Thursday, August 9, 2012

Hellfire Sox Music

Hellfire Sox is a Ukrainian band who, according to the internet, is a central component of the Ukrainian underground music scene[1].  Since their conceptual formation in the year 2000, by two high school misfits[2], Hellfire Sox has released two studio albums.  
Their earlier music features hoarse vocals and catchy guitar riffs, and was very reminiscent of the 90s punk rock we are all familiar with.  Below is the song We Are Grown, the first Hellfire Sox song I heard.  


Several years after their first album's first inception, in 2011 Hellfire Sox released a second studio album.  The first song I heard from this album was Misery, featured below.

As soon as the song began, I was struck by the vocals.  Departing from the hoarse vocals prominent in their music for the past 7 years, this song features clean vocals.  The album as a whole is not a dramatic change from their first album, though I find it to be more diverse in all respects.  Their second album, Hellville, feels a lot more like horror punk, and I think is indicative of years of music growth.  

Hellfire Sox is a great band from across the Atlantic, and is definitely worth a listen if you're a fan of punk rock. 

Hellfire Sox's discography can be downloaded here.



[1] I lost the citation
[2] http://www.last.fm/music/Hellfire+Sox (It's probably bad practice to source LastFM.  Oh well)

Clearly I'm really bad at citing.

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