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Balance

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This demo has been out for a long time but I haven't gotten around to review it until now. They have created quite a stirr with these five songs and they have together with ANGERS CURSE and LIONS DEN been named the future of swedish hardcore. I'll admitt that this demo is good, but it's not spectacular. They sort of do the same thing as INTERNAL AFFAIRS, short, fast songs with a lot of mosh as well, but not with the edge and full out attack that IA does. Johan has a really hard voice but it sounds like a controlled anger, i'd like to hear him furious, as if he was out of his mind and just about to rip someones head off. I remember thinking the same thing when he sang for CASTAWAY. Live they have everything that I wish they would have on record as well which makes me think that there is a lot of potential.

Anyway, the songs are good and from what I hear the 7' that they have recently recorded will be even better. If that is true it will be one of the records to look forward to during the second half of 2008, and pehaps then they will be the future of swedish hardcore.

BALANCE at MySpace