My Review: Padkarosda - Sötét Végek

Padkarosda - Sötét Végek

Budapest, Post-Punk, Deathrock, Goth, Hardcore and Punk.

What would you like to be able to write about the most extraordinary Hungarian band?

Take rags, candles, light sheet metal and fear nothing: start the album and you will find yourself with an anger that has its own logic, a propensity to lose your balance and make your legs a forest full of brambles. The music of Rómeó Veréb, Gergő Vitéz, and Viktor Böcskey is pure adrenalin, non-stop, a liquid contrast of our senses, an electricity of the air that seems to have no desire to land.

Hardcore soul helps, for sure, but then the currents mentioned at the beginning of the review induce reflection. One is stunned not only by clear references, but above all by the way in which the ten punks seem to come: some from the 70s, others from the 80s, with a care for sound that enhances everything as if the songs were played live in our garage at home. Punk establishes a pact of non-belligerence, but pushes to fit in: 'rich dish I'll shove', this is surely the thought of those from the west who would like to take a stand against this music from the east which, mockingly, does not make the line but shows better and more effective weapons. 

Wonder to be repeated, because when listening enters this territory there is always something to learn...

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Supino

18th April 2023

https://padkarosda.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-t-v-gek

My Review: BLACK NAIL CABARET and Friends - Sister Sister (Alternative)

 

BLACK NAIL CABARET and Friends - Sister Sister (Alternative)

May will come and there is no doubt that we will be subjected to a pleasant shock of continuous emotions, because Woodland Memories will be an axe that, in a gentle way, will cut away everything that our overcrowded auditory system does not need.

To assert something so absolute, maybe the old scribe is wrong, maybe not, but this is the situation: this first track anticipating the album has emphasis sewn into it, a slow-paced intensity that leaves the heart unmoored, as if it had been running and it hadn't.

That’s it.

The magic that defeats preconceptions and banalities.

A poetic attitude, almost explosive, almost dreamlike, almost a lot of things, but then, clutching its neck, you see in its veins stretches of intensity that leave you dumbfounded.

Pop kisses the black, has a non-alcoholic drink with Jazz, with the smoke-filled rooms of a faceless American city, and returns to Hungary, with fingertips pressing on tuned instruments with the flight of a swarm of vibrations one step away from sadness. One is moved, and a saxophone full of glass hidden in the charcoal makes things right: perfection has been represented…

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

2nd April 2023

https://blacknailcabaret.bandcamp.com/track/sister-sister-alternative