Tag Archives: hardcore punk

(review) Code Orange-Underneath(Roadrunner)

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Code Orange from Pittsburgh are back with their new, fourth full length album. Originally hardcore punk band, over the years they retained their hardcore roots and basics, complementing them with the modern groove metalcore, electronics, sludge elements making interesting song structures and arrangements sounding aggressive and progressive at the same time. The new batch of songs offer everything, from faster straightforward hardcore punk, to slower sludgy rolling thunder and atmospheric keyboard and sample backed parts. The vocals are strong, from typical hardcore/metalcore shouting, to clean singing, evil menacing whispering to spoken parts. I am usually not an avid fan of modern hardcore, but I sometimes like some bands who are not afraid to venture into deep waters of extreme music and take the best from all planets and incorporate it into one amalgamation which works out perfectly. This record is one of those records.

Recommended songs: Who I Am, The Easy Way, Last Ones Left.

(review) Crossed-Barely Buried Love(Zegema Beach Records)

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Thanks to the loving people at Zegema Beach Records, I was able to find out and listen to this fantastic band from Spain. Crossed play an apocalyptic mixture of hardcore punk with dirty crusty influences and also screamo, even black metal stuff, combined with some d-beat and good old hc punk. This 13 songs are fast, hit in the head, but also have some lighter atmospheric parts like great song Swallow, one of my personal favorites besides Colored Pain, Barely Buried Body and Ghost. The vocals are so varied, from shouting, black metal screaming to some ominous whispering, so they add dynamics to the already interesting song structures and arrangements. I would recommend this stuff as one of the best albums of this kind of music that I have listened in the last couple of months. Go get this one, you will not be sorry.

https://zegemabeachrecords.bandcamp.com/album/barely-buried-love

(new single-melodic hardcore) Forgive released first single with Krod Records!

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This single is taken from their upcoming debut album “Mirrors” set to be released on 22nd May 2020 on smoked green vinyl & digital on Krod Records, K-Nardage Asso, Noway Asso & APB Records.

Creating friendship between long time buddies, Forgive expresses Hardcore at its purest and most melodic.

Viscerally rock riffs that are intertwined with rage and the authenticity of punk-hardcore. Somewhat distinct horizons, which have produced an album that is rich and faithful to its origins.

The band arrives with their first debut album Mirrors, subtle and respectful of the energy they share live.