Hey Dudes and Dudedettes, it´s Whitmonday and you feel lame and dried out? You´re frustrated by all the shit around your reality of life? So I bring up following: Did you ever have heard Berlin´s False Friend? No? I knew it all along and you´re wondering why you´re getting lazier every day! False Friend´s vocalist and guitarist Vik introduce me in his band a couple of years ago, when we met at the university for the first time. In those days they were a big surprise for me, cause I only knew all that Berlin Squad Full HC Circle Pit Kickboxing Tough Guy Anything Testosterone shit and my demand in local scene was a minor until that time. Last year the guys released their first full length, so let´s have a ear what they´ve recorded. The Rising Hope is the pathetic title of False Friend´s debut. Not that much creative but on the face of it I can accept considering to all those really dummy Punkrock bands around and I will take it a little bit ironically. The twelve piece album starts with those classic hardcore intro before the nice guys starts with one of my favs Take A Look Around. This song rise with melodic shoutings and dark guitars. Please listen to the end of this track. It´s a really great idea how to arrange different pieces, it makes it epic a bit. The coolness of False Friend is their talent to combine the driven energy of 90s melodic punkrock like Adhesiveor the late 90s Belvedere and modern Hardcore Punkrock with pounding phat drums and a heavy drop d tuning. Unbraked energy is the central theme and you will get no chance to relax. It reminds me to that classic punkrock thing. No pauses. No time to reflect before it´s over. Restless legs syndrom. Maybe that is the point for some critics. As much I love the seemingly never ending energy so heavily I awaiting more dynamic in the songs cause after a couple of tracks the heaviness is overwhelming.
What you want should be the opener for the soundtrack of my inner revolution. The hookline is that much great and catchy that you won´t forget to shout with Vik and Stefan. The following pieces don´t looking for any difference and so I´ve to determine that The Rising Hope is a great and classic Punkrock album how you want it and on the other hand a chance to create more space for some more individuality.
But it´s a fact: great band, nice dudes and a possibility for berlin´s scene to overcome its ignorance and social stupidness. Me is waiting for the next one, cause I believe in the potential of this often underrated band.
False Friend
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