Amygdala are from San Antonio, Texas and they play fantastic hardcore punk with screaming, angry and desperate vocals. This record contains 11 beautiful songs of rebellion and energy. From fast and straightforward Born Into Abuse, across more heavier, atmospheric and slower, but hard hitting songs like Why Can`t I Heal?, to full speed power violence speed of It Takes A Village, Amygdala deliver for sure one of the best hardcore punk records I have listened for a long time. The lyrics are great, music is fantastic and I am really happy that I have listened and tried to tell you how much I love this one, maybe you will listen and share the same feeling with me. This is hardcore punk par excellence.
No Funeral Records decided to treat us with their new short, but sweet release. Two songs, two bands. Amitié song is pure blasting hardcore punk with screaming vocals called A Love Letter and Karloff song The Dead Will Walk The Earth is screamo hardcore punk, but kinda bit more atmospheric and deeper, ranging from unbridled aggression to dreamlike ending of the song. Great little split record!
Haest are from Hastings, UK and they are releasing their debut full length with TNSRecords. What we get here are 14 songs of hardcore punk fun, the songs being pretty short in duration. Haest play hardcore punk in the basic underlayer, but they are mixing doom and even some sludgy elements in the song structures, so I was pleasently surprised when Unstable Picnic started slowly rolling in, with pretty dark atmosphere of the song riffs. There are more fast straightforward songs with thundering bass, great guitar and drums, but the song titles made me really smile, with titles like The Only Good Wham Is A Wham Bar, or maybe Doom & Gloom & Dio Room you just can˙t go wrong hehe. The vocals are shouted and remind a lot of eighties doom metal bands, but hey that is just only me. It would sure be fun to catch these guys live, the show is fantastic, I am sure!
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