I listened and reviewed the new 3upFront record for our zine. These guys have been around playing since 1998.
Couple of years later, hehe here is the new full length record. Hailing from Santa Cruz, California, these guys are playing melodic skatepunk and this 19 songs are not unlike Good Riddance, especially in one of my favorite songs on this record, This Time, song with great drive and nice melodic anthemic chorus, vocals also remind me of Russ Rankin in this song. Besides punk there are reggae influences in That Song, but I don˙t know, this song and half of other songs on this record did not work well with my ear. I love straightforward punk songs like Fantasia or Whoa Bundy, as you can see there is a lot of humour and auto irony in the lyrics to the songs, many varied parts in the music that show these guys definitely can play, but in my opinion something is just missing in this record to be great one. 7/10
Debt Neglector are punks from Orlando, Florida and their new record is out now! I listened and reviewed it for this zine.
I must admit that it˙s a shame but I have never heard of these guys prior to this record but this record corrected that mistake. This record contains 6 songs of straight from the heart melodic punkrock. The songs are not too fast, rather mid tempo punkrock with nice vocal melodies and what is more important excellent and smart lyrics that are covering mainly political like Scared of U.S. to personal and one of my favorite songs on the record is New White Roses which is as I understand about resisting tyrannical and fascist government like White Rose organization that opposed the Nazis in Germany during WW2. All of the songs are awesome, energetic, heartfelt but still proving that punk can be political and melodic at the same time. Check out this band and this record because they will become one of your favorites for sure.
Coldstare have a new album out on WTF Records and I am proud that I was able to listen and review their new record for this zine.
Coldstare are coming from Belgium and they were formed in 2001. The band went on hiatus in 2008.but was reformed in 2015. to become once again a significant force on the European hardcore map. This new album has 10 songs. The music is typical European school of hardcore that has more roots in streetpunk and oi scene than in metal, and it is good so. There are some NYHC influences like AF, early Madball, SOIA but the band has that touch of Right Direction, Only Attitude Counts and similar Euro HC bands have in their music. There are faster old school songs but also some groovy moshing parts making the songs nice piece of modern hardcore that many bands lack nowadays. My favorite songs on this record are Time to prove and Side by Side, true hardcore anthems. This is a great hardcore record!
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