Tag Archives: hardcore

(review) Snag-Snag(Zegema Beach Records)

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Milwaukee´s Snag released the record with Zegema Beach Records. What do we get with this one? We get nine songs of darkened hardcore with emotional, screaming vocals, nice apocalyptic melodies, pissed of noisy song structures and environmentally engaged sensitive lyrics about a change that needs to come if we want our planet to survive. Besides, the music is very brutal and energetic but has that touch, the one that makes your heart all warm and tear sometimes come to your eye like in beautiful instrumental violin miniature Morning that serves as calm before the storm preparation for the most harsh and brutal song on the record called Colony Collapse with combination of brutal and screaming vocals coupled with nervous riffs. I also love the clever use of samples as in Into the forest. My personal favorite is Hunger Stone having a very wicked guitar melody which I wish that I wrote hehe. This is another great release, go and discover hardcore bands and remember, always support your scene!

https://zegemabeachrecords.bandcamp.com/album/snag

(review) USUD-As Old As The Hills

 

a0039804067_10A bit older release by USUD, band from Zagreb, Croatia. Although they are not so active anymore due to other obligations in life, these guys were one of the best bands in the scene with their progressive mix of melodic death metal, post metal and hardcore.

This is their newest record with material which was actually recorded a while ago, 2011.-2014. but actually mixed, mastered and released in 2019. These 7 songs show how it is done. Brutal death metal blasts mix with atmospheric parts and lots of catchy and melodic wicked guitar riffs underneath it all. I love poetic lyrics in English which are very personal, but somehow I can relate to them. What is fun, when I listened to the record every time I have listened to a song, I thought that one is the best on the album, but now, I think all of the songs are fantastic, if I must choose three that would be Possessed, Soulless and the title song. Wicked record! You can download it for free at Bandcamp, but also you can leave a dime or two or drop a word or two to the guys if you like the album, I am sure they will appreciate it.

https://usud.bandcamp.com/

Bristol Booze Cruise new band announcements!

 

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If you weren’t impressed with the insane array and diversity of bands on the festival’s first announcement… check out the second wave of bands!

Attika State – UK
Brutalligators – UK
Disaster Jacks – ES
Free Throw – USA
H_ngm_n – UK
Higley – USA
La Moxie – UK
Lone Wolf – NL
Peach Club – UK
Restorations – USA

If you missed it, the initial announcement looked like this:

Aerial Salad – UK
All Better – UK
Alright – USA
Antillectual – NL
Burnt Tapes – UK
Darko – UK
Empire Me! – DE
The Gay Agenda – USA
Good Friend – IRL
Goodbye Blue Monday – UK
Hit Like A Girl – USA
Jabber – USA
Late Bloomer – USA
March – NL / BE
The Menstrual Cramps – UK
Mikey Erg Band – USA
Moonraker – USA
Ramona – USA
The Run Up – UK
Sewer Rats – DE
Shoreline – DE
The Social Club – UK
Teenage Bubblegum – IT
Trophy Jump – HR
Pardon Us – UK
Witching Waves – UK
Tickets are on sale now here but the early bird tickets have SOLD OUT.
You can stay up to date and get more info visiting the site and following the festival socials:

http://www.boozecruise.de
https://www.facebook.com/boozecruise
https://www.instagram.com/boozecruisefestival