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(record review)Bloodsucking Zombies From Outer Space-All these fiendish things

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BZFOS are back! And what a return it is! The new record rocks out with all guns blazing. I was lucky to listen and review it for our zine.

Who is not familiar with the name, Bloodsucking Zombies From Outer Space are from Vienna, Austria and have been around for quite a while delivering their gore soaked horrorbilly albums led by drummer/vocalist Richie, avid horror movie maniac!

2019 - All These Fiendish Things

Now, the brand new album offers couple of surprises. First, there is a new line-up. Besides new bassist the band recruited the new drummer and held their first gig at the record release with Richie solely concentrating on vocal duties. The second surprise is the change in the music of the band. For me, the change went for even better than previous albums. The music on this album is in my opinion more melodic, more sinister and has more horrorpunk and shock rock oriented song structures and not so much psychobilly like before. The lyrics are still great with a lot of serial killer, gore, tongue in cheek dark humour and Richie sings better than ever and the riffs, melodies and anthemic choruses make my skin crawl with  goosebumps now after listening to the record three times in a row. For me the best songs on the record are This Ain˙t No Halloween Costume, Rebel Heart and Don`t Answer The Phone, but all of the 12 songs plus intro are the strongest and best material of this band since 2010. This is for sure one of my candidates for the album of the year!

10/10

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(record review)Batshit Crazy-Bat$hit!crazy

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If you love your pop melodic punk with a dose of horror, you came to the right place. I listened and reviewed the new Batshit Crazy record for our zine, so read on!

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These guys are from California and their music has hardcore punk base with Black Flag immediately coming to mind when the firs riff and the first drum beat kicks in. But, they also picked up the melody and the sensibility of Ramones-core, crossbred it with The Misfits gore notebook and hence got their own horrorpoppunk style.

This record contains 12 songs and it is under half an hour long and leaves you wanting for more after listening. With songs like Such A Waste Of Good Suffering or The Babysitter Murders, you just can˙t go wrong. The musicianship is tight, the vocals are sung nicely, not some snotty voiced shit, but great punkrock voice topped with nice backing vocal harmonies. This one is a keeper and I want more of this band, I am looking forward to their future releases.

8/10

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(record review)THE BIG BAD-Dressed For A Funeral+The Big Bad(e.p.)

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The Big Bad have been on the scene for 15 years now. Since 2004.although the lineup has changed, the constant line that keeps the band strong besides making excellent music is the frontman Zackula Von Nasty. This record is celebration of 15 years gore soaked, eerie horrorpunk hardcore and I listened and reviewed it for our zine.

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Hailing from the haunted hills of West Virginia, these guys have been inspired from the start of the band with the folklore tales to evolve their horrorpunk hardcore in a way of making fist pumping in the air singalong anthems and melodic verse lines transforming to hymnic choruses with awesome vocals coupled with beautiful backing vocal harmonies. Not to forget fast and energetic hardcore punk guitar hooks and thunderous drumming.

This record contains 19 songs. It serves as a document of early times of The Big Bad, meaning the band´s debut full length Dressed For A Funeral, the e.p. The Big Bad plus unreleased songs and live songs to make a great record for the fans of the band and those that will become the fans by listening to this one. My favorite songs are Ghoul Girl with doo wop influences. Everyone who follows me knows how much I love doo wop. Dead End Drive In and Spit On Your Grave are also my favorites of the record. I love how this early songs show all the rawness but also melodic side of the band and proves once again that horrorpunk is best music on this planet.

8,5/10

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