Taken By Vultures are from Boston and this is their brand new debut release featuring intro and three songs. They play punk rock with raw side to it, yet retaining enough melody. If I must compare them to something, it would be a mixture of Jughead´s Revenge and Blitzkid. Vocals are superb, neither too raspy nor too mellow, just the way they should be for these songs. Lyrics are more on a fun side of things, but there are some personal undertones beneath it all. My personal favorite is Half In The Bag with that haunting chorus that infects you to sing along all day long. Also, Grandpa Joe Is A Dirty Freeloader is much fun. Can´t wait for the full length release. Until then, enjoy this one.
Good people at WTF Records just cannot stop releasing tons of great music. This time, Going Postal, band from NYC with their new opus of raw street smart hardcore. This e.p.is nineties influenced hardcore with lots more street punk influences but also has its momentary excursions into metal waters. I especially love Drowning In It, reminding me a lot of Warzone, one of my favorite bands from New York. This is simple, no bullshit, no holds barred undisputed hardcore with tendency to make you mosh, hug sweaty kid in the pit next to you and make your body flow with hardcore energy from your forehead to your toes. FTW is also one of personal favorites, being short but sweet punkrock influenced hardcore that we miss sometimes so much in today´s scene. This is pure old school hardcore with shadows of old bands like Killing Time, AF, Youth Of Today, Warzone and similar looking upon and smiling. Great release!
Silent Obssession is a technical brutal death metal project hailing from Algeria and it is always nice to have bands from countries not so near and distant scenes we don´t know much about. There are three songs on this little opus, one being kinda intro and other two, namely End of an Era and Exhausted Resources being a mixture of brutality through well executed musicianship and atmosphere of hopeless despair. End of an Era is more straightforward old school death metal destroyer, while Exhausted Resources is more technical, even groovy in parts with some thrash metal influences thrown in here and there for good measure. Great death metal from distant Algeria.
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