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(record review)TEN MINUTES LATER-“S/T”

June 22, 2018 vladkraykulla Leave a comment

You gotta love the French hardcore scene giving us so many excellent bands and TEN MINUTES LATER from Saint Étienne is definitely one of them. This is their album, and if you love melodic and fast, energetic hardcore, you should definitely check out this one! I listened the album and reviewed it for this webzine!

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The record contains 10 songs of awesome hardcore and these guys have been around delivering the fast hardcore since 2016. The songs are awesome and fast. The lyrics are a fine mix of politically engaged and personal and these guys have their hearts and beliefs in the right places. I love “Her Smile” with nice emotional lyrics and melody. There are also some ultra fast almost chaotic songs like “Too expensive” about the price of work. The whole record is an awesome mix of European fast political hardcore punk with American hardcore from the 80-ies. The short and sweet “Pepsi Generation” brought the point in less than a minute. This whole album is an energy hardcore bomb just waiting to strike, so check it out!

8/10

Bandcamp: https://10minuteslater.bandcamp.com/releases

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(record review)SKASSAPUNKA-“Adelante”(KobRecords Italia)

June 21, 2018 vladkraykulla Leave a comment

Skassapunka are now ten years old. Formed in Lainate, near Milan, Italy, they quickly evolved into one of the best European ska punkrock acts. This is their brand new fourth album that came out on mighty KobRecords Italia and I listened and reviewed it for this webzine.

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The album contains 11 songs just made to make your day and put you back up on your feet and make you dancing. The music is a mixture of melodic punk and ska with some core influences. Excellent sing along anthemic choruses, fast ska punk rythm songs for jumping and dancing and a nice lyrical stand. These guys sing against fascism, homophobia, xenophobia, imperialist tendencies…so they have their hearts and souls in the right places. The lyrics are in Italian mostly and I once already stated how I love Italian language in punk, especially melodic punk music, because it is such beautiful melodic langauge that fits nicely in melodic punkrock. So, if you love ska melodic punkrock and love to dance, sing and shout out to the loud punkrock this is the record just made for you! Top songs for me:”Entusiasmo y Venceremos” and “Back to the Past”, also “Crazy Town”.

9/10

Follow Skassapunka on Fb: https://www.facebook.com/skassapunka/

Follow KobRecords Italia: https://www.facebook.com/kobrecords/

Check out and get the album and other great releases and merch: http://www.kobrecords.org/

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(record review)VARIOUS-“The quarter hour of power compilation”

June 20, 2018 vladkraykulla Leave a comment

This is an excellent 7 inch record compilation featuring 14 bands from St Louis area all delivering songs one minute long or less. I listened to it and reviewed it for this webzine.

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The record contains some new, some older bands all delivering previously unreleased tracks. As it usually is, some bands are better, some are not so good, depends on the personal musical taste. I personally liked the more melodic bands on this record like Horror Section, Sink the Bismark and Braddock. There is something really for everyone, from the more brutal hardcore punk of Hell Night, the new band featuring Brian Fair of Shadows Fall on the vocals or the debut of hardcore Chalked Up. I really love how this record sounds and gives us insight to the great and less known hardcore punk scene, not usually mentioned in many zines, blogs and stuff… Get this record if you can!

9/10

Links:

Label: www.encapsulatedrecords.com
1. Antithought – https://www.facebook.com/AntiThoughtSTL/

2. Better Days – https://www.facebook.com/betterdays314/

3. Braddock – https://www.facebook.com/braddockstl/

4. Breakmouth Annie – https://www.facebook.com/breakmouthannie/

5. Bruiser Queen – https://www.facebook.com/bruiserqueen/

6. Chalked Up – https://www.facebook.com/chalkedupstl/

7. Fister – https://www.facebook.com/fisterdoom/

8. The Haddonfields – https://www.facebook.com/thehaddonfields/

9. Hellnight – https://www.facebook.com/hellnightus/

10. Horror Section – https://www.facebook.com/horrorsectionband/