Remember Elm Tree Circle? We already featured this band from Germany on the pages of this zine. Well they released new album with Krod Records and it was about time that I have a listen and try to write a review for this zine.
This new album contains 10 songs and the music style is in the same vein as before, being a fine mixture of emotional pop punk/punk rock with some indie and even a bit noise influences in the songwriting. The lyrics are poetic and personal and the music speaks for itself. What? Nice melodies, harmonies and not annoying vocals. The singer can ruin everything in this kind of punk rock, when the vocals are too crying and too gnarly, but here the singer sounds emotional, but not too cheesy, so it is another point for this band. So, if you are a fan of such music go get this one. My personal favorites: All About You, Settle In, Walking on Doom.
WTF Records continues to release great records, keeping the fire of both European and worldwide hardcore burning and being strong. This time it is time for Ammo to grace the pages of this zine. Ammo are from M-Town and this is their debut full length out now. This band plays rapcore and if I must compare it to some bands it would be Biohazard, Downset, Bodycount….meaning metalized hardcore guitar riffs, grooves, aggresive street punk influenced song parts and dual rapping vocals adding to the heaviness and streetwise smartness and toughness. This is a music for going out, drink some beers with your crew and smell the streets of your town and having a nice night in the concrete jungle of your town or city. For me personal favorite is About Time having nice and catchy guitar melody in the background of the song and acoustic ending, but also the title track featuring guest vocals of German ghetto metal rapper Daniel Gun is awesome too. Daniel also provides guest vocals for Pork Chops. I am usually not an avid fan of this kind of hardcore, but this one is a powerful debut record. Go get it!
Launch Control are coming from UK, Reading to be more exact and this is their brand new e.p. containing five songs. The music of this band could be categorized as melodic punkrock with some pop punk influences, but with sociopolitical lyrics and sensitivity, bringing back to punkrock something incredibly missed in the last couple of years. These five songs are really fine fitting perfectly to the mood of the e.p. The themes are bigotry(Zombigots/Cult of Ignorance), religion(Marketing for Martyrs-my favorite on this record), economy and internet(Attention Economy-also my favorite song on the record) to political greed(Paper Tiger), the songs are cleverly written and I love how the smart use of the synth in some songs epmhasizes the overall almost etherial yet harsh vibe with nice vocals adding to the momentum. This is a real nice little e.p. and I can`t wait for the full length to arrive.
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