Calarook are hailing from Switzerland and this is their debut full length album. When I listened to the intro on the album I thought to myself, oh no, not another Alestorm clone playing boring folk metal called pirate metal. But, fortunately I was wrong. This is more on melodic death metal side of things with growling vocals, epic guitar catchy riffs and perfect balance between aggressive fast parts and more melodic side of things. I must say that violin does a great job here, especially that fantastic violin solo in Kraken´s Chest, one of my absolute favorites on this record. This album sounds like a crosbreed of Amon Amarth, Skyclad, Running Wild and Edge of Sanity combined into one superb whole musical journey. The songs are hilarious, you just can´t go wrong with Quest For Booze or Invisible Pineapples., especially Paul the Parrot hehe. This is fine debut record, I would love to see and hear this band live somewhere, I am sure they make one hell of a party.
Now, this band is a real discovery. Lost Issue are playing basically hardcore punk and this is their four song e.p. But, they mix the fast hardcore punk with melody of horrorpunk and skatepunk, but also with goth and streetpunk influences, thus making one damn fine record with fast music, angry yet melodic vocals and anthemic choruses just made for singing along.
My personal favorites on this record are Lost Issue and Mechanical Hate, being fast almost streetpunk songs with attitude, balls and brains in the songwriting. But, Fire Away and Now That You´re Gone are also superb songs. I am so glad I discovered this one. Can´t wait for the full record.
Instead of releasing it on cd or vinyl they took a different path. The e.p. comes with your Beech tree that can be planted to help local and global environment. Concerning the four songs on this record, this is still the style of sad, emotional punkrock these guys call regret punk. As I am listening to this one on Sunday morning having a coffee, I love how this sounds, even better than the last material. My favorite is Dynasty, Die With Me, but also Greek Wood. All songs are excellent, last being acoustic Yuzi. This one is a keeper, so go grab it while you still can.
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