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(review) Accident – Hasten Through Decay

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New Accident is out now! This band from Zagreb, Croatia is no stranger in this zine because I already did an interview with them a while ago and couple of reviews.

After a pause and some line-up changes within the band they area back with eight songs in with lyrics in English language. The music is still ferocious, fast, no holds barred hardcore punk with dual vocals, courtesy of Lea and Bart. I love Accident because their music reminds me a lot of old school hardcore punk bands that I listened and watched live a lot when I way younger back in the nineties, namely Verbalni delikt, Nula, DHB, Građani drugog reda, Optička varka, Bad Justice, Radikalna promjena and others. Yet, Accident carries that old school flame but also retains firmly with both feet in this century with good lyrics, political and survival lyrics through prism of looking through person´s own eyes. This is high energy well played, angry hardcore punk with melody thrown smartly in the song structures here and there, the way it should be done, so go listen this one and support your scene and hardcore cause worldwide! My personal favorites: Fall For It, A.T.D., For Free.

https://accident.bandcamp.com/

(review) Fallstar – Sunbreather (Facedown Records)

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Fallstar are coming from Portland and they have a new record with Facedown Records. This record offers 11 songs of interesting and different modern approach to hardcore. The traditionalist in me, grown up in the nineties hardcore scene with nod to youth crew hardcore bands of eighties would discard this record upon first listening. But, hey, I am 43 years old now and take things differently in music.

Fallstar have a pretty original approach to songwriting, cleverly mixing hardcore punk, post hardcore, spacy dreamy vibes, electronics, pop punk and even metalcore in some song parts making one original and soundscape which will take you somewhere to some different dimension while listening to this record. My personal favorites are Cloud Chamber, Waiting and the title song. If you love your hardcore done a bit differently, with lots of melody and intensity at the same time, this record is the right one for you. Do not be scared to check out different things within hardcore scene, diversity makes us strong, we are a small scene in the beginning so there is no need for elitism and quarrels. Support the cause worldwide.

Finnish Metalcore band I AT LAST released a second single from their upcoming debut EP!

Promo picture by Joanna Suomalainen
 
Finnish metalcore metal band I AT LAST released a new single Wake. The track is taken from the upcoming debut EP Magenta which is released on March 26th 2021 via Inverse Records. 

Watch Wake video: https://youtu.be/DDDcM5czPX4 

Although I AT LAST declare themselves representatives of the metalcore genre, the EP embodies the band’s distinctive sound, breaking the prejudices associated with said genre. “Influences for the EP can be found in several different genres, but in the end when someone asks what I AT LAST sounds like, I would say it sounds like us. The sound of ‘Magenta’ creates a good overall picture of who we are and what kind of music we want to create.”, says the band’s guitarist Roope Lappalainen. The five-track “Magenta” EP reaches just over 26 minutes and is released entirely in digital form.

Listen to the Wake single on:  
Youtube: https://youtu.be/DDDcM5czPX4 
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/37n5hv1 
Bandcamp: https://iatlast.bandcamp.com 
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/album/202904972 
Apple Music: https://apple.co/2LXu4OX 
Tidal: https://listen.tidal.com/album/171101768 

Pre-save Magenta EP to your Spotify playlist: https://save-it.cc/imusician/magenta
 

EP is mixed by Julius Nikander and mastered by Pekka Posio. 

Line-up:
Henry Manninen – Vocals
Roope Lappalainen – Guitar
Juha Rantala – Guitar
Roberto Rivera Pöyhönen – Bass
Niko Haavisto – Drums
 
 
Links:
https://www.facebook.com/iatlastband
https://www.instagram.com/iatlastband 
https://spoti.fi/2KLnLtz 
https://iatlast.bandcamp.com