem and it reminds me a lot of German The Other vocally and stylistically with somehow Iron Maiden guitar riffs. In all, this is a really great album and check it out and support the guys!
I listened to the debut e.p. by THE LONGSHOT couple of weeks ago and I wasn´t impressed much with what I heard.
Now it is time for their debut full length album and I listened to it and reviewed it for this webzine. For those of you who don´t know it yet, The Longshot is the new band fronted by Billie Joe Armstrong, known as frontman of some little pop punk band called Green Day. Sounds familiar, eh? Joke. The album contains eleven songs of melodic punkrock bordering with a lot of poppier side of punkrock. Don´t get me wrong, the songs are pure quality and production wise the album sounds brilliant, but somehow it just didn´t work with me upon neither first nor second listening. It was just too mellow and too weak songs to like it. The last Green Day record was much stronger compared to this material, I know those are not the same bands and all that, but the songs on this album are just somehow too similar one to another. There are couple of okay tracks like for example “Kill your friends” or “Goodbye to romance” but just not enough compared to the boring ones. If you are a fan of Green Day or Billie Joe´s work you´ll dig this one. If not, do not bother.
Princip is a one man band playing wicked political hardcore punk with a crusty edge and I listened and reviewed both the e.p-s for this webzine. Both records came on Damjan´s label Life As A Dream Records, so keep your eyes and ears peeled for more awesome releases!
Princip was I guess named after Gavrilo Princip, the guy who shot and killed Austro Hungarian crown prince in 1914.. in Sarajevo and thus started the World war I. Of course, the war was imminent, this was only the spark which set the fire alight. The music of PRINCIP is in fact very grim and raw hardcore punk, sometimes chaotic, with politically engaged lyrics against corporate wars, oppression and war. “Fuck your empire” contains 4 songs and it is a bit more raw and chaotic than “Culture of nothing”. The latter contains also 4 songs but is less raw in my opinion and the songs are better on that one. My personal favourite from that record is “Fucking killing”. Both e.p-s are great and I wish Damjan the best of luck with his releases and he´s got support from this webzine as far as we are concerned.
7,5/10
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