Mustasuo are hailing from Finland and this is their new record with Off Records Finland. The name of the band means black swamp, after a local city district of Oulu where the band comes from. They were formed in 2015. The music Mustasuo is harsh hardcore punk with a lot of d beat, old school Finnish hc punk influences and some black metal, popular blackened crust punk. There are 10 fast songs full of energy on this record sung in Finnish language. The vocals are screaming and remind me a lot of Croatian bands AK-47 and Ljubiša Samardžić, similar voice and screaming. The songs are raw, gritty, but with recognizable Finnish melancholy, spite and depression melody underneath it all. Also, some weird electronic voice parts in Kun illuusio sarkyy make the song fantastic and one of my album favorites besides Tuomitulle with doomy parts and Tuhoaja. Great album, great band.
Kurve, hardcore punk band from Zagreb, Croatia are no strangers to the pages of this zine. We reviewed their releases a while ago and now they treated us with new one.
This is actually new songs, by their standards the longest ever released lasting six minutes. In fact, this is a conceptual idea e.p. about being jobless, hopeless, trying to survive in bleak surroundings of grey everyday. The lyrics are again poetic and superb in Croatian language and work perfectly in unison with singer Vito˙s fantastic voice. These guys are perfect musicians and their song structures are really complex with many different parts sounding energetic and complex at the same time. In fact these guys are unique being art and hardcore punk at the same time, their shows are energy pure so check them out when this virus shit ends.
Double Negative are international punk band with members from UK, Greece and South Africa which only proves how world gets smaller place day by day and the music binds us all.
There are 14 songs on this record. The music this band plays is beautiful melodic punk/skatepunk with super melodic nice vocals, perfect backing vocal harmonies, nice guitar riffs and nice mixture of midtempo punkrock and fast songs. My favorites on this record are Forbidden Beat, what a chorus and guitar solo, also Only Static and Age Of Apathy. I love the music, being more of an old school nineties influenced melodic punk with no holds barred and no philosophy, just emotions and melody. The scene is filled with technical skatepunk these days, but I love old school skate/melodic punk, this is a jewel.
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