(record review)Bloodsucking Zombies From Outer Space-All these fiendish things

March 4, 2019 vladkraykulla Leave a comment

BZFOS are back! And what a return it is! The new record rocks out with all guns blazing. I was lucky to listen and review it for our zine.

Who is not familiar with the name, Bloodsucking Zombies From Outer Space are from Vienna, Austria and have been around for quite a while delivering their gore soaked horrorbilly albums led by drummer/vocalist Richie, avid horror movie maniac!

2019 - All These Fiendish Things

Now, the brand new album offers couple of surprises. First, there is a new line-up. Besides new bassist the band recruited the new drummer and held their first gig at the record release with Richie solely concentrating on vocal duties. The second surprise is the change in the music of the band. For me, the change went for even better than previous albums. The music on this album is in my opinion more melodic, more sinister and has more horrorpunk and shock rock oriented song structures and not so much psychobilly like before. The lyrics are still great with a lot of serial killer, gore, tongue in cheek dark humour and Richie sings better than ever and the riffs, melodies and anthemic choruses make my skin crawl with goosebumps now after listening to the record three times in a row. For me the best songs on the record are This Ain˙t No Halloween Costume, Rebel Heart and Don`t Answer The Phone, but all of the 12 songs plus intro are the strongest and best material of this band since 2010. This is for sure one of my candidates for the album of the year!

10/10

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(gig report)Fakofbolan celebrated their 25th birthday in Unterhund!

March 3, 2019 vladkraykulla Leave a comment

Unterhund in Ormož, Slovenia was once again a place to be on a Saturday night. After recent Slapshot gig which was awesome, it was time for another punk legends to step on the stage of this beautiful club.

Fakofbolan are now legendary punk band from Pula, Croatia. When I was a kid growing up in a time of war and darkness in the early nineties, their songs helped me carry on through all that shit and we were singing those songs during every birthday party bash, we were all we had back then, no internet, only fanzines and letters and record/tape trading.

Now, Fakofbolan are celebrating 25 years in the scene, okay they had a pause of couple of years in between, but who cares? We were in Unterhund when they played there back in 2012.and I still remember that show with a smile on my face, so I was happy to go there again, being near our hometown and it was Saturday night.

When we arrived, there were quite a few people talking, joking and drinking in front of the club and inside. Time quickly passed in good company and the gig started around 11 pm. The band which opened the gig was Orkester Selotejp from Slovenia. Those guys played some version of ska/rock/punk and their set was long, but they just weren´t my cup of tea, but the people had fun and that´s what is most important.

Fakofbolan stepped on stage, checked their instruments and without too many talk started their set, 25 songs for the 25 years of band. Their set was made of songs from all of their releases, the last album from 2014.that doesn´t suit me so well and all of the oldies but goldies like Ulica, Da li znaš, Ostali smo, Neznani junaci…The people were dancing, singing along and having fun, Šapo and company from the band were happy and the gig was superb. I was so happy when they played old songs like Imamo Hrvatsku and Ropstvo je sloboda. The time passed by in a flash and the gig was over, so we went home a bit tired, but happy after another great punk gig. Cheers and many, many thanks to the people of Unterhund for doing such a fine job with promoting great gigs.