I must admit I’ve never heard of RADICAL FUN TIME, so it’s a totally new discovery for me, although the band started to release records in 2013. Based in Minneapolis and the area, RFT bring back memories of a band called HEADACHE from UK, though RDF is more predictable and less jazzy. But chaotic,...
SUBVISION are from Scotland and are not that all new band, as they started releasing their music in 2014 and they are definitely my kind of punk. But let’s go back a bit. Their all releases are 100% DIY, all but one self-released: in 2014 on CD entitled “The Bones of Contention”, and two EPs...
A wee split record between two Romanian bands on a bunch of labels. VOID FORGER are from Bucharest and play a mix of stench core and sludge with dark and gloomy vocals and some rock riff at times. Not what you’d call fast, but definitely atmospheric and moody. Pessimistic lyrics add a lot to...
Remember Voorhees from UK? So TIED DOWN feature members from these legends as well as from Break It Up. Now you know what to expect from the veterans of hardcore punk and it is definitely not mellowness. It’s aggression, anger, speed and rawness. TIED DOWN manage to mix the ferocious hardcore sound with melody...
It came to me as a surprise, mainly because I wasn’t following both, HOW LONG? and ZATRATA camps regularly, despite playing with them from time to time or seeing them live here and there. So a double win for me – a surprise from bands I love. It’s a fresh record released by a...
Continuing with the flood of Swedish d-beat I reach out for an expert label on new and less known Swedish bands – Phobia Records. MALCONTENT is made up of members from Dissekerad, Makabert Fynd, Avskum, Kakafoni, The Nature and Hellkontroll, so we are talking credentials here. This EP is their only one release so far...
Nature abhors vacuum. Those who miss BOLT THROWER do not sit and moan but act and play well structured death metal with lyrics that have to say more than blood, monsters or wizards. Two inactive bands share this green 7”, a song each. HELLISHEAVEN from Poland play mid-tempo clear death metal, resembling the aforementioned...
Russian bands do not frequent SANCTUS PROPAGANDA, so let’s change that. REPRESSION ATTACK come from a town near Moscow, called Ryazan and it seems they are not a young band, just not very productive. They self released a cassette and a CD, in 2009 and 2013 respectively, and a few years later here comes...
Another band from Berlin released by Refuse Records, also based in Berlin. THE FOG are a fairly new creature and to my thinking, they require certain audience to appreciate their hardcore. At first I thought I played the single too slow but no, this is how it sounds. It sounds as if they want...
Released yesterday on vinyl by Dark Operative. BLEACH EVERYTHING is another band from Richmond, US reviewed this week. Having heard their previous EPs I eagerly picked up this release with high expectations. No disappointments. Heavily produced hardcore punk with metal-ish guitars, solid bass and slightly distorted vocals represent the present state of arts for...
A 2017 release from Swedish punk d-beaters FÖRGIFTAD, which still makes it their last one. The trio shares members with Kronisk Misantropi or Makabert Fynd, so you know there is no cheating here. Although, there is. It starts with a telephone conversation in Swedish when suddenly the name Bolt Thrower is mentioned. A promising...
Refuse Records and Emancypunx Records share more than this anger filled, riot punk EP but let’s focus on the record only. EAT MY FEAR are a Berlin based queer feminist hardcore punk band that use music as another weapon in our fight for a better world. This 6 song single which plays in less...
I reviewed RUINAS here more than a year ago and here comes their split LP with Russian CHAOSBRINGER. To start with the Argentinians, let me just say they move in the same circles on this split record as on their debut LP. I recognise two songs get repeated here, but since I have no possibility...
We haven’t heard a proper full-length from these Swedish hardcore legends since 2008. Instead, they occasionally throw a few EPs in our way, two of them being released in 2018: the split with BRISTLES and this one. However, a new LP is already in the pressing plant, entitled “Den Falske Kakaoinspektören”, hence this review....
It’s 28 degrees Celsius here, mild wind and the sun is about to set. I am up on the hills, looking down at everything I left behind and imagining it is all virtual. I imagine there are no borders, no currencies, no governments. Only life paths you take. Some are good, some are bad...