Zombies No were originally rooted in Venezuela, yet now from Paris, France. This is a very strong e.p. containing 5 song of energetic, protesting melodic hardcore punk, sounding fresh and modern, technical yet having that old school vibe and lyrics that are rebellious yet all of us can relate to. The beauty of No Surrender made me jump all over my room, then Into The Wild blew me away with even more speed and melody making goosebumps on my skin while listening to that Maidenesque part of the song hehe. What Went Wrong is a punkrock anthem made for pumping fist in the air evolving from slower verse to superb fast chorus. Burn speaks about importance of eternal rebellion, keeping the flame of freedom alive in your heart. Falling Back is the last one I am listening and am longing for full record. Awesome!
I saw Pears play live twice and both times I was just awed by the fantastic energy of their live show, mostly thanks to their fantastic frontman Zach Quinn. This new record contains 14 fantastic songs and Pears still outdo themselves with their combination of ferocious and fast hardcore punk mixed with melody and their New Orleans sludgy song parts. The speed, melody and catchy guitar riffs are topped with fantastic Zach˙s vocals and I am still amazed how this guy can transform from angry shouter punk to gentle melodic singer and back to screaming his guts out, with noisy and dischordant riffs suddenly becoming warm and melodic riffing, just to get back to beastly hardcore. All of the songs are just superb, but if I must choose some that would be Comfortably Dumb, Worm and Funerals. Superb album!
Blacked Out are from Vancouver and this is their new e.p. out with Thousand Islands Records. There are five songs on this e.p. The music of this band is fast energetic hardcore punk, leaning more on melodic side of things, more like skatepunk. But, they are enough technical to satisfy fans of technical skatepunk, yet leaning enough in the nineties old school genre waters, to satisfy also fans of old school melodic punk with some metal thrown here and there in the song structures. For me the best songs on this e.p. that I recommend are I Don˙t Know and Tribalism. Nice one indeed!
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