Tag Archives: hardcore

Reviews

(review) ROBBERY – ‘Demo’

Leave a comment

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.

Bandcamp

Instagram

Reviews

(review) Niki Lauda Firefighters – ‘DEMO’

1 Comment

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.

Bandcamp

Reviews

(review) HCG – ‘Assombrado Pela TV EP’

Leave a comment

Ach, South America, land of vast underground scene and HCG are from Brazilian hardcore punk scene and I am really glad that I discovered this band. This came out a while ago, but it is good, and there is never too late for great music isn’t it? This one contains five songs of angry fast hardcore punk with blistering drumming, raw guitars and thundering angry vocals with lyrics in Portuguese language. The music of HCG reminded me a lot of old school California hardcore punk bands like Circle Jerks, early Suicidal Tendencies, TSOL, even Verbal Abuse or RKL. This is superb hardcore punk energy, the only thing is that it passes too soon and makes you wish for more. I love the use of samples in some songs, that is always great in my opinion. My personal favorite is ‘Inimigos Camuflados’, but all songs make you wanna spin the record one or couple of more times. Great!

Bandcamp