The metal-scene of Västerås might
not be the most diverse one in this country, the active bands I know
about can literally be counted on one hand. The few ones that exists
seems to have a very good ability of putting out great stuff on a
regular basis though. Quality before quantity, I guess. This is the
third demo of Suffer The Pain, containing four new songs. It starts
of with a sinister and fateful intro that brings to mind the latest
album by Tragedy, which I liked a lot. Then it breaks into the
title-track, which is a more solid mid-tempo piece. I wish the rest
of the song itself could've been a bit more in the vein of the intro
though. Sure, it's good the way it is, but I'm left with the feeling
that it was going somewhere even better.
Otherwise, there aren't really any
other complaints from my side. World Evil and Faith Through Violence
answers my prays of more black metal-inspiration, yet their deadly
metal/punk fusion is always present.
A cover of Motörhead's Killed By
Death is also included, and Suffer The Pain's d beat-drenched
up-tempo version definitely works very well. Not as great as the
cover of Roky Erickson's Bloody Hammer on their first demo though,
the further the original song is from their sound, the more
interesting it gets, I suppose. Dying to hear what their next choice of
cover will be. As much as I'm dying to hear whatever they'll release
next. Hopefully a full-length album, they still don't seem to have
learned that their releases are too damn short... 7/10 /H
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