Canadian trio The Electric Dead finally released their long awaited debut album.
The Electric Dead play a mixture of horrorpunk, doom metal with some rock and blues influences and their music sounds pretty dirty and greasy. The album contains 9 epic songs with horror lyrics and when I listened to this album it sounded like walking through a dark swamp, dampy and scary with some creature following me persistently from darkness.
There are some interesting solutions in song structures and even some keyboard background like “Lucifers Blues”. Some songs reminded me of Danzig like the slower one “Devil in a Dress”. Incredible, but the song “The Mark I Bear” vocally reminded me on James Hetfield. Maybe its just me. My personal favourite on the record is “Me And The Devil”. The songs are mainly uptempo with that sweaty guitar energy holding the reins on you from the beginning until the very end of the album. This is great stuff if you love your horror greasy and doomy.
Coffin Carousel are coming from Australia, Melbourne. The Australian scene is great, with so many punk, hardcore and metal bands coming out nowadays.
This record came out on Eclipse Records and it contains 17 songs of dark and emotional music. Coffin Carousel play a mixture of doom metal and goth rock(more) with horrorpunk and hardcore influences(less). Lyrically they deal with some personal demons and the lyrics are very deep and not your conventional generic horror stuff, not that it is something wrong with that. While listening to this record you can actually feel the sun setting down or darkening in the sky. There is one little thing that bothered me on this record and that is the vocal lines and melodies, I think the singing could be a little bolder and with more emotions behind it on some songs, and I am sure that the singer can do it because he has an awesome voice. But, thats only me. Maybe they just wanted it this way. What I personally loved the most on this record is the feeling of coldness and nothingness in this music and the atmosphere that they managed to get on this record makes it worth listening.
I saw Anti Flag play live for the first time in my life this year at Punk Rock Holiday festival in Slovenia. It was an awesome experience and I still get goosebumps when I remember their set because they were totally the winner that day and one of the festival definitive highlights.
The fans of the band including me were eager to listen how this new album will sound like and it did not disappoint me. After the last one, “American Spring” comes “American Fall” and it is an awesome package of 11 songs. The music is as before melodic punk with some hardcore influences and ultra political lyrics dealing with racism, homophobia, current situation in America and the world which more and more becomes the slave playground for the rich and poorer get poor, so the world is just the baloon waiting to blow up and what will become of it, nobody knows.
As always, there are tracks that are for us who listen highlights and for me “Racists” and “The Criminals” are total standout tracks on this record and I hope that the band will include it in their live set because I am sure it will be fantastic live. This is an awesome album so check it out!
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