(record review)BINARY-Commit More Arson(Zegema Beach Records)

Binary are hardcore/powerviolence/metalcore/screamo band from Philadelphia and I reviewed their record for our zine. The record is out with Zegema Beach Records.

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These guys play interesting mixture of metalic hardcore, screamo vocals and occasional powerviolence blastbeats delivering an energetic punch of in your face hardcore. There are 9 songs on this record. I love how they used samples or spoken word in some songs(Do You Know How An Angler Fish Works?) because I think such parts perfectly fit in dissonant and harsh music like this one. The songs are short and sweet, just the way they should be, with strange titles like I´ll Backhand The Fuck Out Of The Seagull or Like Us On Facebook To Make Us Hypocrites, haha, I swear I can also hear Converge, Today Is The Day and some New Orleans sludge influence in there, like EyeHateGod or Buzzoven similar parts thrown in. This is the kinda hardcore that I love nowadays. Underground scene is beautiful when you discover new and awesome bands every single fucking day. Great stuff!

8,5/10

 

 

(new video)Rykers , new video “Lets Ruin The Scene” out now!

Rykers released another song from their upcoming record “The Beginning…”.
The song is called “Lets Ruin The Scene” and it is the second single release.
The full length will be out on May 31st via BDHW Rec.

The Pre Order has already started:
BDHW: http://smarturl.it/rykers.bdhw
CORE TEX: http://smarturl.it/rykers.ctr
IMPERICON: http://smarturl.it/rykers.imp

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Photocredit: Sonja Leonhard Fotografie

 

(column)Has punk become too sensitive?

I am writing this rantings in the year 2019., so punk is officially over 40 years old now. From old school Sex Pistols and 70-ies chaos years, over the 80-ies and Ron and Maggie fear of nuclear war years, to 90-ies and appearance of scene polluting bands like Green Day, Blink 182 and similar shitty bands claiming to be punk and taking our beloved scene mainstream to the masses where we never wanted it to be, to 21st century and new millenia, punk endured it all.

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But, one thing I ask myself too often is, have the people in the scene become too sensitive, too afraid to express their thoughts and opinions, too much in the comfort political correct zone? Sometimes at the gigs, I get the feeling more and more, like there is not a thing you can say and you are immediately proclaimed to be fascist, anti this, anti that, homophobe, xenophobe and similar nice names. I mean, I hate those politically correct punk police in the scene, that watch your every move. They watch what bands you listen, what jokes you tell, what t-shirts you are wearing and so on, so on.

7 or 8 years ago, I sang for the band Kraykulla And The Gypsyfuckers. We were punk band from our hometown and the name of the band was our intern joke regarding our county in the north of Croatia. When we played gigs here in the northern parts of the country and there were never problems. Also, Slovenia was never problem, or Hungary for that case. But, in some larger towns in Croatia, we were branded nazis, racists, biggots and shit. One time at the club where we played, the girl at the bar didn´t want to give me my drink saying she doesn´t serve nazis?! I was wtf! We changed our name to KGF then, only to avoid the arguments with those narrow minded anarchoid empty headed bastards, pc punk police, who are often bigger fascists than the nazi boneheads themselves. If you are not agreeing totally with their opinions about veganism, squatting, music, bla bla, you are immediately against them, so who is the fascist now, you bastards?

After all, it is easy living in squat and being a jerk and showing off when you don´t have to work because your rich Mommy and Daddy have enough money to support you until the day they die. Some say they want to make punk a threat again. Punk was never a threat, punk was music and being creative, anything goes, remember? Unfortunately with anything goes, we got empty headed punk pc police too. 21st century, but no brain at all.