These German pricks again? Unfortunately so! Our favourite Berlin skate punkers have created a cover of “White Christmas” just in time for the holiday season! The new single dropped on December 16 and the video went live a couple days after.
Here’s what the guys had to say about the song: “We are big fans of Bad Religions EP called Christmas songs, so we kind of got inspired during a rehearsal and thought: should we do a punk rock cover of a Christmas song? It’s a fun thing to do, so we decided to cover our own version of White Christmas. Like Fat Mike says, we just took a good song and made it fast! Enjoy and Merry Punk Rock Christmas!
When I listened to the singles that announced this album, I sensed that it could be something great. I was wrong, it is fantastic! Santa Cruz, California’s legendary skate punks released their fourth full length album and it contains 13 songs of which one is an instrumental intro and I just can’t decide which one is better. This is a lesson in melodic hardcore punk. Fast and simple, with superb vocal and backing vocal harmonies, great emotional lyrics and songs you wished you have written them yourself. Some guitar parts sound almost like they are tuned to Swedish Gothenburg death metal style, yes I am weird but I heard that, most in an instrumental called Putrefaction of Trust. There are also some more gentle atmospheric parts like awesome Judgment Day, one of my personal favorites. Although it is hard to say which ones, I will say that Violent Faith, The Sacrifice and Ghost are my favorites. This is one of the top five melodic punk releases this year.
ZombiesNO are punk rock band based in Paris, France and this is their new, fifth release. This one offers twelve songs of fast and modern technical skate melodic hardcore punk, yet still standing with one foot firmly in nineties old school melodic punk rock waters. In some moments the songs remind me of Strung Out and Propagandhi, but at some times of let us say Lagwagon in more metallic songs and also a bit of No Use For A Name, especially in lyrics department which are great and I enjoyed reading them while listening to the album. Lyrics are personal, a kind of introspective, yet give hope and light in these troubled and darkened times, so that is another plus. Songs are mainly fast with some blistering guitar work and short solos, change of tempo and vocals that are deeper but singing great, backing vocal harmonies are fantastic. One of my personal favorites is Monster/Enemy In Common being darkened personal yet political anthem with awesome thrash metal solo and superb melody and lyrics. I am very impressed with musicianship of these guys and the energy they create. Just great record if you love your melodic hardcore punk done with skill and smart.
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