Let us talk a bit about our own Croatian underground scene. Zayn from Bjelovar released their new e.p. as third part in their of their conceptual tetralogy called Monolit. I saw Zayn perform live twice in club called Prostor in my hometown and both times it was a great experience. These guys play a mixture of post metal and noise with some indie and post rock influences thrown in here and there. Usually I am not an avid fan of instrumental music, but this band is different, here you are taken on a voyage through music soundscapes and all three songs are different, like each one of them is a story for itself, telling us the listeners something that we must interpret ourselves the way we understand it. For me the best song on this e.p. is Lovely You having awesome electronic backgrounds to the music, like some haunted synth melody reminding me of an Argento soundtrack, or what Italian band Goblin did in some songs. Support your scene!
.Gif From God are hailing from Richmond, USA and this record contains 12 songs of heavy, chaotic, metalized screaming hardcore punk, very close to grindcore and screamo in some song structures. The vocals are screaming their lungs out, sometimes growling the music is very noisy riffs and fast almost inhuman fast drumming. What I love about this band are the weird song titles like No dude…he still likes to spray, but the absolute winner for me is the song called When you yell at me, make sure you hurt my feelings. There are some atmospheric, almost post hardcore parts like in Whats the BP2BB song, but mainly it is crushing and noisy fastcore sreamo grind. Good one.
Eastern Europe still has vast and undiscovered underground scene and Complete! from Ukraine are one such jewel of that scene. They recently released their debut full length album and I am so happy I had pleasure to listen and review it. The record contains nine fast paced songs and the music is no holds barred, no philosophy, no bullshit old school fast melodic punk/skatepunk like we used to listen and still love, meaning nineties touch all the way with some modern hardcore influences here and there. The lyrics are in English and deal with personal themes, yet are still political in a way, and they are very well concepted and written. The vocals are mainly melodic, but at times screamed and shouted in hardcore way. The whole album is one energy bomb and I like such bands, never enough of fast paced melodic, well played songs. My favorites: Rejected, Endless Winter, Static State.
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