This is already fourth album from this Vienna, Austria based melodic punkrock band. They started as a band balancing on a border of pop punk, horrorpunk and psychobilly, working hard, touring all over and now on their fourth album they profiled themselves as a great melodic punkrock force. The album consists of 12 tracks and listening to them made me feel good somehow. The lyrics still have that spooky horrorish feeling that they had since the first record but the musicianship and the vocals improved with each record untill now. Vocalist Kitty sounds better than ever delivering fine melodies and the harmonies are delivered with melody and precision. My favourite tracks are “Lights Out”, “Sweet Love, the balladesque “Oh Johnny” and “Dead Inside”. All of you who like your punkrock melodic, not too fast and if you like songs having a lot of emotion and atmosphere, this is the right record for you.
Now is the time for some harder stuff from Italy. 5 Star Grave are six piece band from Cuneo featuring ex members of Ground Zero, Disarmonia Mundi and Frostbane. Formed in 2008., this is their third full length album. The album features 10 tracks of melodic modern metal with horror lyrics, so they are reffered to as horror metal. The music is energetic mixture of melodic death metal, trash metal and some punk hardcore influences. The vocals are more shouted than sung but it fits kinda nicely in the whole picture. The song titles are tongue in cheek cheesy but funny horror clichees like “Eat You Alive”, “The Ballad Of The Vampire”(my personal favourite), “Alice”, “He Never Died” to name only a few great songs. This is a really fine record for all the fiends out there who love metal and love horror!
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