Incomplete – Perth, Western Australia, Australia After living in the country briefly, I developed an interest in Aussie Skate Punk. So when Incomplete – Incomplete landed in my inbox, I knew I would eventually get round to spewing some text about it. Hailing from Perth, in November the four-piece released their…
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Melodic Disaster – Sunderland, England, United Kingdom Melodic Disaster – Melodic Disaster. Four words that elude to exactly what you would expect them to from the very moment you saw them and connected the dots. ’90s Punk, it’s a ’90s Punk release. A three-piece from Sunderland, the band released their debut…
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Freedumb – Østfold, Norway ’90s melodic Punk-Rock and Skate Punk are the itch that simply won’t go away. Freedumb – Post-Modern Dark Age are a part of that itch. It’s an itch that despite repeated scratching only seems to bolden in its determination to always be there and let’s be honest now,…
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United Defiance – Concord, California, USA With United Defiance releasing ‘Cool Kids Club’ as the new single and taster of their next major release and triumphant singing to Thousand Islands Records, I feel I should say a few words. The five-piece are unambiguously the absolute archetype of the struggling underground band. Line-up…
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Drunktank – The Hague, The Netherlands ‘From five to six to four again, we’ve changed along the way’ Drunktank are a band fond of three things, 90’s Skate Punk, 80’s Metal and beer. Their latest album boasts two of those and can be suggested to imply the consumption of the…
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Give You Nothing – Santa Cruz, California, USA. In the contemporary speed-fest that is the current reigning Skate Punk and Melodic Hardcore scene – and I say scene in a symbiotic sense – bands will champion either style or seamlessly blend and cross over these two Punk music sonic-stalwarts as…
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Maybe Not – Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Ah European Skate Punk, a scene that continues to populate the greater global scene with some of the best new bands atop a legacy of contributions down-right impossible to ignore. Maybe Not hail from Amsterdam and are very much another to add to the…
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Ugly Aglet – Stange, Italy. People bang on about how “90’s Punk is having a huge resurgence” and that it will “never die” and has “never been stronger” quite frequently. It’s everywhere to be frank and to be even more frank, said people are unequivocally correct. Specifically this is correct…
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Nieviem – Lincoln, England, United Kingdom. Skate Punk and its global never-ending presence is very much that. As a standalone statement that is very much not news at all and may seem redundant and arguably is; unless you pair it with the fact that the genre’s exponential growth and now…
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Blowfuse – Barcelona, Spain. With Skate Punk so out in force in the contemporary Punk scene and showing itself in many forms within its own status as a microcosm within Punk-Rock, the sheer quantity of excellent and quality music being purveyed and championed right now is almost unfathomable. This is…
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