Thanks to the loving people at Zegema Beach Records, I was able to find out and listen to this fantastic band from Spain. Crossed play an apocalyptic mixture of hardcore punk with dirty crusty influences and also screamo, even black metal stuff, combined with some d-beat and good old hc punk. This 13 songs are fast, hit in the head, but also have some lighter atmospheric parts like great song Swallow, one of my personal favorites besides Colored Pain, Barely Buried Body and Ghost. The vocals are so varied, from shouting, black metal screaming to some ominous whispering, so they add dynamics to the already interesting song structures and arrangements. I would recommend this stuff as one of the best albums of this kind of music that I have listened in the last couple of months. Go get this one, you will not be sorry.
Delest are from Spain and this is their new e.p. I never listened to this band prior to this record, but now I am glad I found out about them. There is a beautiful piano intro featuring Calos Alvarez and then there are three songs in Spanish language. The title track is a nice piece of melodic punkrock with nice vocal melody lines, backing vocal harmonies and chorus just made for singing along or whistling to the tune. Unfortunately I don`t speak Spanish, so I don˙t get what they are singing about, but I believe the lyrics are personal from what little I can understand from the song titles. The band reminds me a bit of nineties melodic punk bands without much philosophy or metalic parts like it is popular nowadays, just simple punkrock to drive you along. The song called Univer SOS is a perfect example of fast punkrock and my favorite on this record. The song also has such beautiful solo guitar melody line. Cien Mil Veces Mas makes me a bit nostalgic while listening. This is a great e.p. can`t wait for the full length record.
Fastloud are hailing from Barcelona, Spain and this is their new record. On this record we get 10 songs of fast skatepunk/melodic hardcore punk. I love this record, it is just the way I like such music, simple, fast, no pretending and having great melodies in vocal lines, cool harmonies and catchy songs made for singing along or humming to the melody. They remind me a lot of all those old school Epitaph and Fat bands in the glorious nineties, meaning No Use For A Name, Lagwagon, Nofx and similar, having a lot of fire and passion in their songs. The lyrics are personal and I think anyone of us can relate to them, they are not coded messages in slowed down songs, hehe. My personal favorites on this record are: The 4th Wall, Strangers and Side By Side.
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