Meadows are hailing from USA and this is their new record with Facedown Records who continue to give to the scene amazing releases. This record contains 13 songs divided in three parts telling story of love, betrayal, anguish, hope and sorrow among others. The music of Meadows can be described as what we called in the nineties new school hardcore with melodic hardcore punk influences. Although there are couple of excursions into faster hardcore punk approach, the songs are slower in general, with stop and go parts, lost of atmospheric almost post hardcore guitar riffs and vocals that are superb and fit perfectly to the vibe of the songs, being shouted, screamed and at times sung clean. My personal favorites are The Flood, The Dove, The Embrace, those three. But, I recommend you to listen to the album as a whole and only then you will get the real picture of the magnitude of this opus.
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Demon Night – a Halloween feast from Syd.31!
The song is based on a true story;
“When I was a kid, we lived in a haunted house. Some ‘thing’ would walk down the hallway, into my room and just stand at the end of my bed. It looked like an old lady and it scared the hell out of me.
Other people saw it too, but didn’t tell me until years after, thankfully.
I still struggle to sleep alone with the light out…”
“Once my parents had turned my bedroom light out, I just knew the shadow people and that ‘thing’ would show up…”
Syd.31 included a lot of Shadow People in the video. You’ll have to see if you can spot them all. Shadows that are not our own…
Syd.31 are now back into gigging after a long time away due to Lockdown. Drop them a message if you want to talk to them, or want them to play a venue you near you soon.
Speak soon and stay spooky!
(review) Bull Brigade – Il Fuoco Non Si E Spento
If you read this zine and you love your street punk, you will of course remember Bull Brigade from Italy. We interviewed them earlier this year regarding this new album and their anniversary as a band.
Now, the wait is over and the new album is upon us. There are 9 songs on this one and I can safely say that Bull Brigade released an album full of street punk oi anthems to please the heart of the most hardened of us street bastards out there. What I also love about this band is that they wrote songs with lots of melody and emotion like for example Booze & Glory in their newer releases. These songs are just made for singing along from the top of your lungs. Vocals are just the way they should be, neither too melodic nor too harsh. Lyrics are in Italian and I just love how this language fits into punk rock, just somehow making it more emotional and more beautiful. When they released single Quaranta featuring guest vocals by none other than Roddy Moreno from The Oppressed, I knew this one might be something great and I was not mistaken. The title song, Ansia, Anche se and other are sure to become your favorites. Go get this one.
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