Passionate, pissed off and yet not too cool to allow feelings
Engineer Records, Scene Police, Sell the Heart, High End Denim and Waterslide Records.
Rad Skulls play fast melodic Punkrock, which hits hard and still reverberates longer. Driving drums, sharp-edged riffs and a restless energy give the songs a good boost, while a bittersweet note spreads underneath. The melodies are spot on, the hooks get stuck, and the harmonic vocal style changes into a strained-hoarse mode, always when the passion and volume increases, explosive, which often leads to polyphonic vocal lines.
Somewhere between melodic punk and heartcore, with clear traces of the melodic hardcore of the late 90s and early 2000s, Rad Skulls develop a sound that doesn't sound like a retro program, but continues this tradition with a lot of steam and verve. What sticks is less the speed than the emotional tension within the songs. The band can put pressure on without filling every gap with noise. Between the edgy riffs and the driving drums, warm, almost familiar melodies flash up again and again. This gives "See You In Hell, Poser" this bittersweet side: passionate, pissed off and yet not too cool to allow feelings. The songs have rough edges, but also hooks that bite into each other.
“See You In Hell, Poser“ combines heaviness, melancholy and passion without making great drama out of it. The songs go straight to the front, but cannot be reduced to pure adrenaline music. It is precisely this mixture that makes the music interesting: raw enough for the pit, melodic enough for the way home and with enough emotional reverberation not to disappear from your head immediately after the last chord.
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