Labels: self released
Review by: Michael Stewart
Compliments must go to the chef here, because the packaging for this CD is
accomplished indeed “” a utilitarian screenprinted cardboard gatefold put together
by hand that shames a lot of aesthetic non-efforts and over-reachers that get wider
release. Outwardly the band seem to be investing in the spartan design vocabulary
of millennial screamo bands, but contained within is some pretty damn metallic
hardcore. The music is more than competent, if not particularly spectacular.
Neifenbach appear very catholic in their taste for the various facets of “modern’
hardcore; there’s as much From Ashes Rise in here as there is Sworn Enemy, for
example. This keeps the appeal wide and affords a relative freshness to the material.
Equally, though, might it be said that this is the drawback, in that the songs rarely
become more than the sum of their parts. Still, a decent effort, and worth a look (and
listen) for those into the heavier side of things.