Tag Archives: Germany

(record review)Horror Vision-Final Broadcast(Undead Artists)

It is again that time of the year when horrorpunk is the name of the game. I listened and reviewed the debut album by Horror Vision out on Undead Artistis for this zine.

Horror Vision cover

This is a German horrorpunk band, from the area of the city Ulm. German horrorpunk scene is awesome with bands like The Crimson Ghosts, The Other or Jamey Rottencorpse and The Risen Dead coming to mind instantaneously. This album contains 10 songs and the music is tight and not so melodic horrorpunk so don´t expect melodies like Blitzkid or Nim Vind music. This is sometimes raw, often even brutal, but there are still enough melodies underneath for all you fiends out there craving for haunting melodic horrorpunk. This album is yet another proof that horrorpunk is not mere cloning of The Misfits songbook. Horrorpunk can be creative, can be varied and also inspiring. This band managed to release a strong and powerful debut album. Top songs: Ghosts of Mars, Bathory, We´re Gonna Get You.

8/10

Links:

Follow the band on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrorvision.horrorpunk/

Follow the label on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Undeadartists/

Web: http://undeadartistsbooki.wixsite.com/undeadartists

 

(record review)CITY KIDS FEEL THE BEAT-Cheeky Heart(Uncle M/Cargo Records)

German punkrock band City Kids Feel The Beat are releasing their debut album via Uncle M and Cargo Records, so it was about time for me to listen to the album and review it for this zine.

910579

Hailing from Ulm, these guys have been working hard on their songs and playing live gigs to earn the love and reputation among the fans of the genre and the result is this debut full length album. The record contains 9 songs of melodic punkrock anthems. The music this band plays is a mixture of pop punk happiness and melodic punkrock with a lot of emotions behind it. There are some faster skatepunk influences in the title track which is for me one of the best songs on the album. I also love Rewrite and Coming Home very much. There are a lot of similar bands coming out with their records every month, but these guys somehow managed to stay interesting and not making me say blargh another boring pop punk band with a nice package and inside there is nothing. Fortunately, that is not the case here. The vocals are nice, not poppy but punkrock, back vocal harmonies and anthemic choruses are sure thing to make this material utterly awesome when played live. Nice record!

8/10

Links:

Follow the band on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/citykidsfeelthebeat/

Uncle M: https://www.facebook.com/uncle.m.music/

Cargo Records: https://www.facebook.com/CargoRecords/