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.
Lüger are hailing from Montreal, Canada and are not to be confused with Croatian punk band with the same name. This band is active since 2013 and this is their second full length opus containing 10 songs. This band is a perfect soundtrack to post apocalypse Mad Max remnants of humanity when only most bloodthirsty and most devious roam this planet and raise Hell, drink and smoke, then raise some Hell again and do some occult rites on the night of full moon. Music is a mixture of Motorhead punk induced mayhem, occult doom metal and melodic metal with anthemic epic choruses like awesome ‘Black Acid’, more biker rock oriented as in ‘Motorcity Hellcats’, There are couple of longer songs here, but the do not get boring as some similar bands that lean more on stoner sometimes tend to be. These guys mean business, they will tie your body to a bike, drag your ass through the wasteland and laugh about it later during dinner over roast coyote. My personal favorites on this one: ‘The Sacred Skull’, ‘Filthy Streets’ and ‘Bloodmoon’. Good album.
Late Show are hailing from Seattle and this is their new EP containing four songs. The music of Late Show can be described as a kind of mixture between noisy and raw garage punk rock with more melodic punk. ‘Cold Beer, White Pills’ is your typical raw garage punk song with some grungy influences in couple of song parts, especially in guitar riffing. ‘Pizza, Beaches & Weed’ is what I said above, keeping raw garage punk touch but also having more melodic vocal lines and sing along chorus so stupid that you catch yourself singing along to it. ‘Watchin’ You’ has more dirty rock ‘n roll overtones and I would love so much if that guitar was a bit more distorted and having more explosive and buzzing sound than that. This record earns more to seventies punk rock than more contemporary punk that is being played. ‘College Education’ is the weirdest song on the record and at times reminded me of Fugazi and similar bands, but maybe it is only me. This EP was somehow not my cup of tea, so to say, with me being fan of more melodic and faster stuff.
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