to live among wolves are coming from Rotterdam, Holland area and this is their new release.
There are 4 songs on this record. The music is basically hardcore punk, fast and rawer sounding in some parts, to break down to some modern hardcore moshing metalized influenced song parts, also some sludge and scream structures in the song guitar riffs and drumming can be heard here and there. The vocals are great, screaming and shouting, but also with some nice clean melodic vocals like in awesome Cursed Embrace, my favorite song on this record. But, other three are also nice dirty and raw, yet emotional and melodic piece of hardcore punk. I love this one. I am eager to see how the full length will sound like.
Mustasuo are hailing from Finland and this is their new record with Off Records Finland. The name of the band means black swamp, after a local city district of Oulu where the band comes from. They were formed in 2015. The music Mustasuo is harsh hardcore punk with a lot of d beat, old school Finnish hc punk influences and some black metal, popular blackened crust punk. There are 10 fast songs full of energy on this record sung in Finnish language. The vocals are screaming and remind me a lot of Croatian bands AK-47 and Ljubiša Samardžić, similar voice and screaming. The songs are raw, gritty, but with recognizable Finnish melancholy, spite and depression melody underneath it all. Also, some weird electronic voice parts in Kun illuusio sarkyy make the song fantastic and one of my album favorites besides Tuomitulle with doomy parts and Tuhoaja. Great album, great band.
Kurve, hardcore punk band from Zagreb, Croatia are no strangers to the pages of this zine. We reviewed their releases a while ago and now they treated us with new one.
This is actually new songs, by their standards the longest ever released lasting six minutes. In fact, this is a conceptual idea e.p. about being jobless, hopeless, trying to survive in bleak surroundings of grey everyday. The lyrics are again poetic and superb in Croatian language and work perfectly in unison with singer Vito˙s fantastic voice. These guys are perfect musicians and their song structures are really complex with many different parts sounding energetic and complex at the same time. In fact these guys are unique being art and hardcore punk at the same time, their shows are energy pure so check them out when this virus shit ends.
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