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(review) Melonball – ‘Breathe’ (Thousand Islands Records/Lockjaw Records)

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Melonball are melodic hardcore punk band from Germany and this is their debut full length album. This album contains ten songs of excellent energetic melodic punk with some fast hardcore punk influences. Songs are full of great main melodies, anthemic sing along choruses and they remind me in some ways of Not On Tour especially faster songs like ‘Sinking’, main singer has a great voice, similar to Sima Brami of above mentioned band. Backing vocal harmonies are great too, just so sweet and Melonball makes you pump your fist in the air with energy, but also besides hardcore energy feeling sweetness and joy because of listening to such great band and glad you found another jewel of the underground. Almost all of the songs on this record are fast, some having more mid tempo punk rock vibe here and there, but returning to fast skate punk after some time. Lyrics are personal but you can also find criticism of modern society and trying to survive this fast and furious modern world, friendship, love, coping with rage among main lyrical themes of this album. My personal favorites are ‘Rage’, ‘We All Go Down’, ‘Lost’ and ‘Your Love’, damn that’s nearly half of this superb album. If you like fast melodic punk hardcore check out Melonball.

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(movie) Renfield(2023.) – solidna horror komedija i Nicolas Cageom kao Draculom!

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Sjećate li se Dracule iz 1931.godine i Bele Lugosia kao nemrtvog legendarnog grofa vampira? E, pa ovaj film je svojevrstan nastavak, čak je isječak iz originalnog klasika ubačen kao sjećanje u ovaj film, a Nicolas Cage je odlično napravio hommage horror legendi Lugosiu i licem i glasom i kretnjama. Renfield iz naslova filma se odnosi na Draculinog slugu, ako se sjećate onog koji je boravio u ludnici i jeo kukce i tako komunicirao s Draculom koji mu je zapovijedao što da čini.

E, pa selimo se u moderni New Orleans. Renfield(Nicholas Hoult) je nezadovoljan i pohađa tečaj kako se izbaviti iz toksične veze, a istovremeno obavlja prljave poslove za Draculu(Cage) i donosi mu leševe kao hranu. No, Renfield stane na put moćnoj mafijaškoj organizaciji Lobo te zajedno s policajkom Quincy(Awkwafina) pokušava stati na kraj mafiji, preživjeti, a istoimeno se osloboditi toksičnog zagrljaja gospodara i uništiti ga ako treba. To je otprilike radnja ove horror komedije Chris McKaya(The Tomorrow War, Lego Movie) koja je prepuna odličnih akcijskih scena, posvete horroru i prelijepo napravljenih krvavih gore scena. Obično se horror komedije srame gore scena i nagnu ili na stranu horrora(manje), a komedije(više) no ne upuštaju se u gore. Ovdje krv šprica na sve strane, duhovite scene poput odsijecanja ruka poslužavnikom, glava koje lete na sve strane, eksplodiralih ljudi, svega ima za nas gore houndse koji vole svoj horror takav. Komedije isto ima i uhvatio sam se nekoliko puta glasno se smijući, vidim da je i Nicolas Cage uživao u ovom filmu glumeći Draculu, stvarno je ispao odličan, kao i ostali glumci. Jedina mala zamjerka mi je malo previše cgi krvi i efekata, koji bi mogli biti bolje napravljene s obzirom da je budžet filma bio popriličan, ne radi se o nekoj jeftinjavi. No, svejedno vrijedi ga pogledati.

Gore efekti: 10/10 sjekira – može se naći za svakoga ponešto.

Gluma: 8/10 sjekira– Cage je zakon i prevodi, no i ostali nisu daleko.

Zaključak: 8/10 sjekira -gledati!!!

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(review) Jughead’s Revenge – ‘Vultures'(SBÄM Records, People Of Punk Rock Records)

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Jughead’s Revenge were a band as I was a hardcore kid discovering more and more bands that I love in the scene and I must admit that since 90-ies I didn’t follow them really much. As I understand, they are active again and here is the new EP containing 5 songs. They were on BYO Records and Nitro Records back in the day and I am glad that they keep the flame burning again. This new one contains songs in melodic punk vein, but what I love about Jughead’s Revenge is that they kept the rawer edge of punk rock although they play skate punk and melodies come with raw guitar riffs, thundering bass and almost touchable punk rock energy blowing from your speakers into your old school punk rock heart! ‘Isolation Time’ is a fast tempo punk song reminding me a bit of Face To Face but not so melodic as mentioned band. ‘Bridges’ is my one of my favorites on this record with such beautiful main guitar melody and great interplay between main vocals, which are rougher and harmony backing vocal melodies. I totally dig this song and listened to it over and over again! ‘My Side’ is old school hardcore song miniature in the vein of Good Riddance and Sick Of It All if I must compare it to some other bands. ‘Eighties’ are more rock and roll influenced storms of riffs and pulsing drumming with some mid tempo rock sing along parts thrown in for good measure. This song makes me feeling kind of nervous while listening to and wanting to break something in the vicinity. ‘I’ll Be Seeing You’ is another favorite of mine. Fast hardcore punk track with great uplifting melody and atmosphere that makes you want to pump your fist in the air! Great EP by great band!