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(record review)Nadir-Collecting Misery

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Nadir are punk band from Queens, New York area and this is their self released record which I listened and reviewed for our zine.

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Nadir is an interesting name, hopefully the guys were inspired by the Nadir tribe horde from David Gemmel´s novels for the name of the band. This trio features Robbie Swartwood of Off With Their Heads singing and playing guitar with Mike Foti on bass and and Arthur Bergevin on drums. The music of Nadir is punk with pretty depressive and darkened atmosphere or that is how I felt when I listened to the record. There are 8 songs on this record and the record as a whole has very nice rawer sounding production with great song structures mainly midtempo punkrock from the heart with two acoustic punk songs. For me, somehow Early Graves, Paper Trails and Born To Die Alone somehow worked the best but all of the songs are great raw, yet melodic punkrock with a lot of atmosphere and emotion. Good one.

7,5/10

https://nadir666.bandcamp.com/releases

 

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(record review)Coming Out Swinging-Step Aside(WTF Records)

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Coming Out Swinging

Coming Out Swinging are working class, no bullshit, no holds barred hardcore punk band with members from New York and Connecticut area. I listened and reviewed for our zine their new record out with WTF Records.

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What immediately comes to mind when listening to this record is how old school sounding the music of this band is. I love it. Sounds like all that European and NYHC bands that I loved and grew up listening in the 1990-ies. The record contains 8 songs of dirty, maybe sometimes rock n roll sounding hardcore punk(F.M.L.), that old school hardcore anthemic riff, heard for thousandth time, but still gives you goosebumps(You Lose), lyrics bringing tears to life missing fallen bros and sisters(Forever-my personal favorite), dangerous moshing(Stand Up And Fight), Madball-esque songs(For You), street/oi(House Of Pain) and humour(Too Drunk To Bbq), has holding your pumping fist in the air all throughout the record. The singer sounds somehow to me like Dwid from Integrity circa Systems Overload era, which is awesome. The lyrics are usual hardcore themes, a bit clicheed, but they still turn the old spark in my heart into burning flames hehe. This is a great old school sounding hardcore record.

8,5/10

https://www.facebook.com/Coming-Out-Swinging-111299502873372/

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(record review)MILLENCOLIN-SOS(Epitaph)

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Millencolin was one of the most important bands to the kids in our scene, my hometown and the region here in the 90-ies. I am very happy that they are still around and they are still up and kicking with the brand new album which I reviewed for this zine.

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Its been a couple of years since the last one, so I didn´t know what to expect with the new music. Millencolin are for me one of those bands that are better sounding on the albums than live, so I love their albums very much, but I don´t like their shows so much. The new album contains 12 nice songs of melodic 90-ies punkrock which takes me back to the time when I was a kid and all I wanted was to rock and hang out with my brothers and sisters. 25 years have passed, but I am still that kid in my heart. When the first single, the title song came out, I had the chorus of that song immediately in my ear and hummed it all day long and still do now. There is the quartet of awesome great songs on this record being the title song, Carry On, Nothing(my personal favorite), and Sour Days which are true punkrock anthems. The rest of the material is not so good as those mentioned above, but enough to make this a good album, one of those that grows better and better to your heart every listening. If you love your punkrock fast, without complicating, anthemic, grab this new album by this Swedish legends.

8/10

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