Italian underground scene is vast and rich with great bands just waiting for you to discover them and listen to their great music. Turn Against have been existing since 2010. but I discovered them just now with their new e.p. This diy hardcore punk band from Comacchio, Italy released 5 song e.p. Three of the songs on the record are pretty long, approx seven minutes long and two are shorter. The title songs hits you in the head with slow, rolling, almost sludgy rythm evolving suddenly to faster punk energy and back again to anguished, shouted, yet melodic vocals. This is not your usual hardcore punk clicheed song structure, but complex and smart hardcore, with style and emotion. The shorter songs called Interlude A and Interlude B, serve as kinda pause between crushing songs, like a bit calm intro before another storm hits you. Giustificazioni is a mixture between epic melodic post hardcore riffs, anguish, depression and aggression at the same time, almost mathematically played drums and bass and great ending to the song. For sure, my favorite on this record. Qiueto Vivere is crushing heavy song, I really don`t understand Italian enough to know what Turn Against are singing about, but I guess the lyrics are about inner struggle and battling your own personal demons, which I can relate to. Good record!
.Gif From God are hailing from Richmond, USA and this record contains 12 songs of heavy, chaotic, metalized screaming hardcore punk, very close to grindcore and screamo in some song structures. The vocals are screaming their lungs out, sometimes growling the music is very noisy riffs and fast almost inhuman fast drumming. What I love about this band are the weird song titles like No dude…he still likes to spray, but the absolute winner for me is the song called When you yell at me, make sure you hurt my feelings. There are some atmospheric, almost post hardcore parts like in Whats the BP2BB song, but mainly it is crushing and noisy fastcore sreamo grind. Good one.
From Today are coming from Poland capitol Warsaw and this their debut album. Although the band was formed in 2016., the members have been active in many bands in Polish hardcore punk scene throughout the years. They changed line-up and stability came, so it was time for debut full length to see the light of day. This record contains 11 songs of street hardcore in the vein of all those NYHC bands we love so much meaning Madball, Agnostic Front, but also Rykers, Brightside and similar Eurocore bands from the nineties I love so much. That means faster and more aggressive material, with songs like Energy Gain, Stay True or This Is Our Mission being my favorites. If you love your hardcore fast, at times moshing hard and with singalong gang backing vocals, this is the right one for your. Nothing new, nothing revolutionary, but done with style.
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