Time for little horror punk to grace the pages of this zine again. The Karnsteins are hailing from Bratislava, Slovakia and this is their new EP containing five songs. I love the music of The Karnsteins. Why? Because they play horror punk the way I like it. With no philosophy, no industrial or death rock, just plain and simple old school horror punk just made for singing along and enjoying gory and bloodsoaked lyrics, in many ways they reminded me of Blitzkid, my favorite horror punk band. I love dual male/female vocals, especially in ‘Vincent Price’, another plus for this band since Vincent Price is my favorite horror actor, so to sing a song about him, hats off guys! The concept behind the whole EP is to praise three kings of terror from my favorite Hammer Horror pictures era, namely Vincent Price, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. I LOVE IT! Besides eighties golden era slasher, found footage, my favorite but really favorite horror is Hammer Horror/American International era movies with all those Edgar Allan Poe inspired movies, Lee’s Dracula and Cushing’s Van Helsing, also Cushing’s Frankenstein movies. I love the mixture of hardcore punk speed and horror punk melody. I recommend this band to all horror punk fans. The EP is ‘name your price’ but at least write a word or two to the guys in the band, I am sure they will appreciate it.
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.
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