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(review) Booze & Glory-Hurricane

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At, last here is the new Booze & Glory album. After the tumult with recent years line-up change and taking another road with the band and music direction of the newer material, here is the first full length of the new line-up marking ten year anniversary of the band. Many fans turned their backs because the band no longer sounds the same as before, no longer playing skinhead streetpunk, but they rather chose a more melodic and many say they jumped on skatepunk bandwagon creating some sort of bastard child of streetpunk oi, pop punk and skatepunk. I like this album, but it has one problem, the first half of the album has much stronger and greater songs than the second half. Never Again, Live It Up, Ten Years, Ticking Bombs, The Guv´nor are fantastic and I really enjoyed the record until the second half. There are couple of songs that are not so strong there like Three Points, sorry but I think that many punk bands choose to write songs about West Ham United because it is hit to do so. Also, Elton John´s I´m Still Standing is rather boring cover, plus Goodbye and Darkest Nights that pass you by without notice, decent songs, but nothing special. My Heart Is Burning has superb guitar main melody riff, but there is no memorable anthemic chorus, so I always feel that this song is missing something. I know that guys in the band have special relationship to the song Too Soon, but I gave it a chance, believe me, ten times, but it is just too cheesy pop ballad for me. Much respect to the dead and I don´t mean to slander anyone, but this song just doesn´t work for me. So, this fifth album could have been superb record, but it is only decent one.

(New single-punk) Protagonist about to release Killing Fields, link to the streaming of the song at Punknews!

Protagonist have been formed in 1999. The band members are Peter Marullo (vocals), John Marullo (guitar), Brian Forst (guitar), and Kyle Macdougall (drums).

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They carefully blended streetpunk, punkrock and hardcore into something new, like band being an entity in itself, although all members input their hearts into the existence of Protagonist. Let the past lie in past, it is time for them to turn their faces to the future and what better way to do that, than with new single called Killing Fields.

The song is a kind of celebration 10th anniversary of their 2009.album called The Chronicle, this single being an unreleased track from that session. The single will be available digitally on July 26th through Paper And Plastick.

Punknews stream the single, so have a listen: https://www.punknews.org/article/70293/streams-protagonist-the-killing-fields

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