The Nappies
Next Stop Styx

Take two explosive "power chord grinding" guitars like the Ramones, add a good taste for catchy melodies, and finally mix it all together with lyrics overflowing with zombies, werewolves, and monsters of all kinds worthy of the Misfits: and there you have The Nappies, the breakout Punk rock band from the Agro Pontino formed in 2005 with two demos and numerous live performances under their belt.

"Next Stop Styx" is indeed their official debut album, and the 5 Punk rockers could not have started better!
The CD opens with the lively Bubblegum Horror Party, the melodic intertwining created by the voices of Luca (the group's rhythm guitarist) and Cinzia (singer), as well as the song's rhythm, are the real strengths of this first track. It continues with Creepy Moony Friday, a more syncopated track than its predecessor, with a lot of choruses ("ua-u, ua-uuh!") that become incredibly etched in your memory after just a few listens. The album continues with These Still Do, a clear example of raw Punk rock energy: here they go fast, run along the guitarists' palm muting line, and you can't help but be infected by the rhythm that flows from the headphones. The fourth track is entrusted to Barrage Of Solitude, a piece based on trusty 4/4 time and "American style" choruses. It is followed by To Virginia, an adrenaline-filled yet evocative song where the band returns to its typical imagery filled with putrid zombies and besieged humans. Moving on, we reach the sixth track: Dancing In Your Grave, a piece where it is impossible not to notice a kind of underlying melancholy, supported by an intro with an adolescent aftertaste and lyrics that seem to draw heavily from some cemetery poetry. Superb. The penultimate track is Black Sun: screeching intro, drums at a thousand, and blazing guitars, for a piece that manages to convince of its quality in just 1 minute.

The CD ends with two pieces fused together, namely Still Waiting Godot and the track that gives the album its title, River Styx. The former is a driving, almost chant-like piece, fragmented by a guitar solo and the presence of a stop'n go in the middle. River Styx, on the other hand, is a truly particular piece as a whole: it opens like a sort of anthem (almost to celebrate the victory achieved against the countless creatures present in the lyrics) and then concludes in a typical Punk rock outburst of the band that magnificently closes the entire album.

In conclusion, I believe that The Nappies with this "Next Stop Styx" have done truly a masterful job, without any filler, so I think it is only right to give this band a resounding 5 out of 5.