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(review) Blast Bomb – Rock ´n´Roll Junkie (Undead Artists Records)

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Blast Bomb from Hamburg, Germany are in now way strangers to the pages of this zine, having reviewed their previous two awesome releases. This time they hit us with new e.p. out with Undead Artists Records, great label with so many super releases.

What do we have on this record? Four songs of energetic punk rock mixed with garage and rock n roll influences, having enough harshness, yet also enough melody to make you pump your fist in the air and enjoy the ferocity and energy of the songs presented by the band. The musicianship is great, production too, vocals are just the way they should for such music, singing yet having that rough edge and delivering melody with danger so to say haha. For me, my highlights on this record are Go Away and Bullet Proof.

https://undeadartists.bandcamp.com/

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(review) Cornered – Failure e.p.

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Dutch hardcore veterans Cornered are having their tenth release now. They toured Europe and United States and steadily growing in last ten years so these four songs are just great for hardcore kids. The music of Cornered can be described as nineties influenced hardcore more rooting in street punk than in metal, yet taking best from both worlds with equal straightforward parts and moshing parts of the song structures. I would like to see these guys live very much and listen to their awesome songs, I am sure their shows are killer!

Of these four songs, I can say that my personal highlights are Jungle Law, with moshing and slower first half of the song evolving into faster hardcore punk and ending with almost hip hop beat outro. My other favorite is Realm of Misery being most punk song from all the material, reminding me a lot of golden days of Euro hardcore when I was growing up when Ryker´s, Brightside, Only Attitude Counts, Discipline, Right Direction, Backfire! and similar ruled my world. This is great band and great e.p., support hardcore cause worldwide!

BLINDSIDED RECORDS http://www.blindsidedrecords.com

MUSIC / MERCH: https://cornered.bandcamp.com

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(review) Napalm Job – Kaži odjebi kome hoćeš

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Time for a band from this region, namely Napalm Job from Belgrade, Serbia. This band consists of well known faces within street punk scene, having played or playing in Miki Pirs, Birtija, Trula Romansa, PogonBgd, Trnje…

The new e.p. contains 6 songs, one being cover of Zabranjeno Pušenje, one having music by The 4 Skins but lyrics by Napalm Job. The music of Napalm Job is street punk/oi just the way it was meant to be, with lyrics in Serbian language about everyday life, punk, struggling to survive in corrupted and robbed state, similar to problems we have here in Croatia, so I can totally relate to the lyrics these guys are talking about. Vocals are great, screaming angry, yet fit perfectly to the songs that are fast, energetic, just the way real street punk oi should be. My favorites are To nije Oi! and Nema sjaja. Great release, so have a listen and support your scene and the cause worldwide!

https://napalmjob.bandcamp.com/album/ka-i-odjebi-kome-ho-e