Italy has a vast and great underground scene and Dead//Fall are hailing from Milan, Italy. They call themselves cinematic deathcore band, but I would describe their music as a mixture of melodic metalcore with fine clean sung choruses and song parts, shouted and screamed vocal lines and death metal growling. There are nice hooks and beautiful, almost dreamy guitar riffs on this one, but there is also brutality and relentless pummeling of breakdowns, double bass all attack on drums and blistering guitar riffs, so brutality being mixed with atmospheric melodic beauty. Dual male/female vocals kick ass for example in awesome Worlds Undone. There are twelve songs on this beauty. I am actually not an avid fan of metalcore and deathcore, but this is a decent album and I enjoyed it very much while listening. My personal favorites: Worlds Undone, Gods Should Bleed, Sorrow. Good record indeed!
Chosen Undead are relatively new band in the scene, being formed in 2024. This is their debut opus containing intro plus twelve songs. The music of Chosen Undead can be described as a mixture of melodic death metal with blast beats and melodic metalcore with horror themes of the lyrics. Rhythm changes and some grooves and breaks are also in order on this opus. I must especially emphasize the praise of vocals with different styles of singing, being screaming almost in black metal way, death metal growling and awesome clean melodic vocals. Guitar work is fantastic delivering blistering solos, melodic and epic melodies and hooks and although there are relatively many songs on this opus, it doesn’t get boring not for a second. There is almost pop punk and melodic punk influence in awesome After A Long Summernight, one of my personal favorites. My other personal favorites on this opus are: Karmic Justice, Smile for the Camera and The Way of Knife. As you can see, the lyrics deliver merry themes, just the way I like them. This is a strong debut, so go check out another great new band.
Wow! I am so glad that I discovered this wonderful band from Austria. This is their new record and it contains 18 songs. Seems a lot, but considering that any song rarely goes over two minutes long, this is a fun and quick listening. DeeCRACKS play melodic and energetic punkrock not unlike Teenage Bottlerocket and The Lillingtons, but DeeCRACKS don’t have scifi and b horror movie lyrics like those bands do, if I must compare them to some bands, meaning fast so called Ramones-core style. The vocals are great, not cheesy and backing vocal harmonies are nicely done, which is important with bands like this. I just put this record on and it is already over, so it was time for me to listen to it over and over again, I would really like to see and hear this band alive, I am sure it would be so good. I recommend this record to all of you who like your punkrock melodic, energetic and anthemic. If I must tell some songs which are my favorites, they vary upon each listening of the album, but I will try: Hell Today, All Of You and Revenge.
