Category Archives: Reviews

(review) Public Serpents – ‘The Bully Puppet'(SBÄM Records)

Public Serpents are band based in New Jersey and this is their new album containing 13 songs. This band may be new in the scene, but they are in no way strangers to the scene. Public Serpents are led by singer Skwert known for his playing with Choking Victim and being a pioneer of crack steady and crust ska punk scene. This is his new band and they deliver such energetic and mighty album with this one. From fast hardcore punk oriented songs like ‘Why Can’t I Tell’ to ska core anthems of ‘When Pigs Lie’, ‘Armageddon Stomp’, these guys deliver a storm of melody, rough vocals courtesy of Skwert but fitting perfectly to the song melodies, brass elements, and more rawer and dirtier sound of guitars with catchy hooks and at time street punk riffs and melodies thrown in. ‘Farewell’ is also one of the songs I must mention as being my highlight of the album having such melancholic and sad, yet at the same time uplifting melody. This is a superb ska core album, go listen and grab this one!

(review) Purveyor of Chaos – Purveyor of Chaos

Purveyor of Chaos are hailing from Canada and this band was formed on the ashes of Full Give and Penetrator, this being their opus containing eleven songs. The music of this band is raw and harsh heavy metal, not unlike old school eighties vibe, reminding me a bit of Dio, like in fantastic ‘Man of the Cloth’, one of my album favorites. Here we can hear more straightforward heavy metal like ‘Four Point Harness’, but also slower, rolling metal songs with higher pitched metal vocals like the title song, which evolves into fast thrash metal influenced song. This is not only thrash metal influence on the album, there are faster and more aggressive parts like in ‘Without A Master’, which is almost fast thrash metal song in many segments. I must especially mention guitarist/vocalist Maxel Black being totally fantastic singer, his voice transforming from Bruce Dickinson, Dio ranges to more high pitched, almost King Diamond-esque vocals. The musicianship is great, guitar work creating melodic ruthless aggression but also hooks and memorable passages. Drums and their double bass work deliver storm along with bass. This is a strong metal record and I am really glad having listened to this opus.

8/10

(movie) Peckinpah Suite(2019) – jedan od najdražih redatelja i njegova priča kroz prizmu kćeri!

Lupita Peckinpah je kći slavnog legendarnog redatelja Sama Peckinpaha (Divlja horda, Željezni križ, Pat Garrett i Billy The Kid, Psi od slame, Pucnjevi popodne, Bijeg…), redatelja koji se smatra djedom akcijskog žanra koji je utabao put mnogim kasnijim filmovima svojim jako nasilnim vesternima, trilerima i ratnim filmom. No, ovo je dokumentarac koji govori o kćerci Sama Peckinpaha, Lupiti Peckinpah, koja dolazi u grad Livingstone u Montani kako bi posjetila hotelski apartman u kojem je njen otac živio dugi niz godina otkako je odselio iz Hollywooda. U Montanu ga je privukla prekrasna divljina i priroda, temperature koje zimi idu i do -30 stupnjeva, duge šetnje po planinama, lov i ribolov te je kupio i brvnaru u kojoj je znao boraviti. Lupita prolazi putem sjećanja i usput gledamo biografski dokumentarac o njenom ocu i saznajemo zanimljive činjenice o njegovoj gadnoj naravi hehe, tučama u pijanom stanju, pucanju, paranoji, ali i upoznajemo Peckinpaha kao brižnog oca koji je jako volio svoju kćer. Meni je ovaj film bio strahovito zanimljiv i zabavan, jer nisam znao ama baš skoro ništa o Peckinpahovom životu, a gledao sam skoro sve njegove filmove i obožavam njegov opus, pogotovo Divlju hordu i Željezni križ, filmove koji mi spadaju u top deset ili dvadeset filmova svih vremena. Ovo je super doku, pa odvojite malo vremena ako želite pogledati.

8,5/10