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The Karnsteins – Fhtagntastic Necropunk

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The Karnsteins are hailing from Bratislava, Slovakia and this is the first horror punk band from Slovakia on the pages of this zine with this nice Lovecraftian album title hehe. This record contains 9 songs of awesome horror punk with lots of uplifting melodies, singalong parts, nice choruses and clever use of movie samples. Okay, some of the songs sound a bit tongue in cheek humor, but no matter, that is the beauty of horror punk. Bordering between hardcore punk with faster songs like Ball of the damned, more punk rock songs like Necropogo this band rules. Especially songs like Count Kramula, Ghost of Charles Lee Ray and the title song are sure to win you over. Horror punk is so diverse, with so many influences coming in the song structures, that I love this small, but cohesive scene making it my favorite music in the world ever and I have been in the scene for almost thirty years now. Get this album, have a listen and write a word or two to the guys, I am sure they will appreciate it.

https://karnsteins.bandcamp.com/album/fhtagntastic-necropunk

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(review) Blood Geyser-We Want To Give You Nightmares

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Blood Geyser are coming from Melbourne, Australia and this is their debut album. This album features 13 songs of interesting music. That being mixture of horror punk, death rock,  with some metal and hardcore punk influences thrown in. This is not your usual la-la-la ooo singalong horro rpunk we all know and love, this is much darker music with pumping bass, growling and screeching vocals. The music sounds very spooky thankful to clever usage of samples from different horror legendary movies, depending on the theme of the song. I love Wanna Play? One of the most disturbing and scary songs on this record. I can only imagine how these guys would sound live with the right atmosphere for example in the castle of my hometown. That would be fantastic. Further songs that are really stand outs on this record for me are Carnival Of Terror, Family Of Cannibals and Ghosthouse. This is an awesome album. Loved every second.

https://bloodgeyser.bandcamp.com/album/we-want-to-give-you-nightmares

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Lockjaw Records brings Waterweed on vinyl!

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There may have been a shortage of gigs and festivals this year, but we can’t deny the incredible memories we have from previous years and the excitement for the return as we all recharge for the next round.

Flashback to April 2018, when waterweed were invited over from Japan for Manchester Punk Festival and their first European tour. In some instances, this feels like a lifetime ago but sometimes it seems only yesterday. A lot has changed since then, but what definitely hasn’t changed is the total awesomeness of waterweed. Following up Brightest with another a third excellent full length Diffuse in April 2019 on CD format.

We are super pleased to announce we will be pressing, not only Diffuse but waterweed to vinyl for the first time on December 4th 2020.

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The vinyl is coming on Galaxy effect, transparent Reverent Black Grape with a smokey swirl of opaque pale green stars. We have bundled the vinyl up with an exclusive shirt design featuring photography from Cold Front Photography snapped at the bands incredible performance in Rebellion at Manchester Punk Festival 2018.

Biography
Formed in Osaka 2003, waterweed have been at the forefront of the Japanese post-hardcore and screamo movement since the beginning of the scene supporting bands such as Between The Buried And Me, SHAI HULUD, TRASH TALK, THE CHARIOT. The band have since released 3 albums & 2 EPs.

They have toured all over Japan and the far east, and at notable festivals in the territory such as ROCK-O-RAMA, the event where old and new, underground and mainstream bands get together. ROCK-O-RAMA was the spark of movements and events such as MANPOWER, the event waterweed has held with bacho, FIVE NO RISK and PALM.

They performed on SHADOWS’ debut album as support members.

SHADOWS was formed by the ex-members of FACT, the host of ROCK-O-RAMA.

In 2018, waterweed were invited to the UK for the first time to play Manchester Punk Festival and re-releasing the critically acclaimed album Brightest via Lockjaw Records for a new European fan base. Following the release, the band continued from Manchester to tour over Europe.