The Savage Seven are from Detroit and they recently released their new record and I listened and reviewed it for this zine.
I must admit that I have never heard of this guys prior to this record and I am glad that I discovered them now. This record contains 6 songs. The music of The Savage Seven can be described as a mixture of horrorpunk and 70-ies rock with garage punk thrown in the song structures making the material sound melodic, but gritty and dirty. The whole record sounds to me a bit like soundtrack from those Grindhouse movies and remind me of some bloody, gory, slasher like Rob Zombie´s flick 31 or similar. I liked oriental guitar in Roadside Burial and wild rock n roll energy in Mini Bus Meth Lab. This record is dark, but also has so much energy to fill in your bloodcraving black soul for a while leaving it wanting more. 7,5/10
Samhain has passed for this year, but there is no reason why we shouldn˙t continue with some horrorbilly, don˙t you agree? I listened and reviewed the new Motel Transylvania record out on Undead Artists for this zine.
As you guessed, the guys play horrorbilly, a mixture of psychobilly and horrorpunk and are hailing from Italy. There are 13 songs on this new record and it rocks! The music kinda reminds me of better known Austrians Bloodsucking Zombies From Outer Space, even vocally in some songs. The songs are melodic and varied, from the faster psychobilly of the title track, accross the twisted evil sounding doo wop of Beyond the Lights, and straight horrorpunk anthems like 4 or The Night Of The Living Dead and rock n roll of It˙s Not So Bad. . I would like very much to check out these guys live, I am sure they put on hell of a show with this fine songs. I love this record.
It is again that time of the year when horrorpunk is the name of the game. I listened and reviewed the debut album by Horror Vision out on Undead Artistis for this zine.
This is a German horrorpunk band, from the area of the city Ulm. German horrorpunk scene is awesome with bands like The Crimson Ghosts, The Other or Jamey Rottencorpse and The Risen Dead coming to mind instantaneously. This album contains 10 songs and the music is tight and not so melodic horrorpunk so don´t expect melodies like Blitzkid or Nim Vind music. This is sometimes raw, often even brutal, but there are still enough melodies underneath for all you fiends out there craving for haunting melodic horrorpunk. This album is yet another proof that horrorpunk is not mere cloning of The Misfits songbook. Horrorpunk can be creative, can be varied and also inspiring. This band managed to release a strong and powerful debut album. Top songs: Ghosts of Mars, Bathory, We´re Gonna Get You.
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