I just love the Italian punk scene. There is so much bands coming out besides the older more established bands, I havent heard of McBain prior to this record. The debut record is DIY made and it consists of 10 tracks. The bands is coming from Milano, Italy, and they are playing melodic punkrock. The whole atmosphere of the album is somehow cheerful and kinda gave me strength to endure all of the ugliness of the day with a smile on my face. There are couple of excellent tracks on this album like anthemic “When I Was Old” which I listened on repeat maybe hundred times. Other outstanding tracks are “Fuck You All” and “Time With You”. Also, couple of tracks could be better, but I am sure that the next release of this band will be even better. If you like your punkrock melodic with a touch of Ramones and Descendents here and there, then this record will be fine for you.
Wow! This is only what I can say after listening to the new album of Bloodclot, kind of hardcore supergroup featuring John Joseph(Cro-Mags) on vocals and ex Danzig, ex Dwarves members Todd Youth and Nick Oliveri. The album is pure fucking hardcore energy, in the vein of early Bad Brains stuff, for whom everybody knows that they were one of the main influences on John Joseph. The music that Bloodclot is playing is old school fast apocalyptic angry hardcore punk that reminds me also a lot on Cro-Mags seminal record “Age of Quarrel”, still one of the best hardcore records of all time. The album contains 12 songs almost all of them under three minutes hardcore punk straight in your face bombs. The lyrics are mostly political but also the themes are scene and some spiritual stuff. John Joseph sounds better than ever, angry and pissed off. This record is instant hardcore punk classic! Great stuff!
Sweden always had excellent melodic punk hardcore bands with Satanic Surfers, Millencolin, No Fun At All, coming to mind immediately. I discovered Bash Brothers when I reviewed their ep for this zine a while ago. Now, they released their debut album with 10 songs. Hailing from Eksjo, they play melodic hardcore punk with all lyrics in English. All of the songs on this album have a more hardcorish vibe with fast paced drumming, excellent riff and hook solutions topped with great vocal handle, courtesy of the singer Johan. There are two songs featuring guest vocals by John Harcus from Pmx. Personally, the top songs of this album are “Life Lessons” having an excellent anthemic chorus that I wish I wrote. The next favourite is “Suit Yourself” because of the great Swedish almost Gothenburgesque middle melodic metal part of the song. The third top song for me is “You Are Fading Away” with great energetic fast paced screaming vocal parts. The first ep was okay but nothing special, and this debut album is something that will make this band one of the greatest Swedish melodic hardcore bands in the future. This is an album that both hardcore kids into more harder music and both skate punk kids will love. Bash Brothers are the picture fresh, modern and energetic melodic hardcore punk should sound like.
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