Tag Archives: Australia

(record review)She´s The Band-A Place Of Our Own(Pee Records)

She´s The Band released their new e.p. via Pee Records and I listened and reviewed it for our zine.

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This band comes from awesome Australian scene and from the city of Adelaide. The record contains 5 songs. The music the girls play is angry, but also melodic and emotional melodic hardcore punk. The lyrics on the record are personal, but at the same time addressing such issues as feminism and sexism. The vocals are harsh and screamed and they suit just fine to such music, but at the same time the voice transforms into melodic clean voice which interplays magnificently with the backing vocals. I love this record it is a strong manifest of ideas, stance and strength. Top song: Salvage.

8/10

Links:

Follow the band on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shestheband/

Follow Pee Records on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PEERECORDS/

Bandcamp: https://peerecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-place-of-our-own

 

(record review)VARIOUS ARTISTS-“Aussie Epitaph Records Tribute”(Dead Memory Records)

Punk hardcore record label from Melbourne, Australia Dead Memory Records released this fine compilation as an Australian tribute to the awesome Epitaph Records. I listened to the record and reviewed it for this webzine.

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I will just name the songs and the bands that I personally liked on this record. I just love Australian punk hardcore scene, I mentioned it before, it is such a rich and great scene with many bands coming to my ears every month and it is just awesome that music binds us together across half of the world distance. The record contains 15 songs varying in covers from metalcore to old school Epitaph classic melodic punk bands. I love Last covering “All I Want” by The Offspring. No Quarter did a fine job with “Greed”(Pennywise). The Phosphorus Bombs medley of Bad Religion songs is cracking with energy and makes you wanna dance all over your room while listening to the music. Dal Failure of NOFX˙s “The Bag” is atmospheric and nice. Incomplete covered Bad Religion “Do What You Want” with acoustic atmospheric start turning into fast punkrock anthem this song really is. The Orphan version of The Offspring˙s “Bad Habit” in metalcore style was just terrible for me. I am not going to reveal more songs and what bands they cover, you just have to find out for yourselves. This is a good compilation with more good than bad songs and a nice tribute to the label whose bands influenced so many of us.

8/10

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deadmemoryrecords/

Bandcamp: https://deadmemoryrecords.bandcamp.com/album/aussie-epitaph-records-tribute

 

 

(record review)SLUND/MAGGOT BATH-SPLIT

We have already featured Slund on the pages of this zine when we reviewed the last release by this Slovenian one man powerviolence grindcore band. This is the brand new release, the new music and this time in the shape of split record with Maggot Bath.

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Slund side of the record contains 5 songs in the known way this band/project makes music. This means ultrafast powerviolence hardcore mixed with some grindcore and sludgy slow parts thrown in for good measure. What I love about Slund is a clever mix of samples and autoirony with black humour and engaged lyrics. The songs deal with poseurs, some personal issues, anti religion…Slund is certainly worth your time and listening if you are into such music.

Maggot Bath side of the record contains 4 songs in the similar way musically, meaning a mixture of fast and aggressive hardcore punk powerviolence and some sludge slowness with screaming vocals. These guys come from down under, from Australia. There are no lyrics enclosed so I don´t know that those guys are singing about but the titles like Pubic Wig or Happy Ending give you a clue, don´t they? This is a fine release and I like Slund part of the record better.

8/10

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/Slund666/

https://www.facebook.com/maggotbath/

https://maggotbath.bandcamp.com/album/maggot-bath-slund-split