Monthly Archives: May 2019

Reviews, Various

(record review) UBERGANG-Evolution (Demons Run Amok Entertainment)

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German brutal hardcore band Ubergang are about to release their new album with Demons Run Amok Entertainment. I listened and reviewed the new album for our zine.

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As I said, these guys are hailing from  Germany and this is their second release after having some line-up changes. The band stays for antifascism, antihomophobia, antiracism and they have their hearts and minds in the right places. There are 10 songs on this record. The music is modern brutal hardcore leaning more on the metalic thrash side of things, but also having a lot of catchy hooks and hardcore rooted parts in the song structures. Groovy parts of the songs mix with brutal blastbeats like for example in the awesome Im Auge des Sturms which is one of my favorites having brutal verses transforming into melodic clean sung choruses. One of album highlights for sure. Also, Bis zum Limit is one of my faves with atmospheric beginning and a lot of nice catchy parts thrown in the song. The lyrics are in German language and I love the bands that use it in their music. I speak German, so I understand that they deal with personal stuff, battling your own everyday demons, but also you can read a lot of social criticism through the lines. Also, one of my favorites is Speigelbild having great sad guitar line melody being somehow between aggression and melancholy. I am not such an avid fan of modern hardcore, but this band has it all, aggression, melody, attitude and that makes this record great and go get it!

8,5/10

 

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(record review) New Found Glory-From The Screen To Your Stereo 3 (Hopeless Records)

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The new album by New Found Glory is out with Hopeless Rec and I listened and reviewed it for our zine.

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The band has been in the scene since 1997.and they are based in Florida. This is their third cover album they did besides regular studio albums. The album contains 7 songs from your favorite movies transformed into NFG´s trademark melodic pop punk style. As it always is, some songs are better than others, so The Power Of Love, Let It Go and Accidentally In Love are stand outs above rest of the album material. I don´t usually like cover albums or cover bands, but this album is soo good.

7,5/10

 

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(record review) Various Artists-Bridging Oceans (Disconnect Disconnect Rec/Pee Records/Thousand Islands Records/Attractive Records)

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This record is in fact a 4 way split between Bare Teeth(France), Nerdlinger(Australia), Down Memory Lane(Canada) and SHAMES(Japan). I listened and reviewed it for our zine.

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This record is audible proof that there are no boundaries between diy hardcore punk scenes in all of the world and all of the continents as this one features 4 bands from 4 different continents.

There are 3 songs from each band on this record. Bare Teeth from France are our well known band because we already featured them on the pages of this zine, so I knew what to expect from them, being energetic and technical fast melodic hardcore punk with Storytellers being my favorite from their side of the record.

Down Memory Lane are Canadian veterans being formed in 1994., disbanded and reformed back in 2017. to release new music and full length this year, first after 15 years! I was pleasently surprised by their music, with very melodic and fast punkrock without too much philosophy with nice catchy, almost sad melodies and backing vocal harmonies from heaven! My favorite song from their side: Unknown Veterans.

Australian heroes Nerdlinger were also featured already on our pages, so we are not a stranger to their fast, massive party melodic hardcore mixed with reggae ska parts in some songs, which always brings back a smile to my face. Dual vocals, great melodies, energetic music that makes you moving just fit for a nice Sunday while I am writing this feature. Favorite song: Baseballs.

SHAMES were uknown to me prior to this record, but it is an awesome melodic hardcore punk band in the vein of the 90-ies California bands, meaning speed, melody, at times melancholic guitar lines, great vocals and backing vocals and anthemic choruses. Their music is so good that I listened to their songs for couple of times in a row. Favorite song: Break The Parasite.

Awesome idea, awesome bands, awesome record!

9/10

https://disconnectdisconnectrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bridging-oceans