Bring On The Storm are hailing from Calgary, Canada and I listened to their new record and reviewed it for this zine.
This is the self released record with Thousand Islands Records being partner for distribution. The record contains 8 songs of melodic technical skatepunk. If I must compare their music to some bands it would be Strung Out and This Is A Standoff. The music is at an awesome musicianship level, technical yet ultramelodic and neckbreaking fast, like for example Life Sucks, one of my favorite songs on this record. The lyrics are, as far as I heard them, personal and they fit just nice into the song structures. The guys also show with Alive that acoustic songs can be really beautiful. But, what makes this record great, are straight forward fast technical tunes like Spineless Gutless Bitch. If you love your skatepunk technical, melodic and energetic this one is a keeper!
The Rykers are in the studio at the moment to record their new full length “The Beginning….”
The record will be released via BDHW Records in April/May 2019.
More news coming up.
Sweden has been the place with many awesome melodic punk bands all throughout 90-ies when I was a kid. Some of the bands reached legendary status and respect in the scene like No Fun At All, Satanic Surfers for example. This time we reviewed the record by De Lyckliga Kompisarna.
The record contains 12 songs with all of the lyrics being in Swedish, so I can˙t understand a word what they are singing about. The music is punkrock, but it gets a bit weird sometimes like in Ostronskal, mixture of ska and punk with some atonal even stoner melodies. There are some folkish/polka songs like Olika kulturklubbar that are for sure fun to dance to and listen, maybe live also fun as hell. Don˙t get me wrong, there are awesome straight forward punkrock songs on this record like Johanna for example. This record has some great moments, besides the weird ones, but that versatility makes this record good.
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