Monthly Archives: January 2021

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(review) Airflip – All For One

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Japanese Airflip have a new release containing eight beautiful songs. We already featured this band on pages of this zine. For those who don´t know, these guys play a fine mixture of melodic punk, skate punk and pop punk and I really love their sweet, ultra melodic sound. All song titles are in English, but I can swear that I hear some Japanese in some songs, but maybe it is only me. Vocals are superb, not snotty, but understandable and singing such epic melody lines with awesome backing vocal harmonies to follow the main melody. Musicianship is great and guitar lines are so lovely, I really love it, this record somehow manages to put smile on my face this Sunday morning while I drink my coffee and listen and enjoy this nice little release. Recommended songs as my personal highlights on this record would be: Under The Rainbow, My Last Rebellion and We Promise.

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(review) Cienfuegos/De Carne e Flor -split (no funeral records)

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The good people of Canadian label no funeral records continue to release great hardcore and screamo stuff to bring out bands that are jewels deep in the underground and make them closer to hardcore kids.

This time is is a split release of Cienfuegos from Chile and De Carne e Flor from Brazil. Both bands are presented with two songs and Cienfuegos side of the record contains a bit longer songs, bringing up a bit atypical hardcore/screamo with lots of atmospheric parts and clever use of samples which I love when they are used in song structures. I can even hear some post hardcore in guitar work and topped with tortured vocals, music evolving into classic hardcore punk I think they are really something to listen to. The lyrics are in Spanish so, I don´t really understand what they are singing about, but the music speaks for itself.

De Carne e Flor offer shorter songs, yet more polished sound mixture of blast beats, screamo, classic hardcore punk, d beat and melodic hardcore. Yes, that is what I can hear in their songs and I love it. Both songs are sung in Portuguese if I am not mistaken, so I don´t understand the lyrics. For me, this band is a bit more of my favorite, but this is definitely another great release.

https://nofuneralsound.bandcamp.com/album/cienfuegos-de-carne-e-flor

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(review) In Case Of Ire – Songs to Consume in a Consumerist Society

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In Case Of Ire are from Gothenburg, Sweden and they are in no way strangers to the pages of this zine, because I already reviewed their e.p. a while ago and now it is time for their debut full length to be unleashed upon the scene.

This one contains 9 songs of nice melodic hardcore punk with smart and interesting songwriting, bordering between harsher version of hardcore with gang backing vocals made for singing along at gigs and more emotional, melodic side of things. I can even hear some noise and post hardcore like in Acquittal, which is one of my favorite songs on this record and if I must compare this band to someone, to me they sound like a mixture of Misconduct and Refused and I love it. The vocals are diverse, from shouting, screaming to beautiful melodic voice along nice harmonies and backing vocals. The lyrics are a nice mixture of personal yet between the lines you can read a lot more. Two more songs that are standouts for me as highlights are Shatter and Bad Habits. So, support the cause and support good hardcore. Go listen!

https://incaseofire.bandcamp.com/album/songs-to-consume-in-a-consumerist-society