Keenan bros - Blood. Sweat. Tears. EP review

Year : 2013
Genre : Lounge Hip Hop with Soul and Pop affections
Label : Independent
Official site : > - here - <
Rating : 9.2 / 10

The Keenan bros are into the niche of music that was ultra-prominent in the early and mid '90s, popularized mainly by such boygroups as Take That! or Boyz 2 Men. There IS an optimum extra-, a beneficial deviation added to the top, and quite literally so. The Keenan bros are full fledged lounge rappers - no swearing or subterfuge-tendencies - and they spice up these otherwise stone-traditional pop/soul tracks with fluent rapping that renders a continuous, exigently developed layer to catch your attention with. Read on to know more about this.

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Leadsucker - Burn review

Year : 2013
Genre : Hardcore Punk
Label : Toxic Highway Recordings
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

"... oh my fucking god, REALLY??!" - were the first words I have articulated upon direct eye contact with the cover art of Leadsucker's "Burn". Then in the very next second I have realized that the Ohio based hardcore/punk ensemble just did to me what a hardcore/punk release worth calling one is supposed to do, at the first place. It did the politically ultra-anti-correct, the ultra-anti-establishmentarian and bitchslapped me with it, "JUST" to inquire how my soul and my overall cultural indoctrination feels about that.

What do you feel when an American flag - or ANY flag, for that matter - is burned in front of your very eyes? Do you realize that a flag necessarily is a non-physical symbol which ultimately can not be touched-, let alone eradicated by physical forces? Probably not. You are too politically correct for that. You are way too busy being fucking enraged when you witness your flag being burned, am I correct to suppose that? Then you make the Leadsucker guys a happy and efficient punk bunch! The record wants you to be enraged, or, at least, to point out the direction you could "safely" do that on - and it really pulls this feat off with a radical stunt of which you probably will have a strong opinion. Amen to that. Your opinion is overrated. You know why? Because it is yours. Now fight apathy or don't, then read on to know more about the music on the disc.

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Ivan Mihaljevic & Side Effects - Counterclockwise review

Year : 2013
Genre : Progressive Rock with a Power Metal/Folk Metal tint
Label : Zetafactory
Origin : Croatia
Official site : > - here - <

Ivan Mihaljevic & Side Effects is a Croatian act with a pronounced progressive leaning that finds playful and straightforward efficiency at conveying an Iron Maidenesque modal disposition throughout the richly structured, yet elegantly simplistic tracks the album is a healthy dosage of.

The formation shows considerable and admirable level of ripeness in the compositional department : the songs come dressed up in full sonic musculature and their respective blueprints are very easy to spot and appreciate. It really is boiling down to personal tastes and how much of a prisoner your are of you very own tastes, but, if you are into meticulously realized straight-to-the-pathos progressive metal, then these Croatians doubtless demand your attention and you must give it to them lest you want to be missing out on something finely and soulfully realized. Arm your Bard and read on to know more about this.

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