(review) Goatmoon – ‘What Once Was…Shall Be Again’

Controversial Finnish black metal institution Goatmoon is back with new opus. This one contains eight songs. Why controversial? Because many tie Goatmoon to some not good political themes, but this is not the issue here. The music and atmosphere is. I always admired how Goatmoon under management of one Blackgoat Gravedesecrator who writes music and his friends and session musicians help him at gigs, gets to create such superb melancholy plus aggression atmosphere with such epic guitar melodies coupled with synths and tortured screaming vocals. This is Nordic pure black metal par excellence. I love how Goatmoon progressed from raw black metal roots to more epic black, backed with domicile northern folk synth melodies and inspired by cold and bleak surroundings of the North. My personal favorites on this beautiful record are: ‘Raging With The Lion’s Blood’, ‘What Once Was…’ and ‘Protector Of The North’.

9/10

(knjiga) Ljubica Anđelković Džambić – ‘Tijelo otpora Satana Panonskog’

Ovo je ogromna knjiga od petstotinjak stranica koja Ljubice Anđelković Džambić, koja je osim sudjelovanja u Tabor festivalu pripadnica underground scene i sudionica i članica bendova. Zapravo, ova knjiga je njena doktorska dizertacija i secira Body Art i povijest te vrste subkulturne umjetnosti u Jugoslaviji i kasnije u Hrvatskoj. To čini kroz seciranje lika i djela Ivice Čuljka, poznatog kao Satan Panonski i Kečer II. Za one koji ne znaju, Satan je bio punker po narodnosti, a prijatelj po zanimanju hehe. Rođen je 1960., a poginuo je u ratu pod čudnim okolnostima 1992. Za to kratko vrijeme svog života stvorio je mit o sebi o kojem se priča i u ovoj knjizi, snimio nekoliko albuma, boravio u umobolnici u Popovači zbog ubojstva i izlazio van držeći koncerte koji su zapravo više bili performansi zvani ‘hard blood shock’ koristeći svoje tijelo kao platno za body art. Ljubica secira sve aspekte, od bolesti, djetinjstva, odnosa s majkom, glazbe, punka i kreiranja antimodne odjeće do puštanja iz umobolnice i pogibije. Dio knjige koji se odnosi na Satana samog mi je bio zanimljiv za čitanja, no ima i puno znanstvenih citata i objašnjenja pojmova i povijesti nekih pojmova što je bilo dosadno za svladati. Isto tako, knjiga sadrži puno odličnih fotografija, Satanovih pisama, kako privatnih, tako i onih koje je slao radi pomilovanja raznim institucijama, pa i samom Tuđmanu. Tako da, nekome će ova knjiga leći nekome ne, meni je onako pola-pola. Nije biografija, nego znanstveni rad i to detaljan, na kome kapa dolje, ali meni je bio malo too much i pretežak radi previše meni nepoznatih znanstvenih pojmova i takvih poglavlja.

2,5/5

(review) Hard Spread – ‘Toe Tally Fun’

I must admit that I have first heard of Hard Spread through this album. Hard Spread are hailing from Georgia, USA and this album contains 14 songs. As I listen to this one, sometimes reminds me of Cancerslug in couple of songs. Hard Spread play a mixture of hardcore, melodic punk, skate punk and also horror punk influenced music, sounding melodic, yet pretty raw especially in some guitar work and also great rough and melodic vocals. Lyrics deal with humor, irony, sex, std(yeah you read it right), computer games and many more merry themes. Music is sometimes fast and straightforward hardcore punk but also there are pure street punk rock songs like excellent ’20 on 1′ and horror punk on one of my favorites ‘Flesh Eater’ also one of the highlights for me ‘Saturday Night’. If I must compare this band to someone it would be above mentioned Cancerslug and Guttermouth. So, if you are into punk rock with no holds barred on fun, go listen this one.

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