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Despite
the rather daft band name, this is actually a quite decent second
release from the Italian/Danish heavy rock band. “Pain is the Game” features 11 diabolical rock’n’roll tracks without ever
slowing down.
The
sound mix is good, and the music is very straightforward. It kind of
makes me think of a mixture of Anthrax (with John Bush on vocals)
and Soundgarden.
There
is a great deal of good craftsmanship on the album, but an almost
dogmatic approach to no originality at all: Everything
is heard before, which makes the album strangely familiar right out
of the box. On the downside, this unfortunately also means that the
album loses its novelty value rather quickly. Furthermore the
material gets a bit repetitive along the way, and all the tracks
sound more or less the same, even after a while.
On
the mike we have Jacob Bredahl from Hatesphere. And that is
apparently the only thing that is interesting about the band members,
because neither the press material nor the band’s own website
provide *any* information on the other band members, apart from
their names and instruments (Stefano Longhi – drums, Massimo Gajer
– guitar, Roberto Gelli – Bass).
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