We stay in far away scenes and places. DEAD EVIL are hailing from Auckland, New Zealand and this is, as the title says, album of cover songs done in horror punk, death rock and shock rock way, like this band is playing. Horror punk scene might be small but it is linked and ones of the most friendly scene people come from that scene, at least I had such experiences. Now, to the record. This one contains 13 songs, some known, some less known. There are classics like ‘Bad Moon Rising’ done in more country horror way, also classic ‘He’s Back(The Man Behind The Mask)’ – guess about whom this song is hehe. I love ‘The Buddi Song’ having that eerie 8-bit feeling hehe. Misfits cover ‘Descending Angel’ is decent, even better than that Jerry Only abomination incarnation of Misfits with his son and Goat on drums. ‘Monster Mash’ is done in a cool way too, besides my personal favorites ‘Chain Saw’, ‘My Delirium’ – THE best on this record. So, if you love your horror covers, go get this one. It is ‘name your price’ but if you download it, send a word or two of appreciation, I am sure it will mean a lot.
Newport Ave are from West Australia and I still think that I have much to explore about their underground punk scene which delivers so many great punk and hardcore releases all the time. Anyway, this little EP contains five songs, one being kind of instrumental intro called ‘Meet Me After Tryouts, We Need To Talk’. Then the record continues with one of my personal favorites pop punk/melodic punk anthem ‘Travel Pants’ with emotional vocals, mid tempo melodies and lyrics about being who you are not hiding behind mask and costume. ‘Mutiny Scrutiny’ is a surf punk influenced noisy little miniature with haiku lyrics but great melody at the end of the song about losing mind hehe. Other one of my personal favorites is ‘Medusa Seducer’, song about hypocrisy and fake love and affection with great guitar melodies and anthemic feel, true pop punk hymn. The production is great, I love harsher sound of guitars and vocals are cool for this kind of punk rock. ‘Cofee Cart Broken Heart’ speaks about separation and longing and going on with your life and this is a great little EP and I love every single minute of it.
Wow! That is one piece of darkened art and experimentation. This is what I can say after listening to Francesco Bucci‘s new solo opus. Francesco is known as a founder of Ottone Pesante. Due to stop of activities because of covid pandemia, Francesco decided to experiment and create new songs with trombone and tuba and here they are in form of an opus containing seven songs. Besides wish to make music, tragedy also made an impact on creation of this album with personal loss of brother. Since I lost my sister and know how does it feel, I can totally relate to the darkened vibe of this album which was recorded live without loops or overdubs, just raw music. Francesco even plays tuba which his brother used to play. How does this sound? Those are instrumentals and to me they are atmospheric mix of dark ambient, dungeon synth played by tuba and trombone and Morricone’s soundtracks. Epic and melodic, but also eerie and haunting with some dark humor thrown in like in song called ‘Now I understand why Chuck Shuldiner called his band Death’. This is only English song title rest are Italian. Yes, I forgot, some songs also remind me of soundtracks to Italian giallo and horror movies by Argento or Bava. My personal favorites are ‘La marcia dei soldatini’ and ‘Il disperato cercarti nel fondo di un tuba’. If you are into something different try this one.
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