The good people of WTF Records delivered another bunch of excellent hardcore punk records on the unsuspecting world. The Car Bomb Parade are hailing from New York area and this is their new four song e.p. Music of The Car Bomb Parade reminds me of old school hardcore days of my youth and gave me goosebumps while listening to this e.p. Pure hardcore punk fast mayhem with no holds barred, raw and at the same time firmly holding both legs in street punk roots, if I must compare the music to someone, it would be Cause For Alarm, Age of Quarrel time of Cro-Mags and similar bands. There is also some melody and catchiness in the songs like in my favorite Our Holiday which is just made for singing along live. Reggae parts of Purge Your Soul NWHC surprised me but caught me smiling with irony of the lyrics and tongue in cheek humor converting to hardcore mayhem. Trash Life is the final song, also making me want for more and can´t wait to see these guys play live one day.
We’re excited to welcome Beng Beng Cocktail to the TNSrecords family. Their new self-titled album is now available to order from our website on vinyl and CD – https://bit.ly/BengBengCocktail
Beng Beng Cocktail’s ‘Choices’ was one of those albums we just listened to over and over again. It’s an absolute classic. Imagine Rodrigo y Gabriela in some sort of bar fight with Rancid and add some Hip Hop-esque vocals and you won’t be far off the mark. Brilliant stuff! Beng Beng Cocktail label themselves as Crystalcore. They “take into consideration both DIY and ‘We do what we like and we like what we do’ concepts”.
The band say “crystalcore breaks out through uncontaminated beat, genuine ska tones and straightforward acoustic radiance out coming from insistent hardcore voices shaped by the daily nightmare of human kind.” When the opportunity came along to release their new album, we jumped at the chance. Now featuring a drummer and a faster and more aggressive delivery, this is another absolute belter that you need in your life.
South California is not only the place where great skate punk and melodic punk bands grow, it is also a place where harsher hardcore side of things rears its ugly head in form of Abrasion. They released new e.p. which contains an intro plus four songs. Abrasion lean more heavily onto metal hardcore side of things, yet they retain great deal of old school parts in between mosh and thrash metal influences. Vocals are angry and screaming and lyrics deal with loyalty, death, life, surviving…I love the song called Deaths Embrace being my personal favorite on this record, fast and energetic angry bomb of a song. Check this one out!
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