The Casualties have a new record out and I listened and reviewed it for our zine. Read on and check it out if you love hardcore punk!
These long time running American hardcore/streetpunk legends had really hectic last couple of years. Besides relentless touring making them one of most hard working bands in the scene, they suffered line up loss when their singer Jorge decided to quit the band. Enter the new vocalist David Rodriguez and this is the first record with brand new material and new vocalist. The record contains 15 songs of energetic hardcore punk/streetpunk with harsh vocals, fast paced songs and gang singalong anthemic choruses. The fans of the band will get what they are used to, because the material is similar to the old stuff, only the singer is more understandable what is he singing about, because he sings harsh, but you can hear the words in the vocal lines. There are couple of songs on the record that are excellent like Lost, Ashes Of My Enemies and Written In Blood. Also, check out the new video for 1312, the song is okay, but there are couple of way better songs on the album. Good one.
The Rumjacks recently released their new, fourth album and I listened and reviewed the album for our zine. Read on!
I didn´t know for this band until 2016.and their show at Punk Rock Holiday, which made me listen to the albums and keep an eye and ear open for this band. Usually, I am not too keen for all the celtic punk and folk punk bands out there, but this album is just somehow made for my ears. These Australians deliver mighty set with 12 songs of celtic folk punkrock with a lot of melody, sing along choruses, fun and emotion. There are reggae and ska influences in Fare Evader, the title track and A Dozen Good Reasons To Weep which is one of my favorite songs on this record. Also, I love The Foreman O´Rourke with the guest performance by Paul McKenzie of The Real McKenzies delivering nice vocal guest lines. This is a very good album which even non celtic folk punkrock fans like me dig good.
Thousand Islands Records continues its triumphant crusade in bringing us awesome bands and fantastic records, for all of us who like our punk fast and melodic. This, time we listened and reviewed the new Call It A Day record.
This band comes from Strasbourg, France and, you guessed it, they play awesome melodic punk hardcore or skatepunk if you will. The record contains three songs. For Your Safety is for me the best of the three songs, but Empty Promises is close, both being fast skatepunk with excellent melodies and awesome main vocals backed by nicely done backing vocal harmonies, topped off with great guitar hooks and song structures. The third song, named Valium is everything else but tranquilizer, being awesome energetic bomb to complete this little record with some screamed vocals thrown in to interact with the melodic voice and the combination is great. I love every single minute of this record and I really can˙t wait for the full length.
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