All Coasted are from Vicenza, Italy and they play melodic punk with skate punk and hardcore parts of the songs. This is their brand new release containing five songs. Now, that is the punk rock I like and love. Fast, without much philosophy, sounding like all the bands in the nineties which I grew up with and still love. If I must compare them to someone it would be a mixture of nineties era Nofx and Teenage Bottlerocket with anthemic songs, grandiose choruses, sense of melody like only Italian bands can have and good lyrics which are personal but anyone can relate to them and that is the beauty of punk rock. My personal favorites are ‘With Blinkers’ and ‘Bird In A Cage’, but all five songs are worth your listening if you are a fan of bands such as this one.
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.
We remain in exciting and excellent Italian underground scene with WILD STEEL. This band is solo project of Andrea De Stefanis a.k.a. Wild Steel. This is third full length opus since the inception of this entity in 2005. The third opus contains eleven songs, one being kind of instrumental epic intro ‘Dragonfly’ reminding me of Italian westerns and giallo horror soundtracks in some segments, maybe it is only me. The music of Wild Steel is power/true metal with lots of speed, up tempo and epic melodies sounding not at all as one man band, but like full orchestrated epic true metal band with symphonic keyboard passages, double bass fast drumming, guitar main melodies switching places with synth keyboard solos and main themes and decent vocals that fit great into music as a whole. Some of the choruses are just made for singing along to, pumping your fist in the air and being glad your metal heart still beats in this world of madness and music sometimes really saves I can safely say. My personal favorites are ‘Age Of Steel’, power ballad ‘Live Again’ and ‘Final Battle’, you find yours by listening to this great opus.
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