After some line-up changes, re-organization and slight name adjustment Slovenian hardcore heavyweights Reach A.D. are back with new video and what a bomb it is! Check this one out! Also, go see their show it is energy at another level!
After two years of no festival appearance, it is time for Petroleum Beat Festival to be the central festival event for this part of Slovenia, called Prekmurje. The festival will take place on two days, June 3 and June 4. This year line-up is just fantastic, with NYHC legends Madball scheduled to headline Friday and Boston hardcore legends Slapshot scheduled to headline Saturday. Besides them, Dutch hardcore heavyweights Born From Pain, then The Mahones, Odpisani, Devil In Me, In-Sane anda many more are playing this fine festival.
Sometimes the end is not the end, but the new beginning. Odpisani are hardcore punk legends from Pomurje region of Slovenia being in the scene since first half of the nineties. They did couple of European tours but they retained cult status here in the north because their lyrics were in Slovenian and also in dialect spoken here in this part of Slovenia, so wider recognition was somehow limited to these parts. When long time singer and guitarist left the band, the only two remaining members were drummer Dugi and bassist Pal, but they were soon reenforced with new younger forces, guitarist Blaž(ex Senf) and singer Dario(ex Cold Snap) and the new era of Odpisani could start. Thus, new e.p. is upon us containing 5 songs in English and the new members brought the spark that rekindled the old flame into something new and these new songs are fast, angry, hardcore punk anthems but at the same time retaining melody and street punk roots that Odpisani used to have, so I love it. Lyrics deal with honoring the fallen brothers and sisters in my personal favorite Remembered, inner fight in awesome The Burden, politics in Your IQ and The Fallen Ones and creepy theme of Just Dogs, you will have to check out song and lyrics for this one, I love it! So, brothers from Odpisani, I congratulate you on 30 years of persistence and wish you many more great records like this one!