Milwaukee´s Snag released the record with Zegema Beach Records. What do we get with this one? We get nine songs of darkened hardcore with emotional, screaming vocals, nice apocalyptic melodies, pissed of noisy song structures and environmentally engaged sensitive lyrics about a change that needs to come if we want our planet to survive. Besides, the music is very brutal and energetic but has that touch, the one that makes your heart all warm and tear sometimes come to your eye like in beautiful instrumental violin miniature Morning that serves as calm before the storm preparation for the most harsh and brutal song on the record called Colony Collapse with combination of brutal and screaming vocals coupled with nervous riffs. I also love the clever use of samples as in Into the forest. My personal favorite is Hunger Stone having a very wicked guitar melody which I wish that I wrote hehe. This is another great release, go and discover hardcore bands and remember, always support your scene!
Canadian punk artist Greg Rekus is no stranger to the pages of our zine, we interviewed this fantastic artist couple of months ago. This time, we had a wonderful chance to listen and review the brand new record, out this January. The record contains 13 new songs of melody, drama, heartbreak and catharsis. I smiled, laughed, felt happiness and sadness all the while listening to this one. Not Too Late To Change is the nice song with a message and beautiful chorus. Besides standard punkrock and acoustic song structures, there is also saxophone used on this record like in beautiful Time. Greg˙s voice sounds just made for the music he creates and I personally think this new album is the crown in his work until now concerning the lyrics which everyone can relate to and catchy emotional punkrock music for the heart. One of the best songs on this record for me is Smart Ones, anthemic chorus, uptempo and clever use of sax making it my favorite. Also, Take A Stand and A Newer Hope are the songs that somehow stand out for me, that doesn˙t mean that the rest of the songs are not awesome. Go get this one!
Haest are from Hastings, UK and they are releasing their debut full length with TNSRecords. What we get here are 14 songs of hardcore punk fun, the songs being pretty short in duration. Haest play hardcore punk in the basic underlayer, but they are mixing doom and even some sludgy elements in the song structures, so I was pleasently surprised when Unstable Picnic started slowly rolling in, with pretty dark atmosphere of the song riffs. There are more fast straightforward songs with thundering bass, great guitar and drums, but the song titles made me really smile, with titles like The Only Good Wham Is A Wham Bar, or maybe Doom & Gloom & Dio Room you just can˙t go wrong hehe. The vocals are shouted and remind a lot of eighties doom metal bands, but hey that is just only me. It would sure be fun to catch these guys live, the show is fantastic, I am sure!
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