Monthly Archives: July 2019

Reviews, Various

(record review) COMRADES-For we are not yet, we are only becoming(Facedown Records)

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Comrades released new full length record with Facedown Records and I listened and reviewed the record for our zine.

Comrades

This band is basically two people operation, consisting of Joe and Laura McElroy. They started playing in Virginia back in 2008.under different band name, but now they are Colorado based band. This new record contains  10 beautiful songs. The music can be categorized as noisy hardcore with emo and punkrock influences. The opener Fault Lines just blew me away with the atmosphere and superb interplay between Laura´s melodic and Joe´s screaming harsh vocals, with guitars creating haunting melodies backed with rolling thunderous drums. Throughout the whole album, some haunting and mystique atmosphere like fog drifting slowly through the landscape surrounds me as a listened with Cliff Dwelling being one of my favorites which takes me sonically really to some other dimension. Goosebumps arose on my skin listening to this record. No Past is also one of my favorites on the record being somehow the heaviest song. Hollow Point is another recommended song with catchy yet simple guitar melody and harsh vocals. Lyrically this band goes into more personal waters, I don´t have a lyric sheet, but as I understand this is a band with lyrics to which I can relate to, also I can battle my inner demons while listening to this wonderful music. Check this one out, it is a keeper!

8,5/10

https://www.facebook.com/WeAreComrades/

https://www.facebook.com/facedownrecords/

 

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(record review) SETBACKS-DED.RECKONING(Morning Wood Records)

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We already wrote about Setbacks here in this zine when we reviewed their last record. Now, the new full length is upon us and in Europe you can get it through Morning Wood Records. Here is the review.

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When we talk about this band we can safely say that we deal with a kind of punkrock supergroup. Featuring ex members of Pridebowl, members of Double Negative, ex Lowprofile to name a few, the members of this band live scattered in UK, South Africa and USA, they are living proof that music really has no boundaries and continents are no problem if you want to play and record music. The album contains 15 songs of fine melodic fast punkrock with a lot of technical prowess, reminding me a lot of some bands that Bird Attack used to release couple of years back. It is fascinating how this band stands with one foot in the melody and heartwarming catchy tunes and at the same time they are hard enough to appease even tough hardcore kids. The guitars are even metalic I daresay, but having catchy punkrock riffs that are all used really clever in the song structures. The songs are mainly fast, drums are fast paced and everyone who knows me can confirm how much the vocals are important to me in such bands. This band has awesome rough voiced yet sung vocals and great used harmonies on backing vocals that fit perfect in the songs. The last record was great, but this new one is just awesome. There are some guest performances on the record by Dennis Jagard from Ten Foot Pole and ex Ignite Joe Foster along with Paul Stevenson. This is a strong record, totally energetic and fast, with lyrics that are not shallow but hit their mark along with music. Recommended songs: Where Is Our Hero, Just Words, New World Order.

9/10

https://www.facebook.com/setbacksunited/

http://www.morningwoodrecords.com/

https://www.facebook.com/MorningWoodRec/

https://setbacks1.bandcamp.com/album/ded-reckoning

 

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(horror movie) Lucio Fulci´s Voices From Beyond, a hit or failure?

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I love Lucio Fulci, I consider him a horror movie visionary and one of the most important Italian and European horror movie directors and authors of all time.

But, I can´t say that I love all of his work, because there are some of his movies that I just can´t digest. This is one of those movies. The story surrounds a murder of one wealthy man and his spirit tries to connect with his daughter to help her find and bring his murderers to justice. This is not bad story, but the realization is a disaster. This one was absolute slow and boring movie, I caught myself watching the clock asking myself when it is finally going to end. The acting is bordering between total wooden characters and just plain bad. The music is decent like in most Italian horror movies.

What I love about Fulci is that he was never afraid to show some shocking and brutal gore scenes in his movies. Unfortunately here are almost no kill and gore scenes apart from one autopsy scene and couple of visions of zombies eating a guy and that is it. The characters are too poor written and some of them, including the main antagonist are too sleazy becoming almost too charicature of themselves. The ending and motives for murder are not so clear and it all ends like it started, rather plain and bad and you feel cheated after watching this one. Why cheated? Because you expected something more and greater from Fulci. But, all is not that black, because there are still more legendary and great Lucio Fulci flicks than the bad ones.

Try with House By The Cemetary, The Beyond or City Of The Living Dead and discover the whole beauty of his classic works. Don´t Torture A Duckling and Zombi 2 are not to be missed so take your time, dear fiendettes and fiends and dive into Italian master of gore giallo and horror movies.