Mighty The Lillingtons released a new e.p. as tribute to Enemy You and their fallen brother. I must say that I did not listen to Enemy You prior to this record and this is a revelation. There are six songs on this one, all being fantastic and this music fits perfectly to The Lillingtons style and Kody Templeman´s voice is so great singing these anthems. Songs like Hopes And Dreams, Awake and Automaton are my personal favorites. So, if you love Ramonescore, fast punkrock with melody and epic hooks and choruses, this is the right one for ya. Touching and nice tribute to the fallen brother. Go get this one.
Rise Against are back with new album. This time they offer eleven songs of melodic hardcore punk with smart political and personal lyrics like we are used to from Tim McIlrath and the gang. Songs are epic, energetic, quickly changing pace from fast hardcore influenced more old school oriented song structures to more gentle and atmospheric almost pop punk parts in some of the songs. The Numbers, Nowhere Generation, Talking To Ourselves and Monarch are sure about to win you over if you are not a fan of Rise Against you will be, if you are you will love this one like all other albums from this legendary band. Unfortunately I did not see this band live yet, but would love to, hopefully that happens some time in the near future.
Alpheratz are hailing from Mexico and this is their latest opus. These guys have been in the scene for a long time and they play a mixture of symphonic black metal and avantgarde black metal reminding me a lot of Arcturus with their song structures, although less bombastic than mentioned Norwegians. This opus contains intro, outro and eight songs in between. Songs are not fast, there is no blast beat on this one, Alpheratz lean more on slower, doomy atmospheric side of things, coldness, synths which emphasize almost eerie dreamlike atmosphere of horror and despair. Vocals are neither too screechy, nor too raspy, fit perfectly to the music. My personal favorites are As Burning Fire and Infinite Sad with almost gothic song structures in the latter. This is a good release.
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