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(movie) Tusta-a documentary about Kud Idijoti and struggle that never ends!

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Kud Idijoti from Pula are one of punk bands that has influence on the lives of thousands. Legions of punk and, I hate this word, but I will use it, alternative kids from this region smiled, sang, drank, loved, hated and cried with their songs. Tusta and his band were voice of the generation torn by war, nationalism, hate, death and sorrow. This long awaited documentary finally arrived and played in theatre of our hometown, so it was great to be able to see it at last. The movie is in fact, in my opinion, more a documentary about the band Kud Idijoti themselves and less about Tusta, and the movie is broken in two halves. First half tells the story about the rise of the band and becoming one of the most popular bands in the ex Yugoslavia underground scene. The second half tells about the 90-ies, war and nationalism, the band´s struggle to be the voice in the darkness and because of that they became the target of the nationalist attacks, press silence, censorship and they played very few shows. Subsequently the movies tells private story of Tusta, his loves, life, work and subsequently premature death of throat cancer in 2012. This is a good movie, but there are some things that bothered me. First, former bassist Fric annoyed me a lot with his banter and too much egoism and talk about himself and his importance, the filmmakers gave him just too much space in the movie. Second, there could have been a lot more anecdotes in the movie about life and times on the road which would be great to hear. Third, there are many known and less known musicians, journalists and label owners talking in the movie, but along with their names, the filmmakers could also state who are they, what they do or similar, just write it along with their names. Fourth, I don´t like psychodelic light moments in the movie, at the end especially, if it was meant to be poetic, well it was not. But, this movie is a great documentary about us, scene and times we lived and still live. Tusta was man like all of us, with his flaws and virtues, but he influenced us to be better people, so we thank him forever for that.

(review) 5¢ Freakshow-Massive Monster Mayhem(Necro Freak Records/Deadly Distribution)

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This band was already featured on the pages of our zine when we reviewed their record. The band worked hard, played their gigs and here is the new e.p. These trio from Calgary, Alberta, Canada play horrorpunk with a lot psychobilly influences and they have upright bass. They remind me a lot of Koffin Kats with very fast, energetic and anthemic horrorpunk blasting from the speakers while listening to the record. There are 5 songs on this record and I am happy to hear how this band progressed with time playing tighter, more catchy and super songs with a lot of oooos and aaas and cool lyrics just made for singing along. Off this record my personal favorites are War Of The Monsters and Satanic Mastermind. Fine record indeed. Halloween is close, but do not listen horrorpunk only on Halloween, do it every day!

https://5centfreakshow.bandcamp.com/album/massive-monster-mayhem

(review) The Rebel Assholes-(Headed For) Dysphoria

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We recently featured French punkrock veterans The Rebel Assholes on the pages of this zine when they released their great new video. Well, that video was taken from their new e.p. and here it is. There are 5 songs on this one. And if I might add, this is superb emotional punkrock with a lot of guts, grits and melody the way it was supposed to be. The songs are not fast, in fact they are more in the mid punkrock tempo reminding me of a more melodic side of Menzingers, Flatliners and Nothington respectfully. The songs that I love the most and which totally entered my ear and brain are Dysphoria, Needle In A Haystack and Heads On Pikes. This is a beautiful record done by fantastic band!

https://therebelassholes.bandcamp.com/music