This is already fourth album from this Vienna, Austria based melodic punkrock band. They started as a band balancing on a border of pop punk, horrorpunk and psychobilly, working hard, touring all over and now on their fourth album they profiled themselves as a great melodic punkrock force. The album consists of 12 tracks and listening to them made me feel good somehow. The lyrics still have that spooky horrorish feeling that they had since the first record but the musicianship and the vocals improved with each record untill now. Vocalist Kitty sounds better than ever delivering fine melodies and the harmonies are delivered with melody and precision. My favourite tracks are “Lights Out”, “Sweet Love, the balladesque “Oh Johnny” and “Dead Inside”. All of you who like your punkrock melodic, not too fast and if you like songs having a lot of emotion and atmosphere, this is the right record for you.
Now is the time for some harder stuff from Italy. 5 Star Grave are six piece band from Cuneo featuring ex members of Ground Zero, Disarmonia Mundi and Frostbane. Formed in 2008., this is their third full length album. The album features 10 tracks of melodic modern metal with horror lyrics, so they are reffered to as horror metal. The music is energetic mixture of melodic death metal, trash metal and some punk hardcore influences. The vocals are more shouted than sung but it fits kinda nicely in the whole picture. The song titles are tongue in cheek cheesy but funny horror clichees like “Eat You Alive”, “The Ballad Of The Vampire”(my personal favourite), “Alice”, “He Never Died” to name only a few great songs. This is a really fine record for all the fiends out there who love metal and love horror!
Missiles of October come from Brussels, Belgium and are playing dirty version of punk mixed with noise rock and stoner influences. They were formed in 2012.and until now made quite a name for themselves playing a lot of gigs and sharing the stages with a number of well known acts. This album contains 10 song of relentless, angry punk played with conviction. With titles like “No Brain, No Headache” you get your daily dose of greasy and angry almost Black Flag-ish punk ending in sludgy swampy guitar parts and thunderous drums. This record should be played very loud! I always loved European sludge bands because they sound different somehow than their American counterparts. On this record there are many song structures with noise parts like in “Satisfaction in Nothing” which is the perfect blend of noise and punkish dirty riffs. As I understand the lyrics are pretty gloomy and hopeless but with also with certain amount of irony and humour. My personal favourite of this record is “Better Days”, an uptempo song which I played a couple of times in a row. This is a fine record and there is a cassete, vinyl, cd and digital version so grab your copy and support the guys by showing some internet love for their page, maybe book them a gig or two or something.
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