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(record review) DRUNKTANK-Return Of The Infamous Four

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Drunktank recently released their new record and I listened and reviewed it for our zine.

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The Dutch skatepunks were founded in 2003.and this new record is a continuation of their 2010.album The Infamous Four. The ten songs on this record are just what I love having in my skatepunk hardcore. Fast, melodic, mighty and energetic with enough metalic efficiency and harmonies to still be punk and not to go too much into progressive waters. I am awed by this record it is so mighty. I was practicaly blown apart by We Want More being almost a mixture of hardcore punk and European school of epic and fast melodic power metal. These guys really know how to handle their instruments, not to mention epic melodies, anthemic choruses with many backing oooos and aaaas just made for singalong. Unfortunately I missed the guys playing Beach stage at this year´s Punk Rock Holiday, because I am sure they are an unstoppable force when playing live. From the songs, although all of them are powerhouses, I must recommend Hammer Of Justice, Courage Of A Few and Darker Side as my highlights of the record. This one is for sure one of the best melodic punk hardcore records of this year!

10/10

Website: http://www.drunkank.nl
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/drunktankpunks
Instagram: Http://www.instagram.com/drunktankpunks
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/drunktankpunks

Bandcamp: https://drunktankpunk.bandcamp.com/

 

 

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(review) INK BOMB-Fiction

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Dutch punk band Ink Bomb are releasing their debut album. I listened and reviewed the record for our zine.

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This is the debut full length for this awesome band, the album that has been growing and getting like good wine since the band´s inception in 2015. There are 11 songs on this record. The music of Ink Bomb is a smart mix of emotional melodic punkrock with fast hardcore punk and skatepunk. I love the faster songs full of energy like Griefwalker and Brittle, but also mid tempo well written songs like Anchors. The vocals are superb, neither shouted nor too mellow and cheesy, just like I love them to be, to emphasize the emotions behind music. Backing vocals are also adding great harmonies to the structure. My personal favorite of all the songs on the record is Sternschanze which I listened to over and over again, what a beautiful and sad guitar sound there. The lyrics to the songs are a nice mix of personal and underneath it all political themes because you can´t escape politics nowadays with all the shit. This is a very nice debut, I love this record.

9/10

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(record review)SUN-0-BATHERS-“Local Warming ep”(Morning Wood Records/Melodic Punk Style/Bearded Punk Records/Thousand Islands Records

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Sun-0-Bathers are fast punkrcok from Leeuwarden, Netherlands. This band is new to the scene being founded in 2017. I am really glad being able to review this, their debut e.p. in my webzine.

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The record contains 5 tracks plus intro/outro.

After the nice intro, the mayhem starts. This is just the music that I love. Fast, old school skatepunk hardcore with a lot of old school nineties influences. The only thing that bothered me somehow are the vocals sounding somewhat muffled and low and partly unrecognizable in some parts. These guys play their shit with heart, with soul and minds in the right place and this is an awesome release for the debut e.p. I just imagine how the full length with fresh material will sound, certainly more better than this. For me the best song on this record is for sure “Need Some More” with old school Circle Jerks vibe that made me nostalgic. I also loved an hommage to legendary Scott Radinsky. If I must compare, these guys reminded me a bit of old Spermbirds, being rowdy, but fresh and made for moshing and pogoing and going wild with other sweaty kids in the pit next to you.

8/10

Follow the band on Fb: https://www.facebook.com/sun0bathers/

Follow Morning Wood Records: https://www.facebook.com/MorningWoodRec/