A Vulture Wake released this new record three months ago, but no matter, never too late for good music isn’t it? This one is in fact an album which contains two e.p.’s called ‘Kingdom’ and ‘Animal’. So, these are 11 songs of melodic punk rock, I may even call it progressive melodic punk rock, influenced with technical skate punk and some hints of melodic hardcore topped by vocals done by none other than legendary Chad Price (ALL/Drag The River) whose rough and recognizable melodic voice carries the listener to other dimension full of personal emotions, hope, giving other chance and also fear, sadness, blood and anguish. This collection of songs mixes agony melancholy and melody in such a great way that I listened to this one couple of times in a row to be able to hear some of the excellent songwriting and musicianship on this record. My personal favorites are: ‘Blood’, ‘Lost Cause Of The Year’, and ‘We Are Living In A Dream’. Excellent!
Ach Germany! Bringing so much great bands and projects every day and week and month to our black hearts. Leipa is a one man band/project from Bavaria active since 2021 and this is the second full length opus. This one contains 7 songs with lyrics in German. Music of Leipa is melodic black metal, with lots of emotion and atmosphere reminding me why I love this music so much. Guitar melodies are melancholic, sad, even when aggressive blast beats prevail in song parts of almost every song on this opus. Vocals are screamed but not too extreme so you can understand if you happen to speak German as I do. Now, some would call this depressive black metal. Maybe it is, but only in lyrics which deal with personal thoughts, demons and really, why try different roads when all roads lead to nothing in the end. Besides aggression there are also some calmer more atmospheric parts with some spoken word and listening to this record I can not really help myself but if I must compare Leipa to some band that reminds me of it would be Nocte Obducta. This is melodic atmospheric black metal par excellence, so check this one out.
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