Even Death are hailing from Phoenix, Arizona and this is their debut demo. There are three songs on this demo. The music is hardcore but more on metalic side of things, like all the nineties playing bands, but keeping one foot in modern hardcore scene. Moshing parts, cutting guitars and pumping bass mix with some faster more straightforward hardcore punk song parts like in Regret. The lyrics to the songs are good and being personal, but having that somehow bittered and angry theme between the lines. My personal favorite of all three songs is Suffer Like the Rest of Us, because it is the most heavy, yet somehow the most epic song on a record. Really strong first demo!
I remember Croatian hardcore band from back in the nineties, they were from Zagreb, their bass player now plays in mega popular Croatian band Brkovi, so I was surprised to see this Stepping Stone from Canada if I am not mistaken, so I said to myself let us hear what these guys have to offer. Escape From the Junkyard offers intro plus five songs of at times harsh, more metalic influenced hardcore, yet retaining that street punkrock charm and sounding raw, but great with moshing parts mixing to more faster straightforward hardcore punk. Top that with angry vocals that fit perfectly to the music and you get one damn fine record. So, go grab this one, songs like Soul Division or the title song will not leave you indifferent if you love your hardcore.
Peace Test are straightedge hardcore punk band from Providence, HP Lovecraft´s town hehe. But, of course they have nothing to do with the late horror writer legend, but they delivered awesome new release with angry and fast hardcore punk with short songs sounding like outbursts of angry machine gun staccato, with screaming vocals, 80-ies influenced old school hardcore with more punk than nowadays metal influenced riffs. There are six anthems of anger, fight and not giving up on this one and being an old school hardcore guy, I definitely love this record. Songs like Authority and Vegetative State will have you finger pointing and fist pumping and pogoing in no time. Marvelous record!
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