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Active member of alternative underground scene and culture since early 1990-ies. Underground is a way of life!
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(review) Danzig-Danzig sings Elvis(Cleopatra Records)

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This was long time in the making and it is finally here! Glenn Danzig, my musical hero and inspiration, one of the heroes of my childhood, through Misfits, Samhain and his solo career, recorded an album with cover versions of the songs by king himself, Elvis Presley. The king of darkness covering King Elvis, hero of Danzig`s childhood. Although many have tried to clone and copy him, especially in horrorpunk scene, there is only one voice, Danzig and his trademark beautiful vocal. These 14 songs are beautiful renditions of Presley songs. I am not a fan of Elvis, so I do not know whether some of these songs are hits or no, but I know that Fever, Always on my mind, Loving arms and Like a baby are my personal favorites on this record. This is a nice one, like a classic prequel to 2015. album Skeletons hehe. Pay tribute to both kings!

8/10

 

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(review) Scott Sellers-Influence

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Scott Sellers just keeps delivering and delivering, bombing us away and melting our faces off with his awesome new albums full of melodic punk and fast skatepunk anthems.

This time, he releases the memory box of his influences, like the title of the albums says. This album takes me to my youth, delivering bombs of songs, with so many great covers on this album. There are 10 songs of the bands that influenced Scott in his relentless work discipline in creating great music, namely Strung Out, Face To Face, Slick Shoes, Lagwagon, MxPx, Nofx, Blink 182, Millencolin, No Use For A Name and BIGWIG. Like any other covers album, there are some songs you like more, some you like less, but this one is full of fantastic songs, so thumbs up for all of the songs on it.

8,5/10

https://scottsellers.bandcamp.com/album/influence

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(review) Tvivler-EGO

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Tvivler means one who doubts and this is their debut full length album. The record contains 15 songs and the music of this band from Denmark is very interesting. It is basically hardcore punk, but has a lot of different influences in the smartly done song structures. There are classic d beat apocalypse songs, mixed with screamo atmospheric parts, evolving into almost atmospheric and gentle post punk parts of the songs. The lyrics are in Danish language, but I got the translations and English explanations of the songs, and the themes are forgiveness, fear, love, desire and basically all the feelings we as humans can experience and through which we can relate to. There are lots of fast upbeat hardcore punk songs with fast drumming, cutting guitars evolving into almost sad melodies and melancholy pure. The vocals are superb, also experimental weird saxophone parts fit perfectly to the songs they participate to. This is a strong debut album and I only wish to find out how this stuff sounds live on stage.

https://tvivler.bandcamp.com/