Veil of Ignorance

"They can't keep us down! Still around! Adding something new to the sound!" So the battle cry goes up on Raised Fist's stunning fifth full-length "Veil Of Ignorance". Picking up where 2006's powerful "Sound Of The Republic" left off, and tearing at your ears like a rabid pit-bull on steroids, the Lulea, Sweden quintet are in suitably defiant form after over a decade and a half thrilling audiences around the globe.

Having hit Uppsala, Sweden's respected Studio Dug Out in April 2009, the band got to work with long time producer and friend Daniel Bergstrand (In Flames, Meshuggah) on what is surely their finest effort to date. And Raised Fist have succeeded in their mission for perfection with fourteen tracks of heartfelt defiance and focused bloody-minded rage. Mingling the stomp of old school hardcore, the melodies and groove of modern metal, and the passion and anger of political punk, Veil Of Ignorance is an un-erring look into the mind of a band who've never backed down and never will.

From the fabulously insolent punch of "They Can't Keep Us Down", through the apathy-baiting "Slipping Into Coma", unified front of "City Of Cold" and pain-drenched "My Last Day", to instrumental finale "Out", "Veil Of Ignorance" is an almighty force to be reckoned with.