Sweden has always been great fertile ground for awesome bands and Tear Them Down are from Gothenburg and this is their second full length album. This band has been in the scene since 2010 and did many European tours and also went to Japan. This one features 13 songs of hardcore punk mayhem. It is a nice old school hardcore punk with 80ies influences, fast and strong to make your fist pump in the air with joy and energy in your heart. But, there are also some I would say garage punk, melodic skatepunk and more skatecore influences. My personal favorites are anthems like Sacrifice and also Total Control which I am sure are live favorites to sing along, stage dive and bring smile to your face. Vocals are harsh, shouted in hardcore way, but also transform to more melodic singing and it works perfectly along with harsh and singalong backing vocals. Some of the songs from this album like As We Go Down I listened to over and over again to check out how great they are. Fantastic hardcore album!
Dagger Threat released second full length album and they just continue with brutality and carnage where the predecessor stopped. That means these intro Prologue and ten songs punch you in the gut with a mixture of metallic hardcore that we used to call new school back in the nineties and more modern beatdown hardcore with sharp precise guitar riffs, moshing parts and beatdown stop and go drums, topped with brutal vocals screamed at the top of the lungs plus some more gang backing vocals with might and energy reverberating throughout the album as a whole. Usually I am not so avid keen fan of such hardcore, being more of a old school asshole but when it also incorporates some clean sung melodic parts like in one of my favorites Wither, also Faint. I love that mixture of brutality and melody and it works fine for me. Lyrics are more personal and help you deal with your own demons, at least they did that way for me. This is a fine brutality lesson, so go for it!
The long awaited first full length album by Arizona´s The Venomous Pinks is upon us with the help of SBÄM Records who quickly become one of the best labels there is out there in the scene. There are ten songs on this one, delivering heartfelt melodic punk rock co produced by Linh Le of Bad Cop/Bad Cop and having a bit of similarity to the mentioned band. The music is, you guessed it, melodic punk rock with nice melodies, epic hooks, choruses just made to hum and sing along all day and wishing you catch this band live. From the song called Mercy with such beautiful chorus and guitar solo, to more punk rock or even street punk oriented No Rules, and also jewel of this record Broken Hearts Club, The Venomous Pinks made one hell of a record and one of my top ten contenders for melodic punk rock record of the year 2022. Vocals are fantastic, harsh and melodic, guitar work and solos, also riffs are phenomenal and bass/drum work keeps the thing thundering. Fantastic record! My whole hearted warm recommendation!
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