After their album "The New Future" with some electronic influences I was a
little afraid about this new album. Did they continue or even worse, expand
these influences on the new album? After the first songs I was set at ease, no
electronic influences anymore, but just plain hardcore songs with metal
influences. Aggressive the way I like it, angry sounding vocals, a lot of groove
and variety.
Gangshoutings, spoken movie quotations and lyrics that kick ass and revolt
against todays society give the songs the right atmosphere. The riffs used in
the songs are very massive and dirty sounding and the drumming of new member Max
van Winkelhof sounds tight and groovy. With just over an half hour of music
the album is perhaps a little short, but with such quality this isn't any
problem. Several guests appear on the album, like Matthi Nasty in "Truth of the
Streets", Scott Terror in "Bleed the Poison" and as icing on the cake Dutch
rapper Def. P. in the song "Stand Free". As a nice dessert Born From Pain serves
us a hidden track, in which you recognize "Hotel California". If you still think
that good metalcore can only be produced by American bands, you haven't heard
Born From Pain yet.
Fans of Sick Of It All, Pro-Pain and even Madball should check this out!
