(review) DONOTS – ‘Heut ist ein guter Tag’

German punk rockers DONOTS released new full length album and it contains fifteen songs. There was a term in the nineties, I think it is still in use called Deutschpunk being all those German pop punk/melodic punk bands with specific style and German lyrics. DONOTS are veterans of the scene and this album brings melodic punk rock with songs in German lyrics and mainly mid tempo emotional punk rock with beautiful vocals and I always say, German language is such great language for punk being it angry hardcore punk or more melodic punk rock. There is occasional excursion into more faster hardcore skate punk waters like with ‘1.21. Gigawatt’ or reggae with one of my favorites ‘Hunde los’. There are also pop punk influences like in ‘Traurige Roboter’ and more street punk sing along choruses like ‘Apokalypse Stehplatz Innenraum’ and back to hardcore punk with ‘Es tut nur weh, wenn ich lache’. I saw this band one year playing Punk Rock Holiday and their show was a blast, so I would love to check them out in some club show, I believe that would be awesome. In the meantime, check out this album. Good one.

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