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(review) Poison Ruïn – H​ä​rvest

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I must admit that I have never listened to Poison Ruïn until this new record that is out with Relapse. These guys are hailing from Philadelphia and this release contains eleven songs. Music on this record can be described as punk rock, I mean really raw punk with rudimentary melodies in the song structures, distorted raw guitars, shouted vocals but also melody here and there. I can also hear some unique dungeon synth influences in this one, along with medieval influences, especially in lyrical approach. This is punk with fantasy lyrics, but fantasy lyrics which can be transcribed to today’s modern hardships and modern slavery of men. Songs have dungeon synth intros and almost post punk darkened feel in them, making this record really apocalyptic and fun to listen to. By depicting themes in songs like ‘Tome of Illusion’, ‘Torture Chamber’, or ‘Bastards Dance’ this one offers music and lyrics where boundaries of reality and fantasy interplay into one whole, sometimes being hard do divide one from another. This is not your happy merry go round record for listening on a sunny hot day to bring back smile on your face. No, quite the contrary, there is kind of rebellious but also hopeless vibe to the music and lyrics of Poison Ruïn, making this band quite unique and very special punk band that will appeal to battle hardened gutter punks, but also to more fantasy oriented people. So, open your mind and go listen to this one, because it is different, raw, melodic and epic sounding at the same time.

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(movie) Ant-Man and the Wasp:Quantumania(2023) – Marvel continues their vision

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Marvel movies continue their vision in post Avengers phase with new storyline and new characters continuing their missions and spectacular action. Ant-Man was always dear to my heart, I find the first movie one of the best Marvel movies I have watched until now. This is third installment of Ant-Man’s adventures although he appeared in Avengers and other movies too because of the multiverse.

This one starts all beautiful, Scott Lang aka Ant-Man(Paul Rudd) wrote a book about his adventures, he is happy with Hope(Evangeline Lilly), and her parents original Ant-Man dr Hank Pym(Michael Douglas) and Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer), but also with his rebellious daughter Cassie(Kathryn Newton), but the whole family ends in Quantum Realm by accident. There they find out that things were not as Janet told them, and they join the rebels to bring down the evil empire of Kang(excellent Jonathan Majors as villain). There they also encounter plethora of new characters like Lord Krylar(Bill Murray), M.O.D.O.K.(Corey Stoll) and many more.

This adventure reminded me lot more of Guardians of Galaxy than on average Marvel movies, but me being kind of sci fi opera freak, I found lots of Star Wars parallels in this one, but watch the movie, maybe it is only me wishing to be Star Wars, but I actually found this one pretty entertaining, action filled and lots of fun to watch, continuing me being fan of Marvel but also DC movies too. Kang is charismatic new villain, of whom we hear for the first time, and he will return in other adventures soon, him being sinister and epic emperor of the Quantum Realm and timeline folder and also Avengers killer. Paul Rudd is, I can’t help myself, so great and I have so much heart for him being Scott Lang, making him one of my favorite Marvel characters. I can’t wait for the continuation of this new storyline(s), because they are fresh and show that the franchise did not die after the ending of Avengers.

Acting: 8/10 axes – Cool and great line-ip

Overall conclusion: 7,5/10 axes – action packed, good story and fun to watch!

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(review) NUFO – ‘stick together’

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NUFO are coming from Graz, Austria and this is their new release and it contains nine songs. NUFO are playing nineties styled melodic punk hardcore and if I must compare it to some band, it would be a mixture of No Fun At All and all those California’s bands we love, like Pennywise for example. That means fast songs, ultra melodic beautiful singer’s voice topped with backing vocal harmonies and superb songwriting. Lyrics deal with isolation, hysteria, dealing with personal problems in your head, keeping the faith and trying to stay normal in this crazy world but also with a touch of engaged politics, also humor and self irony too. I think some of the song themes were influenced with covid lockdown and some of the themes remind me of what I was thinking during that pandemic and I can totally relate to most of the lyrics on this album. My personal favorites are ‘Transparent Barriers’, ‘Hysteria’, also ‘Tear Gas’ and ‘Keep Your Faith’. Bandcamp version of the album also contain the lyrics, so it is a whole package, I recommend this one, since this is an awesome melodic hardcore punk album.

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