Legendary As Friends Rust are back with new release containing seven songs. What to expect here? Seven songs of excellent melodic hardcore punk like we are used to from this phenomenal band. There are some mid tempo emotional punk rock songs like awesome ‘Final Form’ but it is not everything in speed isn’t it? The said song has such nice melodic vocal lines, harsh when needed and melodic when needed, so sweet! ‘Positive Mental Platitude’ continues where the previous song left off being even better with fine written smart lyrics over fine tuned melody and energetic punk rock, melodic hardcore. ‘See Us Now’ is a clever mixture of rock and hardcore in one song, with gentle chorus and more harsher verses being thrown at you and adding some groove with melody. One of my favorites on this record is ‘Great Filter’ being a perfect combination of melody, aggression and punk sensibility. ‘The Walking Debt’ has harshest verse on the album evolving into beautiful chorus to make goosebumps upon your skin. Fastest straightforward hardcore punk song on this record is definitely ‘Origin Stories’, old school hardcore anthem, angry and energetic. One of my personal highlights is ‘No Gods, Some Masters’ which closes the album being perfect song. For sure, one of the best releases this year.
NYHC nineties old school champions Shutdown are back with new release! This one contains five songs of old school fast and groovy hardcore like it was done in the nineties and my personal favorite on this one is ‘We Won’t Forget’ featuring guest performance by none other than Sick Of It All’s Craig Setari. This is all about old school. Fast drumming, hardcore anthems, shouted and screamed vocals, great lyrics and hardcore played from the heart for hardcore hearts out there. This one really made my skin crawl with goosebumps and hardcore heart beat faster with every song that I listened to on this one, wishing there are more. Who knows, perhaps there will be new full length album some time in the future. In the meantime, check this one out and I would love to witness this band play live, I am sure they are a blast!
Jednu stvar se mora priznati Sonji, ona nikada ne odustaje. Ovo je već tko zna koji po redu album njenog projekta odnosno benda Abergaz, koji je, koliko vidim opet bend koji se sastoji od dvoje članova ako se ne varam. Na ovom novom izdanju nalazi se osam pjesama u prepoznatljivom brzom i britkom hardcore punk stilu. Tekstovi su buntovni, Sonja izražava što njoj smeta u današnjem društvu, a tematike ima podosta. Iako se radi o ponekim minimalističkim skoro haiku tekstovima, kada se čita između redova ima smisla ono o čemu se pjeva. Pjesme poput ‘EU projekti’ su brze male ode onom o čemu Sonja razmišlja. Postoje i minimalističke pjesme poput ‘Mobitel’, a moj osobni favorit na ovom albumu je ‘Malo Govno’ koje završava album u velikom stilu. Vokali se razlikuju od melodičnog pjevanja do skoro maničnog vikanja, ovisno o tome što je pjesmi potrebno. Pjesme su sve uglavnom brze sa tupa tupa bubnjevima što meni odgovara i to jako. Ovo nije najbolje izdanje Abergaza, ali je sigurno jedno od boljih u zadnjih nekoliko godina.
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