Edward In Venice play melodic hardcore and come from Italy. I listened and reviewed for our zine their brand new record out with Lockjaw Records.
They played Punk Rock Holiday in 2016., but I missed their show due to mingling with people that are dear to me, so I knew nothing about this band until I listened to this new record. They had some line-up changes, the new guitarist entered the band and gave some fresh blood and energy to the guys. The new one is in fact an e.p. containing 7 songs. What I admire this guys about is that they don´t play your usual straight to head tupa tupa fast punk hardcore skatepunk, although there is nothing wrong with it, but they rather chose a different approach and they play smart melodic modern hardcore punk with many tempo changes, heartfelt singalong choruses and overall melodies that put smile upon your face. The lyrics are in English and as I understand, they are all personal. The vocals are somehow singing with the sensibility and emotion of pop punkrock and sometimes turn into ferocious hardcore screaming which fits really well into the song structures. I can hear both Rise Against and hardcore bands of the 90-ies implemented in the music of Edward In Venice, yet they remained themselves not the third rated copy of the above mentioned bands. Good record!
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.
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!
After couple of weeks, another great punkrock show happened in Klub Prostor Cezam in our hometown. None other than punkrock legends Atheist Rap from Novi Sad, Serbia visited us to celebrate their 30th birthday with a special set. They were supported by Fajrunt from Varaždin.
When I came to the yard in front of the club around eight in the evening, the situation didn´t look promising. The soundchecks were just over and there were only couple of people from the bands and the people involved with the jobs in and around the club and I was hoping that the people will come to the show although it is Friday and not Saturday night. Fortunately, people started to arrive and do all the punkrock folklore in front of the gig, like drinking, chatting happily and some of them were already happy and singing hahaha. The gig started right on time as scheduled at 22 hrs Fajrunt started their set in front of the empty club, but in two or three songs, Prostor filled with enough people to cheer and sing along with this excellent melodic punkrock trio from Varaždin.
Fajrunt played their set made of songs from both of their studio albums, and they sounded powerful and energetic delivering their version of melodic punkrock, sometimes fast, sometimes more emotive and slower coupled with great dual vocals provided by guitarist Mimi and the bass player Vujec. Besides their stuff, Fajrunt played a couple of covers by Mikrofonija and Kud Idijoti. I consider myself a great fan of this band and I really enjoy their gigs not matter how much times I saw them play live. The only thing their set lacked was the title song from the last album Predstava which is one of my favorites hehe, but that doesn´t matter, the show was great. Too bad many kids rather chose to stay in front and wait for the headliner.
Atheist Rap from Novi Sad, Serbia, started their set right on time about 11 in the evening providing almost two hours of happiness for all the fans who came there. Much respect to the band for keeping it alive and true for 30 years and being really nice and down to earth fellows who are always fun to see and listen to playing live. From the first song the madness in front of the stage started, with kids being all over the place, singing along with the band, dancing, pogoing, stagediving and the band really appreciated and gave their best back to the kids and everyone had smiles of joy on their faces. Last time I saw Atheist Rap was in 2017.here in our town headlining 3FF open air festival and since then they are back to having one guitar player with Radule delivering all the guitar work. This time their set included all the well known hits from the past, also some crowd favorites that were not played live for a long time, also couple of songs from their still actual last studio album, so none of the kids in the crowd can not say that they are dissatisfied with the setlist hehe. After the gig the party continued long in the night.
This was a warm up for 3FF 2019.edition and I am looking forward to this year´s festival edition, so stay tuned on this page for more news regarding that in the coming weeks!
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