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(record review)Apostles of Eris/Raining-Split(Zegema Beach Records)

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Zegema Beach Records always delivers fine music in terms of darkened hardcore and screamo with fine diy bands coming our way. This time I listened and reviewed the Apostles of Eris/Raining split record.

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Apostles of Eris are from Usa/Canada and started as a one man project of Jesse Mowery (Majorel, In Wolves Clothing, Altar Of Complaints, etc.). But, now Dave Norman on vocals (Swallows Nest, The World That Summer, мятеж, etc.)  was added to the story, to make it more rich in terms of diy hardcore screamo with a very darkened atmosphere. 5 songs complete each other with screaming vocals, sometimes chaotic song structures and noisy parts, but also sad and beautiful melodies to make one great listening pleasure hehe. What I love about this band is that they use samples on their record and that only adds to the already dark atmosphere. Definitely a band to watch out for and I love this side of the record.

Raining are hailing from New Zealand. This trio plays their vision of emotional apocalyptic hardcore leaning a bit more on emo side of things. Their five songs remind me a bit more of some bands from the 90-ies and early 2000-s, for example of Croatian band Analena, only Raining are a bit more darker and less melodic than said band. What I love about this band are couple of vocals that interplay each other nicely. Also, the atmosphere is great, but I would love a bit more melody and little less chaos in some song structures, but hey that is only me and my personal taste.

This is an awesome record, Apostles of Eris side is a bit more to my taste, but Raining are great too. Go get this one!

8/10

https://zegemabeachrecords.bandcamp.com/album/apostles-of-eris-raining-split

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W.A.B. shoots against the rock ‘n’ roll establishment

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W.A.B. comeback with a new music video. “…and kill the worms” feature a controversial cover with the recently deceased Keith Flint, Prodigy vocalist, and is accompanied by the manifesto “Kill the old rockers! Kill the worms”, where they attack a rotten scene that has lost its essence and doesn’t know how to renew itself.

There’s no future in rock ‘n’ roll. With the passage of time we see what it has become and make us want to vomit: old glories that lost their essence long time ago but they never left; others who come back to drag their old asses one more time; tribute bands everywhere… and in the middle of this cult to the past young people are begging to play live!
In the big gigs posters there is a small print which says: “If you are 20 years old, there’s no room for you here”. The new bands are small multifunctional entities that have to take on the role of band, label, booking, promotion, merchandising, producer, and I don’t know how many more things, to end up seeing how the outdated artists are still up there due to the name of their brand and other intricacies that have nothing to do with the essence of rock ‘n’ roll.
Do the current Metallica, Misfits, Discharge, Guns N Roses, Exploited, or Slayer represent anything like that? Or our nearest case, La Polla Records, that seem to be the next to join this geriatric parade. To us, they are only just rancid trying to emulate a past of rebellion that lost long time ago. Those rock dictators are still there after 40 years entrenched on their comfortable armchair, and we would like to remind our sleeping generation that the dictators must be smashed with the guns in hand.
Don’t kill imagination! If the past was better, it’s because now we insist on not living in the present. In the eighties, people didn’t say “the 60s were better”. NO! They said: “Let’s do better than them”. That’s attitude! That’s Rock n Roll!
The current world tells us that we should wait until we are 40 years old to say what we want, but we don’t want to wait. We are 20 years old and we have something to shout NOW!
IT’S TIME TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, TO DECLARE WAR ON THE OLD GUARD. IT’S TIME TO KILL THE WORMS!

 

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(record review)Peste-Peste(This is Core)

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Peste is a new punk/hardcore project with members of Tutti I Colori Del Buio, Haram, If I Die Today and Papazeta. I listened and reviewed their new record out via This Is Core for our zine.

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When we talk about Peste music, we talk about gritty, dirty sounding darkened hardcore punk like Integrity and similar bands with a dose of black metal influences like in my favorite song on this record called Coffins. Besides that in other four of five songs we get the overall vibe of despair, death, decay and all other desperate feelings that man can feel. No hope, no light at the end of the tunnel, only anguish, guilt, no compromise and death. Besides classic punk and blastbeat parts, this band loves to sail in murky waters of sludge, like sailing through the mud and swamp of this life towards total void and nothingness. Utter void and no afterlife. This e.p. is not for your everyday life loving hardcore hugging bro fan. This is them music which can be used as the soundtrack to the end of the world, with no new begginings and no new starts. I love it.

8/10

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