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(record review)THE SADISTS-“Sexploitation”

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The Sadists are horrorpunk band from Hartford, Connecticut, USA and this is their new record that I listened to and reviewed for this webzine.

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Everyone who reads this webzine knows our love for horrorpunk and horror culture in general. I am always happy to discover new and great horrorpunk bands in that small, but beautiful scene. This music just keeps me alive somehow, besides punk and hardcore of course! This record contains 11 songs with two being covers by Dwarves and Cancerslug, one being bonus Christmas horrorpunk anthem. The music this guys play is more of a raw horrorpunk with screaming vocals that often turn into nice melodic anthemic melodies. Somehow they remind of the two before mentioned bands but with retaining a great dose of originality. The song “Bride of the Monster” features the guest vocals by none other than Michale Graves and it is in my opinion the best song on this record, not necessary because of the Graves vocals which I adore, but because it is an awesome song. I also love “Black Christmas”, “Wish I Was Dead” and the bonus song is awesome “Merry Fucking Christmas” although is is the beginning of Summer. Nice horrorpunk album full of energy!

8/10

Follow The Sadists on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Sadists-CT-2092915450986959/

Bandcamp: https://thesadists.bandcamp.com/album/sexploitation

 

 

 

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(record review)FAIR DO´S-“Leopards”(Lockjaw Records)

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Straight outta Manchester come Fair Do´s with their awesome new album on Lockjaw Records and I listened to the record and reviewed it for this webzine.

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UK has an awesome melodic hardcore punk scene with bands like The Human Project, Avas, Darko coming to mind immediately. Manchester´s Fair Do˙s were formed in 2008. and “Leopards” is their high anticipated debut album. It contains ten song of crushing and uncompromising technical and fast melodic hardcore punk with political and smart lyrics.

First, besides music, for me the vocals are very important and this band has it all. The screams, the anger, the melody and style being qualities of their singer, one of the best in the genre right now. There are couple of songs that I must mention as my highlights from this album. First of them is “Distress Call” because it has a fine line between being an angry screamed hardcore song and melodic punk anthem. “Cowabunga” is a continuation of that style having one of the best underlining guitar melodies that I have heard in the last couple of years. “Closing In” is for me the best song on this record and made me listen to it again and again with its neck breaking speed and melodic ferocity. “Hostile Company” feels like a crouching tiger coiled and waiting to attack and tear you apart with its structured riffs and melodies. The last song I will mention as being awesome is “Lose My Touch” with fast and so heartfelt chorus. This is an excellent album, so order your copy and see the guys play live somewhere, because this material is certainly great live.

9/10

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https://www.lockjawrecords.co.uk/

 

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(record review)SMRT RAZUMA-“Demo”

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Osijek is a Croatian city with great history concerning underground bands with many excellent punk hardcore, noise and metal coming from there, for example let us just mention Debeli Precjednik, Gužva u 16-ercu, Why Stakla, COG, Grupa tvog života and more…

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Today is a different story, some of the old underground fighters still make a good fight there and play in bands but the newer bands are not present there. SMRT RAZUMA(english The Death of Reason) is the new band comprised of old school dudes and this is their first demo. The record contains 4 songs of angry and rawer hardcore punk with many thrash influences. The music is fast and aggressive and the vocals are angry shouting. The lyrics of the songs are in Croatian language so if you don´t understand Croatian you won`t understand shit. But I can tell you that they are in the right place being politically engaged and covering themes from poverty, depression, sexism, nationalism and general greyness of the area where the guys come from. This is great and energetic stuff to take a break a bit from the melodic side of things. For me the best song on the record is “Nikad više sretna” having a wicked guitar line that I love.

8/10

Bandcamp: https://smrtrazuma666.bandcamp.com/album/demo