Perfect Sky are back with their first record in about 17 years, These guys were active in early 2000s and part of prolific Vienna hardcore scene with many great bands coming from there. The good people at WTF Records are really doing fantastic job with all their great Euro hardcore releases coming out and delivering it straight to the point, to the hearts of old and young hardcore kids all over the world.
With a few changes in line – up Perfect Sky attack with under 30 minutes of great Euro hardcore just made to make your day better. There are nine songs on this record and I love each and every one of them. The vocals remind me a bit of Kid D from Ryker´s in some of the songs, delivering moshing parts and faster street punk influenced songs in good measure considering song structures. There is a guest appearance of none other than Mike from Only Attitude Counts/Spidercrew on PMA which is one of my personal favorites on this record, besides Wolfpack and Conquer The World. So, if you love hardcore, support the scene, support the cause worldwide and go listen and get this one, you will not regret it!
This is a bit older release that has been out for couple of months now, but no matter. Passionplay are from Providence, and this is their brand new release containing 8 songs. The music of passionplay is basically hardcore punk with screamo and even crust/powerviolence influences in the song structures. The music is fast and energetic with screamed vocals, fast drumming and made for playing live and enjoying it at hardcore show. The lyrics are personal, some of them are rather short but hit you in the eye, I like the longer ones, which in combination with well and smartly written music become nice anthems for your hardcore heart to relate to in battling personal demons, loss, despair, anger, having hope, living life the best you can. My personal favorites on this record are: Haunting This Empty Page, Abaddon and My Odyssey.
There was no crust hardcore punk on the pages of this zine for a while now. Detësto are hailing from Brazil and are playing just that.
These five songs are released on Bandcamp but, there are plans to release them on seven inch and also on tape this year. So, what to expect? Dirty and raw crust d-beat hardcore punk, done in an old school way, powerful and with conviction. The song structures are simple, containing all the right stuff this genre has to offer, yet still remaining good listening. I usually become bored when crust hardcore punk albums last too long, because all the songs start to be similar to each other but these five are just the right listening for pumping your fist in the air and delivering apocalypse of war, nuclear devastation, atomic radiation, death an all other merry themes of the lyrics. If you are a fan of such music, go listen to this one, you will not be sorry.
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