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(review) Authority Zero-Live At Rebel Lounge

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Time flies, who would have thought that this is already 25th birthday of our favorite Arizona sons called Authority Zero. What better way to celebrate than with live album which represents practically all parts of their career, hits that made them loved and respected by hordes of fans in the world. What I love about this live record that it captures all the rawness of hardcore punk this band provides in their basics added with all the melody and reggae parts and of course tight musicianship making them one unstoppable force to reckon with. The non stop singing along by the crowd made goosebumps on my skin while listening to this one. All the older hits like One More Minute, Over Seasons, Mesa Town, Revolution are here, but also new hits like When We Rule The World and Broadcasting To The Nations. This is a great document celebrating the birthday of this much loved band.

(review) REACH-More Than Us

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We have already featured Reach on the pages of this zine. For those who don˙t know, these guys are coming from Pomurje region, Slovenia and play hardcore. This is their brand new e.p. This new record contains 6 songs of modern urban, streetsmart hardcore with a lot of breakdowns, two steps, singalongs in gang vocal shouted choruses and good lyrics. This is not your idiotic macho I kill you, you kill me back hardcore, no, on the contrary Reach has nice and lyrics with a message to which all of us can relate to. The music is very aggressive, made for moshing, stage diving, pogoing and delivering all the hardcore energy we all love so much. The lyrics deal with battling some personal demons, friendship, the scene and trying to survive in this modern, fast paced world. The vocals remind me a bit of Rick Ta Life in some parts. The guys also have some awesome guests on this record, for example Gregor from Risk It, Dario from In-Sane and Matic from Laid To Rest. So, go support your scene and listen to some quality hardcore.

https://reach-hc.bandcamp.com/

(review) Booze & Glory-Hurricane

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At, last here is the new Booze & Glory album. After the tumult with recent years line-up change and taking another road with the band and music direction of the newer material, here is the first full length of the new line-up marking ten year anniversary of the band. Many fans turned their backs because the band no longer sounds the same as before, no longer playing skinhead streetpunk, but they rather chose a more melodic and many say they jumped on skatepunk bandwagon creating some sort of bastard child of streetpunk oi, pop punk and skatepunk. I like this album, but it has one problem, the first half of the album has much stronger and greater songs than the second half. Never Again, Live It Up, Ten Years, Ticking Bombs, The Guv´nor are fantastic and I really enjoyed the record until the second half. There are couple of songs that are not so strong there like Three Points, sorry but I think that many punk bands choose to write songs about West Ham United because it is hit to do so. Also, Elton John´s I´m Still Standing is rather boring cover, plus Goodbye and Darkest Nights that pass you by without notice, decent songs, but nothing special. My Heart Is Burning has superb guitar main melody riff, but there is no memorable anthemic chorus, so I always feel that this song is missing something. I know that guys in the band have special relationship to the song Too Soon, but I gave it a chance, believe me, ten times, but it is just too cheesy pop ballad for me. Much respect to the dead and I don´t mean to slander anyone, but this song just doesn´t work for me. So, this fifth album could have been superb record, but it is only decent one.