Just 11 months after their acclaimed crusher Worst Enemy was released these 5 Hessians serve us their fourth longplayer Shine, considering, that the guys needed whole 3 years from the second album Infected to Worst Enemy. However, I’m the last who would complain about that fact and the explanation is easy: because DISBELIEF wanted to embark on the Bolt Thrower tour and the currently running No Mercy Festival, they needed a new album. Their songwriting was already very advanced, so the mates just stepped on it and booked a studio.

Those who fear now, this album could be a snapshot on business will definitely be disabused! DISBELIEF have delivered again an absolutely tidbit in the matter of brutal and gross Extreme Metal. Extreme Metal therefore, because the Death Metal roots are still there, but altogether you can’t call this music as Death Metal anymore. And Shine lies so wonderfuly across the boundries that it doesnt fit in any drawer and that is good so! Shine is – as DISBELIEF has to be – aggressive, gross, sick and brutal as the opener No Control already makes clear. But altogether the entire album is not that raving anymore like the predecessor is. Instead the guys are at work on something way more dark and depressive, but without renouncing faster tracks as you can get with Walk and Alive. Nevertheless real highlights are songs like The Decline, the titletrack Shine, Me And My World and Falling Without Reason. In all these tracks you find the incomparable anthem of singer Karsten Jaegers clean voice and his growls, which lend the music this special unique sickness. Me And My World you could almost call a ballad and remainds in its melancholy of Type O Negative, while The Decline is so extremely dark, that windows attract you magically (higher floors of course). Falling Without Reason again is an absolutely neck-breaking mid-tempo crusher, which will impair the state of health to all people who are banging their heads then.
Musical influences you can find a lot on Shine. From Grindcore up to slightly Nu Metal influences. Fans of extreme sounds are bound to buy this masterpiece. A MUST!!! But I still wonder how it could go on with the guys in the future. Will they after Shine break new grounds? How far you can exhaust this special kind of music, without copying yourself any time? And how could a musical development sound? Well, we will see...