The Karnsteins are hailing from Bratislava, Slovakia and this is the first horror punk band from Slovakia on the pages of this zine with this nice Lovecraftian album title hehe. This record contains 9 songs of awesome horror punk with lots of uplifting melodies, singalong parts, nice choruses and clever use of movie samples. Okay, some of the songs sound a bit tongue in cheek humor, but no matter, that is the beauty of horror punk. Bordering between hardcore punk with faster songs like Ball of the damned, more punk rock songs like Necropogo this band rules. Especially songs like Count Kramula, Ghost of Charles Lee Ray and the title song are sure to win you over. Horror punk is so diverse, with so many influences coming in the song structures, that I love this small, but cohesive scene making it my favorite music in the world ever and I have been in the scene for almost thirty years now. Get this album, have a listen and write a word or two to the guys, I am sure they will appreciate it.
Blood Geyser are coming from Melbourne, Australia and this is their debut album. This album features 13 songs of interesting music. That being mixture of horror punk, death rock, with some metal and hardcore punk influences thrown in. This is not your usual la-la-la ooo singalong horro rpunk we all know and love, this is much darker music with pumping bass, growling and screeching vocals. The music sounds very spooky thankful to clever usage of samples from different horror legendary movies, depending on the theme of the song. I love Wanna Play? One of the most disturbing and scary songs on this record. I can only imagine how these guys would sound live with the right atmosphere for example in the castle of my hometown. That would be fantastic. Further songs that are really stand outs on this record for me are Carnival Of Terror, Family Of Cannibals and Ghosthouse. This is an awesome album. Loved every second.
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