Too bad I discovered this band just as they released their final e.p. with Zegema Beach Records. Rayleigh are not going to be band anymore, but I listened and reviewed their final release for this zine.
These guys are coming from Edmonton, Canada. The words which could describe their music are heavy hardcore. At times a bit chaotic, at times full on punk blast beat driven hardcore anger, but all of the time straight from the heart with personal lyrics accompanying the cool music. There are four songs on this record, all of them being equally great, all of them documenting the final swansong of this great band.
German brutal hardcore band Ubergang are about to release their new album with Demons Run Amok Entertainment. I listened and reviewed the new album for our zine.
As I said, these guys are hailing from Germany and this is their second release after having some line-up changes. The band stays for antifascism, antihomophobia, antiracism and they have their hearts and minds in the right places. There are 10 songs on this record. The music is modern brutal hardcore leaning more on the metalic thrash side of things, but also having a lot of catchy hooks and hardcore rooted parts in the song structures. Groovy parts of the songs mix with brutal blastbeats like for example in the awesome Im Auge des Sturms which is one of my favorites having brutal verses transforming into melodic clean sung choruses. One of album highlights for sure. Also, Bis zum Limit is one of my faves with atmospheric beginning and a lot of nice catchy parts thrown in the song. The lyrics are in German language and I love the bands that use it in their music. I speak German, so I understand that they deal with personal stuff, battling your own everyday demons, but also you can read a lot of social criticism through the lines. Also, one of my favorites is Speigelbild having great sad guitar line melody being somehow between aggression and melancholy. I am not such an avid fan of modern hardcore, but this band has it all, aggression, melody, attitude and that makes this record great and go get it!
The band has been in the scene since 1997.and they are based in Florida. This is their third cover album they did besides regular studio albums. The album contains 7 songs from your favorite movies transformed into NFG´s trademark melodic pop punk style. As it always is, some songs are better than others, so The Power Of Love, Let It Go and Accidentally In Love are stand outs above rest of the album material. I don´t usually like cover albums or cover bands, but this album is soo good.
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