The good people at POGO Records never cease to amaze with great releases. This time, Frau Blücher and the drünken horses deliver goods with their new album. This punk band from Belgium has been in the scene since 2011 delivering their blistering raw and energetic punk to all hungry ears out there. This new record contains 13 songs and the music is fast and harsh punk with shouted and at the same time melodic great voice, courtesy of singer Veronica. Guitar, drums and songwriting belong more to hardcore punk than classic punk rock, but there are some noise, garage punk and Motorhead influences here and there in the song structures. Lyrics are great, personal but dealing with growing up, sexism, rape, fun and other themes. This record is really noisy, really loud and made for playing through your speakers at largest volume possible. I am always grateful for discovering great new bands that I haven´t listen before and I love this record. Go get it. You can download it on Bandcamp for free or donation, but be sure to write a word or two and support POGO Records and this band, I am sure they will appreciate it.
Belgian thrashers Primal Creation have been in the scene since 2007 and this is their second full length album. There are nine songs on this opus and first one called Extremely Dangerous serves as kind of intro to the thrash mayhem that awaits us when it starts for real. The music of Primal Creation can be described as brutal thrash metal, bordering somewhere between old school of European thrash metal and American more modern version of groove and street smart thrash. Lyrics deal with failures of us as humans, injustice, sarcastic yet in your face and smart at the same time. Vocals are angry and shouted but there are enough death metal influenced growls to satisfy brutal fiends like in excellent Vial Play. Dual guitars deliver groovy and brutal riffs, but there are lots of catchy hooks and melodies underneath all the brutality. Rhythm section does its work impeccable destroying everything in their path. This is a lesson in thrash metal.
Since I was a kid growing up like twenty five or thirty years ago, I have always loved hard and extreme music, metal and hardcore was my choice. You know, when you are a defiant outlaw kid, all other music and listening to other music is considered poser and treason. But, now when I am closer to forty five years than forty, I learned to enjoy other dark music and one of the genres is also dark folk. Dark Wooden Cell are hailing from Tours area, France. This entity is comprised of two individuals, namely Mike Gory (guitar-vocals) and Bruno Marmiroli (sax/trombone). This is their sophomore album containing nine songs. The music is dark folk with neo folk and even blues influences in the song structures with rich and darkened Mike´s voice carrying us listeners through the apocalypse and ghosts that roam our surroundings and other soundscapes bringing us kind of catharsis of a darkened heart after listening to the record as a whole. Songs are orchestrated in pairs offering a unique concept and aural journey. Acoustic guitar and sax in some songs, trombone in some add to the overall melancholic feeling prevailing through the whole album. My personal favorites are: The radio, The night. If you are a fan of such music, go grab this one.
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