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(record review)PRIMETIME FAILURE-“Home”

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I would like the world to be one big place, big village, big city, without the boundaries but that is unfortunately not possible. Luckily for us in the punk hardcore scene, the music knows no boundaries, so everyday we get to know more and more bands that are awesome. This time I listened and reviewed for this webzine the new record by Primetime Failure, so read it here and listen to their album!

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This band comes from Germany, Bielefeld area and on this record the guys play what I hold most dear to my heart, being old school 90-ies influenced melodic skatepunk. There are 8 songs on this awesome record and the energy and melody took me back to the times when I was a kind and all I wanted was to storm the streets of my town, drink some beer with my crew and listen to the awesome music under a starry sky. Nostalgic? Definitely! But, this band wakes such feelings in me! For me, the highlights of the album are “Let Go”, “Waiting” and “Stuck in the 90-s” which made goosebumps on my skin while listening. The lyrics are personal and I thought for long about the awesome vocals on this album and who they remind me of. Then I got it! The vocals reminded me a lot of one of my favorite bands, Deadends from Austria and that is why I love this band even more! If you are a fan of old school energetic, flying high melodic skatepunk and nostalgic about the old days, then this record is made in heaven forya-

9/10

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(record review)THE CASKET CREATURES-“Return to Wolfton”

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The Casket Creatures are playing horrorpunk and they do it deadly good! This is their new record that I listened and reviewed for this webzine.

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They were founded in 2010.and are hailing from Atlanta, Georgia. This is their third full length release. The guys had hard times and endured a great pain recently when their drummer Tony 2Skulls passed away. This record contains a spoken word spooky intro plus 11 songs. The excellent “Phantom Zone” marks the first part of the record as one of the best songs, the guys made a video for the song too, which you can see below. I also loved “Roswell” very much having an anthemic chorus just made for singing and shouting along live with the band. “Robot Revolution” reminded me a lot of nwobhm metal bands with pumping riding rythm and strong melodic riffs of course mixed with horrorpunk sci fi lyrics. Of course, the record doesn˙t lack classic horrorpunk tunes like “The 13th” for example with a lot of ooos and Misfitesque melodies but they are far from being someone` s clone. The songs that are my absolute favorites on this record are “Attack of the 50ft Woman” being almost horrorpunk lovesong and “2Skulls” that is very emotional but strong song that is a tribute to the drummer and brother who passed away too soon. This is a very strong, melodic and energetic horrorpunk record and I loved it.

9/10

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(record review)ROCKER ARMS-“Leaving Jersey Shore”

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Dear fiends and fiendettes, it is time for some psychobilly mixed with punk on the pages of this webzine. Rocker Arms from Holland are veterans of the scene being formed in 1999. and playing with some lineup changes until now. This is their new record which I listened and reviewed for this webzine.

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The record contains seven songs of psychobilly mayhem with a lot of punk influences thrown in the song structures for good measure. “Joey” is a melodic song leaning heavily on punky riffs, psychobilly guitar work and nice melodic vocal lines. “Closer to me” is a more of a classic psychobilly song again with nice melodic chorus and some surf influences thrown in. “Free Beer 4 All” also owes more to the band˙s psychobilly roots than to punkrock but it is a very heavy sounding song nonetheless. “Don`t tell me” is a hymn to freedom, not living caged by boundaries and being truely free of conformism. “Dressed in red” starts as a horror psychobilly song with whispered word, thunder and has that old school black and white horror movie vibe. It is for me maybe the best song on this record. “Punk Nr” is just what the title says pure blood punkabilly song, fast and strong instrumental. “28” closes the record in the energetic fast and wrecking psycho style. This is a great record so if you are a fan of such music have a grab on this one!

8,5/10

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