Hailing from Birmingham, Alabama, I think Parlangua is a one man project/band. According to their page, it started as stoner rock project but evolved towards more gruesome and macabre side of things, meaning horror! This one contains ten songs and it sounds dirty, rawer and swampy, you can almost feel the moist and swamp coming off the guitar work and thundering greasy rhythm section. Vocals are more shouted and barking than singing but fit with music like this band/project is playing. There is occasional melody rearing its ugly head here and there through all the ugliness of the punk rock. If I must describe the music of Parangua, it would be a mixture of raw horror punk, death rock with some goth influences and garage punk, that would be my description of the combination Parangua plays. As I said, lyrically they delve more into horror side of things with songs like ‘Predator’, ‘Are You Afraid Of The Dark?’, ‘Dead Ringer’ and ‘Necromantic’ standing out. I love my horror punk more melodic and more catchy, but this one is alright for being a soundtrack for some Rob Zombie-like horror movie.
Clod Maple is one man band from Florence, Italy. This record contains seven songs that were written, recorded, mixed and mastered in his bedroom in Florence. This one actually got to be pretty good one. I love Italian language, I love Italian melodies and their scene, so Clod Maple did fine for me. The music on this record can be described as pop punk with goth rock, horror punk influences, also I can hear some neoclassical in some songs like for example in great opener ‘Lift Me Up’. Vocals are nice voice, neither too mellow or snotty, nor too deep and I love how the color of the voice and harmonies fit to the songs. I love faster side of the songs, like ‘Seafoam’ and I can swear I hear some double bass drumming on that one, maybe it is only me. This demo is diverse, there is also an acoustic instrumental here called ‘Sorcerer’s Foot’. Lyrics deal from personal to horror goth influenced themes and my personal highlights are songs like ‘Vampire Girl’ and ‘My Friend Night’. This is a good melodic little demo and a nice effort for a one man band.
Sadists are hailing from Hartford, Connecticut area and I must admit that I have never heard of this band prior to listening to this record, which is I suppose a collection of their greatest hits, or maybe complete discography, I couldn’t find anything on the Internet that would provide me more information about this band, since it is apparent they don’t have a Facebook or Instagram page, not even their band’s webpage or anything similar. Anyway, this record contains 27 regular plus four bonus songs, making it massive 31 song record. The music of Sadists is horror punk n roll with lots of up tempo and uplifting songs with horror like themes, with songs like ‘ Madman Marz’, ‘Zombies Ate My Neighbors’, ‘Queen of Halloween’, ‘Horror Punk Song’ you just can’t go wrong. Vocals are not your Danzig clone or similar, no, they are harsher and more screaming and remind me a lot of punk bands Anti Heros and Defiance. This album has a healthy dose of street punk thrown in the song structures for good measure. Although there is a great number of songs on this one, the album is interesting, especially for us who are horror punk fans, so it passes very quickly. Besides raw and dirty version of punk rock with melodic touch, there are couple of keyboards in there, and clever use of samples which is always great and fine by me because samples can only emphasize the atmosphere of some song. Try listening to ‘Death Do Us Part’, ‘Murder Junkie’ or ‘Black Christmas’ and try not to be touched by the energy of this band and some of the songs just make you pump your fist in the air and your old punk rock heart beat faster. Excellent stuff!
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