Monthly Archives: January 2021

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(review) Teresa Banks – Nobody ´s Coming To The Rescue

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Long time awaited debut full length album by Teresa Banks is out now. This Helsinki based band plays fast and very sweet melodic hardcore punk with energy, ferociousness, anthemic singalong parts of the songs and nice a bit angry vocals and if I must compare their music to some band from our scene in Croatia, it would be Fast Response. These 11 songs are just a blitz ball of energy ready to strike you down and prepare you for an all out assault of hardcore punk goodness.

I love how this band meshes personal and political lyrics in their songs and my personal favorites on this record are The Stamd, Punk Rock Today and Crossfire. Teresa Banks equally derive their music from all these nineties old school Fat and Epitaph melodic punk legendary goodies, but also are firmly turned to the next generation, so this band is ideal for fans of melodic skatepunk, but also hardcore kids will love this one. I know I do. I missed this band live, so when this shit clears, I would love to hear how this songs sound live, I am sure they are fantastic.

12″ VINYLFast Decade Records (Finland)Horn & Hoof Records – Manchester (UK)La Agonía de Vivir (Spain)Lonesome Surfers Records (Poland)Sonicslap Records (Serbia)

CD (PLASTIC FREE ECOPACK)Fast Decade Records (Finland)Lonesome Surfers Records (Poland)Punk & Disorderly Records (Canada)Milestone Sounds (Japan)C-CASSETTE (Europe excl.)Intersphere Records (Germany)C-CASSETTE (North America excl.)Tent city records (USA)

*Spotify: https://spoti.fi/37H1727*iTunes: https://apple.co/2FYLWpw

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(review) Draven Valentine – The Craft the Curse and the Coffin

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Draven Valentine has a new release out there with four songs ready to melt your face off. These four songs on the e.p. are all different and I love the way how they are done. Intro sounds like a fifties doo wop influenced ballad, the sound I grew to love so much. Eternal Night is a classic horrorpunk song with all the moments and singalong parts, melodies and vocals we love this genre for.

Atom Age Vampire is more of a deathrock even gothic influenced song, especially in vocal lines, with pumping bass, darkened atmosphere of almost touchable sorrow and sombre heart.

She Dines With Wolves has many metallic parts and is again much more different than the rest of the material. Slower parts, eerie keyboard melodies and great vocal melodies give this song something special and this is a great release indeed.

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FALLEN ARISE Release Official Lyric Video For -Forever Winter!

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FALLEN ARISE Release Official Lyric Video For “Forever Winter”!

Athens based symphonic metallers FALLEN ARISE have released a new official lyric video for the song “Forever Winter”, taken from their latest album “Enigma” which was released on April 10th, 2020 via Rock Of Angels Records (ROAR). 

Created by: Haris Kountouris, HK Visual Creations – https://www.facebook.com/hkvisualcreations/

On this new offering, the band wanted their music to sound as contemporary as possible, but at the same time to remain faithful to their melodic/symphonic roots. The main part of the overall arrangement and recordings took place in Athens, at Soundflakes Recording Studios with John Mcris being a close associate of the band and the sound engineer for the main body of this new work. Part of the recordings took place at the Rock Factory Studios in Siena, Italy by Nikos Zannis and Davide Fatemi as sound engineers. The mixing process took place at Hell’s Kitchen Recording Studio with John Mcris as mixing engineer. For the mastering process, FALLEN ARISE collaborated with Fascination Street Studios and Tony Lindgren as mastering engineer. The album artwork is created by Paul Culley and the layout by Miron Theodoridis. The band’s photo session took place at rEvolver Studios (Sweden) with the mighty Patric Ullaeus behind the camera.

Enigma” tracklisting:

  1. In Adentu Deorum
  2. Enigma
  3. Reborn
  4. Forskaken
  5. Embers
  6. Without DIsguise
  7. Released
  8. Forever Winter
  9. Horizon
  10. The Storm Inside

Get “Enigma” now: https://smarturl.it/enigmafallenarise
Available on Jewel Case CD, Orange / Red Marbled Vinyl (LTD. 250 copies) & Digital streaming/download format.

Also check out
“Enigma” – https://youtu.be/fTaWaGbNAcg
‘Reborn’ – https://youtu.be/ecXbypIMGec

FALLEN ARISE were formed in 2009, combining a theatrical atmosphere with a progressive approach and a heavy-metal-alike heaviness. So far, the band have shared the stage with NIGHTWISH, PARADISE LOST, MOONSPELL, LEAVES’ EYES, OUTLOUD, just to name a few.

More information at:
BAND: https://www.fallenariseofficial.com | https://www.facebook.com/fallenarise
MANAGEMENT: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialAlphaOmegaManagement | https://alphaomega-management.com
LABEL: https://roar.gr