Holland hardcore punk scene has always been great and one of my favorite Euro hardcore scenes with so many great bands from the nineties until today. Justify All Means are from Holland and this is their new e.p. out with WTF Records. New e.p. contains four songs in about ten minutes or so. Music of Justify All Means is angry hardcore punk, bordering between moshing groove parts and old school street punk influences. Lyrics are about lost friendship, against war and weapons selling, finding the strength in yourself to carry on in hard times and I must admit it all sounds pretty powerful. Vocals remind me at times of Krmpa from Croatian hardcore heroes Deafness By Noise and gang backing vocals are made for singing along at gigs. My personal favorite is Unleash The Beast being more oi influenced songs reminding me of my roots. So support your local hardcore punk scene and check this one out.
Zebrahead have been around for a long time, delivering their vision of rap mixed with skate punk, pop punk and metal influenced guitar work. I was supposed to check them out live at 2020 Punk Rock Holiday but due to known reasons that didnt happen, so I hope to catch them somewhere on tour in Europe in 2022. In the meantime, they delivered new e.p. containing five songs. My personal favorite is A Long Way Down, also Homesick for Hope is superb too. Everyone who checked their last two full lengths will know what I mean when I say that they continued their path musically like those two records, meaning a mixture of punk rock, metallic guitar riffs, some rap, pop punk and above all, great songwriting. Go get this one and have a listen!
Californian legends The Vandals released their live album done in these strange covid times on cd and dvd. I watched The Vandals headline a day at Punk Rock Holiday couple of years ago in Slovenia and I was blown away with their fun show, full of great punk rock and not politically correct jokes and totally super music. Now, Christmas season is upon us and what better way to celebrate than with The Vandals live record full of great season songs like Christmas Time For My Penis, Grandpas Last Christmas, My First Christmas As A Woman, Thanks For Nothing and others. Celebrating The Vandals way haha. Also, this record contains all the live favorites and goldies like Live Fast Diarrhea, My Girlfriends Dead, Oi To The World. So, if you love your punk rock old school skatepunk, melodic, fun and with great musicianship, this is the right one forya. Go get it!
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