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(review) Blast Bomb – Rock ´n´Roll Junkie (Undead Artists Records)

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Blast Bomb from Hamburg, Germany are in now way strangers to the pages of this zine, having reviewed their previous two awesome releases. This time they hit us with new e.p. out with Undead Artists Records, great label with so many super releases.

What do we have on this record? Four songs of energetic punk rock mixed with garage and rock n roll influences, having enough harshness, yet also enough melody to make you pump your fist in the air and enjoy the ferocity and energy of the songs presented by the band. The musicianship is great, production too, vocals are just the way they should for such music, singing yet having that rough edge and delivering melody with danger so to say haha. For me, my highlights on this record are Go Away and Bullet Proof.

https://undeadartists.bandcamp.com/

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Finnish Metalcore band I AT LAST released a second single from their upcoming debut EP!

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Promo picture by Joanna Suomalainen
 
Finnish metalcore metal band I AT LAST released a new single Wake. The track is taken from the upcoming debut EP Magenta which is released on March 26th 2021 via Inverse Records. 

Watch Wake video: https://youtu.be/DDDcM5czPX4 

Although I AT LAST declare themselves representatives of the metalcore genre, the EP embodies the band’s distinctive sound, breaking the prejudices associated with said genre. “Influences for the EP can be found in several different genres, but in the end when someone asks what I AT LAST sounds like, I would say it sounds like us. The sound of ‘Magenta’ creates a good overall picture of who we are and what kind of music we want to create.”, says the band’s guitarist Roope Lappalainen. The five-track “Magenta” EP reaches just over 26 minutes and is released entirely in digital form.

Listen to the Wake single on:  
Youtube: https://youtu.be/DDDcM5czPX4 
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/37n5hv1 
Bandcamp: https://iatlast.bandcamp.com 
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/album/202904972 
Apple Music: https://apple.co/2LXu4OX 
Tidal: https://listen.tidal.com/album/171101768 

Pre-save Magenta EP to your Spotify playlist: https://save-it.cc/imusician/magenta
 

EP is mixed by Julius Nikander and mastered by Pekka Posio. 

Line-up:
Henry Manninen – Vocals
Roope Lappalainen – Guitar
Juha Rantala – Guitar
Roberto Rivera Pöyhönen – Bass
Niko Haavisto – Drums
 
 
Links:
https://www.facebook.com/iatlastband
https://www.instagram.com/iatlastband 
https://spoti.fi/2KLnLtz 
https://iatlast.bandcamp.com 
 
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(review) Cornered – Failure e.p.

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Dutch hardcore veterans Cornered are having their tenth release now. They toured Europe and United States and steadily growing in last ten years so these four songs are just great for hardcore kids. The music of Cornered can be described as nineties influenced hardcore more rooting in street punk than in metal, yet taking best from both worlds with equal straightforward parts and moshing parts of the song structures. I would like to see these guys live very much and listen to their awesome songs, I am sure their shows are killer!

Of these four songs, I can say that my personal highlights are Jungle Law, with moshing and slower first half of the song evolving into faster hardcore punk and ending with almost hip hop beat outro. My other favorite is Realm of Misery being most punk song from all the material, reminding me a lot of golden days of Euro hardcore when I was growing up when Ryker´s, Brightside, Only Attitude Counts, Discipline, Right Direction, Backfire! and similar ruled my world. This is great band and great e.p., support hardcore cause worldwide!

BLINDSIDED RECORDS http://www.blindsidedrecords.com

MUSIC / MERCH: https://cornered.bandcamp.com