Month: October 2020
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Vengeance By Proxy – S/T LP (Profane Existence / Diablos Records MX)
Vengeance By Proxy is a relatively new d-beat / crust punk quartet hailing from Gothenburg, Sweden. However, the group contains some renowned musicians who developed the sound of the beforementioned genres over the years. Vengeance By Proxy consists of Denis (Doom / Gloomy Sunday), Jonte (Aggrenation / Civil Olydnad), Bengtsson (Suicide Syndicate), and Charlie (Anti-Cimex…
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Adolescents – Russian Spider Dump LP (Cleopatra Records)
Adolescents are back with their latest offering to the broader auditorium. Besides Agent Orange and Social Distortion, this legendary Fullerton-based hardcore punk band was one of the principal acts that emerged from Orange County, California during the eighties. Since their formation in 1980, the group went through constant breakups and lineup changes. However, Adolescents somehow…
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Descendents – Suffrage EP (Epitaph Records)
Descendents are making a comeback with a brand new EP called Suffrage. This material includes two compositions, which previously found their route to the recently released 45…Not a LP 7” by Milo Aukerman’s RebUke. However, his recording also involves an additional number named Royal Flush. It seems these punk rock legends are more productive than…
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Teresa Banks – Nobody’s Coming To The Rescue LP (Various Labels)
Nobody’s Coming To The Rescue is the latest recording by Teresa Banks, and probably the most advanced in their career. This Finnish skatepunk machinery comprised of the Finnish, Italian and Spanish band members delivers nothing but memorable tunes that are undoubtedly remaining in your listening apparatus for a while. Since their formation, the group released…
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LMI – Excess Subconscious LP (Handstand Records / Maniyax Records)
LMI is an energetic post-hardcore/noise rock/punk trio emanating from Landsdale, Pennsylvania. The name represents an acronym for Lazy Middle-Class Intellectuals, which the group derived out of the lyrics for 21st Century Digital Boy by Bad Religion. Since their formation, LMI released quite an amount of recordings, such as Sleepwalker CD, LMI III 12″ EP, Far…
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V/A – Negative Frequency CS (Home Mort Records)
Home Mort started as a punk collective with the sole purpose of promoting the Sardinian underground music scene. Since their beginnings in 2015, the collective released numerous releases on multiple musical formats. The collective stayed true to the punk rock roots but also encompassed more genres under their branches, such as doom, stoner, sludge, metal,…
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Secondhand Habit – Contact High CD
Secondhand Habit is a Canadian alternative rock quartet hailing from Victoria, British Columbia. The group is devoted to merging essentials of subgenres of alternative rock music since their formation. So far, they’ve released recordings such as Anaphylactic Rock EP, Chinese Whispers EP, and From The Ashes EP. The group toured Canada multiple times, featuring highlights…
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Rite – Youth CS (Home Mort Records)
Youth is a debut cassette EP by Rite, an Italian post-punk outlet shrouded behind nearly minimalistic aesthetics. While I strived so hard to obtain any available information about the artist, I stumbled upon almost nothing on the web. Perhaps the artist tends to remain anonymous as much as possible and lets the music speak for…
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REAL(s) – D.S.L.B. LP
The anarcho-punk movement is pretty much alive and kicking on a worldwide scale. The bands are popping up almost regularly, and most of them are nurturing threatening sound, followed by insurgent lyrics and propaganda. REAL(s) are one of those bands who’re standing against all the injustices in this world. The group applies all the shapes…
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Stöj Snak – Life, Death And Everything In Between LP (Various Labels)
What started as a solo outlet, gradually became an engaging folk-punk band. Niels Højgaard Sørensen started Stöj Snak with the sole purpose to deliver raging acoustic compositions up on the plate, filled with engaging storytelling, which is mainly hearable through delicate lyrics. The group suddenly grew up into the quartet, empowered by the addition of…
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Squonk – S/T CS (Home Mort Records)
Yesterday we talked about GreenThumb, a doom/sludge band that roamed the Italian underground scene for a couple of years. The group ceased to exist after the recording of their second extended play called There Are More Things, so a couple of remaining members decided to start a brand new band named Squonk. The group relied…
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GreenThumb – There Are More Things CD (Home Mort Records)
GreenThumb is a doom/sludge quartet originating from Alghero, Italy. There Are More Things is their second recording published a couple of years ago by Home Mort Records, an Italian recording label specialized in underground genres such as hardcore punk, doom, sludge, stoner rock, coldwave, and darkwave. There Are More Things carries three nearly depressive doom/sludge…
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