Ach, Summer is the right time for listening some bands that are melodic, punk rock and bring back smile to your face as you enjoy cold sip of water in the shade watching sunshine doing its job. Basement Gary are from France and they recently released their full length record and it is a blast! There are twelve songs on this one, couple of them being intro and interludes. Music of Basement Gary is new school of pop punk rock, melodic and energetic, but at the same time having enough old school feel in anthemic choruses, harmonies and excellent melodies. There are some fast skate punk excursions like in Let Me Breathe which is short but sweet, but music is mainly punk rock with your typical pop punk tempo. Songs like Like A Millionaire, title song, With The Radio On are sure to become your favorites if you are a fan of such music. This one is a keeper for listening couple of times on a hot but nice Summer day.
Bottlekids are from Wales and this is their brand new e.p. out with mighty SBÄM Records who are for sure European punk rock number one record label right now! What have we here? This one contains six songs. The music of Bottlekids is fast and energetic punk rock with harsher vocals but armed with nice melodies and harmonies. The guitar work is awesome and drums smartly balance between faster and more aggressive song parts and slower more melodic hooks and bridges. Lyrics are personal and deal with surviving in this world, hope and life which we all must live the best that we can to our abilities. One of my personal favorites is Already Dead having such nice melody and lyrics whose combination brought goosebumps on my skin. Two more songs that I must mention as being my highlights are This Idiocracy being a fine political tune related to daily life and also The Irreplaceable Past which is my personal best song of all six. Go check this one if you like your punk rock melodic!
Good people at Cult Never Dies never cease to amaze with quality books and zines that they release. After Cult Never Dies trilogy, this is the fourth installment which can be read separately, no matter if you read the first three or not. As the title says, this is a book length zine formatted original work, with beautiful layout and totally reminding me of nineties and a time when we did all those cut and paste zines with master copy being taken to photocopy shop and distributed via mail with tape trading and flyers coming all the way late for gig announcements hehe.
If you read any of previous works you will know that this book contains interviews with many bands and individuals, mainly from black metal side of things, but also from some other aspects of extreme music. For me personally, best interviews in this book are with artist Gareth Elliot. whose work is just fantastic. Also, I love the interview with photographer Ester Segarra who does such perfect job with photos of extreme metal personalities and bands. Jon Metalion from Head Not Found label is also an interesting read. From the bunch of bands, my highlights are Ancient and Mysticum interviews. This one is a worthy read done as love for zines and extreme music. Go check this one out, also other three books from the series.
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