Italian underground scene is vast and rich with great bands just waiting for you to discover them and listen to their great music. Turn Against have been existing since 2010. but I discovered them just now with their new e.p. This diy hardcore punk band from Comacchio, Italy released 5 song e.p. Three of the songs on the record are pretty long, approx seven minutes long and two are shorter. The title songs hits you in the head with slow, rolling, almost sludgy rythm evolving suddenly to faster punk energy and back again to anguished, shouted, yet melodic vocals. This is not your usual hardcore punk clicheed song structure, but complex and smart hardcore, with style and emotion. The shorter songs called Interlude A and Interlude B, serve as kinda pause between crushing songs, like a bit calm intro before another storm hits you. Giustificazioni is a mixture between epic melodic post hardcore riffs, anguish, depression and aggression at the same time, almost mathematically played drums and bass and great ending to the song. For sure, my favorite on this record. Qiueto Vivere is crushing heavy song, I really don`t understand Italian enough to know what Turn Against are singing about, but I guess the lyrics are about inner struggle and battling your own personal demons, which I can relate to. Good record!
Let us talk a bit about our own Croatian underground scene. Zayn from Bjelovar released their new e.p. as third part in their of their conceptual tetralogy called Monolit. I saw Zayn perform live twice in club called Prostor in my hometown and both times it was a great experience. These guys play a mixture of post metal and noise with some indie and post rock influences thrown in here and there. Usually I am not an avid fan of instrumental music, but this band is different, here you are taken on a voyage through music soundscapes and all three songs are different, like each one of them is a story for itself, telling us the listeners something that we must interpret ourselves the way we understand it. For me the best song on this e.p. is Lovely You having awesome electronic backgrounds to the music, like some haunted synth melody reminding me of an Argento soundtrack, or what Italian band Goblin did in some songs. Support your scene!
.Gif From God are hailing from Richmond, USA and this record contains 12 songs of heavy, chaotic, metalized screaming hardcore punk, very close to grindcore and screamo in some song structures. The vocals are screaming their lungs out, sometimes growling the music is very noisy riffs and fast almost inhuman fast drumming. What I love about this band are the weird song titles like No dude…he still likes to spray, but the absolute winner for me is the song called When you yell at me, make sure you hurt my feelings. There are some atmospheric, almost post hardcore parts like in Whats the BP2BB song, but mainly it is crushing and noisy fastcore sreamo grind. Good one.
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