Gas Station Pizza – Outside the Box
29:37 | Album | Indian River Music Company
Hardcore Punk / Noise | Oviedo, FL, USA | 23/09/2022
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You may ask youselves, what does it need for a Gas Station Pizza? And first part of the answer might even confuse you because a gas station itself is not even a necessary detail. Instead, first of all, four well-trained cooks are needed. Floridan chefs Elden Santos (Massacre / Druid Lord – drums), Javier Perez (Spawndie / JP2 / Runnin Blind– guitars), Cody Nordine (Alphæus / Nordic Hamster – bass) and Jason Banning (Spawndie / Alphæus / Bleeding Inc / Cope Throe – synths, samples, guitars, bass, vocals) have thus joined forces. Together, the four Metal cooks have worked on ten extraordinary recipes which make the first menu of Gas Station Pizza: here is “Outside the Box”:
The crust is made from solid and spicy Hardcore Punk. Tasty, solid, still oily, and definitely saturating, the dough embraces your tongue before the sauce can burn your palate. As it comes to the toppings, the Floridan chefs have pressed all the important buttons for a taste adventure that hits the sweet spot between joy and pain (in a good way). Heavy and gloomy late 1990s-style Alternative Rock dances across the taste buds while massive Noise grinds on the skin like crazy. Have a bite and feel the urge to join the next moshpit. If you feel some Heavy Metal bits, those are intended. And since a great pizza is nothing without some side dishes, Gas Station Pizza have also served some tasty extras. The melancholic Ambient track ‘Nostalgia’ is balm for your battered tongue, and the ‘Punk Rock Alarm Clock’ comes up to its name big time. 8/10 Mangoes
Detention – Faded, Not Jaded
03:08 | Single | Independent Release
Skate Punk / Melodic Punk Rock | Akron, OH, USA | 03/10/2022
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With Detention from Akron, Ohio, here is another band that has been featured on the old MangoWave page. If you have not come across this young and aspiring band, better keep their name in mind and follow their social media links, because Detention have already been successfully revitalizing Punk Rock for several years. The award-winning band combines the raging power of 1980s Skate Punk with Millenium-era Melodic Punk influences and brings this explosive cocktail to contemporary times by adding their very own spice to it. And just like that, with songs about coming of age, but also by addressing issues that concern us all, Detention play music for all ages.
In their latest single ‘Faded, not Jaded’, Detention address prejudism and the inability to control what other people think of you. A person may have a completely different representation in many different other people’s heads. And although these images may undergo some change, the person themselves can never fully control how others see them. Between anger, desolation and acceptance, Detention spread their thoughts on these images by wrapping them up in a dynamic and motivating Skate Punk anthem with powerful gang shouts – a confident hymn for self determination! 8/10 Mangoes
