x Burning The Fallen x - Keeping Edge Alive

I don’t know much about xBurning The Fallenx except that they hail from Medellín, Colombia. It seems the band is heavily into straight edge lifestyle, but because of the language barrier, I can’t tell much about their lyrics and the overall message. As for the music, I’ve seen them being compared to bands like Nueva Etica or Point Of No Return and it pretty much nails it down. xBurning The Fallenx offers heavy, metallic new school hardcore that ranges mainly in the lower and mid tempos, with only occasional faster parts now and there. While the band has some potential and their gigs must be a blast, there’s still some work to do in the song-writing department. In the future I want to hear from them more intense and hard hitting tracks like the intro song or Verdadera Libertad. Download it!

Rehen - Bogota Beatdown

Bogota, Columbia is not the nicest place to live in so all the anger and hate that pours out of these songs is understandable. Rehen describes their music as beatdown and this is pretty accurate. There are a lot of metal influences and fast parts, which kind of stands out in breakdown-driven beatdown music of today. The songs are actually pretty well executed and there's a good balance and flow throughout the demo. Dual vocals also get the job done. Since all the info about the band is in Spanish, I don't know much about Rehen itself. They joined Myspace in 2007 and since this is usually the first things hardcore bands do nowadays when they form, I guess this is a year they started out. Download it!