Ελληνικά
Last Updated on 04:36 PM by Giorgos Tsekas
Genre: Hardcore
Country: Greece
Label: Lone Wolf Productions
Year: 2015 (due to a mid April release date)
One Last Round’s first EP dropped like a flood in the stagnant area of the Greek old school hardcore scene. Even though, during the last years, there’s a lot of good and steady punk rock bands on one hand and brutal hardcore / metallic hardcore bands on the other hand, old school hardcore acts are definitely missing. So, OLR were formed in 2010 but, since almost all their members were/are playing in other local bands (like The Smoking Barrels, Soberphobia, Ten Beers After and Hat Trick), they have just played a few shows around Athens without releasing anything or being that active. This changed a few months ago when OLR unleashed a bunch of songs in the social media channels, announcing that they are gonna team up with -the Czech Republic based- Lone Wolf Productions for their first release ever, that comes in 7″ format.
The self-titled 7″ includes 5 songs of old school hardcore music with a lot of oi! / punk rock touches. OLR are undoubtedly influenced by the 80’s/90’s NYHC (see Warzone, Madball, Breadkown& Agnostic Front), Boston hardcore bands like Slapshot, European ones like True Blue and Backfire and, also, slightly by the old and new era of oi! / hardcore scene, bringing in my mind 86 Mentality, Iron Boots, Commitment Crew and Violent Reaction.
If I had to pick a ‘favorite song’, I’d choose “More than this” that starts with a heavy punk rock / hardcore rhythm and ends with a more rock-ish edge, not unlike “Supertouch” or “Underdog”. Lyrically, they are focused on personal or everyday issues including stupid mistakes, friendship and Athens city (their hometown) by night, while they also criticize today’s hardcore scene (‘Wannabe’).
The 7″ will be available in the second half of April (limited in 200 copies, packaged in a kickass artwork) and the band will play a couple of shows the next month promoting it. Keep an eye on them!
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