Category Archives: Reviews

(record review)EPITAPH ROMANCE-“When cemeteries become cathedrals”

Recently we featured Epitaph Romance in this webzine, their reissued album in our reviews. Now, it was about time for us to listen to the new material and review it in this webzine.

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The Texan finest horrorpunk band outdone themselves this time, delivering the record with 13 songs full of gore, blood, anthemic choruses, made for singing along and songs made for your moshing pleasure. I listened to the whole album with gory pleasure, but there are some songs on the album that I loved the most, and I will concentrate on those here in this review. First one is “We are the dead”, classic melodic horrorpunk song with metal touch in guitar solo and fast verse meeting the anthemic mid tempo chorus. “I cast you out” is another favorite of mine, with chorus made for singing along. What I like is that this band uses a lot of samples between the songs, samples from the horror movies and I love it when the band does that on their record. “Darkest depths” is a long but in no way boring song, as it is a perfection of dark melody. “Final destination” is another great song with strong structure and delivered in your face. “Your cities will be your tombs” closes the album in a propriate, gory and bloody way and you should check out this metal influenced horrorpunk Texas band and their opus.

8/10

Epitaph Romance on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EpitaphRomance/

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(record review)RUNDOWN KREEPS-“Illside Village”(FirstOff Records)

FirstOff Records is a relatively young label, but they keep releasing awesome albums by fantastic bands! This one is one of such records. Rundown Kreeps just released their new album and I listened to it and reviewed it for this webzine.

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Rundown Kreeps are a three piece ska melodic punkrock band from California, Los Angeles area. They were formed in 2009. playing the fine mix of melody, ska dancing rythms and punkrock with heart, soul and balls. This album contains 12 songs and I am now listening to it for the fifth time and am amazed by the energy, feel good anthemic choruses and sing along parts. The vocals, as you readers know are very important to me in such music and this band delivers excellent vocals and backing vocal harmonies. I loved the doo wop influenced ska song “Not a Clue” with a great speedy part at the end of the song, making it one of my personal favorites on this record. The lyrics are personal but with a good dose of irony and humour and I always love when the emotion is incorporated into punkrock songs. The other personal favorites on this record are “Worst Day Since Yesterday” and “Pulling Pins”, but all of the songs are just excellent. This is one of the best punkrock bands that came out this year!

9,5/10

Links:

Follow Rundown Kreeps on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rundownkreepsLA/

Get the album on Bandcamp: https://firstoffrecords.bandcamp.com/album/illside-village

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(record review)COLUMBUS-“A hot take on heartbreak”

Summer is on, the best season of the year is on, and how better to accompany the barbecue party on a sunny day than with the new, second studio album by Australian trio Columbus.

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This Brisbane, Australia trio just released their brand new studio effort which contains 10 songs of nice melodic punkrock, almost pop punk with a slight touch of indie rock. Don´t let that scare you when you see pop punk added to these guys band name. Quite the contrary, the set of songs on this album provided by this band is just awesome as a soundtrack for daydreaming on a hot, summer day and riding on your bike or just having a lazy beer in someone´s backyard. The songs are not fast, they are punkrock mid tempo but I personally love “Care at all” having a nice harmonic chorus. “Give up” is also one of my personal favorites on this record. This is a feelgood record. I couldn´t listen to is every day, that´s true, but I loved it today!

7/10

Columbus Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/columbusbne/