Monthly Archives: April 2019

Reviews, Various

(record review)THE LUCITONES-Three Moons(Batcave Records)

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Batcave Records continues its triumphant crusade by giving us awesome psychobilly releases, this time I listened and reviewed for our zine the new record by The Lucitones.

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Formed in 2015.in Montana, these guys play catchy, contagious like the zombie outbreak, melodic punkrock psychobilly. This new record contains 12 songs. If I must compare the music to some bands, then it would be like a mixture of Koffin Kats, The Rocketz and Stellar Corpses. After the instrumental Bulletproof, the album provides killer tunes like Her Crypt In The Woods or The Temptress, with beautiful haunting melodies in the song verses, great vocals made for singing along, then the anthemic choruses join in, which just make you wanna listen to the record more and more. Most of the songs on this record make me wish that I have wrote them, how good they are. The title track reminds me with its vibe of some old school Hammer horror movie. To sum up the impressions, I love this record, it is awesome!

8,5/10

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(news-hardcore) Next Time Mr. Fox: The Debut Album “Sunken City” Out On April 26th!

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Italian hardcore-metal act NEXT TIME MR. FOX has announced the release of their debut album “Sunken City”, who will be available in digital and physical version on April 26th. Recorded/mixed at Wavemotion Recording Studio and with two guest appearance, the new album is an impressive step ahead for the quintet, as explained by them: “‘Sunken City’ is an experiment by Next Time Mr. Fox band releasing this first album. In these 12 tracks we can find a lot of metal music influences: from metalcore – the pure band genre – to southern metal, guitars rhythms plays stolen from djent, hardcore open chords verses, evil thrash metal riffs who leave room to melodic sounds, deadly deathcore breakdowns alternate with slow beatdown/downtempo breakdowns. Screams and growls always dominate the tracks, nevertheless the band shows versatility also on the singing point of view, including melodic vocals, with the presence of Gabriele Catoni from Let Them Fall (clean vocals) and Mattia Maffioli from Drown In Sulpuhr (screams and growls) on two songs. Intriguing to note the ending of different tracks who report similar sounds, those sounds are some of the “unexplained sounds” detected by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), used as enrichment to the meaning of the album. Breaks, stop’n’go, despair times and always a catchy taste are the keys who Next Time Mr. Fox used to link the old and the new school of metal music, with big basic ethics”.

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1. Tottenham Swingers (feat. Mattia Maffioli)
2. Humboldt
3. The All Or Nothing Days (feat. Gabriele Catoni)
4. Beholder
5. R’lyeh
6. Mother
7. Drag Me To You
8. Image Of Sin
9. Grandiose Delusion
10. Volumes
11. Sunken City
12. Misery (Gallows cover)

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(record review)Brix´n Mortar-Freshcut(single)

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Brix´n Mortar are young band from Salem, Massatchusetts formed in 2018. This is their first single, released as an announcement for the upcoming full length record. I listened and reviewed it for our zine.

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This trio is formed in 2018.and they play their version of oi with hardcore/punk and they do it pretty good. This single features two songs. Besides the title song which is a true blood pumping oi/streetpunk song starting slowly and evolving the guitar melody into tight streetpunk with hardcore guitar background. What I love about this band are dual vocals, one harsh street oi and second more melodic one. The harsh voiced singer reminds me a lot of Discipline from Holland and I love it. The title song lyrics are about friendship, going to shows, proving yourself in the scene and singing along with Micky Fitz, may he rest in power. Awesome song. The kinda b-side of the single is Suburban Murders starting nicely with piano and guitar melody like some ballad. But, don´t be fooled, this is superb melodic streetpunk anthem, I still get goosebumps when listening to this one. The lyrics to this one are more personal about love and pride, being what you really are. I love the sound of the voice and harmony of the girl who did the backing vocals for this song. For me, this one is better than the title song. I can´t wait for the full album!

8,5/10

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