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(record review)FASTFADE-Happy If You Aren´t

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Fastfade are from London, UK, they have a new record out and I listened and reviewed it for our zine.

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The record contains 14 songs. UK punk hardcore scene is thriving and pulsing with awesome bands, people working nice job to keep the scene alive and promote the underground subculture and punk. Fastfade play neckbreaking fast melodic hardcore with punkrock slower parts thrown in for good measure. I love the speed of this guys, I am sucker for fast and melodic bands and I will never have enough of those! The songs are energetic, with great vocals, backing vocals, anthemic choruses and just make you want to jump around, pogo, fool around and bring back smile on your face. I would definitely want to check out Fastfade playing live because I am sure they sound even faster and better live than on this great album. It is very hard to tell which songs are better but I will try those that are the best in my opinion: Passtime, Slingshot, Time Stuck. This is a phenomenal album.

9/10

https://www.facebook.com/fastfade/

 

 

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(record review)Crash-11-Surrounded by Misantrophy

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Crash-11 is a one man band from Wales, UK, playing melodic skatepunk. It was time for me to listen and review the new record for our zine.

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The new record contains 6 songs of awesome melodic skatepunk just the way I love it, old school 90-ies melodic skatepunk with some technical song structures here and there. I love fast paced Condition To Believe with anthemic chorus, just made for singalong with awesome harmonies. Done With You is great mid tempo punkrock song with awesome melody and great guitar solo in the song. Lost Faith is very technical guitar oriented song, reminding me a lot of Strung Out and also having great atmosphere in the song. Forsaken Me is very emotional song, at least I understood it like that and it reminds me a lot of Tony Sly˙s songs, I love it! Is It Fair? is political song with smart lyrics and nice chorus which I still hum after listening. The last song No One is blistering fast and what an energetic way to conclude this awesome record. Excellent!

9/10

https://www.facebook.com/crash11band/

https://crash-11.bandcamp.com/music

 

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(record review)INCISIONS-Incisions(TNSrecords)

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Manchester UK seems to be great city for diy punk bands, this time I listened and reviewed the new Incisions record out on TNSrecords.

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Formed in 2015., these guys have been playing their version of angry, but melodic American inspired hardcore punk. This record is proof how such band should sound like. There are 12 songs in circa 19 minutes on this record. Lyrics are shouted and sometimes melodic sung and it sounds awesome. The lyrics are about right winged tide threat rising in Europe and the world right now, liquor, life, friendship, politics and in fact the lyrics are smart mixture of personal, humour and political. For me favorite tracks on this album are War In Your Head, I Wanna Die With You and Corrupted System.

If you are into your hardcore punk sounding harsh, yet with melody, and having street smart mojo in the songs, then Incisions record is the right one for you.

8/10

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/incisionsmcr/

https://www.facebook.com/TNSrecords/