Time for something energetic and strong to grace the pages of this zine, and no, it is not energy drink or similar hehe. No, it is the brand new record by Bruise Control from Manchester that comes out with TNSrecords. This one contains nine song of utmost punk raw energy reminding us why we love punk rock so much in first place. This is a mixture of punk rock and raw garage punk, seasoned with hardcore punk fervour and ferocity of melody occasionally appearing in the song structures. Vocals are nice, shouted and sometimes screamed yet retaining enough melody to be appealing to fans of more melodic side of punk things. First thing for this album is, great songwriting and I can only imagine how these songs sound performed live on stage with band and crowd interacting together. That is for sure phenomenal, hope to witness live energy of this band some day. Heavy hitters like ‘Bottom Feeder’, ‘Never Again’ or ‘Dead On Arrival’ are something to keep your ears peeled for. In some parts this band reminds me of great Croatian band, Eke Buba concerning speed and energy delivering much in very short span of time. Superb album by superb band.
Flitcraft are hailing from Down Under, meaning from mighty Australian scene where I am always glad to discover great band from across the globe, halfway across the world. Flitcraft are spawn of one Phillip T. King, known for his work as a guitarist/vocalist for Butterfly and singer for Galaxy. This album contains nine songs of spacy, a bit psychodelic metal mixed with progressive and hard rock influences. This band sounds like an amalgamation of King’s previous work, mix of psych space rock and melodic speed metal. There are songs like ‘Error Era’ on this one, more oriented into speed/melodic metal with anthemic melodies, double bass drum work and great chorus, but also space prog rock psychodelia metal of ‘Earth Is Not A Perfect Sphere’ lends much to Maiden but also all those seventies prog rock bands. Vocals are great, mixture of Kai Hansen-like voice and Rob Halford’s lower octaves. There are also dirty hard n heavy rock influenced guitar work riffs like in ‘I Forgot Everything(Research At Dive Bars)’ having that beautiful melody in there. Also songs ‘Galactic Road Trip(Wayworn Travellers)’ and ‘Smoko With Sisyphus’ are my personal highlights there. This is original and inspiring opus to listen to.
When the jack-of-all-trades Rogga Johansson gets ready to launch a new project, you can be sure to deal with the very essence of Swedish death metal. With ASTROPHYTE, the Swedish together with Fredrik Petersson is now preparing to send his next horse into the race with the new album ‘2192′. Originally planned for May, the full-length, which is based on the role-playing game Mutant Chronicles World, will finally see the light of day on the 30th of June. With a big news: with Indii Hofvander, who already had a guest appearance on the Furnace album ‘Stellarum‘, a haunting, almost pleading, female voice characterises large parts of the music – and thus, besides Mike Hubrovcak‘s growls, contributes significantly to the oppressive atmosphere of the album. You can expect 9 songs, shaped by the typical Nordic death metal of the ’90s. Stay tuned!
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