Legendary punk band The Dwarves are back with their brand new studio full length and 20 new songs for your listening pleasure. For those who don’t know, The Dwarves play mixture of melodic punk, hardcore and garage punk. Vocalist Blag Dahlia sounds better than ever and the band is musically tight delivering the songs as energy bomb, one after another. From melodic chorus of ‘Feeling great’, across hardcore punk fast ‘Voodoo’, The Dwarves deliver the goods. The Dwarves never cared about political correctness, having their deal of scandals over the years with album covers, death hoaxes, feuds and brawls with other bands. Besides Blag Dahlia, The Dwarves line-up also consists of celebrity drummer Josh Freese (Foo Fighters), legendary multi-instrumentalist Nick Oliveri (Kyuss) and dozens of rock luminaries. Other songs that I must mention as being highlights on this album for me are ‘Dead To Me’, playful sexy song, also ‘Roxette’, ‘Everybody Squirts’ and ‘We Will Dare’ but as I listened album over and over every time something else springs forth making this a great listening pleasure. Go listen to The Dwarves if you dare!
The good people at High End Denim Records deliver some really great punk rock jewels and one such is Let’s Go with their new album. Canadian punk rock rules! This one contains 9 songs of fast and melodic punk hardcore with speed melody and occasional groove with anthemic choruses like in awesome ‘State of Decay’. The band is really tight delivering superb guitar work and melodies. Vocals are mixture of shouting in hardcore punk way and singing melodic where needed with awesome backing vocal harmonies making you pump your fist in the air with the speed and energy of pure punk rock bomb of a record! Lyrics are personal but you can understand the issues behind the song lyrics and it was a pleasure combining music and reading the lyrics. This is one of the best releases I have listened to in a while, so go get this one and have a listen to great punk rock.
Death Cassette is a punk band from Winnipeg Manitoba and this is their sophomore release containing six songs. The music is a mixture of energetic melodic punk rock, garage punk and even some grungy moments thrown in for good measure. Vocals are raspy and angry but hit melody when needed in the song structure. The singer’s voice is at the same time enchanting and also energetic and angry like punk music should be. Music is fast and uptempo punk with lots of catchy guitar parts and hooks. Lyrics are emotional and personal and I think that most of us can relate to the themes of songs like my personal favorites ‘Reflector’, ‘Get Gone’ or ‘Solstice’. But, you will have to find out your favorites when you grab this record and have a listen.
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