Oh The Humanity was formed in 2012 by five friends coming from different musical backgrounds within the scene. This is their new record which contains 11 songs. The music of Oh The Humanity is just the way I like it, meaning fast and a bit technical and metalic hardcore punk, melodic, uplifting and energetic at the same time. The songs are mainly fast, influenced by all of the nineties skatepunk heroes, yet enough technical to be likeable to the newer kids who like their skatepunk more technical and complex. The guitar work is just amazing, especially in one of my personal favorites called Gainesville. Besides fast and more aggressive yet melodic stuff, there are slower, more emotional mid tempo punk rock songs like amazing Never Worse. Also, one of the songs I must mention as being one of my favorites is Defeated. Everyone who knows me can tell how I always pay attention to vocals and harmonies of the backing vocals. This time, everything is amazing. Singer is neither snotty nor boring, enough dramatic to emphasize the song parts and enough melodic to tell all of the emotions behind the song lyrics. Backing and dual vocal harmonies are done awesome. So, if you are a fan of such music, go get this one, you will not regret it.
Orange County´s melodic hardcore heroes Stick To Your Guns had many plans for 2020 but for reasons known to everybody those plans went bust. But, the guys didn´t despair, but delivered new seven inch e.p. containing four songs. This time, the band presents to the people on their more gentle acoustic side, three of the songs being acoustic renditions of STYG songs, fourth one being a cover of A-HA´s classic Take On Me. What to say? The songs done in such acoustic way sound more dark and have that sad and melancholic vibe which make you realize again and again why you love hardcore so much, music which can give you all the emotions you can relate to. Amber sounds awesome in this arrangement and is one of my personal favorites on this record besides fantastic version of classic pop song. Nobody and Forgiveness Of Self sound so sad and yet so hopeful at the same time, especially Nobody with great backing vocal harmonies and the whole song just made goosebumps crawling on my skin. This is a great seven inch, go get it, listen and see the other side of this fantastic band.
Homemade Ski Mask are punk hardcore duo from Lancaster, Pa and this is their brand new e.p. out with Big Eleanor Records.
This record contains 5 songs of pretty noise influenced a bit nervous sounding hardcore punk with some really fast parts with screaming vocals in one of my personal favorites Back on my Bullshit, but also some rock influenced song structures like Shooter which has almost garage punk sounding attitude in guitar work, drumming and vocals, backed with some slow and doomy parts. Sperry Stomp and Boogey Woogey continue in wild punk raw garage direction with destructive blitz guitars, shouting vox and pumping bass, topped with great drum beat. Boogey Woogey has some weird noise melodic part in the end of the song which I liked very much. Backwoods is also a bit weird punk song, but I love diversity of the scene which enriches us in our cause worldwide.
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