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(review) Split Tongue – ‘Living In Sin City EP’

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Split Tongue are hailing from Malaysia and this is an EP containing intro and five songs of angry old school hardcore punk, meaning these guys are still leaning more in punk roots and side of things than in more modern metallic hardcore waters like it is popular today in the scene. This means fast drumming, cutting edge guitars and angry barked vocals with heavy hitters like ‘Think’, ‘Classwar’ or ‘Spirit’ you just can’t go wrong. Makes you pump your fist in the air and hug the sweaty kid in the pit next to you and sing along to gang backing vocals and join the band in delivering tons of hardcore energy and feeling it. Too bad this is just such short record, but it is sweet. Go and listen. Hardcore lives!

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(review) ROBBERY – ‘Demo’

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ROBBERY are hailing from Montpelier, Vermont and this is their four song demo delivering some mighty punk rock. Let’s explain song by song:

‘Animal’ – old school mid tempo punk rock song with enough rawness and melody to be appealing to fans of more melodic side of things, but also raw punk rock fans. Good vocals, following guitar melody and more talking and shouting than really singing, reminded me of Biafra at times on this song.

‘New Routine’ – is a song about routines we all have in life, but with touch of humor and self irony, mid tempo punk rock with a slight pop punk touch yet still raw guitars and thundering bass and drums deliver pure punk energy,

‘Dancin’ With A G.I.’ – I hear a lot of Ramones and pop punk influences in this one, I guess that might be because of that melancholic and great main guitar melody. Great one.

‘Back To Basics’ – song about not wanting to go to war, about today’s state of the world and being somehow hardest and harshest song on the record but still melodic. My favorite.

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(review) Niki Lauda Firefighters – ‘DEMO’

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Niki Lauda Firefighters are coming from Berlin, Germany and this is their demo, offering four songs. The music on this demo is just what I needed this morning, meaning fast and epic hardcore punk with angry screaming vocals and delivering punches in your gut with songs like ‘TikToks From The Trenches’ or ‘One Pint, One Piss’. This is a superb demo with blistering raging fast guitars still delivering mighty melodies behind all of it, angry guy screaming his lungs out and ironic/nihilistic/black humor lyrics and they reminded me a lot of S.O.D. or M.O.D. with their mixture of thrash and hardcore punk here. I can’t wait for more. This one is just too short, how good it is.

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