Wow! I think Padme are the first band from Turkey to grace the pages of this zine. They recently released their brand new, third studio album. It features 12 songs and I was blown away how energetic and fast this record really is. This is hardcore punk, but leaning more on speed and anger, although there is enough melody in the songs to call it melodic hardcore. The lyrics are great, being a fine mixture of political and personal. I love the sound of this band, it reminds me of all those old school Californian bands like Circle Jerks, old TSOL and similar, even Verbal Abuse, yet with great dose of progressive, even fresh touch of song arranging. Speed breaks into atmospheric and melodic parts only to return to relentless hardcore punk. The vocals are awesome, being shouted yet sung nicely at the same time and the musicianship is phenomenal. This record is really a discovery! My favorite songs: Crossing The Line, Can`t Catch Me, 17.
Bobby Funk are from UK and they release their debut album with TNSrecords. The whole record starts with kinda weird punk hardcore with uptempo, shouted vocals and Dunc suddenly transforms in almost doo wop inspired melody then to return into nervous noisy punkrock. The rawness and snotty punk is all over the the nine songs with titles like I`m a Cat or very fast hardcore punk miniature Put Your Hands On The Car which transforms into my favorite on this record K Grind being almost thrash punk hardcore and made for fist pumping in the air and stage diving. With song titles like Breakfast Means Breakfast or Best Friends With Kanye you just can`t go wrong indeed. This is energy filled, fast and furious punk hardcore and I can only imagine how fantastic this band must sound live.
Nice to see some bands from the east of Europe joining the worldwide underground network of nice bands, individuals, promoters, zines…FUCK You DRACU are from Bucharest, Romania and this is their new record. Here we get seven songs of rawer hardcore punk with lots of garage punk influences. All the song titles and lyrics are in Romanian langauge, so I don`t really understand what they are singing about, but the music is full of energy, with some really catchy and anthemic songs like for example Bataie Pe Alee, with streetpunk pure vibe. The vocals are shouted but also fit to the more melodic parts of guitar work. The drumming is fast and energetic and I would like very much to check these guys live. Other songs are also good, it is nice to hear some other bands, from other countries and discover new friends and new music.
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