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

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.

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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/

 

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

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.

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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!

(record review) TRIPLE SUNDAE-Glow e.p.

Triple Sundae from London, UK recently released their new e.p. and I listened and reviewed it for our zine.

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This London based band released their fourth e.p. since their start in 2014. This is the final e.p. prior sailing to the restless album waters. This e.p. contains six songs. If I must compare their music to some bands, it would be Nothington, Menzingers, Gnarwolves and similar bands meaning very melodic mid tempo punkrock with very emotional vocals, awesome voice, catchy riffs with a lot of melody and harmony and excellent songwriting. The music is like I said, not very fast, but that doesn´t mean it is not energetic and makes you wanna dance, cry, jump around, sing along and it moves you and that is I think the main purpose, because I didn´t just forget this record after listening, no quite the contrary, it remained in my memory for a lot of time and made me wanna listen to it more, after all, I think we can safely say that it succeeded. Best songs for me: Everything´s cool, Glow.

8,5/10

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