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(record review)The Brainiax-Rock N Roll Lobotomy(Batcave Records)

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The Brainiax are just releasing their new record with the mighty Batcave Records. I listened and reviewed the record for our zine.

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These guys are hailing from Portland and I must admit that I have never heard of them prior to this record. The music of The Brainiax can be described as psychobilly, leaning more heavily on the old school psycho bands like Demented Are Go, Batmobile and similar legendary bands. This record contains 10 songs of old school hard rocking psychobilly with some ska influences(Cape Fear), also, I can hear some doo wop rock n roll in No Way. The album is varied and in no way boring, with country influenced The Bastard Sun, for me one of the best songs on the album Devil Doll. Anyway, the best songs come in the last third of the album, namely Hideous Horrific and House On The Hill, being psycho hits for the new millenia haha. Good one.

8/10

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(record review)THE LUCITONES-Three Moons(Batcave Records)

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Batcave Records continues its triumphant crusade by giving us awesome psychobilly releases, this time I listened and reviewed for our zine the new record by The Lucitones.

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Formed in 2015.in Montana, these guys play catchy, contagious like the zombie outbreak, melodic punkrock psychobilly. This new record contains 12 songs. If I must compare the music to some bands, then it would be like a mixture of Koffin Kats, The Rocketz and Stellar Corpses. After the instrumental Bulletproof, the album provides killer tunes like Her Crypt In The Woods or The Temptress, with beautiful haunting melodies in the song verses, great vocals made for singing along, then the anthemic choruses join in, which just make you wanna listen to the record more and more. Most of the songs on this record make me wish that I have wrote them, how good they are. The title track reminds me with its vibe of some old school Hammer horror movie. To sum up the impressions, I love this record, it is awesome!

8,5/10

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(record review)TUKATUKAS-Red Blood

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The beauty of underground lies in its diversity within the subgenre. I love the scene and love to discover good new bands. French scene is one of my favorite in the world and I listened to TUKATUKAS record and reviewed it for this zine.

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This band plays unusal blend of hardcore punk with psychobilly and horrorpunk influences, at least that is how I heard it while listening to their record. The record contains 15 songs that are pretty much fast paced and have some weird melodies thrown in the song structures. The music is aggressive, melodic but also at times weird with Zombies, Elephant killer and Red blood being my favorites on the record. There are some moments that I don˙t really get, that is what made this band even more interesting and nice to listen. This is not your skatepunk or hardcore this is imaginative punk hardcore with lots of cool ideas implemented in their music, so it deserves your listening.

8/10

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