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(record review)The triumphant return of Propagandhi-Victory Lap(Epitaph Records)

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In the second half of 1990-ies, we first heard Propagandhi through their albums How To Clean Everything and Less Talk More Rock.  Then they went more metallic and lost that skate punk feeling of their first two albums and the lyrics remained ultra political speaking against fascims, multinational corporations, slavery, homophobia…

Fast forward to 2017.and couple of studio albums later. This Summer I went to Slovenia to Punk Rock Holiday which is the best festival in the world that I have ever been in my life and I have been to many, believe me(you can read Punk Rock Holiday festival report here). There I saw Propagandhi live headlining the last day of the festival and they melted my face off and their gig was awesome. They played one song off their new album coming soon and I waited eagerly for the album.

Finally, here it is. The album contains 12 songs of political melodic hardcore punk. They somehow managed to hold on to metallic touch that they had on previous albums but they also have a lot of melodies and that primal hardcore punk energy off the first two records, making it the best Propagandhi record in last ten years. The lyrics are smart, but also in your face tactics recognizable as a punk shock tactic. For me, the best song on this album are the title track and of course Failed Imagineer for which they released a video and last but not least In Flagrante Delicto.

This album has no weak side and no fillers and I listen it on repeat since I got it, so this sure is album of the month September in this zine.

10/10

Listen to the full album: http://bit.ly/2xyjepf “Failed Imagineer” by Propagandhi from the album ‘Victory Lap,’ available now Order at https://propagandhi.com/

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(record review)Dutch melodic punksters Ink Bomb new e.p. Swim

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Ink Bomb is a melodic punk hardcore band coming from Nijmegen(Netherlands). Their new e.p.contains 4 songs of melodic punkrock done with heart and soul and emotion.

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The lyrics are in English and I dont have lyric sheet but as I understand they are personal, emotional heartfelt lyrics with a slight political touch thrown in. The music is not so fast paced with fast drumming, although there are some faster paced songs. This is smart punkrock with head and tails and everything on this e.p.belongs right where it should be. What I like most on the record are the vocals, maybe it is just me, but I hear 80-ies synth pop bands, mainly Depeche Mode in the vocals of this band. I am sure it is just me, but I listened to this record at least four times in a row and that was the way I heard it.

Top songs on this e.p.for me are The Bleachers for which there is a video already featured on the pages of this zine and my personal favourite song is Heavy Crosses which I listened on repeat many times. To be sure, this is nothing new, nothing revolutionary, but it is punkrock with heart and soul and such bands will always have an impact on me.

8/10

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In memoriam koji je puno više od samo koncerta-za sve one koji više nisu s nama.

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U subotu 28.10.2017.u klubu Prostor će se održati već tradicionalan in memoriam koncert posvećen svim prijateljima i prijateljicama s čakovečke underground scene koji više nisu s nama.

To održavanje in memoriama je krenulo još ranih 2000-ih u čakovečkom Klubu, pa Pubu i još nekim mjestima nakon smrti moje sestre i još nekih prijatelja sa scene. S vremenom se dosta aktivnih ljudi na čakovečkoj sceni izmijenilo i došli su neki novi koji su nastavili s tom tradicijom u Starom Hrastu i Prostoru.

Svaka smrt je besmislena i boli, no kada umre prijatelj ili prijateljica s kojima provodiš dane sanjareći, planirajući ili jednostavno ispijajući pivo pod zvjezdanim nebom, osjećaj tupe boli te jednostavno prereže iznutra i nikada ne napušta. No, istodobno sjećanje živi i sa smješkom se sjećaš dana kada ste zajedno gazili vrućim gradskim asfaltom misleći da ste nepobjedivi.

Mnogi ljudi pitaju zašto je Tusta, pokojni pjevač Kud Idijota, postao svojevrsni simbol in memoriam koncerata zadnjih pet godina. E, pa zato što je Tusta na neki način simbol punka i obilježio je sve ljude s ove scene kojima je posvećen ovaj gig.

Ne želim sada pisati o tome tko svira, kakvi su to bendovi koji sviraju, jer uvijek je odlično i svaki bend koji je svirao na svakom in memoriamu je dao sve od sebe i uvijek je bilo zakon.

Zato dođi i ti da se zajedno sjetimo Nede, Tibora, Zmije, Mufija, Fodora, Grujića, Topleka, Rataca, Meglića i svih koji su tebi bili dragi, a više ih nema i da slavimo njihove živote kroz punk muziku, pjevanje i veselje, a uvjeren sam da će i oni biti među nama, doduše nevidljivi našem oku, ali u srcu ćemo znati da su tu. Jer oni su još tu. Počivajte u miru sestro i braćo, jednog dana ćemo opet biti UNITED AS ONE!