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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

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(review) The Lockdown – Waiting For Better Days (Effervescence Records)

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The Lockdown is no stranger to this zine, because I already wrote about the first single by this project that started in March 2020 during lockdown by none other than Fab, main honcho of Effervescence Records. Now, digital version of the full length record is out, vinyl version will be out in March.

What do we have here? 11 song of really beautiful melodic punk rock, bordering between nineties melodic punk I grew up on and love so much, also having some pop punk influences in the song structures. My personal favorites on this record are The Good Old Times, a bit calmer Old Memories, Different People with such great vocal and backing vocal harmonies that continue throughout the whole record, also Never Forget which is song I listened to over and over again, like the title song with fast and nice, melancholic vibe. Lyrics are personal and I can totally relate to most of the songs, and that is just what I need in my punk rock and hardcore records that I listen to. That is why I love this genre of punk so much. So, if you love your punk rock melodic and from the heart, go check out this one. I know I love it!

https://effervescencerecords.bandcamp.com/album/waiting-for-better-days