We continue to promote our local scene a bit, so here is the new album by our punkrock heroes from Zagreb, Mašinko. I followed this band since they were only let us call them one hit wonder, but they evolved into one of the biggest names in punkrock scene here in Croatia, with three guitars, all of the members except drummer singing wonderful harmonies on vocals and having fantastic song arrangements delivering melodic punkrock just made to smile and cry and sing along with. This new album contains 12 songs. Veća lopata and Punim plućima were singles before, also Cmrok 2, so I listened to that songs before, for me somehow being not the same quality and hits as last full length and that split with Fat Prezident. But rest of the material on this album is what makes it great. Songs like Jedne davne jeseni or Tu smo gdje smo are pure punkrock poetry from the street and I love those two making it my favorites on this record. The lyrics are in Croatia as you might have guessed but no matter, you can relate to them in anyway possible. Also, two songs that I must mention are Izgubljenom vremenu, Perice and Vrijeme za spavanje being for me standouts on this record. Great record by great band!
Wow! What a nice surprise with two bands that were already featured on the pages of our zine. afeyearslater from Hungary, deliver two songs in their trademark fast and furious melodic hardcore punk with superb melodic vocals and harsh but melodic riffs topped with fast drumming.
Trophy Jump from Zagreb, Croatia deliver a bit calmer song with Glass Bell, melodic punkrock song with beautiful lyrics that I can certainly relate to a lot. Second song called Bazooka Blaze has a weird yet interesting sound of trumpet which makes it kinda unusual but cool. Both cool bands, both cool music, so go listen and support your scene.
We already featured Gemišt on the pages of our zine, whether in gig reports or interviewing them. I watched them play live, both with old and now with new singer and these guys are unstoppable grindcore machine destroying everything in their path. The guys from the band are really active in our local scene, promoting diy gigs, playing in various bands and also keeping the faith in the hard times without decent club or place to organize gigs in, but managing and keeping the scene alive. Hats off to them for that! There are intro and three songs on this new e.p. and the lyrics are about nationalism, clerofascism on the rise, alienation in this modern times and consumerism, plus classic more death metal lyrics in one song hehe, I bet the singer wrote that one hehe. If you are into diy grindcore and support the scene, go to Bandcamp and support these guys, they definitely deserve it with their approach and activity in the scene.
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