Time for some old school hardcore punk to grace the pages of this webzine. Drink Deep are hailing from Berlin and this is their 7 inch EP containing 8 short songs being just over a minute long. This is old school fast hardcore punk the way it should be done. Fast, angry, drumming and shouted vocals with some melodic parts, this one is an energy bomb. It is short but sweet with whole record being under ten minutes long, Just to leave you hungry and wanting more. Lyrics deal with letting go, friendship, loss, personal point of view but you can relate to them immediately while listening to the record and reading lyric sheet. Superb hardcore for all us old school hardcore punk fans!
Revirgin were already featured on the pages of this zine. This duo comes from my hometown of Čakovec and this is their new album containing twelve songs, all songs this time in Croatian language. According to the band, these bunch of songs were already written a year ago and recorded this year. Revirgin play their vision of prog art rock mixed with synth pop, synth rock and I love how they create that eerie and a bit bizarre melodies in their song structures with Karlo’s voice being kind of similar to David Byrne of Talking Heads. The last album couldn’t escape the comparison with that legendary band, but this one also has some domestic influences like Azra or EKV, maybe it is only me hearing it, but I hear it in the song structures. I recently watched them play live and they did an awesome show with couple of old ones and mainly songs from this album. Lyrics are personal, read between the lines, allegoric and different than most of the bands out there right now. My personal favorites on this album are ‘Egzodus ’97’, ‘Dobro za građene’, the title song, but you must check out the album as a whole to get the full picture. Revirgin makes albums that make you hear something new every time you listen to them, so go for it!
Here is one band from far away scene, namely Last Dayz from Indonesia. This is a three song demo featuring metallic hardcore with some deathcore and hardcore punk influences. Vocals are brutal and shouted like they should be for this pretty brutal music with some screaming backing vocal harmonies. Production of these demo songs is decent, everything hits you right in the face. Last Dayz play what we called new school hardcore in the nineties, meaning hardcore with lots of chugga chugga guitar work, double bass drumming and even thrash metal groove influences thrown in like in ‘Body Count’. You also get lyrics which are pretty dark and apocalyptic dealing with survival in world that goes down told from personal point of view and are in order aligned with aggressive and pretty brutal music being played here. Reminds me of all those H8000 Belgian hardcore school bands back in the nineties, not really my cup of tea, too metalized and too little hardcore punk. But, here is demo that contains great musicianship, brutal songs and I wish all the best to Last Dayz, hopefully an EP or full length in the future.
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