Empowerment returns six years after their debut Gegen.Kult and publishes their second work called Benglo. And one thing in advance: the long wait was worth it! As to be expected, the Stuttgart band will burn down a lot of fireworks and set a big exclamation mark when it comes to hardcore and punk rock. Critical, snappy, reflective - all adjectives that describe Empowerment's second album quite well. The band is always extremely socially critical on Bengalo and score with very intelligent, mature and above all meaningful lyrics that take a clear stand. Like their predecessor, there are anything but 0815 songs with clich?d themes, which are taken up by every second hardcore band. empowerment Frontman Jogges, who plays the German songs in the slightly Swabian dialect in an entirely unaffected way, provides a special recognition value. Empowerment doesn't change on the whole record and doesn't adapt to any trends - here many bands should take an example, because that's exactly what hardcore and punk is all about, isn't it? Be yourself! Musically, empowerment is not reinvented and still produce New York-style hardcore sound, which comes along with a good portion of German punk. If one had to describe the Swabians with three bands, Cro-Mags, Slime and Killing Time would come to mind. Even though all three acts mentioned above all belong to the "old school", empowerment doesn't sound old-fashioned, but on Bengalo they skilfully manage the balancing act between old- and newschool. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator
