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(review) NUFO – ‘stick together’

NUFO are coming from Graz, Austria and this is their new release and it contains nine songs. NUFO are playing nineties styled melodic punk hardcore and if I must compare it to some band, it would be a mixture of No Fun At All and all those California’s bands we love, like Pennywise for example. That means fast songs, ultra melodic beautiful singer’s voice topped with backing vocal harmonies and superb songwriting. Lyrics deal with isolation, hysteria, dealing with personal problems in your head, keeping the faith and trying to stay normal in this crazy world but also with a touch of engaged politics, also humor and self irony too. I think some of the song themes were influenced with covid lockdown and some of the themes remind me of what I was thinking during that pandemic and I can totally relate to most of the lyrics on this album. My personal favorites are ‘Transparent Barriers’, ‘Hysteria’, also ‘Tear Gas’ and ‘Keep Your Faith’. Bandcamp version of the album also contain the lyrics, so it is a whole package, I recommend this one, since this is an awesome melodic hardcore punk album.

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(review) Incendiary – ‘Change The Way You Think About Pain’

Incendiary are hailing from New York upstate area and this is their brand new full length release. This one contains ten songs. Incendiary play what we use to call back in the nineties new school hardcore, being a mixture of old school hardcore punk with lots of metallic influences, groove and moshing parts, but just being good old NYHC style with some punk roots and fast parts in there as well. Vocals are shouted, but not screamed, fitting just perfectly to the music and angry, wicked hardcore songs, with couple of hooks and tough sounding melodies thrown in behind all the brutality, like in awesome ‘Jesus Bones’. Besides mentioned song, my personal favorites are ‘Rats In The Cellar’, ‘Lie of Liberty’ and the title song. There are also couple of sing along gang backing vocals and song themes deal with survival, healing wounds, friendship which failed, personal thoughts, anger, inner self and more. I think you as a listener can find yourself in these songs and music, being a hardcore kid for more than thirty years now. I really enjoyed this album, so if you like your hardcore tough, metallic, street smart and wise, go grab this one, you will not regret it!

8/10 axes

(tv series) KLAN – sezona prva – mafijaška serija iz Srbije

Boban Skerlić je autor i tvorac serije KLAN, čiju sam prvu sezonu upravo pogledao, a sastoji se od osam epizoda. Aleksandar Dimitrijević kao Šok i Nedim Nezirović kao Paša su dvojica prijatelja, sitnih kriminalaca koji žive od krađa autodijelova i njihove preprodaje mehaničarima, isto tako od krađa automobila i tada tobožnjeg posredovanja između otmičara automobila i žrtve, pokupljajući lovu i povremeno cinkajući policiji neke sitne kriminalce i švercere. No, nakon što ukradu automobil žene šefa mafijaške organizacije, nakon što ih kazni, šef ih zaposli i tada počinje njihov uspon u redovima organizacije, te stvaranje vlastitog klana. Ova serija u osam epizoda prikazuje točno ono što je na Balkanu normalno, a to je kriminal, spregu kriminala i tajnih službi, cajke i brz život, lake žene, ubojstva i brutalan rat između naših antijunaka i drugih mafijaških klanova koje Šok i Paša postepeno čiste i postaju jedni od najjačih, ako ne i najjači klan u Beogradu. Ono što je meni bilo zanimljivo je transformacija ove dvojice mladića, pogotovo Šoka kojeg je odlično odigrao Dimitrijević, njihova transformacija od dobrodušnih wannabe tough guysa i sitnih kriminalaca do okrutnih i hladnih mafijaških bossova koji ne oklijevaju ubiti i najbliže suradnike, ako je to poslovno opravdano. Ta transformacija likova i napetost je ono što drži prvu sezonu ove serije. Ponekad ima malo praznog hoda i neke stvari su s druge strane previše ubrzano odrađene, ali ovo je tek prva sezona od tri koje su zasad izašle, tako da ću uskoro pogledati drugu sezonu i ovdje javiti dojmove. Kraj prve sezone je dovoljno dobro odrađen da me zainteresira za drugu sezonu koja je navodno još bolja i intenzivnija.

Gluma: 8/10 sjekira – uz dva glavna glumaca, postava je odlično odabrana, pogotovo njuške članova klana, od najmlađih do veterana, tako da sve štima što se mene tiče u ovom području.

Zaključak: 7/10 sjekira – zbog ono nešto malo praznog hoda i ubrzane radnje u nekim dijelovima nije viša ocjena, ali ostavlja prostora za popravak u narednim sezonama.