Robby Bloodshed is an American musician that has been around for a while with this solo project since he started it in 2009. He has also gathered much experience being in many bands through the years.
This is is his new full length album and I am really glad that I had a chance to review this one for my zine. I said it before and I will say it again, the beauty of horrorpunk scene lies in many influences making the music original, wide scoped and beautiful. The music of Robby Bloodshed lies between horrorpunk, punkrock and 80-ies pop influences making it original. This album contains 11 songs of melodic, inspirational and emotional listening experience. The lyrics have some horror themes but they are also very personal and emotional and I could find myself in them, so this means the lyrics are great. The pop influence can be heard in “”Light the way” and I could also hear some classic hardrock in “Elation”. But, the song that I loved the most on this album is “West Nickel Mine Massacre” being very dark, with piano atmospheric beginning emphasizing the gloomy atmosphere of the song. In all, this is great album which both horrorpunks and metalheads and rockers will like.
The top three of my favourite horror subgenres are slasher, found footage and Hammer horror movies. This one nominally belongs to the slasher subgenre and don´t get me wrong, I love great underground horror, made diy or with little budget, because we often forget that it is the great story that makes good horror movie, not the budget or the effects.
It kills is the writer´s debut for Amy Suzuki, the makeup artist for “Jurassic Prey” and she really botched her job. The classic story used so many times in slasher movies about couple of kids whose car breaks just in the vicinity of so called Camp Blood where evil clown stalks and kills the passengers is so fucked up and used so casual and trashy that not even I could swallow this one, and believe me I saw a lot. The movie was directed by Mark Polonia, known as an editor for “Sharkenstein” and “Land Shark” and the movie is directed like my neighbours ten year old kid did it. Let me say something about the actors and characters, it is soo bad that it made me laugh but I think that this movie was not meant to be a comedy. The guy in the wheelchair especially got on my nerves, was his character some hommage to “Friday the 13th part two” or Bava´s “A Bay of Blood”? Doubt it. The clown is a story for himself. The maniacal killer is so lousy and his mask is a disaster. The gore scenes in the movie are made with cartoon blood and everything pretty much sucks. When I see my review from the beggining up to here, I see that I did not mention any good points about this movie. That´s right. Because there is not a single good thing about this one. Avoid at all cost!
Colour Me Wednesday are feminist DIY pop melodic punk band from west London and I am really happy that I had the chance to listen and review for this zine their new record that is coming out via Krod Records.
The four girls in the band play nice melodic pop punk music with a lot of indie influences. The album contains 11 beautiful songs with a lot of catchy melodies that leave you humming the songs long afterwards you finish listening the album. But, don´t get me wrong these songs are in no way empty and devoid of any messages. Quite the contrary, Colour Me Wednesday lyrics are anti capitalist, queer, feminist and the girls have their hearts in the right places for sure. The songs that I somehow consider the highlights of the album are “Heather´s Left For Dead”, “Enterpreneur” and “Not My Turf”. This band and this album is the living proof that you can get your messages across without having to scream your lungs out with brutality on your record and at your gig. Melodic way is better, at least in my opinion. Great record for sure.
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