Less than a year after “Six Years in the Desert”, Nevada’s pride Fall Silent are coming back with a new record, that features twelve great tracks of hardcore mixed with punk-rock mixed with death metal mixed with grind-core music, and I guess that nobody in this genre will be able to even compare “Drunken Violence”. With the addiction of two new members, Donny Johnson on guitar and Justin Spalin on bass, Fall Silent have new energy not only to put out much faster and furious hardcore music, but also to start touring with no stops all over the U.S., Europe, and even Japan.

“Drunken Violence” is a weird album: you could expect it to be one thing, like fast and angry, and the first time you listen to it, you really hear it as fast and angry, but the second, third, fourth times you will also hear new elements, some more attention for all those little particular things that “hardcore” bands do not see, like the guitar solos, riffs and drum beats. You could think they just enetering in the studio saying “come ‘on, let’s make some fucking noise”, instead, on this record, everything - or anyway, most of all - is decided and well thought before it’s done: nothing is left to the case. And I think this is the great thing about Fall Silent and “Drunken Violence”. Just listen to some songs as the amazing “Flowers For Whores”, or even “The First Seven Inch Club” or again “Never Before…Never Again…Again” and you’ll understand what I’m saying. But I guess that even only the intro “Violence” and the outro “From Violence to Uninhibited Self Control” , which are both musical only, it is easy to see how these five guys have the knowledge and will to play hardcore music as it is meant to be played. Loud, fast, pissed and with a lot of sarcasm. Not to mention the vocals, they scream about America’s diseases, war, and also skateboarding.

I think that Fall Silent is the fresh band that any fan of hardcore was waiting for, a band that has no prejudice, no border, no limit and no limitations, but a great attitude and will to spread the word of music and accuse towards society with the help of music itself. If you look also at the artowork, you will see some provocation through the designs in the booklet, and this can only give me more respect for this band.|carlo@staff.truepunk.com