Weekly Digest July 26 – August 1
Today is a good day for hardcore fans: probably the best hardcore release of the year by Section H8, hardcore with death metal from Know//Suffer and death metal with hardcore elements from Tombstoner. Besides hardcore we have the legendary Dee Snider gotta rock (again), easycore Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, King Woman and their doom rock, black/doom from Berlin by The Plague, blackened horror punk by Karloff and more in our Weekly Digest!
Сhunk! No, Captain Chunk! – Gone Are The Good Days
Oh, I've already forgotten about this French easycore band, that is like light pop-punk, which sometimes comes to, well… breakdowns and screams. With the return of pop-punk to the mainstream, Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! have the opportunity to provide soundtracks for parties of high school students and freshmen once again. Or they just continue to be a guilty pleasure for those who lived it in 00s.
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Dee Snider – Leave A Scar
I'm always happy when rock music legends, who could just rest on their laurels for a long time and drink chilled cocktails by the pool, release cool and high-quality albums. It seems they can't help rocking on because this is their life. Dee Snider's voice sounds great, it's nice to see him in such a decent vocal form, and their duet with George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher (Cannibal Corpse) is another thing I didn't know I needed.
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Karloff – The Appearing
Punk and black metal fit together well, as it has been proven many times, let's mention the recent release of Mayhem, which featured covers of Discharge, Ramones and Dead Kennedys, or the Norwegian band Turbonegro, that were covered by Behemoth, Satyricon, Carpathian Forest and many others. Also you may think of almost any blackened speed metal band – you can always see punk there with the naked eye. Karloff is primarily a punk band, although their album "The Appearing" was released on the metal label Dying Victim Productions, they are not even on the Metal Archives. Their music is influenced by GBH, Poison Idea, Turbonegro, Iggy Pop, as well as Shitfucker, Iron Age, The Rival Mob and "Best Wishes"-era Cro-Mags, and a darker atmosphere is added to all that, as well as love for Darkthrone, Hellhammer and Bathory. It’s an example of how even what has already been combined 1000 times can be done quite differently.
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King Woman – Celestial Blues
Etheric doom rock, beautiful vocals and everything seems to be right, but somehow from the first listening to the singles I was not hooked. However, after listening to "Celestial Blues" carefully, I must admit that the new album from the Californian band King Woman, produced by Jack Shirley, who worked with Deafheaven, Oathbreaker and Amenra, is a quite powerful LP. But the genre gradually gets tiring.
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Know//Suffer – The Great Dying
Hardcore bands increasingly try to add death metal to their sound without crossing the line that would make their music deathcore. Know//Suffer from El Paso, Texas – this is the needed for adherents of the dangerous moshpit.
Praise The Plague – The Obsidian Gate
Blackened doom metal or doomed black, the Berliners Praise The Plague go heaaaavy on their 6-song LP. High-quality sound and the skills to combine heavy crushing riffs, guitar tremolo, post-black atmosphere, and pure evil. It is said that such bands kill "real black metal" and if so, I am all for it! Praise the plague!
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Section H8 – Welcome To The Nightmare
To return hatred to hardcore! Dirty hardcore / crossover thrash from LA, angry, intense, dangerous. Just appreciate how an illegal concert in Oakland, featuring Section H8, pyrotechnics, a fire, a fight with the police and a shootout looks like. Bands such as Madball, Biohazard, Blood For Blood and Cold As Life come to my mind while listening to this LP. The album also features a song with Tim Armstrong of Rancid somehow. Section H8 proves that hardcore still lives.
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Tombstoner – Victims of Vile Torture
If Know//Suffer is hardcore with the elements of death metal, then here is absolutely the opposite. We have death metal, which contains some hardcore and thrash metal sensibility in it. The album "Victims of Vile Torture" was inspired, according to the musicians, by Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Power Trip, Pig Destroyer, Gatecreeper, the first two albums of Machine Head and late 90's-era Napalm Death. A decent release.
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Tragedy – Disco Balls To The Wall
No, it's not the Tragedy which is a d-beat hardcore punk band we know, it's something completely different. Named after the Bee Gees song, this NYC band combines two 80s genres that were most hated by real metalheads and most loved by cocaine enthusiasts – disco and glam metal. Party.
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