"Pro-pain” are simply tireless and somehow the band has a lot in common with “Motörhead” or “AC/DC”. Not musically, but also with “Pro-pain” With each album, you know exactly what to expect before you listen to it for the first time. Evil tongues like to claim that it is in principle completely enough to have an album by the New Yorkers in your collection. As with “Motörhead” and “AC/DC”, this claim is not without a certain degree of truth, because on “Voice Of Rebellion”, the band’s fifteenth album, the changes are again only marginally noticeable. While critics like to criticize the band's alleged standstill, this apparent shortcoming can also be reversed and seen as the band's strength: reliability. Anyone who buys the latest work as a fan can be sure that they will get exactly what they expect from Meskil and Co.: melodic solos, violent double bass thunderstorms and the violent roar of the frontman, who, as always, does not mince his words and continues to denounce the grievances of this world with enormous anger in his stomach.

Pro Pain - Voice Of Rebellion

For more than 20 years, Gary Meskil (bass/vocals), Marshall Stephens (rhythm guitar), Adam Phillips (lead guitar) and Jonas Sanders (drums) have been hitting us with a new pound in the face with great regularity! With a reliable routine, they present us with a new album almost exactly every two years, this time it is called “Voice of Rebellion”, hardly like its predecessor from 2013, “The Final Revolution“, has cooled down. In their discography, Mr. Meskil and his colleagues have always varied at most the proportion of hardcore and thrash metal, which in “Voice Of Rebellion” tends quite clearly towards the latter and yet the end result always results in “pro-pain” and their very own definition of Metalcore or crossover. It's been like this for 23 years now and it probably won't change in this lifetime. “Voice of Rebellion” is once again brimming with Meskil's trademark pissed-off pitbull roar, brutal/groovy riffs and brutal double bass barrage as long as your eardrums keep up. Something is still bothering the “Pro-Pain” main man and he vents his anger in the tried and tested manner, passionately and with the usual vigor.

Album Review: Pro-Pain - Voice Of Rebellion
Album Review: Pro-Pain - Voice Of Rebellion

“Pro-Pain” deliver with the usual consistency and quality. Wide-legged and experienced, “Uncle” Gary shows the young cocks “where Bartl gets the cider” and only the spearhead of the young guard can keep up. Away from external appearances such as clothes, all kinds of body modifications and hip political and life attitudes, the veteran presents himself as credible, authentic and genuine. This applies to both himself and his sound. While the last samples were all recorded at VO Pulver in the Little Greek studio, this time we went to Florida to the Sound Lounge, where mastermind Gary and Corey Williams took care of the production himself. The result is 14 songs full of anger, crisp fare and a rough approach that couldn't have been more representative. The opening title track already bulldozes everything that gets in its way: “This is the Voice of Rebellion,” Meskil barks into the microphone with so much foam at the mouth that you could feel scared and anxious. But Meskil's bloodcurdling organ isn't the only one that leaves lasting traces after just a few seconds. Even in the shadow of the nasty, roaring HC bull's neck, something powerful is brewing. It's fascinating and almost frightening that Meskil manages to maintain the level throughout almost the entire playing time and, despite all the driving power and impressive heaviness, also ensures enough variety and a gripping, sawing groove.

Pro-pain band

But that is only the beginning. Songs like “No Fly Zone”, “Souls On Fire” or the booming HC punk broadside “Take It To The Grave” are in no way inferior to the introductory fireworks in terms of impact and joy of playing. “Voice of Rebellion” spoils us with straight hardcore thrash like “Righteous Annihilation” and “Bella Morte” and slight punk influences like “Cognitive Dessonance”. Furthermore, “Pro-Pain” have songs in their repertoire on this album that resonate louder and more powerful than ever, like the monster groover “Age Of Disgust” and the completely insane “Enraged”. The force is infectious, cold as a dog's snout and the song material never gets boring. The consistent level with which New Yorkers have spiced up their ventures for many years has turned out to be harsher this time. With “Voice of Rebellion” “Pro-Pain” has once again managed to get a bit more heaviness than on its already quite rough predecessor, which should only be fine for the common fan. In any case, Corey Williams' mercilessly fat production really pushes this Meskil-like lump of anger into the chewing bar, so that fans should have a lot of fun! Breakneck riffs rattle out every second, while the rhythm section skilfully oscillates between uptempo rides and pumping groove insertions. And in the front there is cursing, grunting and spitting.

Album Review: Pro-Pain - Voice Of Rebellion
Album Review: Pro-Pain - Voice Of Rebellion

Ultimately, it remains to be seen whether “Pro-Pain” are actually the “voice of rebellion” as the album title suggests. In the midst of all the compelling lack of compromise, the tracks are all played to the point and hit the spot again and again. Meskil manages to create a homogeneous whole of hardcore, thrash/metal with a massive addition of fat grooves. The mastermind comes across as aggressive and straight and you shouldn't take offense to him. Especially not when it comes to entrenched social or political views with which the Pro Pain boss has always been at odds. Then you really get a kick out of it – in the form of music. Overall, the 15th studio album from the old hardcore heroes is a sure thing and will be a lot of fun for every fan. “Pro-Pain” won’t win the award for the most innovative hardcore album in 2015 either, but it’s nice to have such reliability in today’s very fast-moving times that will continue to demonstrate high quality in the years to come become. Even though the recipe has been tried and tested for many years, it still works over and over again. “Voice of Rebellion” pushes endlessly and rocks like hell from the first note to the last! In your face!

Tracklist:

  1. Voice of rebellion
  2. No Fly Zone
  3. Righteous annihilation
  4. Souls on Fire
  5. Take It To The Grave
  6. Age Of Disgust
  7. Bella Morte
  8. Cognitive dissonance
  9. Blade Of The Cursed
  10. Crushed To Dust
  11. enraged
  12. hellride
  13. DNR (Do Not Resuscitate)
  14. Fuck This Life

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