Croatian punk hardcore scene is now better than ever. I have been a part of it for more than 25 years now, and I can safely say that there are many great bands, kids who promote gigs, venues and all that goes with it. Žulj are Croatian band from the city of Rijeka. This is their second demo album that came out a couple of days before and I listened to it and reviewed it for this webzine.

I reviewed their debut release “Vlažne pjesme” a while ago and it was an okay debut demo release. Now, this second record is really strong. This band started in 2015.but the members of the band have been active around playing in bands before so this record is much, much stronger than the debut. Record contains 10 songs. The songs are angry punk as fuck with rawer and dirtier production which is great for that kind of punk. The lyrics are shouted in Croatian and they are mainly political and very angry inspired by all the wrong shit that´s been going on in this country for the last couple of years. It really reminded me of the legendary Croatian punk hardcore band Nula which was one of my favorite Croatian punk band in the 90-ies. I really loved this record because almost no one plays punk as fuck in the Croatian scene anymore and that´s not good. Don´t get me wrong, I love the more melodic side of punk hardcore, but we should also have angry, energetic punk hardcore bands and Žulj are just that. Great record!

8/10

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