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(record review)The Bouncing Souls-Crucial Moments(Rise Records)

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The Bouncing Souls are celebrating their 30th birthday this year with a celebratory tour that will take them to some places that they haven`t been earlier and also release their brand new six song e.p. with Rise Records and I listened and reviewed the new record for our zine.

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The New Jersey guys paved the way for many bands with their from the heart melodic punkrock with hardcore influences. The title song is just great piece of nostalgia and pride with video made with the collage of band video tapes from all the parts of their career, the song itself having totally contagious chorus. 1989 is fast hardcore miniature showing the always present hardcore rooted side of the band, short but sweet song. Favorite Everyhing is a typical Bouncing song, straightforward punk version of Bruce Springsteen, the feeling I often have when listening to this band. New New is rock n roll punk song with superb lyrics and fine tuned melodies for our listening pleasure. 4th Avenue is for me the best song on the record which I listened again and again being fast, energetic punk song with simple line, but great for giving you so much goosebumps. The last song, gentle Home takes us back in some happy place, puts smile upon our face and reminds us why we love this band so much!

10/10

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(record review)SENF-Cinik e.p.

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There is no global scene without supporting your local scene and little bands that your friends play in, global scene is in fact the network of such bands, so I present you Senf, the band from the town Varaždin, Croatia and I listened and reviewed their new e.p. for our zine.

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This is the third e.p. from the guys and I already wrote about the last one here. Senf is a band that has experienced guys that are in the scene for a long time now, from bands Rectal Destroyer, Fajrunt, The Hangover, Alkotest…This band plays crossover hardcore punk with a lot of metalic parts, stoner parts and pretty brutal vocals courtesy of their vocalist Ivda. But, at the same time their music has that melody and haunting way of playing, the line that is similar to all of the Varaždin bands with excellent musicianship, these guys can really play. This e.p. contains 6 songs, okay 5 plus a cover of old band Skorbut from Varaždin. My personal favorites from this record are Pas and Japa. The lyrics are in Croatian language, mainly satire, cynism, but there are a lot of contemporary themes that can be read between the lines if you know what I mean. Senf grows from e.p. to e.p. and I can safely say that this is their best material to date. Check this one out!

8/10

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(record review)BROWBEAT-Remove The Control(Indelirum Records)

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Italian hardcore scene lives and breeds with more and more awesome bands each day coming out, putting out records, playing gigs. Browbeat are one of the old guard in the scene and I listened and reviewed their new record out on Indelirium Records.

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Browbeat were originally formed in 1998., release couple of records, toured a lot and became one of the more significant bands from the late 90-ies, early 2000-s Italian hardcore scene. They disbanded somewhere in 2007. and reformed stronger than ever in 2017. Hence, new gigs, new record. This new one contains intro plus 9 songs of harsh and streetwise brutal hardcore in the style played in late 90-ies. If I must compare it to some bands it would be Madball like in When The Profit Kills, but also I hear brutal Earth Crisis style in A Forgotten Number but also some new Hatebreed/Machine Head style can be heard in the material. Do not get me wrong, these guys are not mere copies of the forementioned bands, they developed their own brutal style and polished it in hardcore black diamond of the scene. So, if you love your hardcore brutal with gang backing vocals and some clean melodic chorus thrown in here and there, you came to the right place.

8/10