(review) Freezing Cold-Glimmer(Salinas Records)

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Freezing Cold from New York are releasing their debut full length album with Salinas Records. This band comes from New York and they grew up there in diy music community of Big Apple, deciding that their band will bring their vision of music to the listeners who love to travel with soundscapes somewhere else. This album contains 11 songs of gentle, melodic emotional punkrock laced with pop punk and indie influences all throughout the song structures. This album, while listening to the music reminds me of walking through the crowded streets on a day under steel grey sky, yet somehow the Sun starts to shine and warms my face and everything is inded much, much better and I smile back again. I don` t know, this is how I feel while listening. The vocals are melodic, clean, nice, yet somehow fit in the songs perfectly, coupled with dissonant, melodic, almost at times etherial riffs and drums coupled with super bass lines. I usually like more faster, more hardcore approach to punk, but this one somehow suits me just perfectly. I love the emotions of Hand Wringing Hands, And The Morning Light, also Pill Box. Bittersweet album, somehow brings up depression, yet also heals depression.

http://www.salinasrecords.com/

(review) Volbeat-Rewind, Replay, Rebound

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I love Volbeat. I love them since I heard Guitar Gangsters And Cadillac Blood album. I immediately fell in love with their mix of psychobilly, doo wop and metal and I can safely say that they created postulates for the whole new subgenre called metalbilly.

Now, some years later and couple of albums later, the Danes return with their brand new studio album. What almost upon first note falls on mind is the lack of metalbilly anymore. Yes, they went for the whole more melodic approach, slowed some songs down and made them even more catchy than before and yes, maybe more commercial. But, the old Volbeat strong songwriting is still here and Michael Poulsen˙s voice is something that I will never have enough, for me one of the best vocalists in the business, ever. There are couple of sure hits on the album like Cheapside Sloggers, Maybe I Believe or Leviathan. This is definitely not the best Volbeat album, but it is the most melodic and most catchy in their opus and if you are a fan you will love it. I know I do.

 

(review) Blue Youth-EP+2 Songs(Zegema Beach Records)

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Blue Youth are one of the undiscovered jewels of the underground. These guys play noisy punk with a lot of nervous riffs, apocalyptic screaming vocals and complex song structures creating their vision of noise hardcore. There are 7 songs on this record out with Zegema Beach Records and if you are a fan of the more brutal side of punk with even some screamo and sludge thrown into the song structures, then this record is the right one forya. This is crushing and unrelenting noisecore sometimes reminding me of Deadguy in a way, but maybe it is only me hearing that. But, under all the heaviness, there are some subtle layers of melody therein discovering the punkrock roots and hearts of this fine band. Recommended songs: The Power, The Past.

https://zegemabeachrecords.bandcamp.com/

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