Category Archives: Reviews

books, Reviews

(recenzija) Dylan Dog Extra 149 – ‘Profesionalci’

Leave a comment

Za one koji me poznaju osobno nije čudno, jer uz Star Wars i kolekciju knjiga o SW expanded universeu koju skupljam, Dylan Dog je moja stripovska ljubav i skupljam i njegujem pozamašnu kolekciju izdanja još od bivše države, pa pokušaja Slobodne Dalmacije da ga izdaje ranih 90-ih, pa do sada kada Ludens izdaje Bonellijeva izdanja u Hrvatskoj. Eto, stigao je i novi broj zvan ‘Profesionalci’. Radnja epizode je o dvojici plaćenih killera zvanih Mr.Coke i Mr.Firebrand koji su unajmljeni da ubijaju pripadnike visokog engleskog plemstva oko para vrijednih sto milijuna funti. No, tu se upliće i naš Dylan kojeg bogata plemkinja unajmi. Tada slijedi twist u radnji. Koliko god metaka izbuši naše killere, oni jednostavno ustanu i ne umiru.

Što da velim na epizodu? Crtež kojeg je radio Freghieri je lijep i volim njegov način crtanja Dylana, scenario kojeg je radio De Nardo je solidan i u moru nedavnih loših epizoda, pogotovo redovnih izdanja Dylana, kao i nekih epizoda Old Boy Maxi izdanja, ova epizoda se čak može nazvati i solidnom. Ima nešto smrti i gore scena, ali malo u odnosu kako je nekada bilo u ranim DD epizodama. Valjda su nova vremena donijela i nove prohtjeve da se više ide na neki nadnaravni element, a manje na sam splatter i gore. Uglavnom, ne loša epizoda, nije ajnc a, ali je okej.

Reviews

(review) Tales Under The Oak – The Toad Folk (Dark Age Productions)

Leave a comment

Besides black metal, there is one genre of underground that I love to listen to in the last couple of years, namely dungeon synth and dark ambient. Tales Under The Oak from Berlin, Germany has a new opus out with Dark Age Productions. This is in fact eight epic songs plus four narrated short stories. The music on this opus is dungeon synth, epic and fantasy melodies go throughout the album as a whole, but there is also a healthy mixture of medieval dark ambient describing the concept of swamp kingdom and its denizens. Stories such as Brogg The Builder are interesting, like reading a great written dark heroic fantasy novel. Dreamy epic synth ambient songs like The One Who Carved It All, Bogg The Berry-Belly or The Water Lily Boat are sure to win you over and along with stories take you to other fantasy world in which you can stay for a while, because it is beautiful although a little bit scary. Great chapter in the tale of honor, life and woe.

Bandcamp

Reviews

(review) Charlie Bit My Finger – ‘Back And Fourth’

Leave a comment

Belgium’s Charlie Bit My Finger were already featured on the pages of this zine a while ago, when we reviewed their last release. This came out three months ago, a bit older release, but no matter. This one contains 14 songs and I must admit I love to hear how this band progressed from release to release in their melodic punk, with lots of pop punk parts and also nineties influenced faster skate punk. After the song ‘Breaking Out’ which has such fast skate punk guitar fantastic melodies and vocal harmonies came the surprise with ‘Stand Up’. This song mixes rap on verses with kind of light reggae parts and then explodes into so beautiful chorus, I think the best this band ever wrote. This one was new, but interesting combination. Since I first heard this band, there is one thing that I love about them also. Maybe it is because me being nostalgic sometimes, but these guys stand with both legs in melodic punk that I grew up with. Everything is here, melodies, harmonies, great lyrics, speed when needed, punk rock mid tempo when also needed and above all these guys remind me a lot of No Use For A Name, one of my all time favorite bands, also singer reminds of Tony Sly’s voice at times. My favorites on this one are ever changing but I will try: ‘Winning The Game’, ‘Backseat’ and ‘Dream On’.

Bandcamp