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(record review)EPITAPH ROMANCE-“When cemeteries become cathedrals”

Recently we featured Epitaph Romance in this webzine, their reissued album in our reviews. Now, it was about time for us to listen to the new material and review it in this webzine.

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The Texan finest horrorpunk band outdone themselves this time, delivering the record with 13 songs full of gore, blood, anthemic choruses, made for singing along and songs made for your moshing pleasure. I listened to the whole album with gory pleasure, but there are some songs on the album that I loved the most, and I will concentrate on those here in this review. First one is “We are the dead”, classic melodic horrorpunk song with metal touch in guitar solo and fast verse meeting the anthemic mid tempo chorus. “I cast you out” is another favorite of mine, with chorus made for singing along. What I like is that this band uses a lot of samples between the songs, samples from the horror movies and I love it when the band does that on their record. “Darkest depths” is a long but in no way boring song, as it is a perfection of dark melody. “Final destination” is another great song with strong structure and delivered in your face. “Your cities will be your tombs” closes the album in a propriate, gory and bloody way and you should check out this metal influenced horrorpunk Texas band and their opus.

8/10

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(record review)GRAVE ROBBER-“Escaping the grave”(Rottweiler Records)

Finally! The new Grave Robber album is out via Rottweiler Records! I am a long time fan of this band, and I am really happy that I was able to review this one for my webzine.

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This album is horrorpunk pure with some shock rock and a bit more hardcore punk influences. I love the energy and speed of the faster songs with hardcore vibe transforming into nice melodies and anthemic choruses just made for singing at the gigs from the top of your lungs. Vocalist Wretched sounds better than ever and the musicianship of the band as a whole is so tight that I weep the bloody tears listening to the album. Some of the album hightlights for me are “The Evil Dead”, the best “Lips of Blood” with beautiful melody and more aggressive “The Swarm”. The special anthem in my opinion and the absolute the best song of the album is mighty “The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave”. This is an awesome album, a true horrorpunk lesson.

9/10

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