Monthly Archives: October 2021

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Demon Night – a Halloween feast from Syd.31!

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The song is based on a true story;

“When I was a kid, we lived in a haunted house. Some ‘thing’ would walk down the hallway, into my room and just stand at the end of my bed. It looked like an old lady and it scared the hell out of me.

Other people saw it too, but didn’t tell me until years after, thankfully.

I still struggle to sleep alone with the light out…”

“Once my parents had turned my bedroom light out, I just knew the shadow people and that ‘thing’ would show up…”

Syd.31 included a lot of Shadow People in the video. You’ll have to see if you can spot them all. Shadows that are not our own…

Syd.31 are now back into gigging after a long time away due to Lockdown. Drop them a message if you want to talk to them, or want them to play a venue you near you soon.

Speak soon and stay spooky!

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(review) Bull Brigade – Il Fuoco Non Si E Spento

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If you read this zine and you love your street punk, you will of course remember Bull Brigade from Italy. We interviewed them earlier this year regarding this new album and their anniversary as a band.

Now, the wait is over and the new album is upon us. There are 9 songs on this one and I can safely say that Bull Brigade released an album full of street punk oi anthems to please the heart of the most hardened of us street bastards out there. What I also love about this band is that they wrote songs with lots of melody and emotion like for example Booze & Glory in their newer releases. These songs are just made for singing along from the top of your lungs. Vocals are just the way they should be, neither too melodic nor too harsh. Lyrics are in Italian and I just love how this language fits into punk rock, just somehow making it more emotional and more beautiful. When they released single Quaranta featuring guest vocals by none other than Roddy Moreno from The Oppressed, I knew this one might be something great and I was not mistaken. The title song, Ansia, Anche se and other are sure to become your favorites. Go get this one.

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Post hardcore Hoi – Poi Farplane Wind released new single!

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Currently split between Copenhagen, Thessaloniki and Stony Brook -New York, Hoi-Poi emerge from the murky waters of the early COVID era with a brand new two-part single, entitled “Uncle Boonmee”.

Sounding as dark and inauspicious as ever, the band unravel the tumult of being locked down, separated and disjointed through unrelentingly heavy and intense riffage. The technicality and experimentation of the material on “Sain’t Adorable” reaches a new high in the 4 minutes & 23 seconds of the single’s total runtime, split between the titular “Uncle Boonmee”and accompanying track, “Tannin”. Lyrically, “Uncle Boonmee” loosely draws inspiration from the 2010 Apichatpong Weerasethakul film, “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives”: through the vicious cycle of life in lockdown and quarantine, a constant swing between hope and despondency, one is able to “recall their past lives”–since they have all started to seem identical. “Tannin” on the other hand, is a disparate prayer, a cry of desperation, heavily influenced by the Book of Job (Chapter 7). The single was recorded, mixed and mastered by Pantelis Benosat True North Sound Artworks in Thessaloniki, during the band’s limited time together over the first few months of 2021, with some parts also recorded at Crisp Studio in Copenhagen by Christian Hjort Jakobsen. It is a standalone offering of material written immediately after the release of the band’s 2020 full-length album “Sain’t Adorable”.

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