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(review) Ape Metro – ‘Animal Instinct’

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Ape Metro are hailing from New York and this is their new single featuring two songs. This is one of those modern hardcore bands playing mixture of some hardcore punk roots but also thrash metal and delivering what we called ‘new school’ hardcore back in the nineties. ‘The Leech’ is great song with some fast parts and wicked catchy guitar work on solo guitar during hardcore punk fast part. ‘Scarab’ is more complex, slower metalcore song reminding me a lot of Integrity and such bands. Vocals are screaming, the whole atmosphere on this release is more darkened and apocalyptic, this is not your posi core stuff, but deliverance through suffering.

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(review) Sentido De Libertad – ‘Sobrevivir’

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SDL or Sentido De Libertad are hailing from Santiago, Chile. This is their brand new EP done totally DIY and it contains 6 songs. The music is bordering between fast and melodic hardcore with some metallic even melodic death metal influences. There are 6 songs on this one and I dig this EP a lot. ‘Alerta invasor’ is an instrumental song which prepares us listeners for what is to come. One of my personal favorites is ‘Maquinaria’ having such superb melodic guitar hook on fast chorus and some groove hardcore moments in its structure. Lyrics are in Spanish language and I think as far as I understand from titles that these guys play very angry melodic hardcore. The title track also has that brutality mixed with melody and screaming and growled vocals that fit perfectly to the song structure. This title song is showing strong that melodeath and thrash metal approach in the songwriting along with hardcore roots. All songs on this EP are just epic, like also ‘Mirada indolente’ turning from mid tempo punk rock song to epic masterful metallic hardcore in just a moment. ‘Dios sin piel’ is another strongpoint on this EP being my personal favorite, fast and strong and epic. ‘Sangre en el camino’ is brutal and harsh, but it has that melodic moment on chorus where vocals are shouted and growled yet melodic at the same time, more hats off to the singer, and finishes this EP leaving me wanting more and wanting to check out these guys play live.

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(movie – horror) The Nun II – razočaravajući nastavak

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Moram priznati da, kada sam gledao prvi dio The Nun bio mi je odličan, kao i pojavljivanje Valaka, demona u obliku časne u drugom nastavku The Conjuring sage. Nisam se previše iznenadio kada sam doznao da stiže nastavak The Nun, kao dio The Conjuring univerzuma odnosno spinoff te franšize.

Radnja je smještena u 1956.kada netko ili nešto ubija svećenike i časne i kreće se prema zapadu, a sestra Irene(odlična Taissa Farmiga) se mora ponovo suočiti i pokušati obračunati s demonom Valakom koji je u potrazi za drevnim i moćnim artefaktom. Što ne valja s filmom? Jednostavno mi je nekako bio dosadan, nema onu wicked atmosferu prvog dijela u klaustrofobičnom samostanu, pošto se drugi dio događa na više lokacija, te ima premalo same The Nun(fenomenalna Bonnie Aarons), pošto da ne spoilam, ima neke nove momente kako se kreće i kako prelazi s mjesta na mjesto. Film ima neke svoje momente, neke jump scareove i poneku dobru atmosferu, no međutim kao takav nije zadovoljio moje potrebe kao fanu dobrog horrora, što i je definitivno slučaj s većinom mainstream kino horrora koje sam gledao u zadnje vrijeme. Ono malo gore scena i krvavih pogibija koje se događaju u filmu su okej razrađene i napravljene kao i sam kraj filma koji naravno upućuje da bi mogao pasti još koji nastavak, ja se nadam da neće.

Zaključak: 6,5/10 sjekira Glumačka ekipa dobra, priča tanka, ali zadovoljavajuća čine blago razočarenje od nastavka gdje sam puno očekivao, ali se ipak radi o iznadprosječnom filmu.