Hardcore from Zabok is back! .UPSET are back with a new album after some time, like four or five years without new recording. This new record brings 10 excellent songs of pure hardcore, modern touch with a nod of respect towards old school guard and being an energetic bomb in our scene. Guitar riffs have some metal influences, the vocals are brutal, yet melodic in places where melody is needed. The lyrics are in English and deal with usual hardcore themes, friendship, surviving in this modern fast world, personal demons, scene, staying true and other jolly topics that need to be said from hardcore bands. But, after being in the scene for nearly 28 years, this is still important to me, still hold it in my heart. Recommended songs: HC Show, You Or Me, Shadows, Nothing.
10/10
https://upsetzabok.bandcamp.com/album/tied-to-our-screens
We continue to promote our local scene a bit, so here is the new album by our punkrock heroes from Zagreb, Mašinko. I followed this band since they were only let us call them one hit wonder, but they evolved into one of the biggest names in punkrock scene here in Croatia, with three guitars, all of the members except drummer singing wonderful harmonies on vocals and having fantastic song arrangements delivering melodic punkrock just made to smile and cry and sing along with. This new album contains 12 songs. Veća lopata and Punim plućima were singles before, also Cmrok 2, so I listened to that songs before, for me somehow being not the same quality and hits as last full length and that split with Fat Prezident. But rest of the material on this album is what makes it great. Songs like Jedne davne jeseni or Tu smo gdje smo are pure punkrock poetry from the street and I love those two making it my favorites on this record. The lyrics are in Croatia as you might have guessed but no matter, you can relate to them in anyway possible. Also, two songs that I must mention are Izgubljenom vremenu, Perice and Vrijeme za spavanje being for me standouts on this record. Great record by great band!
https://masinko.bandcamp.com/
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