All posts by vladkraykulla

Active member of alternative underground scene and culture since early 1990-ies. Underground is a way of life!

(book review) Lonely Boy – Tales from a Sex Pistol

I admit that punk rock 77 style and all those early bands except maybe Damned are not my thing, nor they have ever been. I grew up into more of California skate punk and hardcore bands, and all that British punk legends were just too boring and slow with their punk rock anthems and disgusting vocals, like Johhny Rotten, singer of Sex Pistols, his goat like singing is still something that makes me puke.

So, I decided to learn more and get this book, written by guitarist of Sex Pistols, one of the most known and legendary first wave punk bands ever. In this book, he deals with his life, from upbringing as poor boy, lonely and abused, to playing with Pistols and all the wild years of punk, drugs and rock n roll, to his later work and bringing himself up from the gutter to host popular radio show and deliver some solo work and guest guitar playing to some of the biggest rock stars. Book is divided into three parts, before Pistols, during and after. What I do mind about this man is total rock star attitude, spitting on all punk ideals and proclaiming that all punks who stick to the ideals and free philosophy are losers and that all is about money and nothing is about music. The guy is obnoxious, full of himself and I totally dislike him. But, like they say, never trust a junkie, huh? Okay book about an asshole who has illusions of grandeur.

German skate punks Hit The Dirt release music video for their cover of ‘White Christmas’!

These German pricks again? Unfortunately so! Our favourite Berlin skate punkers have created a cover of “White Christmas” just in time for the holiday season! The new single dropped on December 16 and the video went live a couple days after. 

Here’s what the guys had to say about the song: “We are big fans of Bad Religions EP called Christmas songs, so we kind of got inspired during a rehearsal and thought: should we do a punk rock cover of a Christmas song? It’s a fun thing to do, so we decided to cover our own version of White Christmas. Like Fat Mike says, we just took a good song and made it fast! Enjoy and Merry Punk Rock Christmas!

Check out the video: https://youtu.be/PLAZLrM6tiQ

Check the song: https://highenddenimrecords.bandcamp.com/track/white-christmas

(review) Lacerhate – Blood.Lies.Idiots.Death(10-54 Records)

Italy has one of the best underground hardcore scenes in Europe and Lacerhate are hailing from Cremona and Bergamo area. This is their brand new album out with Australian 10-54 Records.

What to expect from Lacerhate? These guys play very darkened metallic hardcore, with some even blast beats and d-beat influences like in awesome 15(Inhaled). But, most of all they play this modern version of metal hardcore with both legs more into metal than punk rock although there are some little punkish influences in the song structures here and there. Guitars rip like chainsaws, through groovy and moshing parts but also fast thrash metal influenced parts like one of my favorites called Icky drops. Vocals are brutal, but not that death metal growling style, no, they are hardcore screaming and shouting with couple of spoken words here and there and also a clean part or two if I heard it right hehe. I love the creeepiness of Interlude with eeried piano parts that carry to Gone, one of the best songs on this record. Lacerhate remind me of Fury of Five and Integrity in a way, so this is a great hardcore album if you are fan of such hardcore style bands.

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