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(recor review)ISHWARA-Violence Before Quiet

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Italian underground scene gives new releases every single day, this time I listened and reviewed for this zine the new e.p. by Ishwara.

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Ishwara are melodic hardcore/skatepunk band from Venice lagoon area, Italy. This new record contains 6 songs of melodic punk with hardcore influences just made for skating along or enjoying your sunny day. I love the fast, energetic melody and anthemic chorus of Can You Stop Me and these guys really can handle their instruments well. The musicianship is tight, the fast parts along with more mid tempo punkrock parts are nice interwined in the song structures, so there are absolutely no boring parts throughout the whole e.p. The lyrics of the songs are all in English language so you can easily follow what Ishwara are singing about. The lyric themes are more on the personal side of things. Also, I absolutely love the Stranger Things hommage on the cover of the record so, this e.p. is total hit. Check out another jewel in the crown of the mighty Italian underground hardcore punk scene.

8/10

https://www.facebook.com/ishwara.official/

 

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(record review)Short Fuse-Sink or Swim(Indelirium Records)

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Short Fuse are hardcore band based in Rome, Italy and they just released their new  first full length album through Indelirium Records.

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As I like to say, this hardcore band lives between two worlds. You will probably wonder how and why? Well, the guys picked up in their music the best from both worlds. First one is old school hardcore world with hardcore from the 90-ies leaning more towards punkrock roots influenced songwriting, streetpunk smart attitude and riffs. The second world is modern urban hardcore with breakdowns, metalic sounding hooks and screamed and shouted vocals topped with gang singalong backing vocals. There are 8 songs on this album, one of them having guest performance by Josh from Tempest. The lyrics are in English and as I read them while listening they are mostly personal about love, loss, life and friendship, also inner demons of the psyche. This is energetic and good hardcore record. Support the hardcore scene worldwide and get and try this album.

8/10

https://www.facebook.com/shortfuseroma

https://www.facebook.com/indeliriumrecords/

https://shortfuseroma.bandcamp.com/

 

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(record review)Slenders-Angry Youth(This is Core)

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Italian scene always has awesome bands that create vast and strong network of bands, friends, promoters, zines…One of such bands is Slenders. I listened and reviewed for our zine the new record out on This Is Core.

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The new album contains 10 songs of awesome melodic punk with a lot of hardcore influences. I read somewhere that they categorize this band under pop punk, but believe me, this is pure melodic punkrock with a lot of hardcore, played from the heart with heart. The lyrics are in English langauge and they are fine mix of anger, politics and personal stuff like love, loss and inner darkness. Being a sucker for faster, more aggressive side of songs, I somehow like most the fastest songs on the album like ZAH or Young Blood being my favorites. The vocals are very important in bands such as these, I love the vocals which are being sung, but sometimes screamed at the top of lungs and the vocalist of this band somehow reminds me of one of my favorite singers that is Koca from Croatian band Fat Prezident. The guys covered The Cure´s Boys Don`t Cry and they did it perfectly. Love this album.

8/10

https://www.facebook.com/slenders.official/

https://www.facebook.com/thisiscoremusic/