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Central Pennsylvania ALT Rock band Silver Lights impress with summer love video to popular single ‘’Odd Name’’

Things are alright but I’m feeling overwhelmed. Do you feel like that a lot of the time? Summer love can be absolutely incredible but when it ends, you can easily feel rock bottom really fast. 

ALT Rock band Silver Lights have been making moves for a while now, building up their name and were on a great run before COVID-19 struck. After only forming in September 2018, this beautifully real video directed by Kurt Fowles of Sirius Cinema, has made a decent splash in the US with almost ten thousand views. For a newish indie band in a flooded market, this is great going.

Here’s hoping for more top releases from this fun band that have a lot of potential with their solid sound and real lyrics. I’ll personally be keeping an eye for them and could easily see them opening for someone like SUM 41 in the near future- if they keep up this style of music.

Find out more about ‘Silver Lights’ and their summer love on YouTube.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

ZEU releases most recent track Death Song: Gothic Alternative Rock at it’s finest

Hailing from the United States, Alternative Rock Zeu have released ‘Death Song’. A true reminiscing essence of Gothic, it’s strange, dark and mysterious but that’s why you just have to love it.

Starting off with this insane instrumentation that gives it this distorted sound, really embracing them Gothic overtones, pulling inspiration away from bands such as The Cure. ZEU has many talents when it comes to creating music, the way in which they intertwine their specific sound and make every second stand out.

They apply their uniqueness to a variety of popular genres of music, but yet they embrace adding their sound, personality and of course a little bit of edginess.

ZEU has a lot to offer to the music world and I’m sure it’ll be very welcoming to them, with such an incredible sound and a whole load of darkness, you must check this out.

Check out ZEU Death Song by heading over to SoundCloud now.

Review by Karley Myall

Artist and Producer Mitch Protheroe – The Rockies: Kaleidoscopic auditory candy for the ears!

Going Up & Growing Up by Mitch Protheroe

“The Rockies’ is a brilliant example of experimental electronic music. Mitch Protheroe outdoes himself by taking all of the excess background samples out and leaving only the best and necessary fillers. In an arena where often times, more is more, this refreshing outpouring of talent without grandiose showboating is just what the digital doctor ordered.

With an expert understanding of levels and ambience, he explains himself fluently without the need for words, easily carrying us along on a warm and welcome wave of harmonic flow, awash with dreamlike, consciousness-expanding musical ideas. It’s Ayahuasca without the nasty tea and self indulgent navel gazing, but with all of the spirit travel and useful introspection. The top-line is true comfort food – it’s light and sufficiently filling, all at the same time, and ties the track together exquisitely by gliding above a simple, catchy baseline.

At 26, Mitch Protheroe displays a well rounded range of abilities usually reserved for older, more seasoned veterans in the game. He is definitely a Pennsylvanian talent that we should all be watching out for.

Listen to “The Rockies” here at bandcamp and tell us what you think. It’ll be worth it!

Review by Susan Harriott

Inner Turmoil – Grave Mistakes: Beatdown Moshing Hardcore Punk

This song is basically a big jumping fest with a bulky interlude during which it changes into a big moshing fest. Get psyched with this syringe of adrenaline!

Inner Turmoil elegantly describe the music they make as “music to punch your friends to” and we couldn’t agree more. With their song “Grave Mistakes” we can promise you that you’ll get clobbered over the head with brutal guitar riffs, fierce tempo changes, and a killer moshing end part. Their sound and songwriting doesn’t deviate that much from the standard hardcore punk/moshcore formula, but either way, this scene is not exactly infamous for the creative boundaries it’s been pushing in the last decade (at least). While this sound has remained stale for a long time now, it is the frantic live gigs and festivals that are keeping it alive and kicking. And judging by this song, catching Inner Turmoil onstage, you’re probably in for some bruises. I would love to consume this sonic beast live!

Drawing influences from the scene giants, such as Agnostic Front and Sick Of It All, Inner Turmoil are bound to make you jump around. All my hardcore kids, be sure to listen to Grave Mistakes here

Review by Nektarios Oikonomakis