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(movie) The Sound Of Scars – Powerful Life Of Agony documentary!

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I love Life Of Agony since I first heard their debut album River Runs Red back in 1994 or 1995 when my friend made me a tape from a cd he bought after we watched their video for Through And Through on Headbangers Ball and being young hardcore and metal kids who adored New York Hardcore we loved it immediately. I totally relate to that album to this day, being an ode to fighting depression and losing that fight making your run to freedom through suicide when all hope is lost. Then came Ugly which was superb sophomore album and Soul Searching Sun. Life Of Agony was always to me like a kind of mix between NYHC and more doomy melodic Type O Negative sound with singer Keith Caputo(now Mina Caputo) having charisma and that distinct voice like no other singer in the genre has.

Keith left the band and they got that dude from Ugly Kid Joe as singer and it was a disaster, at least in my eyes. But, they got back together and released more superb albums to this day, being stronger and more confident than ever. Now, LOA documented all those years of blood, tears and heartbreak, but also hope in this excellent movie that I enjoyed so much. The movie centers on friendship and brotherhood of three main men, singer Mina Caputo, guitarist and Mina´s cousin Joey Z, also Alan Robert bassist. Movie goes about how they started the band and when they were kids, all the broken home hardships, violence, drug abuse and growing up in Brooklyn, NY. Band was formed, through years of success and hope, downfall, depression, suicidal thoughts, Keith becoming Mina and breaking free of his inner demons, death, love and regret. At times, some parts of the movie made my heart broken, tears wet, some made me smile and having hope and being inspired. Besides LOA members, drummer Veronica Bellino who fits perfectly to the band although younger than Mina, Joey and Alan is featured in the movie, like some contemporaries and friends too, for example Billy Graziadei(Billybio, Biohazard, Powerflo), Doyle(Misfits, Doyle) and other people from the scene. This is inspiring movie and I recommend it to all fans and those who are not but will maybe become.

10/10

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Melodic metal band HOK-KEY drop new lyric video – ‘Les Ailes’!

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“Les Ailes” is a track taken from HOK-KEY’s album “In Existence”, out via Wormholedeath worldwide.

War Related Statement

Hok-key does not support Russian aggression and is strongly against this war. We see that Ukrainian cities and civil objects are being bombed – this is a war crime. We see that the territory of Belarus is used for these attacks, but Belarusian people do not want this war. We urge everyone to stop this madness. We stand with Ukraine.

Hok-Key Biography
Hok-key was created in 1994, November 7 as Comedy metal band. During 1994 – 1997 band has played series of concerts in Minsk and other cities of Belarus. In 1998 the band took a time out.
A year later Hok-key started to work on a new material. Over the 2000 – 2002 period Hok-key played about twenty concerts in Belarus and abroad, took part in numerous festivals, radio and TV talk shows.
In 2003 – 2004 the band was in the amorphous state and took a second timeout.
In August 2005 Hok-key was re-animated as melodic metal band.
Hok-key is vivid representative of the Belarusian metal scene who has taken the path from comedy metaldirectly to its present form – philosophical texts and constant musical and sound experiments, and could be described as melodic metal with folk influences.The band is broadcasted on radio stations, actively participates in various festivals and concerts both at home and abroad. In 2015 band was on a road during «Thunder and Lightning European Tour». In 2017 – 2018 during “Reaping Europe Tour” band has visited almost all countries of Europe from Poland to Portugal.
Hok-key already has 5 LP in its discography, so “In Existence” will be the sixth one.

Band members:
Jaroslav Sapunoff – guitar, keyboards
Alexander Volchek – bass
Oleg Kantsov – drums
Iryna Sapunova – violin
Konstantin Fomin – vocals

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(literatura) Paul Hammy Halmshaw – Anything for a PEACVILLE life

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Zahvaljujući dobrim ljudima iz Cult Never Dies izdavačke kuće koji rade odličan posao izdavanja fenomenalnih i zanimljivih knjiga, dokopao sam se mojeg primjerka ove knjige, potpisane od strane samog Hammya. Riječ je o svojevrsnoj autobiografiji Paula Hammy Halmshawa, čovjeka koji je utemeljio i dugi niz godina vodio jednu od najvećih i najpoznatijih britanskih i svjetskih underground music labela, Peaceville.

Knjiga je bogato uređena, s predgovorima, slikama, plakatima, te oslikava jedno vrijeme od osamdesetih i tape tradinga, te početka anarho punk i crust punk scene, čiji sudionik je i sam Hammy, svirajući bubnjeve i pjevajući u bendovima. Volio bih da je malo podrobnije u knjizi opisan taj prelazak dosta sudionika scene s punka u metal vode. Hammyevo odrastanje i ulazak u punk preko benda Crass i njihovih ideala je jako zanimljiva priča i s guštom sam pročitao prvi dio knjige do osnivanja prvo tape labela, pa širenja Peacevillea koji je pomalo konfuzna priča i podosta se nekad pogubio u likovima, nekim business događajima koji nisu meni kao čitatelju baš interesantni, više sam volio dio knjige gdje se opisuje odnosa s bendovima, kao svađa s Doom, Darkthrone kontroverta oko Norsk Arisk Black Metal spike, odnos s My Dying Bride, Katatonia, At The Gates, Anathema, te svim ostalim odličnim bendovima čije je legendarne albume Peaceville izdao. Knjiga je interesantna, brzo se čita, da se tako izrazim, pitka je, no jednostavno se ne mogu oteti dojma da njoj nešto fali i da je mogla biti puno, puno bolja.