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(review) El Sancho – Our Part in the Darkness

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Music really has no boundaries, no matter how many miles we are apart from each other and El Sancho is a punk rock band from Big Island, Hawaii. They have been playing in bands since nineties and this one was formed in 2018.

This is band´s first full length album and what a great debut it is. The record contains 8 songs of pretty political punk rock, which is no wonder with that blonde madman being in control of States until recently, so El Sancho, voluntarily or involuntarily wrote and release rather political debut album. The music of El Sancho reminded me a bit of old school punk bands from UK, production wise and in style of playing, yet also of bands like Descendents and All with adding hearty melody and epic backing vocal harmonies to the song structures. Vocals are rough yet melodic and fit perfectly to the songs and my favorites like Color Blind, Holding Down The Fort and How To Kill A Zombie or title song are just fantastic songs making me listen and smile. Also, do not be mistaken by my mentioning of personal highlights, whole record is really strong and cool debut from this band. Nice one, indeed.

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(review) Blast Bomb – Rock ´n´Roll Junkie (Undead Artists Records)

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Blast Bomb from Hamburg, Germany are in now way strangers to the pages of this zine, having reviewed their previous two awesome releases. This time they hit us with new e.p. out with Undead Artists Records, great label with so many super releases.

What do we have on this record? Four songs of energetic punk rock mixed with garage and rock n roll influences, having enough harshness, yet also enough melody to make you pump your fist in the air and enjoy the ferocity and energy of the songs presented by the band. The musicianship is great, production too, vocals are just the way they should for such music, singing yet having that rough edge and delivering melody with danger so to say haha. For me, my highlights on this record are Go Away and Bullet Proof.

https://undeadartists.bandcamp.com/

(review) Napalm Job – Kaži odjebi kome hoćeš

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Time for a band from this region, namely Napalm Job from Belgrade, Serbia. This band consists of well known faces within street punk scene, having played or playing in Miki Pirs, Birtija, Trula Romansa, PogonBgd, Trnje…

The new e.p. contains 6 songs, one being cover of Zabranjeno Pušenje, one having music by The 4 Skins but lyrics by Napalm Job. The music of Napalm Job is street punk/oi just the way it was meant to be, with lyrics in Serbian language about everyday life, punk, struggling to survive in corrupted and robbed state, similar to problems we have here in Croatia, so I can totally relate to the lyrics these guys are talking about. Vocals are great, screaming angry, yet fit perfectly to the songs that are fast, energetic, just the way real street punk oi should be. My favorites are To nije Oi! and Nema sjaja. Great release, so have a listen and support your scene and the cause worldwide!

https://napalmjob.bandcamp.com/album/ka-i-odjebi-kome-ho-e