In 2005 Canadian punks The Getaway flew to Los Angeles to record an album for Kung Fu Records. For some reason this album was not released until now, when People Of Punk Rock Records treated us with this time travel jewel in form of this little punk rock record. These 10 songs offer us pure and no holds barred melodic punk rock from Toronto. While listening to this band, they remind me a lot of Face To Face, being harsh riffs but at the same time melodic. Vocals are great, a bit snotty but fit perfectly to the songwriting craft. Backing vocal harmonies and melodies are perfect, just here to make you smile and believe in punk rock and expressing your emotions with music that you love and believe in. Songs like I Hope You Feel The Same, Rescue Me, Left For Dead are my personal favorites, you will just have to discover yours. So, if you love your punk rock melodic, energetic and having heart and soul, this record is the right one for you. It is also a document of an era in our scene that is passed fifteen years ago, but fortunately we can relive it through nice music.
Love Equals Death are punk band from California and they are not so known to people in these parts, so I am glad that I discovered them through this record. They are not strangers to this zine because I interviewed them a while back. Now they are back with a collection of their previously released e.p. material and this album is a perfect way for you to get to know with this awesome band. Love Equals Death play a brand of melodic punk rock but with darkened vibe and sounding a lot more harsh in some song parts then your typical Cali punk rock band. There are also some street punk influences which fit perfectly with some gang sing along parts. But, the main fact is that this is well written and good punk rock to peel your ears and hearts while listening. Emotions, aggression, atmosphere, melody and fist pumping punk, that is all you need with this record and this band. Hopefully they will tour Europe in 2022 and I will get to see this band play live because I think that will be a fantastic show.
Time for a band from my home scene to grace the pages of this zine. Bednja released their new, long awaited e.p. Bednja were already featured on the pages of this zine, when I reviewed their full length debut album. This band is hailing from Varaždin in the north of Croatia, circa ten or so kilometers from my hometown. Bednja plays a mixture of black metal, hardcore and post metal with very interesting song structures and darkened atmosphere and dual growled and screaming vocals, which add power to the songs. Guitar work is ice cold with some catchy hooks here and there, thundering bass and drums from out of this world, Petar being for sure one of the best extreme music drummers in this region. This new e.p. offers four songs. Bednja pays tribute to Croatian poet Ivan Goran Kovačić, antifascist poet who was killed in WWII by transforming his lyrics into a song. They also cover Satan Panonski, punk icon from ex Yugoslavia who was killed in the civil war that went on here about thirty years ago. Also, they cover two folk songs sung by partisan fighters in WWII. There are some guest appearances on this record, but I leave that to you to discover. My personal favorite is Satan Panonski cover but e.p. as a whole is a fist in the face of depravity this country has turned in. Fist in the face of fascism, homophobia, xenophobia and Bednja told what all of us think: fuck you we are not down with you and you will not grind us down, not now, not ever!
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