Kurve, hardcore punk band from Zagreb, Croatia are no strangers to the pages of this zine. We reviewed their releases a while ago and now they treated us with new one.
This is actually new songs, by their standards the longest ever released lasting six minutes. In fact, this is a conceptual idea e.p. about being jobless, hopeless, trying to survive in bleak surroundings of grey everyday. The lyrics are again poetic and superb in Croatian language and work perfectly in unison with singer Vito˙s fantastic voice. These guys are perfect musicians and their song structures are really complex with many different parts sounding energetic and complex at the same time. In fact these guys are unique being art and hardcore punk at the same time, their shows are energy pure so check them out when this virus shit ends.
Nice to see NAMET from Zagreb, Croatia are back with their brand new release. They had some personal problems, I was afraid that they will not be able to play anymore, but fortunately I was wrong. The new record is recorded by Filip from Studio Depth and it is a powerful tour de force. 8 songs with lyrics in Croatian language show all the anger and much needed rage in todays shitty world. The music of Namet is a mixture of hardcore punk, but with crust punk and darkened melodic death metal almost Gothenburg style melodeath riffs thrown here and there in the song structures, sometimes bordering with old school Swedish style of death metal and d-beat. The vocals are angry, screaming yet you can understand what is being sung so that is another plus. Recommended songs: Gnjev, Neka Gori, Pokvaren Do Srži. Great album by great band, so go support your scene.
We continue to promote our local scene a bit, so here is the new album by our punkrock heroes from Zagreb, Mašinko. I followed this band since they were only let us call them one hit wonder, but they evolved into one of the biggest names in punkrock scene here in Croatia, with three guitars, all of the members except drummer singing wonderful harmonies on vocals and having fantastic song arrangements delivering melodic punkrock just made to smile and cry and sing along with. This new album contains 12 songs. Veća lopata and Punim plućima were singles before, also Cmrok 2, so I listened to that songs before, for me somehow being not the same quality and hits as last full length and that split with Fat Prezident. But rest of the material on this album is what makes it great. Songs like Jedne davne jeseni or Tu smo gdje smo are pure punkrock poetry from the street and I love those two making it my favorites on this record. The lyrics are in Croatia as you might have guessed but no matter, you can relate to them in anyway possible. Also, two songs that I must mention are Izgubljenom vremenu, Perice and Vrijeme za spavanje being for me standouts on this record. Great record by great band!
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