You know that good feeling when you discover excellent band due to good people at SBÄM Records? Well, Swallow´s Rose are from Bavaria, Germany and although this is their second release, this full length is the first one I heard from this excellent band. Yep, you might guessed it, they play punk rock and that kind of nice melodic punk rock which makes your heart flutter with joy and happiness. This record contains twelve songs of mainly mid tempo punk rock with lots of soul, heart and melody, emotions and hope. But, emotions are what makes music tick, right? There are couple of excursions into faster skatepunk hardcore waters in some song parts, but mainly there are mid tempo songs which hit you hard in your face with their honesty and power. If I must compare this band to someone, it would be a mixture of Off With Their Heads, Menzingers and No Use For A Name. Vocals are rougher but singer Dominik has such beautiful voice and backing harmonies with all the vocals are just divine and fabulous. Lyrics are rather personal, but I am fan of such lyrics in this kind of punk rock, so I love it. My personal favorites are Live For Today, He Said, She Said and Up To You. Gods, I am so happy for this record to hit me. Hats of to people at SBÄM for making scene richer with such great releases.
Gotta love Italian movies, especially their eighties horror movies. This time, Franco Prosperi´s Wild Beasts seemed like a right choice for a Thursday evening. The premise is fantastic: due to chemical spillage, all animals in I think that it is Munich go crazy and start rampaging around city, killing and destroying, only professor Berner, detective Braun and scientist Laura can think of a way to stop this madness.
What is fun about this movie is English dubbing, I love how they dubbed those Italian giallo and cattiva movies, with English being English, but somehow foreign and different than other movies. Also, this one was incredible fun to watch because all of the killings done by animals is so gory and at the same time funny and idiotic. From rats eating up young couple who make out in car, tigers eating zookeepers to epic and incredible cheetah chasing VW beetle car and not giving up until car explodes. Characters are so idiotic, from the looks to written text that you somehow start to think you watch a parody of an animal attack horror subgenre. I loved this horror subgenre since I was a kid, but somehow I rarely fall for such movie anymore. The ending of the movie is somehow surreal and kinda left me in thinking what went on and left space for sequel which never happened fortunately or not.
3/10(this mark is only that big because of funny killings)
Hey, time for another Croatian band from my home scene to grace the pages of this zine. Kriva Istina are band originally from Slavonski Brod, but are based in Zagreb. Their last album from couple of years ago is one of the best albums this scene had to offer in last twenty years as long as I remember. I was eager to wait what will they do next. There were couple of line-up changes, they got new bass player and added another second guitar to the line-up which made the band even more powerful. This new e.p. is conceived as first chapter which describes situation in our country and world and will eventually be added to full length album at least that is how I understood the plan. There are four songs on this one. What I love about this band is that they sing in Croatian language and lyrics are so smartly and great written, that it is a pleasure to read them along with the music. Kriva Istina play melodic hardcore punk with lyrics themed in some of the wrongs that are happening right now, and themes in our country are neverending with so much injustice, thievery, primitivism being at front of media and people right now. The songs themselves are kind of continuation where the last album left off, with Pitanje being my personal favorite but all of the songs I listened to over and over again. Hod u propast is also superb song and I love every single minute of this e.p. I saw them play live couple of years ago in Slovenia at Tepih na paleti festival and would love to see soon how the new line-up sounds and how these new songs sound live, I am sure they are awesome. This is a strong release by this great band.
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