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(review) ThePicassos – Remember You Will Die

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I must admit that this is my first encounter with Michigan´s ThePicassos.

This is their new e.p. containing three songs. Memento Mori is a heavy atmospheric song, slow like doom metal meets garage punk in a way, yet with awesome horrorpunk melodic on chorus and all the heaviness is equal to foggy atmospheric parts, just made for strolling around in these Autumn times listening to this fine band. Scarecrows Lament is somehow sad song that brings melancholy in the listener with sombre and sad main vocal melodies backed up with backing vocals and is that banjo sound or I am mistaken? Puts you in the corn field in the middle of the night, was it rustling of the leaves or voices? The real gem and my favorite on this record is Queste Cose Sono Del Diavolo or These Things Are Of The Devil, superb doo wop influenced horror ballad just made for cruising under full moon aching for the times when you were still alive. Good e.p.

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(review) Monsters Of Your Mind-What We Are Capable Of…

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Monsters Of Your Mind are from Surrey, UK and they are releasing their debut e.p. on Halloween. This e.p contains 5 songs and they are all different as horror punk scene is, varied and with diverse influences in the song structures. Dolly is for me one of the most interesting songs on the record, being almost mixture of punk rock but done in a synth pop way and very eerie song indeed topped with superb vocals. Giant Slugs From Outa Space continues in a similar direction, but it is more of a weird song, vocals sounding almost rapping in some parts of the song mixed with post punk and great allegoric lyrics with nice chorus. Killing Machine is old school punk song, of almost street punk oi sound. My other personal favorite besides Dolly is Vaporized, horror punk songs just made for going nuts in the club in front of the stage. Zombie Voodoo is a song which is very unusual, being a capella for starters then evolving into reggae post punk with horror lyrics. Interesting e.p. I can´t wait for the full length to arrive one day.

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(review) Love Equals Death/The Static Age – Split

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After years of hiatus Love Equals Death are back with a new split e.p. together with The Static Age.

This is a split e.p., so both bands are represented with two songs on each side. I personally didn´t listen to any of them, so it was a revelation. The Static Age side are two songs of post punk with even pop influences and nice synth undertones melodies in Recover, nice emotional melodic song. But, of those two I find The Fan and the Bellows more straightforward, upbeat song, although I like both of them, so ethereal, so otherworldy and beautiful.

Love Equals Death side with Dust and Flight of the Banshee I liked more, being fast straightforward and melodic punk just the way I like it. Flight of the Banshee starts with a scream of the banshee and it is more of a horror punk song and this is for me the best song on this record of them all.

Nice effort from both bands.

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