Optimist come from Germany, Ruhr area and I listened to and reviewed their new record for our zine. The record is out now on BDHW Records.
This is the second album from the quintet who polished their unique aggressive sound to style between grindcore and hardcore. The record contains intro plus 10 songs. The lyrics are all in German language and as I understand German the lyrics are pretty bleak and without hope, apocalyptic and darkened. After the noisy and black intro which serves as an announcement of what it is to come, the song Das Ende Allen Seins is fast almost d-beat and grindcore song about the end of everything. There are some sludge and doomy influences for example in Wutrausch and again more fast straightforward aggressive songs like Lethargie. There are some Napalm Death like more metalic sounding slower songs like excellent title track or Rattengier. This music is not for everyone, but the fans of non happy, non merry go round smiling grind hardcore punk will adore this record and this band. I would love to check out this band live. Good one.
Trade Wind are punk/indie band featuring members Jesse Barnett (Stick To Your Guns) and Tom Williams (Stray From The Path) just released their first single from their forthcoming new album Certain Freedoms. The album is due out April 26th from Other People Records (North America) and End Hits Records (EU/UK). Check out the single and the tour dates in Europe!
TRADE WIND 26.04. BE – Merhout, Goezrock Festival
27.04. DE – München – Impericon Festival
28.04. AT – Wien – Werk
29.04. DE – Nürnberg – Z Bau
30.04. DE – Münster – Uncle M Fest
01.05. DE – Hamburg – Hafenklang
02.05. DE – Berlin – Musik & Frieden
03.05. DE – Leipzig – tba
04.05. DE – Köln – Volta
08.05. DE – Wiesbaden – Kesselhaus
09.05. CH – Aarau – Kiff
10.05. DE – Stuttgart – Keller Club
11.05. DE – Iserlohn – Dechenhöhle
Booking: Kingstar
Disconnected Genius have their second full length album out and I listened and reviewed it for our zine.
These guys are hailing from Melbourne, Australia and this is their second album, following Dogs Chasing Fairy Tales. I must admit that this is a rather strange album title and Nirvikalpa means Without Alternative in sanskrit and Meow is a tribute to the singer Jamie˙s cat. The album contains 11 songs. The music of Disconnected Genius sounds basically like emotional punkrock with a lot of indie and alternative influences making it melodic, atmospheric and easy to the ear. Yet, don˙t be fooled, the strongest side of this band besides the music are definitely the lyrics. I like them because they are very smart and poetic, but they also kept smart undertones with the themes like politics and anti religious hypocrisy being themes in some songs. The singing is superb, the production is great, although I would like it to be a bit more dirty, gritty and raw and this band could be one of the new stars in the underground music scene sky. Favorite songs: About Nothing, Kings & Queens, Quietly Into The Night.
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