No Funeral Records decided to treat us with their new short, but sweet release. Two songs, two bands. Amitié song is pure blasting hardcore punk with screaming vocals called A Love Letter and Karloff song The Dead Will Walk The Earth is screamo hardcore punk, but kinda bit more atmospheric and deeper, ranging from unbridled aggression to dreamlike ending of the song. Great little split record!
https://nofuneralsound.bandcamp.com/album/amiti-karloff
Milwaukee´s Snag released the record with Zegema Beach Records. What do we get with this one? We get nine songs of darkened hardcore with emotional, screaming vocals, nice apocalyptic melodies, pissed of noisy song structures and environmentally engaged sensitive lyrics about a change that needs to come if we want our planet to survive. Besides, the music is very brutal and energetic but has that touch, the one that makes your heart all warm and tear sometimes come to your eye like in beautiful instrumental violin miniature Morning that serves as calm before the storm preparation for the most harsh and brutal song on the record called Colony Collapse with combination of brutal and screaming vocals coupled with nervous riffs. I also love the clever use of samples as in Into the forest. My personal favorite is Hunger Stone having a very wicked guitar melody which I wish that I wrote hehe. This is another great release, go and discover hardcore bands and remember, always support your scene!
Wow! This is a band with long name, perhaps one of the longest we had ever reviewed for this zine. The Swedes released their second album and this is Zegema Beach Records release. There are 8 songs on this record and they are all sung in Swedish language. The music of this band can be describe as atmospheric hardcore with a lot of sad melodies, screaming vocals, thus creating in me a very somber and desperate feeling while listening, but I think that was the meaning of this record, to come to some kind of catharsis of heart expressing the feelings and emotions through music. That is what hardcore was originally created, isn`t it? To express anger, rebellion, sadness, love and all other feelings that mark us as humans, being so different yet at the same time this diversity is what makes humanity cool and fantastic. The songs on this record are rather long in some parts, but they are not boring and there is not one filler on this record. Give this one a try. I love it!
https://zegemabeachrecords.bandcamp.com/album/det-onda-det-goda-det-vackra-det-fula
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