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(record review)THE DAWN-TWWKIG

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The Dawn is a hardcore band from Marseille, France and I am happy I was able to listen and review their record for this zine.

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The album contains 9 songs of chaotic mayhem. The Dawn play aggressive, nervous, noisy hardcore that borders with sludge and doom influences and screaming harsh vocals. But, there are also grindcore blastbeat parts in the song structures and to add it all, weird keyboard melodies in the background, to make this band more interesting. What makes me more happy, is obvious Church of  Satan influence in many songs, especially Walpurgisnacht with Nine Satanic Statements thrown in. The lyrics are as I understood nihilistic and apocalyptic as the music this band plays. This is not for the fans of happy merry go round melodic hardcore. These guys will twist your mind with their music and then laugh about it later! I really love this record, it shows the variety and originality that can still be achieved on hardcore scene besides all those generic clone bands that are coming out with their records every day!

8/10

Links:

Follow The Dawn on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedawnhxc

Bandcamp: https://thedawnhxc.bandcamp.com/

 

 

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(record review)Heckel & Jeckel-Fourth death(P.O.G.O.Records)

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Heckel & Jeckel have a record out on P.O.G.O.Records, so it was about time for me to listen and review it for this zine.

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I didn˙t find much info about these guys. All I can say that it is a masked duo and that this record contains 4 songs. The music is a bit special and a bit harsh for listening if you are not a fan of such music. These guys play dirty punkrock with some sludge, electronic and even a little grungy influences. The sludge parts are nicely done and I must especially mention I Crush You Under My Shoes which made me really nervous while listening, but I guess that was the intention hehehe. Every song is different and you can listen it as a different whole and independent from the record. I personally liked Not To Touch The Earth the most, being somehow the best song on the record in my opinion. This is noisy kind of punkrock, so if you are a fan of such music, go grab this one, for me it was somehow not my cup of tea unfortunately.

6,5/10

Links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heckelandjeckelrock/

Label Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PogoRecords

Bandcamp: https://pogorecords.bandcamp.com/album/heckel-jeckel-fourth-death-pogo-114

 

 

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(record review)Waykopp-Too Loud? Too Old!

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Waykopp is a band from France, from the town of Pau, that started its journey in 2013. Couple of days ago, they released their brand new album. I listened and reviewed it for this zine.

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The album contains 11 songs. The music of Waykopp is a very melodic kind of pop punk/punkrock, almost bordering with indie/alternative area. That means not too distorted guitars, mid tempo pop punk, poppy vocals and personal lyrics about love, friendship and lost relationships and similar.

This band offers really nothing new or revolutionary in the music they are performing but they are doing fine this sort of punkrock. For me, of all the songs on the album the most memorable are Insomnia and Part Time Rockstar. This is the album done with heart and balls and soul, so it is worth your attention if you are a fan of softer melodies in punkrock. Check this one out, listen to the music and drop a word or two to the guys, I am sure it would mean to them a lot!

7/10

Links:

Follow the band on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/waykopp/

Bandcamp:

https://waykopp.bandcamp.com/album/too-loud-too-old