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(record review)BILLYBIO-Feed The Fire

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I must say that I love Biohazard. Their first three records are for me a milestone in hardcore and they helped me form my brain towards the other hardcore bands and the richness of our scene.

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Now, with Biohazard being on hold or indefinite hiatus, the mastermind Billy Graziadei formed his solo project, BillyBio, surrounded himself with quality experienced scene musicians, recorded and released this record.

The record contains 13 tracks, 2 being kinda interludes. Music of BillyBio is not unlike his main band, but evolved more into modern version of hardcore with metal and punk and also some industrial influences. Besides classic nyhc, there are rock n roll melodic songs on the record like one of my favorites Generation Z, or brutal metalized, but still enough hardcore Sodality. I can only imagine how this material sounds great and energetic live. I can˙t wait to check this out live! This is a great record, made by the veteran of hardcore scene.

8/10

 

 

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(record review)The Quintessentials-The Satanic Rites of the Quintessentials

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The Quintessentials are horrorpunk band from Hawaii and this is their new, sixth record. I listened and reviewed it for our zine.

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Formed by guitarist/singer Rev Les Hernandez in 1998. these guys have been around on the scene for more than 20 years now. This new record contains 18 songs of melodic horrorpunk inspired more with 50-ies styled doowop and rock and roll and less modern metal music, meaning The Quintessentials play horrorpunk that I love, not much complicating, only 123 punkrock, almost Ramones or Screeching Weasel style. Lyrically, this is not your typical horrorpunk band with zombies and night of the living dead rehashed for the hundredth time, no, some of the lyrics are inspired by Church of Satan and the philosophy of Anton Szandor LaVey and some are classic horrorpunk, but there is also a lot of black humor and auto irony involved. Rev Les Hernandez is having a major health problem, so if you like the band, go to their page and check out how you can help the man in fighting the fight of his lifetime. For me the best songs on the record are: One in Darkness, Waiting, Rhiannon.

8/10

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/TheQuintessentials/

https://thequintessentials.bandcamp.com/

 

 

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(record review)INCISIONS-Incisions(TNSrecords)

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Manchester UK seems to be great city for diy punk bands, this time I listened and reviewed the new Incisions record out on TNSrecords.

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Formed in 2015., these guys have been playing their version of angry, but melodic American inspired hardcore punk. This record is proof how such band should sound like. There are 12 songs in circa 19 minutes on this record. Lyrics are shouted and sometimes melodic sung and it sounds awesome. The lyrics are about right winged tide threat rising in Europe and the world right now, liquor, life, friendship, politics and in fact the lyrics are smart mixture of personal, humour and political. For me favorite tracks on this album are War In Your Head, I Wanna Die With You and Corrupted System.

If you are into your hardcore punk sounding harsh, yet with melody, and having street smart mojo in the songs, then Incisions record is the right one for you.

8/10

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/incisionsmcr/

https://www.facebook.com/TNSrecords/