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New Jersey punk rock quartet Doc Rotten announces politically-charged new album!

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New Jersey punk rock quartet DOC ROTTEN will be releasing a politically-charged collection of brand new songs appropriately titled Unite Resist on March 25, 2022 via Working Class Productions. Recently, they shed some light on the mental health crisis in America with their music video for “Psych Ward 103” by D.I.Why? Films. Vinyl preorder and tour dates are forthcoming.

These 16 tracks of raw punk rock were produced, engineered and mixed by Pete Steinkopf at Little Eden in Asbury Park, NJ and mastered by Sean Glonek at SRG Studios in Hamilton, NJ. “Unite Resist is about being at the end of your rope when realizing your government doesn’t serve its citizens but serves special interests,” explains vocalist Wes Bentley. “These corporations are ruining society and creating poverty and the only way to fix it is to unite together, and let your voices be heard. Don’t comply, stop acquiescing, and simply say no in non-violent civil disobedience. It’s about mutual love and respect, yet remaining vigilant against injustices amongst others.”  

From the circle pit anthem that helps you realize that the majority of us are all in this day-to-day life together and have the power to make changes (“Open Your Eyes”) to falling in love at rehab (“Psych Ward 103”) to being forced into a fiat monetary system (“Corpses”) to the death of the middle class (“Drowning”) to self-reflection and accepting where you are in the present (“15 Years”) – Unite Resist examines society, politics, and oneself.  

Doc Rotten formed in Trenton, NJ during the Winter of 2017. After a few local shows, the punk rock quartet immediately went into the studio to record their debut EP Fallout. Followed by their sophomore EP Sick and Suffering six months later, they set out on their very first tour. Their blue-collar mindset and work ethic constantly push them to write, record, and tour. The release of their third EP Illusion To Choose took them all over the world including Japan, Europe, and Canada.

DOC ROTTEN is Wes Bentley (vocals, guitar), AJ Martinez (drums), Andy Keris (lead guitar), and Doug Pombo (bass).        

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(review) Meadows – In Those Days & Also After (Facedown Records)

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Meadows are hailing from USA and this is their new record with Facedown Records who continue to give to the scene amazing releases. This record contains 13 songs divided in three parts telling story of love, betrayal, anguish, hope and sorrow among others. The music of Meadows can be described as what we called in the nineties new school hardcore with melodic hardcore punk influences. Although there are couple of excursions into faster hardcore punk approach, the songs are slower in general, with stop and go parts, lost of atmospheric almost post hardcore guitar riffs and vocals that are superb and fit perfectly to the vibe of the songs, being shouted, screamed and at times sung clean. My personal favorites are The Flood, The Dove, The Embrace, those three. But, I recommend you to listen to the album as a whole and only then you will get the real picture of the magnitude of this opus.

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Post hardcore Hoi – Poi Farplane Wind released new single!

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Currently split between Copenhagen, Thessaloniki and Stony Brook -New York, Hoi-Poi emerge from the murky waters of the early COVID era with a brand new two-part single, entitled “Uncle Boonmee”.

Sounding as dark and inauspicious as ever, the band unravel the tumult of being locked down, separated and disjointed through unrelentingly heavy and intense riffage. The technicality and experimentation of the material on “Sain’t Adorable” reaches a new high in the 4 minutes & 23 seconds of the single’s total runtime, split between the titular “Uncle Boonmee”and accompanying track, “Tannin”. Lyrically, “Uncle Boonmee” loosely draws inspiration from the 2010 Apichatpong Weerasethakul film, “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives”: through the vicious cycle of life in lockdown and quarantine, a constant swing between hope and despondency, one is able to “recall their past lives”–since they have all started to seem identical. “Tannin” on the other hand, is a disparate prayer, a cry of desperation, heavily influenced by the Book of Job (Chapter 7). The single was recorded, mixed and mastered by Pantelis Benosat True North Sound Artworks in Thessaloniki, during the band’s limited time together over the first few months of 2021, with some parts also recorded at Crisp Studio in Copenhagen by Christian Hjort Jakobsen. It is a standalone offering of material written immediately after the release of the band’s 2020 full-length album “Sain’t Adorable”.

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