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.
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.
Perkele are back with a new album out with Spirit of the Streets and I listened and reviewed the new record for our zine.
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.
01.07.2019.is the date you set for Flogging Molly gig in Croatia! The gig will take place in Tvornica Kulture and all of the Early Bird tickets are gone in just ten days!
You can get your ticket for 180 kuna in Dirty Old Shop(Tratinska 18 in Zagreb) or online via web so be fast. At the entrance the tickets will be sold for 200 kuna if any are left until then. The ticket you buy gives you 20% discount for the band´s t-shirts and flags or 10% discount for the band´s records.
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