Tag Archives: hardcore punk

(review) Ramallah-The Last Gasp Of Street Rock ´N´ Roll

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Blood For Blood from Boston are such influence for me with their great street hardcore with balls, heartbroken and street life lyrics and great melodies. Blood For Blood are dead, but Rob Lind continued the fight with Ramallah. This new record contains 8 songs of heartbroken, strong and emotional songs. This is maybe not your fast paced straightforward hardcore punk, but it is streetpunk oi hardcore at its finest. While listening to these songs, I had goosebumps on my skin and my bald head. It made me pump my fist in the air, but also made me cry with sorrow, and in the end it brought kinda hardcore catharsis in my blackened heart. I totally saw myself in the lyrics in the songs, in the melody and guitar work, so this record holds such a special place in my heart. Songs like acoustic gentle Bye Bye or the title song, or many Bruisers and Blood For Blood hommages to the lyrics like the rendition of City Boy and fantastic The Times We Had, make me wanna listen all over again and again. This record connects the glorious odes to the past with the future and the persistence in the scene. I am currently at the most difficult time of my life and countless times in last couple of months I thought just to end it all, but this record serves as my therapy, fucked up therapy, but still worth living. Classic!

10/10

 

(review) Strike Anywhere-Nightmares of the West(Pure Noise Records)

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Strike Anywhere are back with their new e.p., the first new release in more than a decade. Virginia punks from Richmond deliver what we need in these times of racism, segregation, murder, hatred, corruption and apathy. They deliver energetic, melodic and angry hardcore with melody and emotion, so hope you enjoy this one as much as I did.

There are six new songs plus one cover of Blocko on this record and the only thing I really wish is that the record was longer and that the guys deliver full album. I never saw these guys play live, I was going to this Summer at Punk Rock Holiday, but that epidemic shit stole our festivals for this year, so hopefully next year I will correct that mistake.

Considering the songs on this record, somehow the most anthemic and the ones that worked best for me are Documentary, fast song, also Dress The Wounds, but THE best song for me, that I listened all over again and again is The Bells, just perfect song for singing along and waving your fist in the air, I hope the guys will include it in their setlist on tour next year. That doesn´t mean that other songs are less good, those are just my personal favorites. Welcome back, Strike Anywhere, what a comeback!

10/10

 

(review) Second Arrows-Second Arrows(Hellminded Records)

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Second Arrows could be called kind of super group. They are featuring current members of Deadguy and former members of Every Time I Die among others. But this band in no way lives on old glory of other musical projects. No, on the contrary. This new record they are releasing with Hellminded Records is one of the heaviest and noisiest releases of 2020.

What we get here are eight songs of noisy hardcore, with one leg being in hardcore punk roots of the members, the other leg sinking into sludgecore and noise. The vocals are shouted, screamed, also at times with some electronic effect and whisperes, depends on the mood of the song. The guitar riffs are apocalyptic, almost like announcing the end of the world and no hope, the whole vibe of the record is dirty, gritty, raw with some occasional hidden melody underneath it all. I love it, one of my favorite songs is Our Grendel and also Jitters, kinda highlights of the album for me, but the whole record is one constant brutal energy and swampy, muddy atmospheric hardcore noise. Great!

https://www.hellmindedrecords.com/