Monthly Archives: December 2018

Reviews, Various

(record review)INCISIONS-Incisions(TNSrecords)

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Manchester UK seems to be great city for diy punk bands, this time I listened and reviewed the new Incisions record out on TNSrecords.

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Formed in 2015., these guys have been playing their version of angry, but melodic American inspired hardcore punk. This record is proof how such band should sound like. There are 12 songs in circa 19 minutes on this record. Lyrics are shouted and sometimes melodic sung and it sounds awesome. The lyrics are about right winged tide threat rising in Europe and the world right now, liquor, life, friendship, politics and in fact the lyrics are smart mixture of personal, humour and political. For me favorite tracks on this album are War In Your Head, I Wanna Die With You and Corrupted System.

If you are into your hardcore punk sounding harsh, yet with melody, and having street smart mojo in the songs, then Incisions record is the right one for you.

8/10

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/incisionsmcr/

https://www.facebook.com/TNSrecords/

 

 

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(record review)THE SOBERS-The Sobers IV

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I must admit that I have never heard of The Sobers prior to this record, but now I am so happy that I did after I listened and reviewed their new record for our zine.

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The Sobers are punkrock band from Marseille, France and their new record contains 13 songs. I was blown away at the start of the album how greasy and dirty it sounds and how easily it evolves into beautiful melody in the first song D.L.D. So, the music these guys play is dirty, but still melodic punk with mainly personal, but also good and smart lyrics. I would definitely love to hear how this material sounds live. Damn! Vocals are harsher sung, but still enough melodic and appealing, backing and harmony vocals are awesome too, so all of you who read my reviews know how important are the vocals for me in such bands. There are some songs that were more outstanding for me, those being: Shitty Halo, It Could Have Been A Better Day, Blood Feud. This is a great album for the fans of rawer, yet melodic punkrock.

7/10

https://www.facebook.com/TheSobers/

https://thesobers.bandcamp.com/album/the-sobers-iv

 

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(movie)THE NUN(2018.)

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I don`t know why most of the horror fans went mad for The Conjuring movies, but they somehow didn˙t work out for me. They were okay, but nothing special, like all or most of the modern horror cinema mainstream movies. Now, The Nun is featured in cinemas, being the spinoff from The Conjuring universe, based on spooky nun character from the second Conjuring movie. I was eager to check out this one.

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It started promising with a suicide of a nun in a remote Romanian monastery and a priest and the nun to be are sent to Romania to see what went on in that monastery. I love how the greyness of the surrounding and the music fit well in the scene with decent acting and the first half an hour of the movie was just fine in my opinion.

There are some really spooky moments like encountering the reverend mother upon arriving to the monastery and the night attack at the old graveyard. Great stuff! Taissa Farmiga(sister of better known Vera Farmiga, known for her role in American Horror Story tv show), was great as sister Irene, Demian Bichir(The Hateful Eight, Machette Kills) too, as father Burke. Their characters somehow add to the overall sinister atmosphere of the movie. They both had some personal torment, which is an important factor in the whole story.

The second half an hour of the movie started with us learning the background of the main characters and spooky and scary events happening in the remote monastery. At that moment my thoughts were that this movie is non stop action packed thrilling ride! I loved absolutely every minute of the first half of the movie! The last third of the movie is reserved for clarifying to us the viewers the history of the cursed monastery and how the nun apparition came to be. The grand finale was good for the movie of this kind. I was so afraid that they will ruin it all in the end, but it was pleasure to see that was not the case. The Nun left some space for the sequel and for couple more thing to be scared of, so I have mixed feelings that the sequel could spoil all the good scares that this movie gave me. Great movie for mainstream cinema horror!

9/10