Pro-Pain - Voice Of Rebellion review
Band: | Pro-Pain |
Album: | Voice Of Rebellion |
Style: | Hardcore, Crossover thrash metal |
Release date: | June 2015 |
01. Voice Of Rebellion
02. No Fly Zone
03. Righteous Annihilation
04. Souls On Fire
05. Take It To The Grave
06. Age Of Disgust
07. Bella Morte
08. Cognitive Dissonance
09. Blade Of The Cursed
10. Crushed To Dust
11. Enraged
12. Hellride
13. DNR (Do Not Resuscitate)
14. Fuck This Life
Everyone's got limits.
I've reached mine three hours ago. It's simple, if I hear one more gang shout you're going to read about what I did in the paper tomorrow.
"Why so angry?"
- Because this will look like a long rant.
- Because your enjoyment of this album is going to be very, very relative to how familiar you are with Pro-Pain and brocore in general.
- Because I'm going to have a hard time focusing on this album alone.
- Because I still can't tell the songs on this release apart even after a gazillion painful spins.
I think the only way to be able to tell Pro-Pain songs from each other is to have them carbon-14 dated anyway. Okay, I'm exaggerating again: old Pro-Pain (up to Act Of God or around that period) was plenty recognizable and vicious, which helped them forge the recognition they have now. However, after fifteen - FIFTEEN - albums, you just can't win. Either you change completely and get shunned for being a "sell-out", or you don't change enough and you get talentless twits like me complaining about hearing almost the same album over and over again. Even if there has been several line-up overhauls during the long span of the band's existence. Even if albums like Fistful Of Hate in 2004 and especially Age Of Tyranny in 2007 were deliciously heavier, grungier, melodic, groovy, and almost fresh compared to their usual formula. You can say I'm being unfair since it's the main composer, the last remaining original member and the signature of the group, but if Pro-Pain's sound weren't always so over-powered by Gary's forever unchanging, unvaried barking vocals, I would hold my punches and treat every release as unique.
Taken one by one, the songs that make this fifteenth opus a whole are not of lesser quality than usual: they are still guided by the same stick-it-to-the-man spirit that's kept the scene more or less alive for decades. It just happens that there are fourteen of them, all pretty similar. There is no denying that Gary Meskil and his pals know how to do their job - that's the least you could ask at this point. The stomping rhythms are the ideal thing to get elbow-faced to during a live show and just makes you want to pump the volume to the max. The whole thing flows nicely, there are no faux pas, no pause, no slowing down: it's a non-stop middle finger held closely in front of your face.
So here we are, with forty-four minutes of chorus-and-gang-shout-heavy hardcore that would have sounded more vindictive
Unfortunately, that's about it. I sincerely can't find more to say. If you haven't reached your limit of Pro-Pain and Pro-Pain accessories, you'll enjoy Voice Of Rebellion the same way you have enjoyed the 578 same albums they released before this. But I'm no Hank Hill*, I've had enough.
*For the uncultured swine that didn't get that joke, click here.
Rating breakdown
Performance: | 8 |
Songwriting: | 6 |
Originality: | 2 |
Production: | 7 |
Written by Ilham | 10.07.2015
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