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(record review)Shadows Of Defeat-Too Little, Too Late

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Wow! That is only I can say after listening and reviewing for this zine the new record by Shadows Of Defeat. Read the review and listen to their music, you won˙t regret it!

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First of all, and probably least important, I totally love the name of the band, so dramatic, yet so cool somehow. These guys are hailing from Zurich, Switzerland and this record contains 10 songs of fast and energetic melodic hardcore punk. The music of Shadows Of Defeat is like all those 90-ies skatepunk and melodic hardcore bands that we all love, yet transpired into new millenia and new century, sounding fresh, energetic, and above all technically well played with a lot of fast straightforward parts, but also many brakes, shift changes, memorable hooks and tight musicianship. The vocals are excellent, also backing vocal harmonies are done so nice. Last but not least important are political and aware lyrics that are at the same time in your face, but also smart and personal. The songs that I love the most are A Thin Line, Humanity Out Of Town, One Life To Live. Awesome, strong record!

9,5/10

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(movie)SLENDER MAN(2018.)

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Being fan of urban legends and myths, also legend of Slender Man, I waited to see what this movie would be like. I didn`t imagine it to be like that, but first things first!

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The movie starts as your typical teenage college highschool horror flick with the group of girls organizing a party at one of their houses. When they heard that the guys at other party plan to summon Slender Man, the girls did it too. They went online and found instant how to summon Slender Man video hahaha, and then they started to have nightmares, felt being followed and started disappearing one by one. Slender Man has come to collect them and take them with him.

Now, the problems started also for me as a viewer I always hated the movies when they summon a ghost/demon/whatever from instant online video. Besides the spooky Ring vhs video which still gives me nightmares, all else was plain stupid. The characters in this movie are like plain white rice, edible but without spice. Acting is below average and the jump and scare tactics made for little kids. The ending of the movie was just as bad and disappointing, like everything else in the movie. Avoid this little fucker!

1/10

 

 

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(record review)DISBAJA-Time is…Cruel Master!

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Finally, the second release by Disbaja is out now. I listened and reviewed this record for our zine.

Disbaja are crust/hardcore/metal/punk band from Zagreb, Croatia, although the members of the band originally come from couple of Croatian towns like Požega, Županja, Rijeka…The music has no boundaries, so it doesn` t really matter where is someone from.

Having some lineup changes, Disbaja parted ways with their singer, so that was a little setback in recording this album, but in the end, it turned out just fine with original guitarist/vocalist Atlija resuming the vocal duties, like on their first release.

The new record contains 13 songs of infernal metalised hardcore punk with crust and d-beat thrown in for good measure. The lyrics are a mix of poltical and personal, all of them in English. I just love how Disbaja emproved from their debut release. This sounds powerful and harsh, just the title track is in my opinion a perfect amalgamation of every band these guys played prior to Disbaja, all the music that they love, all their experiences, to form an apocalyptic soundscape. Personally, I am not avid fan of d-beat bands, but Disbaja is far from being captured into scene boundaries and fences, their music went far beyond that, evolving to apocalypse, but the kind we crave, delivering mayhem but providing catharsis, leaving us in the wasteland of human psyche and physics. Awesome album.

8,5/10

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https://realmofdisbaja.bandcamp.com/album/time-is-cruel-master-2018