Draven Valentine has a new release out there with four songs ready to melt your face off. These four songs on the e.p. are all different and I love the way how they are done. Intro sounds like a fifties doo wop influenced ballad, the sound I grew to love so much. Eternal Night is a classic horrorpunk song with all the moments and singalong parts, melodies and vocals we love this genre for.
Atom Age Vampire is more of a deathrock even gothic influenced song, especially in vocal lines, with pumping bass, darkened atmosphere of almost touchable sorrow and sombre heart.
She Dines With Wolves has many metallic parts and is again much more different than the rest of the material. Slower parts, eerie keyboard melodies and great vocal melodies give this song something special and this is a great release indeed.
I learned to love this band through my Southamerican brother from another mother Dalin from 69Enfermos who told me they are brilliant. And they certainly are. This six songs offer sheer vicious speed, ferocity and melody of skatepunk/hardcore. What I love is that they are enough technical and have some metallic parts to be rough and enough melody to be emotional and I love it. I love even blast beat drumming on The Bottom of Bottomless Pit being one of my personal favorites on this record along with the title song and Hunt the Haze. As for goes for vocals, they are so sweet, backing vox harmonies are done superbly and musicianship is at fantastic level with all complex songwriting, tempo changes, pumping rich bass lines, impeccable inhuman drumming and superb guitar work. Unfortunately I still haven´t checked these guys live, but will certainly do once this long winter ends and light is back upon the world. Until then have a listen to this great record!
These guys are from the streets of Fryslân, Holland and have been in the scene for a while having played in Spirit 84, DSS, No Denial, Dead Horse Running, de Hûnekop, Icepick, to name but a few.
This e.p. contains four songs in typical Euro street punk/OI way that I love so much and that I grew up with throughout the years. That means fine melodies on guitar, anthem singalong fist pumping in the air choruses and inspiring lyrics that are cliche in a way, but work with me just fine every time that I listen to such bands. I would love so much to see these guys playing live, jump and sing to the every lyric and just let loose. If I must choose my favorites of these four awesome songs, it would be Who Laughs Last and Lost In The System.
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