I always love the bands from Spain and other Spanish speaking areas because I always hear Spanish as beautiful language to sing on, making angry songs angrier, making melodic and emotional songs more emotional.
Free City is a band coming from Spain, Valladolid area and this is their brand new album. There are 13 tracks on this record and what I loved about this record is how this band easily fuses melodic and fast, energetic skatepunk with hardcore and some metal influences. The songs are very varied, there are also some keyboard undertones finishing “Tu Recuerdo” but there are also some straight punk hardcore songs like “Saiir corriendo” or “Huracan”. All of the lyrics are in Spanish and my knowledge doesn´t go far in that language so I am not able to tell what they are about, but I am sure these guys have their hearts in the right place. This is a good album, so support the guys and check out this record!
It took a long time to be released, but it is finally here. The debut Mental Strike record!
This band comes from Laško area, Slovenia. They play old school skatepunk with a lot of old school hardcore influences. When I saw them play live in Lendava, Slovenia couple of years ago, the reminded me a lot of Gorilla Biscuits not so musically but they somehow have the same energy as GB have. This album contains 9 songs with all of the lyrics in English language. The themes are some great mix of personal and political issues. The song structures, especially guitars also have some metallic influences and this album is the lesson how to play modern but old school hardcore punk, not to sound to mellow or like a clone. In my opinion the absolute highlights of this album are “Start Today” and “My Final Resolution”.
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