Gotama Studio from Italy brought us couple of really awesome releases recently. This time it is about hardcore. Not Quite My Tempo are technical metalized hardcore from Italy and this is their debut e.p. containing four songs. Music of NQMT can be described as a mixture of metal and hardcore, leaning somehow on both sides, with technical skills and riffs in the song structures that make some song parts almost mathematically correct in playing. Vocals vary between brutal growls here and there and screaming in almost mix of anguish and sorrow, thus making atmosphere even more darkened. There are also some spoken word and emotional melodies like in awesome my favorite off this one being Clouds. Songs are named: Breathing, Clouds. Frames, Tarnished. This is a mighty debut release.
Time for one more band from my regional scene to grace the pages of this zine. Namely, SMRT RAZUMA. This is their brand new full length album and what a mighty debut it is. Recorded and mixed in Studio Depth, sound of the album only proves what great work File does with his recordings. Back to the album. This one contains intro plus 10 songs in Croatian language. Music of SMRT RAZUMA reminds me a bit of a band from Osijek called Sekta, who also mixed a lot of thrash metal guitar work with hardcore punk and d beat roots. If I must compare it to some band it would be a mixture of Verbalni delikt (their second release) and Sekta, which is no wonder since vocal Kruno is a long time scene fighter, I still remember AB Nekultura hehe. Songs are fast with screaming raw brutal vocals, yet you can understand what is being sung, of course if you know Croatian hehe. But, beneath all brutality and smartly written lyrics about media manipulation, poverty, migrants, war and I approve and love when band uses some samples like from news, games, movies and similar for intro of songs. My personal favorites are Bombe naše žrtve vaše, Medijska manipulacija, Stid i bol. Mighty debut indeed! I am sorry to say, but I did not check them out live yet, but I will soon!
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