Category Archives: Reviews

Reviews, Various

(review) MUCH THE SAME-Everything Is Fine(Thousand Islands Records/Lockjaw Records/Pee Records)

Leave a comment

Chicago based melodic punk veterans Much The Same are back with a new record. I listened and reviewed it for our zine.

Everything_Is_Fine_Large

Formed in 1999.these scene veterans are now celebrating their 20th anniversary in the scene. They broke up in 2007., yet retained strong fanbase and returned to the scene in 2015. and this new album contains 9 new songs. The band also won personal victory with their guitarist Dan O´Gorman fighting cancer successfully.

The songs on this new record feature aggressive, yet ultra melodic trademark style of Much The Same with classy riffs, energetic and fast drumming topped with melodic nice vocals and harmonies and awesome back vocals. The songs which we can for sure call album highlights for me are Snake In The Grass, fast punk hardcore song with so cool anthemic melody which you will hum all day long. I love how this band mixes technicality and old school 90-ies melodic skatepunk making it one beautiful music journey. You Used To Have A Garden sound like one of the Tony Sly´s song and I love it so much that I listened to it for couple of times in a row. In fact, the whole album has that melancholic No Use For A Name vibe, that is why I love it even more. The lyrics are personal and I think everyone can relate to them and that is why we love this music so much. Man Of Science Man Of Faith is also one of the best songs on this record for my personal taste, a phenomenal song with so sad, yet so great melody.

This album is a must for all the fans of melodic punkrock with heart and soul!

10/10

https://lockjawrecords.co.uk/https://lockjawrecords.co.uk/

Reviews, Various

(review) CRO-MAGS-Don´t Give In(Victory Records)

Leave a comment

Wow! This is really a surprise! After all the painful years of battling through court and who is real, who is not, Harley Flanagan finally did it! Cro-Mags, one and only real Cro-Mags released the first new music since 2000. and signed deal with Victory Records.

605260

The line-up is made Flanagan on lead vocals/bass, guitarists Gabby Abularach, Rocky George (Suicidal Tendencies, Fishbone), and drummer Garry “G-Man” Sullivan and the musicianship is very tight and the music is aggressive, energetic and memorable.

There are three songs on this record: the title track, Drag You Under and No One´s Victim. Harley sings better than ever and production is a bit gritty, but that sounds darker and more sinister when listening. In my opinion the title track is the best one on this record and kind of reminds me on We Gotta Know with the guitar riffs and drumming at the beginning of the song. Welcome back, Cro-Mags!

8,5/10

http://www.victoryrecords.com/

 

Reviews, Various

(horror movie) Clinton Road, the horror but not the way it was intended to be!

Leave a comment

I love urban legends and stories about abandoned roads, haunted forests and I believe that there are many places on this planet that have some paranormal unexplained events which no one can imagine to exist.

clinton-road-slide

I was very happy when I read about the movie which connects real urban legend stories about Clinton Road in New Jersey which they call one of the most haunted places in the world. When I read that former teenage star Richard Grieco(21 Jump Street tv series, Teen Agent) will direct this movie along with former cop and bodyguard turned movie director Steve Stanulis, I became a bit suspectful. Also, Eric Roberts and Ice-T are only the names for the dvd cover because Ice-T appears in the movie as the owner of the nightclub and I really don´t know what was his purpose for the story or the movie, maybe returning favor to the movie makers. Eric Roberts is even worse appearing as a cameo playing himself. Was that supposed to be funny, or charming? Well, it was not!

The real cast of this movie led by Erin O´Brien and James DeBello are total trash, under every average of decent acting. The story revolves around firefighter widow who needs closure and takes his friends investigating haunted Clinton Road where his wife disappeared. Then real confusion happens, ghost girl. some Rob Halford looking maniac killer living in the house with blue lights, psychic horror, all thrown in without any order or anything like screenwriter Derek Ross Mackay went insane halfway doing his work for this movie.

The characters run and wander around without any real goal, some dying, some staying alive, no real story is clear who, why or what is happening. The ending of the movie is equally sudden and bad and it is a mercy that it is not a long one. This movie is horror, but horror how someone can make such awful flick, not horror the makers intended it to be. Avoid this one!