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(record review)A SECOND PLAN-“Defy Gravity”(Tichiboy Records)

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A Second Plan are hailing from Venice, California and this is their new record out on Tichiboy. I am glad that I had the chance to review this one.

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Many bands are just plain copycats today and they only tried to copy paste their favourite bands and albums. That is not the case with A Second Plan. There are 13 songs on this album and the music this band plays is a mixture of nostalgic ride along the 90-ies skatepunk road. I totally managed to feel the bond to all the bands that I listened when I was a kid in the 90-ies. On the other hand, A Second Plan manages to sound modern with excellent guitar work and melodic hardcore song structures. There are also some almost metal, Propagandhi-esque influences that I could hear while listening to this album. But, it still manages to maintain the melodrama, happiness, energy, warmth, love and everything else that´s reason why skatepunk is besides horrorpunk the best music in the world! Top songs:”Sirens”, “Vultures” and “Heads you win, tails I lose”.

8,5/10

Follow the band on Fb: https://www.facebook.com/asecondplan/

Follow the label on Fb: https://www.facebook.com/tichiboy.records/

Bandcamp: https://asecondplan.bandcamp.com/

 

 

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(record review)Frayle-“The White Witch e.p.”(Seeing Red Records/Lay Bare Recordings)

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I must admit that I have never heard of Frayle prior to listening to this record. They recently released their new e.p.via Seeing Red Records and  Lay Bare Recordings and I listened to the record and reviewed it for this webzine.

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Frayle are hailing from Cleveland, USA area and are playing doom metal with dreamy and sometimes nightmarish soundscapes that repeat in your ear while listening almost ritualistic and rolling over you and afterwards you feel exhausted but somehow sad and also happy in a depressive sort of way. The record contains four songs with the title track being more sludgy excursion into more greasy and dirtier riffing and for me the best song of the record is for sure “Wandering Star” which left me dreamy and hazy after listening and I don´t use any of the spiritual pipe dream shit to enhance my feelings while listening to the music that I like. The vocals add to the atmosphere and it is not dark it is rather like when you dream something and you know that something horrible is about to happen and you can´t do shit about it. Good record even for me, who don˙t like doom so much.

7/10

Follow: https://www.facebook.com/frayleband/

The labels: https://www.facebook.com/seeingredrecords/

https://www.facebook.com/laybarerecordings/

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(record review)FIRST BRAWL-“Turning Point”(Indelirium Records)

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First Brawl is another representative of the mighty Italian hardcore scene from Bologna/Modena area and the guys have been around for a while. This is their new record for Indelirium Records and I listened it and reviewed it for this webzine.

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The record contains intro plus five songs of modern aggressive hardcore. Although this is modern hardcore with breaks, fast aggressive drumming and some metalish hooks in the song structures, the guys also give respect to the old school and punkrock influences so for me this band sounds like a crossbreed between Madball, SOIA and modern bands like Terror and Hatebreed, but they managed to remain fresh and energetic without losing the hardcore force and touch that flows through me while listening to this record. Of course there are a lot gang back vocals just made for singalong at the gigs and I am sure that these guys sound awesome live. This is good hardcore record! The best song on the record in my opinion is “New Page”.

8/10

Follow the band on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/firstbrawlhc/

Indelirium Records Fb page: https://www.facebook.com/indeliriumrecords/