The Italian scene is very strong with many punk and hardcore bands putting out the records and organizing gigs, festivals and the underground network keeps growing strong. Keep The Promise is not a new name in the scene, and they released their new record via Bleeding Nose Records. I was very happy being able to listen to the record and review it for this webzine.

The record contains nine songs. Keep The Promise play the kind of hardcore that we used to call new school hardcore in the 90-ies. That means brutal metalised hardcore in the vein of Earth Crisis, Integrity, early Hatebreed, Bloodlet and similar bands. This guys will stomp with their songs all over your face and laugh about it later. Musically, they picked up where similar bands in the 90-ies left off. The production is awesome, the song structures are very aggressive with many breakdowns, mosh parts and stomping parts. I loved the faster songs like “Your Race Doesn´t Exist”. There are couple of guests on this album  that enrich the songs with their participations. The lyrics are in English language and I think that this band is really political but doing it in a way that average hardcore kid can recognize himself/herself in the song lyrics. I loved the short dark atmospheric intermezzo “Ghost Animal” with ominous piano background and movie samples. A perfect intro for in my opinion the best song on this record “Hell´s Bedroom” with gang vocals, hardcore no holds barred attitude and street wisdom, also “The Stench of Evil” with a wicked melody underneath it all. I am just not keen on such bands but this is a decent record.

7/10

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