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2026 ist aus graziler Sicht völlig anders gestartet als geplant. Mit voller Konzentration auf die Releases von Guyođ und Ilun inklusive Release Shows, sind dann nebenbei noch viele weitere Releases aufgepoppt. Oder es kamen endlich die Tonträger von den Sachen, die vorab digital released wurden, z.B. von Wortvehla oder Dog Head King.

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grazil Mar 11

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https://www.grazil.at/grazil-fm-explo-soli-sampler-feat-rene-molnar/

grazil Jan 29

grazil NEWS | 2 Videos and a Record fair
https://www.grazil.at/grazil-news-2-videos-and-a-record-fair/

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grazil Jan 23

grazil NEWS | Guyođ everywhere
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- grazil FM | Guyođ
- grazil Records | Guyođ - Happy Release Day!
- grazil Records | Explo Soli Sampler

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grazil Dec 12

grazil NEWS | Record Fair Time
https://www.grazil.at/grazil-news-record-fair-time/

- grazil FM Classix | #FTZ
- grazil Distribution | Record Fair Time x2

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Thoughts Words Action Nov 28

Feder – S/T LP (Grazil Records)

Feder, the Austrian trio based in Graz, released their self-titled album back in May this year. This fine piece of sonic artistry is the sound of existential dread being set to an anthem, a brilliant collision of noise and nuance. You get the raw, uncompromising punch of punk rock, but instead of straight-up street fury, you get something deeply cinematic, dark, and riddled with melody. This album proves that you can be abrasive and thoughtful at the same time, hitting hard while simultaneously making you think about why you got hit. Get ready to have your ears and your expectations rearranged, because this isn’t your classic three-chord punk rock album. Feder’s core style is unquestionably anthemic, melodic punk rock, but it possesses a brooding depth that pulls it closer to the post-punk or hardcore punk sphere, even while retaining the sharp, immediate haste of the genre. There’s a darkness that pervades the soundscapes, yet it’s always delivered with a melodic lifeline. The occasional, subtle touch of hardcore is included along the way, injecting bursts of pure intensity that prevent the sound from becoming too comfortable or predictable. It’s a collection of songs you can shout along to, but also one you can quietly obsess over under headphones. This is a superb, dark punk rock from an exceptional trio.

The vocalist achieves a remarkable balance, constantly levitating between raw aggression and structured harmony. When the vocals dive into the aggressive register, they feel genuine and projective, channeling the core emotional friction, yet, just as the fury peaks, the delivery shifts, allowing a profound melodicism to surface. This interplay prevents the sound from becoming monotonous. The melody is the hook that keeps you invested in the rage. You’ll also notice how the additional sing-alongs add another vital layer to the experience. These are perfectly timed injections of unified energy, providing anthemic vibes during the choruses that transform individual pain into collective, cathartic release. They are the moments where the listener is explicitly invited into the band’s internal dialogue, making the music feel more communal. The guitar performance is impressive in its range and dexterity. It constantly oscillates between two distinct poles. On one side, the guitar delivers profoundly melodic moments, often surprisingly beautiful themes, and leads that provide the emotional context. These passages are complex and thoughtful, showcasing a progressive edge beneath the punk exterior. On the other side, the guitar unleashes powerful, riff-driven segments that hold the sound in sheer punk force. These riffs are tight, impactful, and designed for maximum sonic density. You’ll also hear a generous serving of distortion used throughout the album. This heavy fuzz contributes immensely to the essential rawness of the material, creating an inherently abrasive and uncompromising ambiance that gives a dark edge.

The bass guitar serves its fundamental tonal role, essential to all the grooves you’ll hear throughout. It offers crucial warmth, depth, and a significant amount of low-end heaviness. The bass player infuses the sound with a resonant body that prevents the high-register aggression and distortion from becoming brittle. This warmth and depth make sure that when the band leans into its darkest moments, the music feels physically imposing and three-dimensional. These orchestrations are dynamic and supportive, locking in with the drums to provide a powerful, unwavering foundation. Of course, the drummer is a master of percussive acrobatics, executing excellent, wisely crafted beats, sharp breaks, and complex fills that constantly enhance the energy and flow of the album. The drumming is thoughtful, providing intricate detail and groove that makes sure the rhythmic structure is always evolving. But what truly sets this drumming apart, and gives the album its unique textural feel, is the continuous use of cymbal splashes. These constant percussive accents provide an almost ambient layer of noise and shimmer to the atmosphere. It’s an aggressive, chaotic hiss that contributes to the dark, abrasive ambiance of the entire record, making the rhythm section a source of textural complexity as well.

The synergy between these three musicians elevates Feder beyond a simple punk band. The way the melodic guitar themes emerge from the distortion-soaked riffs, the bass provides ballast against the high-pitched cymbal wash, and vocals bridge the gap between fury and harmony, it all coalesces into a singular, uncompromising soundscape. It’s an album that mercilessly explores deep emotional wounds while simultaneously providing the power and momentum needed to shout them out loudly. This album is a powerful, meaningful, dark statement from an exceptional trio. It gives you all the aggression and power you crave from a great punk record, but wraps it in a challenging, atmospheric shroud that keeps you coming back to decode its depths. This is punk rock delivered with a profound sense of purpose, perfectly utilizing every tool, from anthemic harmony to abrasive distortion, to achieve its commanding, unforgettable sound. Head to Grazil Records for more information about ordering this gem on vinyl.

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Thoughts Words Action Nov 6

Mališa Bahat – Lovers. Loners. Losers. LP (Grazil Records)

This is not background noise, but an absolute, non-negotiable sonic confrontation. Mališa Bahat, the Croatian quartet, has delivered Lovers. Loners. Losers. LP last year, a full-length album that instantly establishes itself as the new standard-bearer for what real screamo music should sound like. In times when “screamo” is often watered down or merely hybridized, these folks arrive with a terrifying precision, blending the mathcore guitar works with a deeply emotional, almost hysterical core. This album is a full-throttle sprint across ten tracks of progressive, chaotic, in-your-face intensity, yet it manages to retain that essential dosage of emotion that keeps the sound organic and heartbreaking. Mališa Bahat understands that technical chaos is the only viable vessel for genuine feeling. This is an amazing album from scratch to finish, and it demands your complete, undivided attention. The engine driving this sound is a terrifyingly efficient rhythm section that constantly threatens to fall apart, only to snap back into perfect, crushing alignment. The drums on this LP are not only keeping time, they are executing a storm of sonic chaos with an exceptional drumming performance that elevates the entire genre. The drummer is operating in an entirely different orbit, delivering technical, sometimes incredibly precise, sometimes gloriously loose percussive acrobatics, and occasionally, with those almost jazzy beats, breaks, and fills, they push the band to the very edge of rhythmic collapse. This unpredictable dynamism makes this album so alive and so dangerous. It forces the mathcore guitar works to match that volatility, resulting in complex, angular riffing that provides structure only long enough to tear it down again. This controlled aggression, a blend of hyper-specific precision married to uncontrollable chaos, is the blueprint for modern emotional hardcore. It’s the sound of a nervous breakdown translated directly into complex time signatures, proving that technical mastery is the ultimate means of expressing emotional instability.

Crucially, this foundation avoids the clean, cold feeling that often plagues technical screamo, emo, or post-hardcore. This is where the basslines step up to provide essential warmth and grounding. The bass work here is active, serving two primary roles. First, it provides the necessary groove and warmth, a steady, thick rumble that gives the music mass. Second, it adds its own dosage of heaviness and complexity, threading intricate lines that often contrast the guitar work, preventing the entire sonic landscape from becoming homogenous white noise. The bass is the anchor that allows the guitars and drums to launch into their wildest flights of chaotic fancy without flying off the rails entirely. When the album leans into those progressive breaks, the bass holds the melodic center, giving the listener something concrete to hold onto before the next wave of fury hits. It’s a subtle but vital component, making sure that the album maintains its depth and low-end punch through every breakdown and impossibly fast riff. But the emotional core, the beating heart of the Lovers. Loners. Losers. manifesto, is delivered by the vocals. The screaming is emotive, hysterical, and just as they should be, channeling the raw, unprocessed emotion and ecstasy inherent in the screamo style. The vocalist navigates the shifting, turbulent soundscape with a tremendous intensity that makes every single track feel so hysterical, powerful, and fierce. Lovers. Loners. Losers. lays bare the thematic scope. These are ten tracks dedicated to the beautiful, messy failures of human connection. The music mirrors the internal chaos of identity, relationships, and the search for belonging. When the vocals peak in their hysterical intensity, it’s a moment of absolute, fragile surrender to the feeling, proving that Mališa Bahat views screamo not as a genre, but as a necessary form of desperate communication.

Across these ten excellent tracks, Mališa Bahat has achieved a rare feat, they’ve created a flawless, contemporary artifact that honors the aggressive spirit of DIY punk while demanding the technical respect of progressive post-hardcore. They successfully demonstrate how screamo music should really sound in the modern context. It must be fast, complex, but above all, it must be brutally, hysterically honest. This is an essential LP for any music enthusiast who believes that technical ability should always be in service of unbridled emotional output. From beginning to end, Mališa Bahat provides the proof that chaos, when controlled, is the most profound form of expression. Head to Grazil Records for more information about ordering this gem on vinyl.

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Thoughts Words Action Nov 6

Flaming Wrekage – Terra Inferna LP (Grazil Records)

Flaming Wrekage, the thrash/death metal demolition crew from Australia, has dropped Terra Inferna last year, and with it, they’ve set a definitive benchmark for what modern heavy music is supposed to sound like. Forget the hazy production and the genre posturing you’ll find on so many contemporary releases. This is a work of sheer, focused, technical discipline. It is tight, precise, and ferociously melodic, an absolute masterclass in taking melodic death metal and thrash, and welding them together into an unbreakable, high-speed weapon. This isn’t a band resting on laurels established by their four previous full-length studio albums, but a sound of a seasoned act hitting a conceptual and executionary peak, cementing their status not just locally, but globally. This release is an essential purchase, positioning them as one of Australia’s finest exponents of heavy music, and truly, one of the finest metal albums you’ll hear this year. From a technical standpoint, Terra Inferna is flawless, and that word isn’t thrown around lightly. The brilliance here is the duality they’ve achieved. The thrash element provides the structural blueprint, the take-no-prisoners haste and the relentless rhythmic attack designed for maximum physical impact, but it is the melodic death metal component that elevates the material from mosh-pit fodder to something truly articulate. The guitar work is exceptional, showcasing their tremendous technical musical abilities. The melodies aren’t just layered on top, but woven into the core riffage, providing harmonic sophistication and an emotional depth that’s often lacking in straight-ahead thrash metal albums. This is where the precision comes into play. The transitions between razor-sharp riffing and full-throttle speed are executed with chilling accuracy, exemplifying the years of relentless touring that have hardened their craft across Europe, Indonesia, and their home turf in Australia. Every drum hit, bass note, and intricate guitar harmony is where it should be, creating a massive wall of sound.

In a genre where the guitars often demand all the attention, the drums and bass on Terra Inferna provide the absolute foundation necessary for this kind of technical chaos. The energetic and fiercely disciplined drumming is capable of maintaining blast-beat intensity while locking into complex, progressive patterns when the song demands it. The bass is a distinct, heavy rumble that adds necessary depth and clarity, allowing those low-end thrash breakdowns to hit with maximum effect. This is the definition of a band playing as a unit. It’s a four-headed machine operating with a singular purpose. This musical discipline perfectly reflects their take-no-prisoners attitude. They treat the songwriting process like a high-stakes procedure, ensuring that all the parts are clean, sharp, and ultimately, brutal. The raw, energetic live shows they’re known for have been perfectly captured and translated into the cold, precise language of a studio album, making every listening session like you’re standing five feet from the stage barrier. What pushes Terra Inferna beyond a very good metal album is its conceptual maturity. The melodic passages serve as vital moments of clarity, cutting through the intensity of the thrash onslaught to drive home the thematic weight suggested by the title “Infernal Earth.” It’s the sound of a band articulating the necessary chaos of the modern world. The vocals, a powerful blend of scathing screams and deep growls, deliver the message with conviction, making sure that the lyrical critique hits as hard as the music itself. This is punk rock’s intellectual edge married to metal’s brute force, the recognition that the fastest, loudest critique is often the most effective. Across their career, Flaming Wrekage has cultivated a devoted fan base from all over precisely because they offer that rare blend of gratification and technical skill. They respect the conventions of the genre but refuse to be limited by them, always pushing the tempo, the technicality, and the melodic hooks simultaneously.

This European version of Terra Inferna on a 12” vinyl record, brought to you by Grazil Records, is the ideal way to experience this intensity and precision. Flaming Wrekage delivered a rock-solid proof that discipline, melody, and unrelenting aggression can co-exist to produce an instantly gratifying and conceptually deep metal album. Don’t sleep on this; if this is the sound of the infernal earth, then we should all be ready to burn with it.

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Thoughts Words Action Nov 6

Grazer Grant – Revolution 4 Dummies LP (Grazil Records)

If you’re looking for a comfortable retreat from the relentless absurdity of the 21st century, you’re looking in the wrong place. Their 2024 full-length, Revolution 4 Dummies LP, is a carefully constructed platform for thinking outside of the box, a necessary 15-track blueprint for critical engagement disguised as an anthemic, high-speed party. This band isn’t here to soothe your anxiety, but to define the socio-political structures causing it and then give you a massive, shout-along chorus to scream your defiance to the heavens. By blending politically-charged lyrics with a sharp, essential dose of wit, Grazer Grant proves that intellectual curiosity and raw, abrasive sound are not mutually exclusive. This is essential, proper European punk rock that honors the aggression of the past while taking precise aim at the complexities of the present. The sonic architecture of Revolution 4 Dummies is what allows the band to achieve its conceptual weight. Grazer Grant has curated a sound that selects only the finest properties from across the punk spectrum. You get the speed and precision of melodic punk rock, a guitar work that makes sure that every riff is locked and every hook sinks deep. This polish is immediately undercut and hardened by the sheer hardcore punk impact, resulting in a sound that refuses to be categorized simply as fast or heavy. It’s both, at maximum density. Their technical musical abilities are constantly on display, not as mere flash, but as structural support for their message. The drumming is absolutely energetic, driving the political pace forward. The tight riffs are delivered with precision, and those heavy basslines provide the grounding weight necessary for a record that tackles such heavy themes. This balance of tightness and rawness remains firmly in the domain of genuinely powerful, thoughtful punk rock.

Lyrically, Grazer Grant dedicate their fifteen excellent tracks to tackling the immense weight of societal, local, and global issues, refusing to simplify complex problems into easy, three-word slogans. It’s a material for those who recognize the interconnectedness of modern struggles. However, they crucially avoid the trap of becoming overly didactic or self-serious by spreading a healthy dosage of wit across the material. This wis is the mechanism for survival, a necessary cognitive buffer that keeps the album infectious and allows the listener to engage with the darkness without succumbing to despair. The fact that this intense sociopolitical commentary is delivered in German-speaking punk rock only adds to the album’s unique character, providing a specific cultural, impactful, and globally relevant linguistic lens. It demands you pay attention not just to the hooks, but to the challenging content underneath them. Every single track touches the base of some possible punk rock aesthetic you could possibly imagine. You get moments of fury, moments of melodic reflection, and moments built entirely for collective defiance. The powerful vocals shift between critical analysis and cathartic release, especially in those magnificent, anthemic choruses that are designed for collective release. The album functions as a textbook example of high-impact songwriting, making sure that every rhythmic shift or melody acts as an overarching conceptual purpose. And then there’s the inevitable inclusion of the Smoke On The Water riff. Grazer Grant is confident enough in their own material and their own mission to inject a beloved, foundational Deep Purple classic into their angry, punk rock-infused sound. It’s a moment of intentional, winking irreverence that says, “We respect the past, but we are here to destroy the present order.” It’s a moment of pure, unexpected groove that shows their technical chops and their wit are equally important.

Revolution 4 Dummies LP is highly recommended for anyone who appreciates raw, abrasive, energetic, and intellectually challenging punk rock. Grazer Grant has delivered a modern classic, a full-length that doesn’t just ask you to listen, but asks you to engage, think, and shout back. It’s a perfectly curated punk rock album for dismantling the status quo, one massive hook at a time. Head to Grazil Records for more information about ordering.

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