Resolve from France released new single Pendulum, listen it here!

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France based quartet has been eager to show their peer that they won’t settle for anything but greatness. Resolve offered us in the end of 2018 a single “Carmela” that brought all the attention of the fans of melodic hardcore fans. Their strong work ethic and attention to details allowed them to open shows for Architects, Every Time I Die, While She Sleeps to name a few, all of that within the first few months of the band’s stammering career.

Thanks to a strong lead-up campaign, a couple of singles released via the popular YouTube channel Dreambound, and various official Spotify playlists, their debut 6 tracks EP ‘Rêverie’, released in October 2017 reached peak position in the French Itunes Metal Charts and #5 in the Rock Charts. The four boys spent the rest of their first year as a band touring their home country as well as Europe and the UK, and unveiled music videos one after the other, fulfilling their initial plan of releasing a fully watchable record.

Over the last few weeks, we’ve had this question stuck in our heads: what’s the best possible comeback for a young and unestablished band after three months of almost complete silence?
Definitely not by releasing your longest running song yet, which also happens to include a lengthy atmospheric break and a « drum solo-ish » ending? And yet, as I’m writing this a few days before unveiling ‘Pendulum’ to the world, I don’t think we’ve been prouder of a song yet. It includes lots of elements that were already used sporadically on our earlier works: synths, strings, vocoders, none of those are really new to our music, but are delivered in a much more noticeable and mature way this time around. It’s also worth mentioning that the overall production, while still completely done by the three of us in our own recording studio, is a step-up from our previous releases for sure.

Lyrics-wise, I think this is the most honest to ourselves we’ve ever been. Letting go of all the self-doubt that inevitably stems from giving so much of yourself to your art was a cathartic process for sure. That’s also the reason why we chose to shot our most minimalist video yet to accompany the song, as a way to invite the listener to delve into the various layers of instrumentation and focus on lyrical delivery.

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(record review)BROWBEAT-Remove The Control(Indelirum Records)

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Italian hardcore scene lives and breeds with more and more awesome bands each day coming out, putting out records, playing gigs. Browbeat are one of the old guard in the scene and I listened and reviewed their new record out on Indelirium Records.

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Browbeat were originally formed in 1998., release couple of records, toured a lot and became one of the more significant bands from the late 90-ies, early 2000-s Italian hardcore scene. They disbanded somewhere in 2007. and reformed stronger than ever in 2017. Hence, new gigs, new record. This new one contains intro plus 9 songs of harsh and streetwise brutal hardcore in the style played in late 90-ies. If I must compare it to some bands it would be Madball like in When The Profit Kills, but also I hear brutal Earth Crisis style in A Forgotten Number but also some new Hatebreed/Machine Head style can be heard in the material. Do not get me wrong, these guys are not mere copies of the forementioned bands, they developed their own brutal style and polished it in hardcore black diamond of the scene. So, if you love your hardcore brutal with gang backing vocals and some clean melodic chorus thrown in here and there, you came to the right place.

8/10

 

(record review)PERKELE-Leaders Of Tommorow(Spirit of the Streets Records)

Perkele are back with a new album out with Spirit of the Streets and I listened and reviewed the new record for our zine.

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The Swedes surprised not only me, but many old fans with the single and the video they released prior to the record called One Day. The chorus of the song is good, but I had to re-check the line-up to see if it is the same guys playing. It is not generally bad when band changes style and evolves in its existence, but some bands just don`t fit into that category and Perkele are definitely one of them. They gained a lot of fans during the years with their melodic, but streetsmart version of punk. This new album contains 10 songs, but the sound of the band is now just to metalic. Yes, the early recordings where also metalized, but this new sound just doesn`t suits me as a listener. The guitar solos are too often and too many, the galloping metal riffs are also too often and I wondered if it is Iron Maiden or Perkele apart from the trademark vocals. Not all is black, there are some awesome songs on the record like Miss U or Stand By You, but the other bad songs like the cheesy ballad Mistakes and others  are just too many to make this album a keeper. Listen to yourself and decide I gave it a spin for many times and still it`s bad.

4/10

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