Sarneghera? are another band coming from mighty Italian underground scene. This is their new e.p. containing 4 songs. The music of this band is hard to describe. It is basically hardcore in its roots, but it also has many prog elements carefully mixed with melody and post core here and there, with also some metal/crossover outbreaks as a surprise. The lyrics are interesting and original because they are a mix of English, Italian, Spanish, French, Latin and ancient Greek and reborn in a new language called Smoothiesh. There are some fast hardcore punk parts quickly evolving into cold melody of space and than back again into anger and despair. Vocals are at times screaming angry, but most of the times they are sung melodic, but not in a snotty annoying way, but good. This is maybe a bit pretencious, but great and original hardcore opus.
Gotama Studio from Italy brought us couple of really awesome releases recently. This time it is about hardcore. Not Quite My Tempo are technical metalized hardcore from Italy and this is their debut e.p. containing four songs. Music of NQMT can be described as a mixture of metal and hardcore, leaning somehow on both sides, with technical skills and riffs in the song structures that make some song parts almost mathematically correct in playing. Vocals vary between brutal growls here and there and screaming in almost mix of anguish and sorrow, thus making atmosphere even more darkened. There are also some spoken word and emotional melodies like in awesome my favorite off this one being Clouds. Songs are named: Breathing, Clouds. Frames, Tarnished. This is a mighty debut release.
Italy has one of the best underground hardcore scenes in Europe and Lacerhate are hailing from Cremona and Bergamo area. This is their brand new album out with Australian 10-54 Records.
What to expect from Lacerhate? These guys play very darkened metallic hardcore, with some even blast beats and d-beat influences like in awesome 15(Inhaled). But, most of all they play this modern version of metal hardcore with both legs more into metal than punk rock although there are some little punkish influences in the song structures here and there. Guitars rip like chainsaws, through groovy and moshing parts but also fast thrash metal influenced parts like one of my favorites called Icky drops. Vocals are brutal, but not that death metal growling style, no, they are hardcore screaming and shouting with couple of spoken words here and there and also a clean part or two if I heard it right hehe. I love the creeepiness of Interlude with eeried piano parts that carry to Gone, one of the best songs on this record. Lacerhate remind me of Fury of Five and Integrity in a way, so this is a great hardcore album if you are fan of such hardcore style bands.
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