Italian scene always has awesome bands that create vast and strong network of bands, friends, promoters, zines…One of such bands is Slenders. I listened and reviewed for our zine the new record out on This Is Core.
The new album contains 10 songs of awesome melodic punk with a lot of hardcore influences. I read somewhere that they categorize this band under pop punk, but believe me, this is pure melodic punkrock with a lot of hardcore, played from the heart with heart. The lyrics are in English langauge and they are fine mix of anger, politics and personal stuff like love, loss and inner darkness. Being a sucker for faster, more aggressive side of songs, I somehow like most the fastest songs on the album like ZAH or Young Blood being my favorites. The vocals are very important in bands such as these, I love the vocals which are being sung, but sometimes screamed at the top of lungs and the vocalist of this band somehow reminds me of one of my favorite singers that is Koca from Croatian band Fat Prezident. The guys covered The Cure´s Boys Don`t Cry and they did it perfectly. Love this album.
Oldfashioned Ideas from Sweden have been around for ten years now. They recently released their brand new album, so I listened and reviewed it for our zine.
This trio plays OI/Streetpunk in it`s best form, meaning rough and melodic street anthems with a lot of heart, gang vocals singalong hymnic choruses and great lyrics. There are some wicked streetpunk melodic song structures and vocals just enough to be nice and rough, yet singing great. Some albums just give me goosebumps on my skin and put a wicked smile back on my face and this album is one of such records. I love songs like No Go Down, I Know or This Is My Time, but also the rest of the material on this record reminds me why is punk/hardcore scene so beautiful and why I love this scene so much for more than 25 years now. I recommend you guys, go get this album, if you are a fan of music like this, you just won˙t be sorry.
It is time for us here to present you the new young and exciting melodic hardcore band from Germany, namely Chiefland. Their debut album is scheduled to come out on Uncle M Music and I listened to the record and reviewed it for our zine.
The music of Chiefland could be categorized into melodic hardcore with a lot of post hardcore influences thrown in the song structures. The album contains 12 songs of rolling soundscape, coupled with melodic guitar hooks and screamed and shouted vocals that fit in just nicely to the songs. There are some faster parts like in Fragile Feet which is one of my favorite songs on this record with fast drums, breaks and screaming melody. Also, Homestead pt 1 and pt 2 are one of my favorites on this album. The lyrics are personal as I understand them and the overall vibe and feeling that I get while listening to this album is one of aggression caused by sadness and despair with a hint of hope here and there. Nice debut record.
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