Tag Archives: hardcore

(record review)SLUND-“If you´re angry and you know it, clap your hands”(Bruxism Records)

Slovenia has great underground scene and I love the bands and going to gigs there. This time I listened to and reviewed the new record by SLUND.

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This band plays a mix of powerviolence hardcore, sludge and punk, for your dirty hearing pleasure. The album contains 14 songs mainly under one minute long with two or three exceptions not longer than minute and half hehe, meaning pure powerviolence with screaming vocals, noisy blastbeats turning fast into sludgy punk mid tempo parts all spiced with sarcastic samples and song titles such as “Forget you, motherforgetter” or “Insulting you in medieval ways” to name just a few. When you read the lyrics they sound funny, but actually the lyrics contain critical view on many things that bother us in the world today but they are so cleverly packed in sarcasm and humour so this is another plus for the band in my opinion. Great record to scream your lungs out to!

7/10

Listen and buy the album, or download it for free but show some appreciation and drop a couple of lines to Slund: https://slund.bandcamp.com/album/if-youre-angry-and-you-know-it-clap-your-hands

Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Slund666/

 

(record review)TEN MINUTES LATER-“S/T”

You gotta love the French hardcore scene giving us so many excellent bands and TEN MINUTES LATER from Saint Étienne is definitely one of them. This is their album, and if you love melodic and fast, energetic hardcore, you should definitely check out this one! I listened the album and reviewed it for this webzine!

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The record contains 10 songs of awesome hardcore and these guys have been around delivering the fast hardcore since 2016. The songs are awesome and fast. The lyrics are a fine mix of politically engaged and personal and these guys have their hearts and beliefs in the right places. I love “Her Smile” with nice emotional lyrics and melody. There are also some ultra fast almost chaotic songs like “Too expensive” about the price of work. The whole record is an awesome mix of European fast political hardcore punk with American hardcore from the 80-ies. The short and sweet “Pepsi Generation” brought the point in less than a minute. This whole album is an energy hardcore bomb just waiting to strike, so check it out!

8/10

Bandcamp: https://10minuteslater.bandcamp.com/releases

 

(record review)VARIOUS-“The quarter hour of power compilation”

This is an excellent 7 inch record compilation featuring 14 bands from St Louis area all delivering songs one minute long or less. I listened to it and reviewed it for this webzine.

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The record contains some new, some older bands all delivering previously unreleased tracks. As it usually is, some bands are better, some are not so good, depends on the personal musical taste. I personally liked the more melodic bands on this record like Horror Section, Sink the Bismark and Braddock. There is something really for everyone, from the more brutal hardcore punk of Hell Night, the new band featuring Brian Fair of Shadows Fall on the vocals or the debut of hardcore Chalked Up. I really love how this record sounds and gives us insight to the great and less known hardcore punk scene, not usually mentioned in many zines, blogs and stuff… Get this record if you can!

9/10

Links:

Label: www.encapsulatedrecords.com
1. Antithought – https://www.facebook.com/AntiThoughtSTL/

2. Better Days – https://www.facebook.com/betterdays314/

3. Braddock – https://www.facebook.com/braddockstl/

4. Breakmouth Annie – https://www.facebook.com/breakmouthannie/

5. Bruiser Queen – https://www.facebook.com/bruiserqueen/

6. Chalked Up – https://www.facebook.com/chalkedupstl/

7. Fister – https://www.facebook.com/fisterdoom/

8. The Haddonfields – https://www.facebook.com/thehaddonfields/

9. Hellnight – https://www.facebook.com/hellnightus/

10. Horror Section – https://www.facebook.com/horrorsectionband/

11. Not Waiving But Drowning – https://www.facebook.com/NWBDSTL/

12. Sink The Bismark – https://www.facebook.com/sinkthebismarkstl/

13. Sweat Shoppe – https://www.facebook.com/sweatshoppemusic/

14. Suicide Dive – https://www.facebook.com/suicidedive/