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Total Recall from Italy signed with 1054 Records and released first single video!

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Milan-based band Total Recall is proud to announce they signed with Australian label 1054 Records.

1054 Records is a mostly Hardcore & Metal label, based in Australia, continuously growing, dedicated to discovering and pushing worthy bands from all over the world. Regarding record deal, they declare “we are very excited to welcome Total Recall to our roster and extremely proud of their highly anticipated debut full length album “Always Together” set to be released in the coming weeks!!! This album is sure to grab the attention of all fans of heavy metallic Hardcore so stay tuned!” Even the band is really enthusiastic, Luca “Pigo” De Simone, bass player, comments “I am personally really excited to be part of the 1054 family. Among all the reactions we received from the record labels we sampled, 1054 Records really stands out for showing true passion for the music we produced. This label still works the old way, promoting the music they believe in without compromises. I think that, especially nowadays, it is something every band should value and appreciate.” and Stefano “Stef” Anderloni, guitar player,adds: “I am stoked to be part of the 1054 Records roster: the label immediately fell in love with our album Always Together. We are looking forward to release it, as the songs mean a lot to us, both musically and personally!“

The release date of Always Together will be announced in the next weeks, meanwhile Total Recall have unleashed the first single Poison Flow to give their fans a taste of the energy and the passion they will find throughout the whole record.

Video Production:
Warp-Video
World Music Records
Directed by:
Brace Beltempo
Editing:
Brace Beltempo, Matteo Sartore

Most remarkable about the birth of Total Recall is the deep personal friendship and respect between its founding members.

Vocals are performed by Andrea “Ronda” Rondanini – Rise Above Dead, Crushed to Dust -, while guitars are masterfully played by Stefano “Stef” Anderloni – Face your Enemy, Die Trying, Traces of You, K-again – and Stefano “Bleed” Bigoni – Rise Above Dead, Thunder Brigade -. Bass player Luca “Pigo” De Simone – Embrace Destruction, Samaritan, K-again – and drummer Daniele “Danny” Calleri – Embrace Destruction, L’Oceano Sopra, Monalisabay – take care of the rhythmic section.

On January 20th 2020, the band released their first digital EP entitled Wooden Scars, which has already received promising feedback from fans and insiders.

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For more information about Total Recall:
Official Website – Spotify – Facebook – Instagram – Youtube – BigCartel – BandCamp – SoundCloud – Deezer – Bands In Town – Google Play – iTunes – Apple Music – MediaNet – Napster – Pinterest – Amazon – Myspace

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(review) Toxic Youth – Back To You-Th (WTFRecords & Distro)

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Toxic Youth from Milano, Italy have been around since 1990 and after a pause they deliver their new album, returning with might together with WTFRecords & Distro. This label always amazes me how they hit me right between the eyes with their awesome releases delivering punches of Euro hardcore masterpieces to us, old and new kids.

This time, Toxic Youth hits us with 12 songs of perfect hardcore, having some NYHC influenced guitar work and moshing parts, almost metalized and sounding what we called new school in the mid nineties, like Milano Rendez Vous, very heavy song, but they also firmly hold more roots in street punk and hardcore, reminding me a bit of Croatian legends Deafness By Noise. There are lots of gang singing backing vocals, fist pumping in the air old school hardcore fast drumming no holds barred hardcore punk parts, evolving into moshing slower and groove song structures, making songs energetic and powerful. The vocals are angry, hardcore shouting, yet enough melodic to understand what is being sung about. My favorites on this record are Walkin´ Free, The Beast, Do It Again.

Check out this fine record and support your hardcore scene and the cause worldwide!

https://wtfrecords.eu/
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(record review)SATORI JUNK-“The Golden Dwarf”(Endless Winter)

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Satori Junk is the band hailing from Milan, Italy and this is their second full length album out on mighty Endless Winter Label. I listened to the record and reviewed it for this webzine.

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The album contains intro plus six songs, one of them being The Doors cover of “Light my Fire”. The music Satori Junk are playing is some hybrid of doom metal with a lot of atmosphere and darkened, almost psychodelical passages with lyrics which draw inspiration from horror movies and literature combined with nightmares. Sound interesting? It bloody is. “All Gods Die” starts like a dreamy, atmospheric voyage, evolves into full blooded up tempo doom metal song only to die down in murky atmosphere again. “Cosmic Prison” starts almost as sludgy, rolling song being very tortured and very painful, like being trapped in the atmosphere of Lovecraftian cosmic horror. The electronic back sounds only add to the eerie feeling of this song. “Blood Red Shrine” is for me the best song on this record, having almost tribal, ritualistic primal vibe in its song structure. “Death Dog” is the longest song on this record and it reminds me a lot of old Hammer horror movies, I don´t know why, but it is a good thing. The title song is slow and dreamy, nightmarish doom horror anthem. I don´t like The Doors and their music but this cover of “Light my Fire” in doomy, sludgy version was just great. I am not a fan of music such as this, but this is a decent effort.

7/10

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