Schnogge are coming from Burkardroth, Germany and they play mixture of pop punk and melodic punk/skate punk. There are ten songs on this little beauty of an album. The album starts as atmospheric beautiful intro with acoustic and keys turning into full blooded melodic punk anthem called ‘Antisocial’. What immediately falls to my ears is that vocals have a rougher edge but with guitar melody do mix up really great and belong to the overall picture perfectly. This song, as many on this album has catchy and great sing along chorus with nice backing vocal harmonies. Lyrics on this album deal with antisocial attitudes, humanity, hipsters, punk, fun and a bit of humor. There are also faster songs like ‘Story About Humanity’, sounding great with pop punk influences exploding all over the place. The music of this album brings back smile on your face on a bright and sunny warm day, making you wish that you are on some beach stage, possibly at Punk Rock Holiday enjoying your melon ball and this band in the easy afternoon hours. Songs that I must highlight from this album are also ‘Fuck You’, ‘Love The Hipster’ and ‘What Is Punk’ being my personal somehow favorites, but album as a whole is great pop punk/melodic punk release sure to win you over.
SERRUCHO are hailing from Huelva, Spain and this is the new opus containing five songs, one being cover by Coronados. The music of Serrucho is not easy to describe, it is a mixture of hardcore punk, powerviolence, grindcore with some metal influences in the song structures here and there. Vocals are screaming and occasionally growling, fitting perfectly in the songs, with lyrics in Spanish language. What I love the most is continuation of some epic melodies throughout the songs, beneath all the brutality there is also lots of epic guitar work and hooks, thus making this music not another boring grindcore band. My personal favorites of five songs are ‘Te Jiede La Boca A Mocos De Cono’ and ‘3 Vomitos 3 Ejecuziones 3 Muertes’. I also love the clever use of samples and the horror atmosphere in some of the songs. Go listen to this one if you love bands like this one.
Sadists are hailing from Hartford, Connecticut area and I must admit that I have never heard of this band prior to listening to this record, which is I suppose a collection of their greatest hits, or maybe complete discography, I couldn’t find anything on the Internet that would provide me more information about this band, since it is apparent they don’t have a Facebook or Instagram page, not even their band’s webpage or anything similar. Anyway, this record contains 27 regular plus four bonus songs, making it massive 31 song record. The music of Sadists is horror punk n roll with lots of up tempo and uplifting songs with horror like themes, with songs like ‘ Madman Marz’, ‘Zombies Ate My Neighbors’, ‘Queen of Halloween’, ‘Horror Punk Song’ you just can’t go wrong. Vocals are not your Danzig clone or similar, no, they are harsher and more screaming and remind me a lot of punk bands Anti Heros and Defiance. This album has a healthy dose of street punk thrown in the song structures for good measure. Although there is a great number of songs on this one, the album is interesting, especially for us who are horror punk fans, so it passes very quickly. Besides raw and dirty version of punk rock with melodic touch, there are couple of keyboards in there, and clever use of samples which is always great and fine by me because samples can only emphasize the atmosphere of some song. Try listening to ‘Death Do Us Part’, ‘Murder Junkie’ or ‘Black Christmas’ and try not to be touched by the energy of this band and some of the songs just make you pump your fist in the air and your old punk rock heart beat faster. Excellent stuff!
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