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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) Mutant Reavers-Monster Punk

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Mutant Reavers are back with their brand new record. German horrorpunk scene is rich with bands like The Other, The Crimson Ghosts, Jamie Rottencorpse…, but each of the bands retained a great dose of originality, not being anyone´s clone or trying to sound like someone else.

Mutant Reavers play their vision of horrorpunk with large dose of metal thrown here and there in the song structures, but sounding enough punk with their sci fi monster horror themes not to be metal, and enough metal not to be quite punk, but who cares, horrorpunk is nice scene because it takes large influences from all kinds of music. This new record is pretty harsh and raw sounding with 14 beautiful songs to add blood, gore, space and carnage to your pleasure. Vocals are raw, sometimes shouted, yet enough melodic where there is a need to sing melodic. The music is uptempo, fast and energetic like this genre should be. The songs I would love to recommend as highlights for me are: The Abstract Of Demon Hunting, The Night Of Halloween, Behind The Rows, Let Her In. Great record!

8,5/10

 

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(review) M is We/Night Battles-Split(Broken Sound Tapes)

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Broken Sound Tapes brings us split seven inch containing two post punk/punkrock bands from North Carolina, USA. M is We song is a post punk hymn called What You Carry, having almost etherial vocals, tempo and atmosphere that somehow carries you to some calmer different dimension of listening. The calm evolves into guitar driven chorus carrying emotion on a different higher level. Night Battles song called Flat On My Back I somehow liked better being maybe a bit more nervous riffing and more noise influenced, but more concrete and heavy and less etherial, although, don˙t get me wrong, both songs are really cool and this is a nice little release. Go check out Broken Sound Tapes and find something for yourself.

8/10

https://brokensoundtapes.bandcamp.com/album/m-is-we-night-battles-split

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(review) Krav Boca-City Hackers

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This is an interesting band. Krav Boca are French-Greek-Moroccan group made of 8 people, meaning 3 singers, 1 performer and 4 musicians. These guys did more than 300 concerts diy touring Europe and are releasing their brand new record. This one contains intro plus eight songs. After pretty harsh and almost metalised intro, Souterrain shows the street side of the band, with music being combination of punk, metal, rap and folk elements meaning mandoline incorporated cleverly in the song arrangements. The lyrics are in French, since I don´t speak that one, I can´t really understand what is being sung about, but it sounds great nonetheless. Three vocals fulfill themselves perfectly creating and bursting with energy. I expected some ethno folk punkrock, but I got hardcore rap with metal and punk elements, not unlike Moscow Death Brigade. The songs that I recommend as highlights of this album are Crust Riot, Gas Mask and the title song. Check this one, it is interesting.

8,5/10