Glasgow’s Atlas : Empire released their new album containing twelve songs. How to describe the music on this release? Hard! Not because it is bad, quite the contrary, because it is so good. The music is a clever mixture of post rock, pop punk sensibility with ultra melodic song parts, some nineties emo punk band influences and also underneath it all lies good old pop rock music and its sense for great songwriting. They reminded me a lot of Croatian band called Trophy Jump. This music and album is quite personal and every one of us can listen and sense this album differently. In some songs it almost brought tears of joy to my eyes, thankful for being alive and listening to such great music with songs like ‘Former Lives’ and also ‘Resurrector’, song sounding so mighty and powerful that I had to listen to it two times in a row. This is one of those albums that you must listen to for couple of times in a row, because every time you listen to it again you will find something more beautiful that you didn’t catch upon last listening. Songs like ‘Inheritance’ or ‘Grey Havens’ are sure to win you over, but go listen and find your own favorite.
Missbliss! are hailing from Newport, North Carolina and this is their debut EP in deluxe edition. There are six songs of horror vaudeville here on this little opus mixing punk rock, death rock, horror punk and shock rock into one intense yet fun as Hell drama and gory glory as the song says haha! I just love bands such as this one. I love the use of samples of murder news, guignol theatre intro and all the sampling in general between the songs. Vocals are more death rock sounding, but there are such fine melodies that make you crawl with goosebumps like awesome ‘Away From Me’. My personal hit is ‘Killing U Tonite’ being more straightforward horror punk song hit and reggae/horror punk like ‘TURNT’, but all the songs on this little opus are worth checking out if you are into horror/shock rock so go get this one. I wonder if the name of the band was inspired by one of my favorite girl wrestlers of all time, Alexa Bliss hehe.
Leading up to the official release of The Dusk on every online platform on March 31st, MNR will be featuring a new track single from the album each week through the band’s Bare Bones Records label.
The Diem Series by MNR is an eight record artistic mural; once all laid together, follows concepts reflecting the darkest and brightest emotions of the human compass. . The Dusk was recorded at The Tragically Hip owned Bathouse Recording Studio in Bath, Ontario, Canada with illustrious engineer Nyles Spencer (The Headstones, Broken Social Scene, Sam Roberts Band).
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