This is an interesting band. Krav Boca are French-Greek-Moroccan group made of 8 people, meaning 3 singers, 1 performer and 4 musicians. These guys did more than 300 concerts diy touring Europe and are releasing their brand new record. This one contains intro plus eight songs. After pretty harsh and almost metalised intro, Souterrain shows the street side of the band, with music being combination of punk, metal, rap and folk elements meaning mandoline incorporated cleverly in the song arrangements. The lyrics are in French, since I don´t speak that one, I can´t really understand what is being sung about, but it sounds great nonetheless. Three vocals fulfill themselves perfectly creating and bursting with energy. I expected some ethno folk punkrock, but I got hardcore rap with metal and punk elements, not unlike Moscow Death Brigade. The songs that I recommend as highlights of this album are Crust Riot, Gas Mask and the title song. Check this one, it is interesting.
The Rumjacks recently released their new, fourth album and I listened and reviewed the album for our zine. Read on!
I didn´t know for this band until 2016.and their show at Punk Rock Holiday, which made me listen to the albums and keep an eye and ear open for this band. Usually, I am not too keen for all the celtic punk and folk punk bands out there, but this album is just somehow made for my ears. These Australians deliver mighty set with 12 songs of celtic folk punkrock with a lot of melody, sing along choruses, fun and emotion. There are reggae and ska influences in Fare Evader, the title track and A Dozen Good Reasons To Weep which is one of my favorite songs on this record. Also, I love The Foreman O´Rourke with the guest performance by Paul McKenzie of The Real McKenzies delivering nice vocal guest lines. This is a very good album which even non celtic folk punkrock fans like me dig good.
Although many people find them controversial and not what they were in their beginings, I found the phenomenon of BRKOVI fascinating. This band comes from Zagreb, the capitol of Croatia and they fill all the big halls and stadiums of the region meaning Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Slovenia. Everything they did was diy and without a label or some strong hand to back them up. This is their new studio album and I listened and reviewed it for this webzine.
The members of Brkovi are the veterans of Croatian underground punk and hardcore scene baking their experience in many bands prior to this one. Brkovi were formed, as the guys say, to mix their love for punkrock, some metal and folk music. The band is very tight and musically one of the tightest bands in the Croatian scene. Some may like their style with unique sense of humour in the lyrics, auto irony and the lyrics touch everything that is primitive and mindless in some people but are done with a nice line of sarcasm. Some don´t like them and claim that they became what they laughed about in their songs in the earlier days. They remind of the old Yugoslav band Nervozni poštar, but in my opinion Brkovi are better. I find their first two albums awesome. Then they had some great songs on their records and some were awful. Fortunately this album has more great than terrible songs. There are 11 songs in total, with lyrics in Croatian or some hybrid of Yugoslav Croato/Serbian lyrics. There are some excellent songs like “Grad” or “Lenta” and “Odlazim” but there are some terrible kinda folk songs like “Ljubavni rat” that I just couldn´t swallow. The singer Shamso 69 sings better and better with every new album, being more melodic and less folkish apart from some excursions into total folk waters. This is not an excellent album, but it is a decent more punkrock album than folk stuff.
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