Double Negative are international punk band with members from UK, Greece and South Africa which only proves how world gets smaller place day by day and the music binds us all.
There are 14 songs on this record. The music this band plays is beautiful melodic punk/skatepunk with super melodic nice vocals, perfect backing vocal harmonies, nice guitar riffs and nice mixture of midtempo punkrock and fast songs. My favorites on this record are Forbidden Beat, what a chorus and guitar solo, also Only Static and Age Of Apathy. I love the music, being more of an old school nineties influenced melodic punk with no holds barred and no philosophy, just emotions and melody. The scene is filled with technical skatepunk these days, but I love old school skate/melodic punk, this is a jewel.
Legendary veteran Dutch punks Antillectual released their brand new e.p. consisting of four cover songs done in an interesting way, and interesting choice of bands. The cover of the single is a beatiful take on original covers, done by Andy from Satanic Surfers. The choice of covers is interesting, being Blondie, Police, Stooges and Ramones. The Ramones song is somehow least interesting for me, being too similar to the original version, although it is an everlasting anthem. The best one is Police cover and Stooges cover, like these new versions gave the new energy and new vigour to the originals. Nice bringing these evergreen hits to the crowds of the new kids in the scene. Good one.
Mark & The Wolves are coming from Quebec area, Canada and this e.p. is their first new material in four years coming out with Thousand Islands Records. This e.p contains 6 songs, one of them called Against The Wind being kind of intro. Ths music is fast and melodic skatepunk/melodic hardcore. The guitars are metalic and having that cutting edge I love so much. The vocals are loud, shouting, yet singing melodic and they are fantastic, in some spoken word parts like in Sheep & Shepherds being my favorite song on the record, with speed and anthemic harmonies all along the song. The music is not so much technical skatepunk, more having that old school nineties skatepunk vibe that I love so much, like all those old school Fat and Epitaph record, but at the same time sounding modern and fresh for new kids to join our ranks hehe. Revolt is also one of the songs that I must say are highlights for me on this record. In all, another superb release by this little big fantastic label.
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