There are metal albums, and then there are
\nMETAL<\/i> albums. Some albums just cause you to want to slam
\nyour head against the wall in time to the guitar crunch. The
\nMETAL<\/i> albums send you into spasms, happily drooling on
\nyourself as you are repeatedly hit over the head by the music
\ncoming from your speakers. And when the disc ends, you emerge from
\nyour distortion-laden coma, exhausted but ecstatic.<\/p>\n
Three guesses how I’m choosing to label Pro-Pain’s latest
\nrelease
\nRound 6<\/i>.<\/p>\n
I don’t know why this disc is the first time I’m hearing this
\nband – bassist\/vocalist Gary Meskil, guitarists Tom Klimchuck and
\nEric Klinger and drummer Eric Matthews – but I know this won’t be
\nmy last taste. This New York-based group grabs your spine and snaps
\nit like a twig, and all you can do is lay there, smile and ask for
\nmore. Yup, this disc is that good.<\/p>\n
Meskil and crew don’t even allow the listener to get seated in
\ntheir reclining chair with their Zima and rice cakes, instead
\nchoosing to get slamming immediately out of the gates. I wasn’t
\nprepared to hear the sonic assault of this band and Meskil’s vocals
\nfrom hell the moment I pushed play – but let me tell you, it felt
\ngreat<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Pro-Pain are all about aggression and letting it out – and for
\nthe better part of almost 40 minutes, they take the listener on an
\nadrenalin rush that will leave you jonesing for more at the end.
\nTracks like “Fed Up,” “Status Quo,” “Psywar” and “Substance” hit
\nlike rabbit punches, and all you can do is beg for more.<\/p>\n
\nRound 6<\/i> is good old-fashioned metal the way certain bands
\n(like
\nMetal<\/i>lica – when they didn’t suck) used to do it, yet their
\nstyle is more than pure thrash. Matthews’s drumming is enjoyably
\nfrantic, but there is more order to this chaos than one would
\nexpect – and it helps to cut Pro-Pain from the cloth that lumps
\nmany other bands together. There’s almost a slight progressive edge
\nto the style of music that Pro-Pain presents here, and it’s a more
\nthan welcome change to a genre that always has to watch itself for
\nfear of stagnation.<\/p>\n
\nRound 6<\/i> is the kind of disc that will send you falling to
\nthe canvas faster than frozen waste from a jet airliner falls from
\nthe sky. Getting knocked out never felt so good – and Pro-Pain are
\nthe band I would want to deliver that musical beating on me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6553],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-36996","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-pro-pain","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36996"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=36996"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=36996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}