Tag Archives: hardcore

(review) .UPSET-Tied to Our Screens

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Hardcore from Zabok is back! .UPSET are back with a new album after some time, like four or five years without new recording. This new record brings 10 excellent songs of pure hardcore, modern touch with a nod of respect towards old school guard and being an energetic bomb in our scene.  Guitar riffs have some metal influences, the vocals are brutal, yet melodic in places where melody is needed. The lyrics are in English and deal with usual hardcore themes, friendship, surviving in this modern fast world, personal demons, scene, staying true and other jolly topics that need to be said from hardcore bands. But, after being in the scene for nearly 28 years, this is still important to me, still hold it in my heart. Recommended songs: HC Show, You Or Me, Shadows, Nothing.

10/10

https://upsetzabok.bandcamp.com/album/tied-to-our-screens

(featured band) Time Apart-hardcore from Indonesia!

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Time Apart are hc/punk band from Malang, Indonesia. On February 2020, Time Apart released a single and music video titled HOMECOMING. Broadly speaking, the lyrics of this single tell about a longing for a friend and at the same time express nausea towards the reality that happened.

The fierce, fast guitar riffs that are the hallmark of Time Apart music peppered with melody can bring listeners to feel anger and sad at the same time.

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(review) Antarctica-Beheaded By Voltron(Zegema Beach Records)

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This one was originally released in 2009, but cool Zegema Beach Records rereleased it on tape because they love this one so much and it deserves to be rereleased for new fans to hear this one. The music is strange and chaotic mixture of hardcore, screamo, spoken word, noise and nervous breakdowns. From faster Suspended In Carbonite insanity to more metal and sludgier parts, the songs do not get boring for one second. Also, there are some weird but nice atmospheric parts thrown in some song structures to add to the overall aggressive and desperate yet emotional outbursts in songs. Not unlike the continent, this band is unpredictable, heavy and interesting. Check this one definitely.

https://zegemabeachrecords.bandcamp.com/album/beheaded-by-voltron