There was no crust hardcore punk on the pages of this zine for a while now. Detësto are hailing from Brazil and are playing just that.
These five songs are released on Bandcamp but, there are plans to release them on seven inch and also on tape this year. So, what to expect? Dirty and raw crust d-beat hardcore punk, done in an old school way, powerful and with conviction. The song structures are simple, containing all the right stuff this genre has to offer, yet still remaining good listening. I usually become bored when crust hardcore punk albums last too long, because all the songs start to be similar to each other but these five are just the right listening for pumping your fist in the air and delivering apocalypse of war, nuclear devastation, atomic radiation, death an all other merry themes of the lyrics. If you are a fan of such music, go listen to this one, you will not be sorry.
Now, this is a discovery! Munich based band We Too, Will Fade have a new release out and I am so glad I got this one and discovered another beautiful band to listen day after day.
This release is an e.p. of a sort containing three songs. The music of We Too, Will Fade can be described as melodic hardcore with some noise and post hardcore influences in the song structure. My Dying Friend is a song whose lyrics hit me right in the eye and made it wet with screaming vocals turning into beautiful melodies, rolling drums and atmospheric parts thrown in for good measure. What I love about this record is besides great music, so poetic and nice lyrics such I didn´t find in this kind of hardcore for a long time now. ITried My Best is a song with most heavy and sombre atmosphere for me, being somehow the most dark song on the record music wise and lyric wise, yet retaining a kind of hope in life and beauty. This one even has some really fast parts thrown in the smart written song structure, like it takes you to some other acoustic dimension. The title song is a short but sweet miniature that takes brings you back from journey and makes you want more.
Manu Armata are hardcore band from Holland and this is their brand new record. What I love about this one, is that this is hardcore like the one through which I grew up, meaning harsh streetcore that owes equal to nineties groove metallic hardcore and street punk roots.
This one really brought me back in the days when Right Direction, Ryker´s, Brightside, Only Attitude Counts, Backfire! and similar ruled Euro hardcore scene. There are 12 songs on this record and I love the clever use of samples in some songs. The songs are mainly aggressive fast up forward with fast hardcore punk drumming, breakdown moshing parts, lots of sing along parts and fist pumping in the air old school hardcore song structures. If I must take some songs for being highlights of this awesome record, it would be Remain Radical, Nothing is Given, Warrior Mentality and Still Here. Fantastic record for all you hardcore kids and us a bit older out there.
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