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(review)REZUREX-Skeletons(Cleopatra records)

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Rezurex

Rezurex are back with the brand new full length record and it is a crushing piece of music. The new record contains 11 songs and I can safely say that this is Rezurex album that I like the most of all released until now. The band continued to evolve their mixture of horrorpunk and punkabilly with nice melodies and vocals, courtesy of band leader Daniel deLeon and boy this one really sounds good. From fast and straightforward Creature, also Ghost, to more gentle single for which the video was made Mi Calavera di Amor , featuring guest vocals by Rene from The Brains, this album rocks.  Also, my favorite on this record is Sacred Heart having such superb and sad guitar work only horrorpunk can provide.  I didn˙t like Freddy Krueger influenced Nightmare, being too much rock n roll, too little punk for my taste. Also Dark Side was okay, but not up to the rest of the material on this record. But, more songs like Shadow or Go Away are anthems to remember for future gigs somewhere, somehow.

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(review)5¢ Freakshow-Acoustic Abominations

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Man, I grew to love and hold this band in special part of my heart being sincere and great horrorpunk band. No bullshit, no philosophy, just great songs with nice harmonies, cool vocals and beautiful written songs.

This time, because all of the covid virus shit, no gigs and stuff, the guys delivered an acoustic e.p. to treat us, their fans with something nice and special. There are three songs on this record, namely Co-Ed, Zap Nap and Satanic Mastermind, wtih Zap Nap being my personal favorite. All of the songs have gritty lyrics like we are used to from great horrrorpunk bands. I love how the guys use influence of doo wop sound in some song parts, that is my guilty pleasure, listening to doo wop, so incorporated into horrorpunk, it just sounds so good. I am not an avid fan of acoustic records, but some are worth listening, this is one of such.

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(review) The Other-Haunted

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German horrorpunk legends The Other are back with a brand new studio album. I love this band, they are my favorite European horrorpunk band beside The Crimson Ghosts. Last couple of albums, they moved a bit from traditional horrorpunk sound making the songwriting more complex, adding more metal and industrial elements along with some gothic that was there from day one. Hey, but that is the beauty of horrorpunk scene, being so diverse and original, adding different elements to the basic punkrock.

This time, I have a feeling that The Other somehow returned to the more old shool sounding batch of songs, being more straightforward horrorpunk rather than metal and industrial, yet retaining all the gothic influences with Rod`s recognizable beautiful vocals, superb harmonies on backing vocals, anthemic riffs and choruses that make you wanna listen to this album over and over again.  The songs that somehow stand out to me as being fantastic although rest of the material is strong too, are Turn It Louder, Vampire Girl, Fading Away and The Silence After The First Snow. This is awesome album by the legendary band.

9/10