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(review) El Sancho – Our Part in the Darkness

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Music really has no boundaries, no matter how many miles we are apart from each other and El Sancho is a punk rock band from Big Island, Hawaii. They have been playing in bands since nineties and this one was formed in 2018.

This is band´s first full length album and what a great debut it is. The record contains 8 songs of pretty political punk rock, which is no wonder with that blonde madman being in control of States until recently, so El Sancho, voluntarily or involuntarily wrote and release rather political debut album. The music of El Sancho reminded me a bit of old school punk bands from UK, production wise and in style of playing, yet also of bands like Descendents and All with adding hearty melody and epic backing vocal harmonies to the song structures. Vocals are rough yet melodic and fit perfectly to the songs and my favorites like Color Blind, Holding Down The Fort and How To Kill A Zombie or title song are just fantastic songs making me listen and smile. Also, do not be mistaken by my mentioning of personal highlights, whole record is really strong and cool debut from this band. Nice one, indeed.

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(record review) SQUARE SHAPES-After The Fact(People Of Punk Rock Records)

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Remember Square Shapes? We did the review for their last record in our zine. Now, they have a new full length record out with People Of Punk Rock Records.

What I love about this band is that they do not complicate things in their music and the song structures. They rather play old school no holds barred fast and melodic 90-ies influenced skatepunk/hardcore with fast drums, melodic vocals and backing vocal harmonies, catchy guitar riffs, anthemic choruses made for singalong and overall great vibe on their record. This 15 new songs are just made for you to feel better and smile when listening to the music which really saves and makes your day great. The songs I would recommend to you among others as the highlights of the record are: Cobalt, Visualize, Trying to find you and Wanted more. This is a great record and I am happy how this band progressed and became even better since their last record.

8,5/10

http://peopleofpunkrockrecords.com/

https://squareshapes808.bandcamp.com/album/after-the-fact

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(record review)The Quintessentials-The Satanic Rites of the Quintessentials

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The Quintessentials are horrorpunk band from Hawaii and this is their new, sixth record. I listened and reviewed it for our zine.

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Formed by guitarist/singer Rev Les Hernandez in 1998. these guys have been around on the scene for more than 20 years now. This new record contains 18 songs of melodic horrorpunk inspired more with 50-ies styled doowop and rock and roll and less modern metal music, meaning The Quintessentials play horrorpunk that I love, not much complicating, only 123 punkrock, almost Ramones or Screeching Weasel style. Lyrically, this is not your typical horrorpunk band with zombies and night of the living dead rehashed for the hundredth time, no, some of the lyrics are inspired by Church of Satan and the philosophy of Anton Szandor LaVey and some are classic horrorpunk, but there is also a lot of black humor and auto irony involved. Rev Les Hernandez is having a major health problem, so if you like the band, go to their page and check out how you can help the man in fighting the fight of his lifetime. For me the best songs on the record are: One in Darkness, Waiting, Rhiannon.

8/10

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/TheQuintessentials/

https://thequintessentials.bandcamp.com/