Holland hardcore punk scene has always been great and one of my favorite Euro hardcore scenes with so many great bands from the nineties until today. Justify All Means are from Holland and this is their new e.p. out with WTF Records. New e.p. contains four songs in about ten minutes or so. Music of Justify All Means is angry hardcore punk, bordering between moshing groove parts and old school street punk influences. Lyrics are about lost friendship, against war and weapons selling, finding the strength in yourself to carry on in hard times and I must admit it all sounds pretty powerful. Vocals remind me at times of Krmpa from Croatian hardcore heroes Deafness By Noise and gang backing vocals are made for singing along at gigs. My personal favorite is Unleash The Beast being more oi influenced songs reminding me of my roots. So support your local hardcore punk scene and check this one out.
Italian Metal/Hardcore act DAYSGONE are proud to announce that they’ve signed with TOO LOUD Records to release their first debut EP “DaysGone” that will be released on all streaming services on November 25th, 2021.
Band Statement: “We decided to sign with Too Loud because it is a dynamic and fresh reality. Definitely a fundamental point of support for our first record release. We are happy to undertake this path together with the whole Too Loud family.”
BIO: 2019. Winter. It was not yet known what coronavirus was. 4 guys in a room, who had known each other for a relatively short time, linked only to be colleagues or former co-workers. 4 instruments, Omar’s guitar and Melo’s bass, Paul’s voice and Tugno’s drumsticks. Thus was born the alchemy of DaysGone, each linked to different sounds but (in) consciously mixed together. So not just Metal, not just Hardcore, not just trash, not just Punk, but an explosion of wickedness and arrogance that distinguishes us at the first listen.
Time for a band from my home scene to grace the pages of this zine. Bednja released their new, long awaited e.p. Bednja were already featured on the pages of this zine, when I reviewed their full length debut album. This band is hailing from Varaždin in the north of Croatia, circa ten or so kilometers from my hometown. Bednja plays a mixture of black metal, hardcore and post metal with very interesting song structures and darkened atmosphere and dual growled and screaming vocals, which add power to the songs. Guitar work is ice cold with some catchy hooks here and there, thundering bass and drums from out of this world, Petar being for sure one of the best extreme music drummers in this region. This new e.p. offers four songs. Bednja pays tribute to Croatian poet Ivan Goran Kovačić, antifascist poet who was killed in WWII by transforming his lyrics into a song. They also cover Satan Panonski, punk icon from ex Yugoslavia who was killed in the civil war that went on here about thirty years ago. Also, they cover two folk songs sung by partisan fighters in WWII. There are some guest appearances on this record, but I leave that to you to discover. My personal favorite is Satan Panonski cover but e.p. as a whole is a fist in the face of depravity this country has turned in. Fist in the face of fascism, homophobia, xenophobia and Bednja told what all of us think: fuck you we are not down with you and you will not grind us down, not now, not ever!
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