Tag Archives: melodic punk

(review) Anti-Flag – ‘Lies They Tell Our Children’ (Spinefarm)

Say what you will, or what you want, but Anti-Flag continue to release great albums for decades now. Pittsburgh punk rockers are back with new batch of songs, to be correct kind of intro and ten songs and they are needed now more than ever. War in Ukraine, produced mass economic crisis and recession, poverty and great rift between rich and poor having nothing to eat, rising tide of right wing and fascist populism throughout Eastern and now Western Europe too, those are all themes just ripe for singing along. You will say, melodic punk preaches to the converted, because who will listen to Anti-Flag? Punks, mainly. But, those themes are never to be forgotten and need to be addressed and that makes us think about what is important in life. Anti-Flag have quite a lot of guest performers on this album. My personal favorite songs on this one are hard to pick, but I will try: ‘Modern Metamedicine’ with guest performance by Jesse Leach of Killswitch Engage, ‘The Fight Of Our Lives’ featuring Tim McIlrath of Rise Against, ‘NVREVR’ featuring Stacey Dee of Bad Cop/Bad Cop, but all songs are fantastic. Justin and Chris No 2 interplay with their vocals and band delves mainly in mid tempo melodic waters but there are occasional excursions into more faster, aggressive hardcore punk waters. Great album, long awaited, but the wait was worth it.

(review) New Found Glory – ‘Make The Most Of It’ (Revelation Records)

Melodic/pop punk legends New Found Glory released new acoustic album with Revelation Records. These legends made some milestone albums, covered soundtrack songs in punk versions, and now it is time for most personal acoustic album which contains 7 new songs and 7 renditions of old classics. I will concentrate on new songs here because I think this is the most personal work to date, due to serious illness of one of the band members. These songs are full of hope, full of wishing to get healthy again, yet remaining in mind that battle might be lost. Songs like ‘Get Me Home’ and especially ‘Watch The Lilies Grow’ brought goosebumps and tears to my eyes, because I am currently also ill and sometimes see no way out if and it eats me down and there are better days, but also bad days too. But, never lose hope and never lose the will to fight and love like ‘Kiss The Floor’ says. This album is full of love, hope, most heartfelt personal emotions and lyrics, so I love every single minute of it.

Revelation Records

(news – new video) LA’s melodic punks Holyfangs released new video!

Formed in 2021, HOLYFANGS is a new punk rock band based in Los Angeles, California. The sound is instantly familiar, yet fresh, heartfelt and pulsing with life. A driven, angst-fuelled combination of tasty riffs, crunching grooves and blood-soaked melodies that bite. For fans of Banner Pilot, No Trigger, The Menzingers and Dillinger Four.

Holy Fangs is;

Giuliano Messina – guitar and vocals 

Chris Behrens – guitar

Michael Nusbaum – drums

Gabe Mayeshiro (ex-Spanish Love Songs) – bass