GoDownRecords is a multi-orientated collective of music lovers: label, booking agency and online store. First of all, the label unites a lot of different styles, ranging from 70´s progressive rock, punk, psycobilly, grunge, sludge, gothic, hardcore and a lot more. 20 bands out of this rooster were supposed to play at the Trattoria Altroquando close to Treviso where this year´s edition of the Maximum Festival took place.

Hailing from Bassano del Grappa, one of our beloved cities in Italy, Minatox69 opened the festival with a powerful mix of sludge, hardcore and screamo. A thirty minutes set with no chance for having a break to take some breath. Bozart´s powerful vocals were the crown of a sheer endless pounding and growing and raging concert. Great!!

Umberto on bass and Francisco on drums and both on the vocals were more than just a power-duo. Umberto´s distorted bass lines, fueled with power chords, the two different vocals, a blend of metal, hardcore and crossover made the concert pass too quickly.

Messa couldn´t perform due the illness of Sara, their singer. So Quiet Confusion replaced Messa and they did it with the catalogue of 70´s music in just one song. We heard funk, prog, blues, psychedelic a bit of protometal and protopunk, crowned with a fuzzy and a clean voice, presented with incredible musical skills. A great pleasure to watch and hear this band.

As Italy´s dirtiest and heaviest badass rockin´ band The Brokendolls entered the stage, the chilled mood and atmosphere of this festival were substituted for almost one hour. There were Rock´n Roll, Punk, catchy melodies and chorus´, a frontman who knew how to rock and act on stage with a classy band behind him.  A fantastic concert.

He was, is and will be the fastest, dirtiest and meanest one-man-band in the universe. The horse presented us psychobilly, garage rock and garage punk, while playing drums and guitars and singing at the same time. We saw Vurro, the Spanish edition of a one-man-band, but the horse was pure Rock´n Roll

Milano´s space- and psychrock-masters Giöbia opened the second day at the out stage and it was simply amzing to hear all the different sounds and tones coming out of this band. It was a painted soundscape with different layers of effects and tones which fitted organically together. In my opinion, this band could install a kind of visual projection on their banner.

If you want to shorten the time to wait for another Queens of the Stone Age album, you can skip and switch to Alix. And I bet, you will stay with them. Alice´s vocals sound between heaven and space and far away from this world, like another instrument, Gianni and Andrea pushed and grooved permanently forward. This band sounds like QOTSA wished to sound from the beginning up to now. Don´t miss Alix. Fantastic group and concert.

This band was one the countless reasons to travel to Italy. The Sade impressed me with their powerful and melodic blend of Gothic, New Wave and Hardrock. This band spreads a special aura on stage; you cannot escape those catchy melodies and vocal lines despite all their coolness on stage. The lights fitted perfectly to their music and I felt back in 1985 when I heard The Sisters of Mercy for the first time. Fantastic concert.

Body Void did the Primitive Men Screamo, Sludge and Doom and Death in one song for half an hour. The trio really pushed a nuclear power and rage from the stage.

Haven´t thought that oVo is that famous, with a worldwide good reputation in the ambient Black Metal scene with around 1000 shows within 20 years. Both bands weren´t my musical orientation, but worth to see them perform.

I am a huge fan of Hüsker Dü and Bob Mould, I like his voice and I like his special tone with a slight amount of white noise in it. The last time I heard that was in 1992 with his band Sugar. Since that was silence. And now at 3 pm, there is a band playing with Bob Mould´s voice, guitar sound and tone. No not Foo Fighters, Hüsker Dü. I went completely nuts with their music.

This band hailing from Porderonne committed one mistake: they sung one song in Italian, powerful, straight. This would be something different and also something special. I mean, Mäneskin also sing Italian and have huge national and international succes

Krifi Wag should be doing a music with less compromises. There was a bit of Alternative Rock there, a bit of Punk here, a bit of Stoner elsewhere, so it wasn´t that harmonic blend of styles other bands did. But maybe it was intended to perform and write music in this way.

These guys rock. No matter if they´re adding more Punk or Hardcore or Stoner: this band is a well greased power-station that tears the roof off. They know what to do on stage, correct posing, hard riffing and "Green Machine" as a cover to get the crowd moving and banging.

Their music was heavy like 50 shades of heavy or stoner. To balance 4 different heads and musical directions is quite difficult and so it was to follow their music. At least I liked always ½ or ⅔ of their songs and there was some disharmonic or some chords which didn´t fit. Interesting and intense concert.

This band´s music is actually made to perform outside. Due the instrumentation (pedal steel guitar, synths, acoustic guitar and drums), which creates a more than natural soundscape, that could be interact with the nature. It was a trippy experience to hear this music. Despite all the electricity in their instruments, their instruments sounded natural. 

OJM, the Italian institution concerning Garagerock, Protopunk, high energy performance on stage; actually the Italian MC5. Songs between 1min30 sec and 13 minutes, groovy, rockin´ and mindblowing music. Great

Doom, Death and Heavy Metal, sometimes in one song, performed by the Berlin-based band Aptera. Intense forward pushing drums, sharp riffing, two really good voices. Sometimes the breaks between Death and Doom were quite harsh, could be a bit smoother. But, hey, these ladies really rocked the Altroquando.