Fixion are hailling from Uruguay, being a brainchild of Daniel César (former bassist of Los Traidores), voice, guitar, keyboards and production. There are 10 songs on this record. The music of Fixion can be described as a mixture of electronic, gothic metal and post punk, thus creating a darkened amalgamation of mentioned styles into one unique and nice blend of darkness. The lyrics are in Spanish and this only emphasizes the darkened beauty of the music. I love the more uptempo gothic metal of Estreall interior, but also more guitar oriented title song is one of my favorites on this record. The vocals remind me a bit of singer for Heroes Del Silencio mixed with the voice of Moonspell´s singer, so they are cool and fit perfectly to the song structures. This is nothing above or special, but it is done in nice and superb way with one simple trick. Nothing too much. Not too much metal, not too much electronics, not too much post punk, but great written songs. Nice one indeed!
dianacrawls from Montreal are definitely one of the more interesting and different bands that I have listened in the last couple of weeks. With their new e.p. with No Funeral Records the band definitely broke all the boundaries in about 5 songs bordering in circa ten minutes time. One song being weird synth instrumental, one being screamo noisecore, one being a mixture of noise and nervous punkrock ending with screaming hardcore and even one country song. Can you do any better? Definitely one of the more interesting bands and these guys are not afraid to venture into unrest and they fly above all genre normatives which is great.
Heckel & Jeckel have a record out on P.O.G.O.Records, so it was about time for me to listen and review it for this zine.
I didn˙t find much info about these guys. All I can say that it is a masked duo and that this record contains 4 songs. The music is a bit special and a bit harsh for listening if you are not a fan of such music. These guys play dirty punkrock with some sludge, electronic and even a little grungy influences. The sludge parts are nicely done and I must especially mention I Crush You Under My Shoes which made me really nervous while listening, but I guess that was the intention hehehe. Every song is different and you can listen it as a different whole and independent from the record. I personally liked Not To Touch The Earth the most, being somehow the best song on the record in my opinion. This is noisy kind of punkrock, so if you are a fan of such music, go grab this one, for me it was somehow not my cup of tea unfortunately.
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