Time for another Croatian band to be on the pages of this zine, namely Distance Or Die. They are hailing from Zagreb and I know couple of guys from this band by their work with Lord Drunkalot and Mrtvi Petak, both awesome bands. These guys are purveyors of so called tracksuit metal hehe. But, be it joke or not the music speaks for itself. On this record you can find nine songs and one cover of (in)famous Croatian singer Vuco. The music is perfect mixture of melodic and brutal thrash metal, sounding harsh and also melodic at times, with aggressive riffs, melodic solos and excellent vocalist whose voice covers everything from higher octaves and ranges, to thrash metal shouting. The musicianship is great and with songs like Witchhammer, Day Of The Beast or the title song you can`t go wrong. This is great thrash metal record, just made for drinking in front of your local liquor store wearing tracksuit heheh.
Kurve, hardcore punk band from Zagreb, Croatia are no strangers to the pages of this zine. We reviewed their releases a while ago and now they treated us with new one.
This is actually new songs, by their standards the longest ever released lasting six minutes. In fact, this is a conceptual idea e.p. about being jobless, hopeless, trying to survive in bleak surroundings of grey everyday. The lyrics are again poetic and superb in Croatian language and work perfectly in unison with singer Vito˙s fantastic voice. These guys are perfect musicians and their song structures are really complex with many different parts sounding energetic and complex at the same time. In fact these guys are unique being art and hardcore punk at the same time, their shows are energy pure so check them out when this virus shit ends.
Time for another band from our Croatian scene to grace the pages of this zine. Krešo i Kisele Kiše from Rijeka are back with the new, hm, first half of the album hehe. The new release contains 7 songs. The music is still their recognizable trademark melodic punk mixed with ska core and skatepunk creating awesome melodic anthems just made for singing along live and their shows are fantastic, I have been to couple of them and they never let me down. What immediately comes to my mind on the first listen to the record is, somehow darker overtones in the new songs. I don˙t think they changed, there are still enough songs about drinking, joking and fun, but also about hypocrisy in the scene, selling out, trying to survive in these crazy times etc…There is also a cover of famous cult band Haustor, the band I hate, but KKK version here is fantastic. The lyrics are in Croatian but it doesn`t matter, let the music take you on the higher level. Recommended songs: Dalibor, Režimske kurve, Bože čuvaj Hrvatsku(Odoh Ja u Njemačku).
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