Band: Prosperity Denied
Title: Go For Progress
Label: Refused Records
Distribution: Twilight/ Bertus
Release date: 29/10/2010
Review: CD

I’m confused. This band claims to fight against commercialisation and fashionable trends in music, but they call their second full length Go For Progress. Isn’t progression a never-ending evolution to explore new opportunities, to cross invisible borders, to penetrate narrowed limitations? It can go both ways, can’t it?
Let’s self-reflect…

Anyway, Prosperity Denied started in 2006, and 2007 saw the light of a first full length studio album, intelligently titled Consciousless. This debut album mustn’t be taken too seriously, that’s for sure, and that’s the case too with album number two, Go For Progress, created by the sarcastic trio Tom0.2 (b, v), Matthias (g) and Ravager (d).
Not too seriously, it has to do with both lyrics and music. Lyrically, Go For Progress deals with rebellion and resistance, self-deprecating and mockery – what to think about titles as "Homo Apparatus", "Wasabi Overdose", "Tanks & Flowers" or "Cumshot Of Reality"… Musically, the album has a lot to offer. Opening track "Cumshot" … is a fast deathrasher with a few break-downs and some blasting salvos, and this goes for a handful of tracks on Go For Progress. Tracks like "Crusadör" or "731 Guinea Pigs" too, amongst others, perfectly combine elements from old school Death Metal and eighties-sounding Thrash Metal, including many tempo-variations (mainly fast, however, yet with different slower parts too) and an unstoppable energetic drive. Some tracks come with a Grind/ Punk/ Hardcore inspired attitude (e.g. the title track, "Neropolis", "Ich Werd’ Zum Kinski" or "Homo Apparatus"), and Prosperity Denied even do not forget to add an old style Speed Metal spirit within some pieces. Final track "The Space Jockey" is an electronic mix, which nicely completes this album (which has duration of forty four minutes, by the way).

75/100

Ivan Tibos.