Poverty's No Crime - A Secret To Hide (2021)

Poverty's No Crime's new studio album "A Secret To Hide" will be released on April 30 through Metalville Records. There is a lot to discover! Just in time for the band's 30th anniversary, the eighth album by the German constant in prog metal is released. After the release of the successful predecessor "Spiral Of Fear" in 2016 and the joint tour with Psychotic Waltz, the band was quickly back in work mode. "The band was back in full force", singer/guitarist Volker Walsemann sums up the situation. "That really gave us a boost after being barely active for so long. We took a lot of inspiration from that time. The great response to the album and then being on stage together again were the main motivation for us to tackle this album and put all our energy into it." The result is a musically multifaceted work that dares to break out of the genre boundaries again and again. It is hard melodic rock music, which is sometimes more rock and sometimes going more clearly in the direction of metal. The band shapes its own style, taking the freedom to elaborate its songs in detail. Poverty's No Crime shows a consistent feeling for catchy melodies and always knows how to put the skills on the instruments in the service of the song. "A Secret To Hide" impresses with many details, precisely worked out instrumental passages and coherent, crisp hooklines.

Once again, the album was mixed and mastered by DGM guitarist and mastermind Simone Mularoni at Domination Studio in San Marino. That Poverty's No Crime and Mularoni have become a well-rehearsed team in the meantime is shown by the wall of sound with which the album impresses. A clearly impressive listening impression that gives space to all instruments, but also has powerful pressure and intensity.

"With this album we want to give courage and self-confidence to all people in these difficult times", explains Volker, who started writing the lyrics at the beginning of the lockdown in 2020. A time when everyone's life was turned upside down. "Music is not just entertainment for us, but it is intense interaction in one's own thought processes. This is expressed not only musically, but especially in the lyrics. Lyrically, I process what I wouldn't say to anyone else like that, but can say through the music: my inner attitude towards life."