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(review) For Different Ways – Awareness e.p.

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For Different Ways are hailing from South Sardinia, Italy. These guys are playing hardcore and this is their brand new e.p. containing four songs. Music of For Different Ways can be described as hardcore but not that death metal that is nowadays considered hardcore, but hardcore with that good old school vibe leaning more on streetcore and street punk than on metal, although there is some metal influences in guitar work on this e.p. I also love that there is a lot of melody besides all of the hardcore harshness and that is what makes this little e.p. so special. There is a lot of melody to sing along to, gang backing vocals and energy that reminds you and makes you happy to belong to hardcore scene. My personal favorites are A True Story That Belongs To Us and Backbone featuring guest performance by Alex Blasi from Strength Approach, another Italian hardcore heroes. This is a great e.p. Cant wait to hear more stuff.

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New single from hardcore punks ‘Incisions’!

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‘Mine To Lose’ owes as much to Rocket from the Crypt as it does Poison Idea and shows a more considered approach to their songwriting than the frantic 80’s infused hardcore offerings that Incisions are known for since forming 6 years ago.
Following the brutal nihilism of 2021’s ‘BLISS’ LP and recent single ‘Gasoline’, ‘Mine To Lose’ takes you on a journey from the depths of regret through the pain of losing yourself to your vices via a singalong chorus and relentless rhythm section. Whilst the opening lyric cries “it’s torture when I’m coming down” ‘Mine To Lose’ presents a confident band still moving in the right direction.

Manchester birthed Incisions in 2015 and they’ve been honing the sound since. This is what being young, working class punk in the North of England sounds like. They’ve combined love, lust, liquor and rage, dragging 80s American hardcore through the streets of Manchester.

Incisions are now heading into 2022 with a fresh take on their now established sound and an infamous reputation for their rowdy gigs. Since releasing their debut LP through TNS at the end of 2018, Incisions have played alongside some of the biggest names in Punk (Poison Idea, D.O.A, Adolescents, Drug Church, D.I to name a few) with some well received festival appearances and sold out headline gigs along the way.

Having released their second LP ‘BLISS’ – a nihilistic and brutal assault – 2022 is set to be another busy year for the pride of Manchester. With Jordan now dropping the guitar/vocalist role everyone in the band is now able to focus on their respective duties. As a result, expect the latest incarnation of Incisions to be heavier, angrier, faster, sexier and much more lucrative for the already high-earning band than ever before.

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(review) Ratos De Porao – Necropolitica (FOAD Records)

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Brazilian hardcore punk legends are back with new album out recently. This time, they deliver 10 songs of furious and fast hardcore punk with some thrash elements, crossover that they retained throughout all their decades although experimenting at times with groove and crust punk d-beat. Vocalist Gordo sounds like in the old times, I did not like his growling on some previous albums, but he is back with his hardcore thrash shouting. Music is angry energetic bomb of hardcore fury, thrash metal vigour and political stance with songs like Alerta Antifascista , Pasa Pano pra Elite or Necropolitica sure to become live action favorites also listening favorites. There are couple of really awesome melodic hooks here and there coupled with catchy solo here and there then returning back to more hardcore anger and lyrics shouted in Portugese. This is definitely one of top five RDP albums in my opinion.

8/10