Neifenbach are a five piece (insert your mash up of genres here)core band from Galway city, they have been on the go since late 2008 and have taken up slots with the likes of Bane, Gama bomb and The Ocean.
Reason will Falter is their first offering, a seven track stomper that crosses Thrashy, crusty hardcore and metal respectively without it turning to lame metalcore drivel.
Openers "Trapped in life" and "Hidden in plain sight" mix epicness and hardcore with the greatest of ease, whereas "30-05-04" and "A.F.R." delve into a little bit of beat down hardcore nastiness.
"Rats in the walls" boasts a mental all over the place riff that takes over towards the end, "House of lies" is a perfect closer, with a delicious blasty moment that makes me think of Tombs, it has everything you could want, including a little sneaky forty second screamer at the end.
The vocals ditch the constant scream found in a lot of modern hardcore bands in favour of a more direct, spiteful growl, with lyrics that are deep, imaginative, punchy and at times sad and as far away from the crappy self help sloganeering, tough guy hardcore as you can get.
My only gripe with the recording would be, at times a few of these riffs come across as Only fumes and corpses cast offs, not a bad thing, I just find it a little distracting.
This is a recording that does their energetic gigs every bit of justice, if they are playing near you soon, go and see them and pick this up.
www.myspace.com/neifenbach
Griff
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