Taken By Vultures are from Boston and this is their brand new debut release featuring intro and three songs. They play punk rock with raw side to it, yet retaining enough melody. If I must compare them to something, it would be a mixture of Jughead´s Revenge and Blitzkid. Vocals are superb, neither too raspy nor too mellow, just the way they should be for these songs. Lyrics are more on a fun side of things, but there are some personal undertones beneath it all. My personal favorite is Half In The Bag with that haunting chorus that infects you to sing along all day long. Also, Grandpa Joe Is A Dirty Freeloader is much fun. Can´t wait for the full length release. Until then, enjoy this one.
After delivering one e.p. in 2018, this is Adamantis debut full length album. This band is hailing from Boston, USA and there are eleven songs on this record, first(Into The Realm) being kinda intro. The music is epic and melodic power/heavy metal, fast and furious with beautiful melodies, courtesy of awesome singer Jeff Stark and so melodic and almost soundtrack sounding guitar riffs of guitarist Javier Estrada and Jeff Taft. The rhythm section of Cody Pelchat on bass and Evgeny Gromovoy on drums is thundering through the song structures like warhorse in the battle. Of all the songs if I must say some personal favorites of mine, that would be Pupeteer´s Bane and Fire And Brimstone., also Journey´s End. This record is one more proof why heavy metal is the most noble and most great music on planet Earth besides skatepunk and horror punk too.
Blood For Blood from Boston are such influence for me with their great street hardcore with balls, heartbroken and street life lyrics and great melodies. Blood For Blood are dead, but Rob Lind continued the fight with Ramallah. This new record contains 8 songs of heartbroken, strong and emotional songs. This is maybe not your fast paced straightforward hardcore punk, but it is streetpunk oi hardcore at its finest. While listening to these songs, I had goosebumps on my skin and my bald head. It made me pump my fist in the air, but also made me cry with sorrow, and in the end it brought kinda hardcore catharsis in my blackened heart. I totally saw myself in the lyrics in the songs, in the melody and guitar work, so this record holds such a special place in my heart. Songs like acoustic gentle Bye Bye or the title song, or many Bruisers and Blood For Blood hommages to the lyrics like the rendition of City Boy and fantastic The Times We Had, make me wanna listen all over again and again. This record connects the glorious odes to the past with the future and the persistence in the scene. I am currently at the most difficult time of my life and countless times in last couple of months I thought just to end it all, but this record serves as my therapy, fucked up therapy, but still worth living. Classic!
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