Fearless Vampires

Hello again, this is my first blog in a few days and today it's going to be about another small record label called Thirty Days Of Nights Records. TDON is up there with the best British labels at the moment and have/had signed bands such as: Dead Swans, Gold Kids, Lower Than Atlantis, Your Demise, In Remembrance, The Plight and Gallows. If you visit www.tdonizgrimm.info you can download a 30 track sampler for absolutely nothing! So in this blog I'm going to review a couple of TDON's releases and I'm also going to post the myspace pages of all the bands (starting from blog number one) to make it easier to check out all the great music you've been told about!

Gold Kids are hardcore punk band hailing from Italy, although you wouldn't guess it by the single fact that the lyrics are in english. The Sound Of Breaking Up was released in July 2008 through Thirty Days Of Nights Records and this album is outstanding. It's jam packed full of the buttery riffs, terrifying vocals and occasionally an acoustic guitar. The album is on the more melodic side of hardcore and the song "Fall Depression" is a great example of how melodic this band is. The song starts of with an acoustic guitar, which kicks in to angry hardcore and then it drops back where vocalist Andre Suergiu quietly talks over the guitar. Another highlight in this album is the second track "Winter, 365 Days A Year" which starts of as you would expect from any hardcore band, however, 80 seconds in Gold Kids pull out one of the greatest riffs I've heard and the song just gets better. "Island Disease" is another example of excellent song writing where around halfway through the song another mighty riff is pulled off. I would highly recommend getting this album (as I seem to do with all my reviews) as it is definitely the best thing to come from Italy since pizza and... ehm... well just pizza.

The second release from TDON I'll review is Your Demise - The Blood Stays On The Blade, debatably the ex-best UKHC band and the best EP of 2008. All six songs are unbelievably brutal (not br00tal). One of my favourite features of the EP is the message left on an answering machine and the gang of people shouting, they just add on to how hardcore the songs are. The single "The Blood Stays On The Blade" is a fantastic song which features a huge beatdown and plenty of 2-step hardcore and avoids being too generic and cliche. Your Demise succeeds where

most bands fail in this EP as for the most part they don't feel like "tough guy" hardcore and the beatdowns don't seem too manufactured and misplaced - and it's not often I can say this. Unfortunately, at the end of 2009, George Noble was thrown out of the band (Ironically for taking to much cocaine when they were a straightedge band) and was replaced by Ex-Centurion vocalist Ed McRae. The band is not or will never be the same again, I have seen both vocalists, and in my opinion, nobody will be able to match the energy and fury of Noble.

So thats me reviewed TDON's best releases but it is definitely worth visiting their myspace to check out some other brilliant punk/hardcore bands. Here's a list of all the myspace pages of bands that I have previously talked about:

www.myspace.com/thedeadswans

www.myspace.com/goldkids

www.myspace.com/yourdemise

www.myspace.com/gallows

www.myspace.com/theghostofathousand

www.myspace.com/ceremony

www.myspace.com/trashtalkfu

www.myspace.com/polarbearclub

www.myspace.com/thesteal or www.thesteal.co.uk

www.myspace.com/wearecuttingclass

www.myspace.com/propagandhi

Thanks for reading folks!