Band:	Rising Pain
Album:	Salvation For None
Style:	Death metal, Thrash metal
Release date:	2003

01. Salvation For None
02. Chaotic Towers
03. No More
04. Third World Nation
05. Bloodstain

Although this four piece hails from Phoenix, Arizona, has Ecuadorian members on their ranks, which is interesting, at least for me, since Ecuador is a neighbor country from mine, and I lived there for a while.
Regardless of my past with the home country of some members of Rising Pain, let me tell you that these guys are playing a mixture of Trash Death Metal, the combo applies several influences of other bands in their music, like Slayer, Metallica, Sepultura and Testament.

The result, after hearing this 5 track Ep is, unimpressed at all, I've heard this before, many times, and I'm sure that bands playing this watered down mix of Trash and Death will keep coming, they're unstoppable!
Maybe I should give a little more credit to these guys, because they're aren't that bad, as a matter of fact, they don't play bad at all, but they don't do anything impressive neither, and when you have listened Metal for so many years like me, is difficult to find a band that impresses you.

One good thing about Rising Pain is the wide vocal range of vocalist Ricardo Racines, he can go from a nice clean voice to a powerful scream to a ear-tearing shriek, quite good indeed.
The songs, no one stands out really, maybe the short instrumental "Third World Nation" which has some folk parts with a instrument used here in South America, the Quena if I'm not mistaken, but that is not a real song, but a short instrumental.
One thing that outraged me was the fact that they used practically the same riff from "Seasons In The Abyss" from Slayer in "No More"? obviously, the song doesn't even measures with that eighties classic.

These guys need to practice, and they need to find a more unique sound to their music, to separate from the rest of the bands doing the same, the difference is that these guys know how to play, now they only need a dose of originality in the brew.