Pain Link – “The Burden of Sin”
The song “Moshpit Mafia” explains the following scene: “You hit the ground right before me/I saw the fear in your eyes/Stuck in the middle of insanity/Fist to the blindside/Caught in the hangtime”. “Camp Pain” is also about the moshpit. When the lyrics are not enumerating the litany of tough, macho qualities of this metalcore/Pantera-inspired band, they are talking trash about everyone named “you”. The vocals have a screaming-professional-wrestler quality to them. The chug rules the guitar sounds and the breakdown is master. If you like to listen to angry white men shouting about how tough and real they are, you’ll probably enjoy this, if Pantera and Pro-Pain are important to you. This is not one of those kiddie hardcore bands, so don’t expect nice, clean vocal parts, either. Angry white men who go around threatening to use violence to achieve their goals. I think they call that the government.