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(review) Doghouse Rose – The Harder They Fall (Stomp Records)

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It is always super to discover new fantastic band on a Saturday morning while drinking your coffee and listening to music that arrived recently. Doghouse Rose are coming from Toronto, Canada and this is their new record containing 11 songs of beautiful, melodic pop punk/melodic punk with some psycho influences behind it all, well hidden in the back but I can hear it. If I must describe the music, it would be a mixture of The Creepshow and Kitty in a Casket, but with some more pop punk influenced song structures. The vocals are fantastic, the singer sounds so sweet, yet sharp in more dramatic parts of the songs and I love every single second of this record. The backing vocal harmonies are important to me, they are also done superbly and without any flaw, music stays with you long after finishing listening to the record, making you want more and more. Great band, sure to become one of my favorites very soon!

Recommended songs as my highlights: Dark Days, Misery Train, Drinking About You.

https://doghouserose.bandcamp.com/

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(various) 8 Up Records – A Horrific Halloween

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8 Up Records is a great record label and this Halloween they released free compilation with nice horrorpunk bands on it, delivering their goods.

I remember how I loved compilations while growing up in the nineties snail mail tape trading days, with fanzines and flyers for gigs being late for couple of weeks hehe. But, that had its charms, waiting for the mailman and that package envelope when it arrived, all the excitement. Also, compilations helped me discover some bands who later became my close friends and my favorite bands. This one contains 20 songs, some being better, some being a bit less better depending on your personal musical taste. This is all punk, horrorpunk or death rock. The bands that are just to my personal taste on this one are RatBatSpider, Dead End Lane, Despised NJ, The Haunting, but this compilation is full of great horrorpunk music and new bands for you to discover, and it is on donation or free. Thanks so much to 8 Up Records for releasing this beauty, it really made my day.

https://8uprecords.bandcamp.com/

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Some things never die – a tribute to j-sin trioxin.

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I never knew or got to meet Jason in person to thank him for being there for me. Not being there for me personally but through his music and lyrics.

Like many kids I got into horrorpunk through The Misfits. Afterwards I learned about Blitzkid and all that wonderful extended family around that scene, bands like Darrow Chemical Company, Cryptkeeper Five, Shadow Windhawk and especially one band, Mister Monster. When I first heard one of their songs it was Amy Sue and This Night I Call Bad Luck. I immediately fell in love with this band. Why? Because they are unique. Jason´s voice was so beautiful, so emotional, combining doo wop which I love so much and punk rock into one gripping combination. The melodies, the lyrics, the lifestyle, it was something which helped me through dark times of twenty year long lasting depression which I fight to this day. Every day is a struggle for people who fight with depression. You must always be at least half a step ahead of it, otherwise you will lose the battle and that might mean you lose war, believe me, I lost couple of battles and also couple of times being an inch to lose war if you can read what I mean by that.

All that time Jason´s music and lyrics were there for me, expressing through all that horrorpunk imagery and lyrics in fact the horrors of real life we all must fight and experience every single day. These horrors are more scary than every movie, story, legend or song. I buried my brothers with his music, loved laughed and smiled with his music. I still smile when I hear his songs. They remind me of what he has done for me and I love to believe his music and legacy made me a better man, that I am today, 43 years old and being in this scene for 28 years now.

I wanted to express my gratitude with this column in my zine, because I will never get to meet Jason and tell him in person all that. His legacy lives on!

SKELETON CREW 4EVER!

NEVER SAY GOODBYE, ONLY SAY GOODNIGHT!

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