Monthly Archives: February 2019

Reviews, Various

(record review)Short Fuse-Sink or Swim(Indelirium Records)

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Short Fuse are hardcore band based in Rome, Italy and they just released their new  first full length album through Indelirium Records.

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As I like to say, this hardcore band lives between two worlds. You will probably wonder how and why? Well, the guys picked up in their music the best from both worlds. First one is old school hardcore world with hardcore from the 90-ies leaning more towards punkrock roots influenced songwriting, streetpunk smart attitude and riffs. The second world is modern urban hardcore with breakdowns, metalic sounding hooks and screamed and shouted vocals topped with gang singalong backing vocals. There are 8 songs on this album, one of them having guest performance by Josh from Tempest. The lyrics are in English and as I read them while listening they are mostly personal about love, loss, life and friendship, also inner demons of the psyche. This is energetic and good hardcore record. Support the hardcore scene worldwide and get and try this album.

8/10

https://www.facebook.com/shortfuseroma

https://www.facebook.com/indeliriumrecords/

https://shortfuseroma.bandcamp.com/

 

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(record review)Slenders-Angry Youth(This is Core)

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Italian scene always has awesome bands that create vast and strong network of bands, friends, promoters, zines…One of such bands is Slenders. I listened and reviewed for our zine the new record out on This Is Core.

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The new album contains 10 songs of awesome melodic punk with a lot of hardcore influences. I read somewhere that they categorize this band under pop punk, but believe me, this is pure melodic punkrock with a lot of hardcore, played from the heart with heart. The lyrics are in English langauge and they are fine mix of anger, politics and personal stuff like love, loss and inner darkness. Being a sucker for faster, more aggressive side of songs, I somehow like most the fastest songs on the album like ZAH or Young Blood being my favorites. The vocals are very important in bands such as these, I love the vocals which are being sung, but sometimes screamed at the top of lungs and the vocalist of this band somehow reminds me of one of my favorite singers that is Koca from Croatian band Fat Prezident. The guys covered The Cure´s Boys Don`t Cry and they did it perfectly. Love this album.

8/10

https://www.facebook.com/slenders.official/

https://www.facebook.com/thisiscoremusic/

 

 

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(record review)OLDFASHIONED IDEAS-Still Worth Fighting For

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Oldfashioned Ideas from Sweden have been around for ten years now. They recently released their brand new album, so I listened and reviewed it for our zine.

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This trio plays OI/Streetpunk in it`s best form, meaning rough and melodic street anthems with a lot of heart, gang vocals singalong hymnic choruses and great lyrics. There are some wicked streetpunk melodic song structures and vocals just enough to be nice and rough, yet singing great.  Some albums just give me goosebumps on my skin and put a wicked smile back on my face and this album is one of such records. I love songs like No Go Down, I Know or This Is My Time, but also the rest of the material on this record reminds me why is punk/hardcore scene so beautiful and why I love this scene so much for more than 25 years now. I recommend you guys, go get this album, if you are a fan of music like this, you just won˙t be sorry.

9/10

https://www.facebook.com/oldfashionedideas/