Artwork by Erj_za

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L'articolo Something happens in industrial archeology | artwork proviene da Radio Punk.

This drawing, made with reverse technique, focuses on representative simplicity. Between real and abstract I wanted to represent a typical night of the quarantine period; it’s a strictly personal experience but I’m sure that many of you can find something familiar in it. Night is always the moment when we are alone with ourselves and our thoughts. In the last few weeks, however, we had to face a completely different situation: distances, longing, uncertainty, anger, sadness, an emotional mix that takes the sleep away.

So I spent my nights with my laptop on one side, swimming between news and updates that did not give me hope, and music that was always on. On the other side paper sheets, pencils and pens, producing drafts and more engaged works. I tried to put everything was passing through my mind on paper. Often all these efforts did not work very well regulating my emotions and the negativity that increased day by day. It was not uncommon for the bottle to keep me company (another main character of the drawing), with constant migraines that I only could take care of by taking a lot of ibuprofen. Let’s say my liver did overtime…

In this period thoughts and dreams were linked to my normal life: memories of concerts, memories of friends, always followed by the will to live again those moments, regretting not doing some things when it was better to risk and not lose opportunities. From a day to the next one you find yourself stuck in your house and you get to understand that many second chances, if they ever come, will show up in a really long time. All the plans you made, all the expectation you had, slowly fade away. On a personal level, this quarantine took me to a blue regression and the uncertainties and fears that I was sure I had overcome suddenty showed up again. I don’t know if I can give an idea, but these days (and nights, most of all) have been hard and dark, for me as for everyone.

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If I had to think about a song to relate I would have thousands ideas like none of them: there is not a particular song that completely represents me, but I had the time to discover, re-discover and listen again to some artists of the most varied genres (from Overcharge, that never make me tired, to the darkest DSBM groups). But I could suggest Martyrdöd, that have been an important soundtrack for these nights, with gloomy melodies combined with the fury of d-beat. From them I would undoubtedly choose List, title track of the homonymous album.

Simone Piovesan

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L'articolo A pandemic night’s dream | artwork proviene da Radio Punk.

Because in the end, when you realize you’ve only got trouble left, your wallet’s still bloody empty and not even the glory is on your side… In the end you realize it’s all about the heart!

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Words and artwork by Andrea Cassino (Passione Nera Records)

Read also this reflection he wrote some times ago on our site.

L'articolo Hardcore punk with heart | Artwork proviene da Radio Punk.

A twisted scenario, just as our perception is distorted in front of two apparently opposite topics: firstly the homely practices of bondage/torture/submission, which immediately assume a violent and impartial domination aspect in which we become secret and guilty voyeurs, discovering then an absolute consent from all the parts of the couple (or groups) who decide to practice this expression and even to share it without any filter.

Secondly, there is the personal self-inflicted humiliation by individuals. This often belongs to the middle class, people with the possibility of receiving a school education but forced to lie about one’s abilities, playing down on themselves, because of a worn-out and rotten economic-work system.

A system that has been rotten for years and decades of political negligence and state-industry corruption. People desperately asking for work, any work, until the moment they realize that the promises squandered by the higher social classes of an ennobled and satisfying work, won by higher and higher taxes on education, were just lies.

That is when what is aesthetically humiliating becomes a virtue of freedom and what should be ennobled and breathed becomes the true torture of submission.

All the images are collages by Inchiostro Lisergico, a preview of the collection “What am I going to do?”. See Inchiostro Lisergico’s page here.

Soundtrack: 99 Miles Of Bad Road – Eyehategod.

Like almost all of the band’s songs, the lyrics are not important for the core of the message. The song is a blues that is coming from the deep of Louisiana’s swamps and I think that the title leaves several open questions: is the “bad way” such because it hurts us? Or are we the ones waiting on the edge of the asphalt for the moment to ruin a nice trip to a little family, careless of us and the shit in the world?

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