This one is out for a while, but it is never late for good music. New Death By Stereo album is perfect in any sense. This Los Angeles based band delivered one hell of an album with 10 songs of hardcore energy, heartfelt melodies, melodic guitar riffs, fast drumming, group singalong backing vocals. Above all, what I love about this band and what stands them out above others is trademark vocals of Efrem Schulz, this guy sounds like an angel while singing melodic clean vocals, also when shouting angrily. I just cannot decide which songs to recommend, but I will go with three: California Addiction, I Sing For You(part deux) and Choose A Side Or Open Wide. Perfect album and one of the contenders for the hardcore punk record of the year in my choice!
WTF Records never cease to amaze with quality new releases and delivering awesome mainly European hardcore punk bands to the attention of the new fans worldwide. This time, Superhero Status are in order with their brand new e.p.
I must admit that I haven`t listened to great old school hardcore for a long time and I am really happy that this record came into my hands. This is just it. Old school positive hardcore like we knew and loved when we were kids growing up with anthemic touch, melody and energy flying all over. There are four songs on this record, one being awesome cover of Iron Maiden-Wasted Years. For me, my personal favorites are True To Our Believes and Miles And Changes, also Never Left with that old school begin of the song that made goosebumps on my skin like a time machine taking me back to the times when I was a kid and reminding me why I love hardcore so much still after all these years. This is a fantastic e.p., I really want to listen to the full length soon.
Time for a band from Israel to grace the pages of this zine. Haifa to be exact. On their page Akrabut says that they are coming from the ghettos of Haifa. The music on this record sound just like that. There are six songs all being sung in Hebrew and they play raw and energetic hardcore punk with angry vocals which sail into some melodic waters here and there, almost crusty guitar riffs, darkened, almost apocalyptic atmosphere and some d-beat influenced song parts here and there. Unfortunately I really don´t know what the songs are about, so maybe they sing about political themes, maybe fun, maybe personal, I really don´t know. But, music speaks for itself that this is great e.p. for punx more oriented on the rawer side of things.
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