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(record review)BEACH RATS-“Wasted Time”(Bridge Nine Records)

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Beach Rats is a new band, kind of hardcore punk supergroup featuring Brian Baker of Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, Bad Religion fame, Ari Katz from legends Lifetime plus The Bouncing Souls members and more. This is their debut record on Bridge Nine Records, it is old school hardcore punk made for 21st century.

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The record contains five songs and the music this band plays can be described as an amalgamation of all of the members˙past and present bands.  That means fast, sometimes nervous and energetic hardcore punk reminding me of Minor Threat, Circle Jerks being nervous and angry and Dag Nasty and Lifetime being at the same time melodic.

I must admit that I love every second of this record. This is simply played, with heart and soul and we need somehow those simpler, in your face nostalgic hardcore punk bands nowadays. My favorite track off this record is “Stay All Night” but all the others are awesome in their own way.  Get this record and see how the scene veterans do it with dynamite in their bones.

9/10

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(record review)SLAPSHOT-“Make America Hate Again”(Bridge Nine Records)

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The Boston hardcore legends, Slapshot just released their new record via mighty Bridge Nine Records and I was eager to get my hands on this one and review it for this webzine.

2018 - Make America Hate Again

I have been listening to Choke and company since I was a little hardcore kid, but believe it or not, I have seen them live at the gig just last year. I was blown away with the energy of their so called hate hardcore. This lineup is awesome and in my opinion one of the best lineups Slapshot ever had. This album contains 11 tracks of old school hardcore punk and the music is classic Slapshot for the 21st century. Musically it is fast and angry hardcore like we used to through the years and lyrically Choke again deals with his demons hehe. There are couple of surprises on the record like some guitar solos that worked awesome like in “Alone” which is in my personal opinion the best song on this record. Couple of other songs that are outstanding on this record are “I Got Your Number” and “One Last Chance”. This year has been kind to us so far with so many releases by so many excellent bands with awesome records and this one is for sure on of the candidates for the hardcore album of the year. I am not one of the guys who put their lists and polls at the end of each year, but I am sure that this album will be on many favorite lists.

9/10

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