“Stand Or Fall” is the second effort from Revilers, and it’s safe to say an improvement has taken place. Execution and sentiment come on so much stronger, it feels as I hear opening track “Stand Or Fall” that the restrained reservations of their first effort have been hacked away. Straight away this sounds more like a Street Punk band coming into their own as opposed to just utilising techniques made famous by other artists, something they were guilty of in their prior release.
Things can only get better, it seems as the melodic charm of “Tried and True” makes itself known and is followed by the desperate countdown of the suicide anthem “Running Out” which avoids the path of nauseating self- indulgent and instead delivers something altogether tangible that is pungent with anguish.
“State Of Fear” is probably the poorest track on the album- not a bad track itself, but certainly not comparable with its populism politics to, for example “Tried and True”. “Road Rage” is a surprisingly strong closer considering I was envisioning a pointless wank of a song about automobile related sorrow. It seems that even the least dramatic of subject matter can be taken to new depths of desperation and pain!
Revilers have here done what I maintain they needed to do after their first, considerably weaker effort. The brutality, bile and frustration that is the inspiration for so many of their songs has been expressed in a much more cogent and brutal manner on “Stand Or Fall” and I would recommend this EP fairly highly.
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