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Cast your mind back, if you
will about 2 years ago when a band called Rancid released their album
'Out Come The Wolves'. Well, that band broke my heart and why, because
'Out Come The Wolves' is a punk album and Rancid are from the grand
old US of A and I like many true Brits have always believed tha punk
was a pure British thing and nobody , but nobody could play it like
us.
Now before you all go out and get your bondage trousers out and rush
down to Boots (large Chemist in the UK) to buy the most ridiculous
colour hair dye you can find, dont, because Right Direction's
'To Right The Wrong' is mainly a hardcore cross album, or to
put it another way 'To Right The Wrong' combines groovy new
school metalcore trash with skatecore and old school punk.
So you must surely be asking yourselves whats the connection between
the wonderful summer of punk ('77) and a '98 hardcore album, well
the answer is clear as sin, as soon you put the CD in and press play,
Attitude, pure and simple.
Not for a long time have I felt the sheer power in a way that 'To
Right The Wrong' gives out, in the first few bars of the opening
track of 'You're The Enemy', Right Direction manages
to keep up the pace to the last few bars of the final track 'There
Aint Nobody Leavin' '. For gods sake they even manage to do a
cover of the old Twisted Sister number 'I Wanna Be Somebody'
and they carry it off so well you don't even realise it's that song
until half way through.
As I have already said this is mainly a hardcore album, but if you
listen closely you can spot the punk connection from bands such as
the Clash, the Damned and the Angelic Upstarts. This 12 track 30 minute
album is livin proof that you dont need to write songs over 5 minutes
long to make a point.
Quite simply this is the best example of in yer face metal, that I
have heard in a while and 'To Right The Wrong' won't be far
from my CD player in the months to come. Buy It it's That Simple!!!
Released by Kingfisher. Schaferstrasse
33a. 44147. Dortmund. Germany.
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