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Doomrider 3:130:00/3:13
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Dark Desires 5:110:00/5:11
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As Shadows Fall 1:040:00/1:04
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What Darkness Brings 5:400:00/5:40
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Heaven Shall Forsake 4:230:00/4:23
Shares and reviews
Not sure how to categorize these, but here is a list of websites that have shared our PR package on our latest single, Existence Denied.
More to be added!!! Thanks to everyone that has shared our single, reviewed our music, or supported us in any way. We can't do this without you!!! |
Wormwood Chronicles Magazine
Reviewed on March 2024 By Dr. Abner Mality
Steve White, the main songwriter for Arizona's NEVER REBORN, must be a veteran metal graybeard like The Good Doctor. He mentions he wrote one of the songs here all the way back in 1984! But I could detect the scent of a true 80's metal head wafting all over "Ashes Of Our Past" even without that bit of information. This tree has some very deep roots.
NEVER REBORN has a sound like a bulldozer. It just trudges over everything in a steady path of destruction. The band's riffing is curious in that it sounds like thrash, but there's not that much speed. And the approach works...there's a steady grinding power behind cuts like "Never Reborn", "Existence Denied" and especially the killer "Children Of Fire" that plows you into the asphalt. There's nothing technical about it....it's just sheer brute force.
The vocals also help make the band memorable. They are a kind of angry raspy sneer....not black or death metal, but definitely PISSED and harsh sounding. They fit like a glove. Elsewhere, there are "true" metal riffs backing up the title track and "Requiem"(World of Hurt) that show NEVER REBORN has listened to their fair share of PRIEST and ACCEPT albums. The one complaint I would make is that some songs like "Existence Denied" and "Haunted Eternally" are just too long, leading to some monotony.. A couple of minutes clipped from these would have helped both.
I had zero expectations when I pressed play on "Ashes Of Our Past", but was pleasantly surprised to get a 50 ton weight dropped on my head....this is HEAVY!
METAL DIGEST - THE NORMLESS MUSIC MAGAZINE
Album Title: Ashes of Our Past
Reviewed on November 10, 2023
There are those bands which hit the ground running and nothing stays the same again. Yes, I did just manage to squeeze in a Van Halen lyric. This flying start applies to Never Reborn and after the Arizona band delivered their superb EP in 2020, Never Reborn are back with their full-length debut album ‘Ashes of Our Past’.
If you didn’t get the chance to hear that EP, then ‘Ashes of Our Past’ offers the chance to rectify this situation with an album of pummelling metal which takes in huge elements of thrash, black and death metal to get its sound across. Yet, Never Reborn aren’t continuing to rehash their EP sound, ‘Ashes of Our Past’ shows that the band have expanded on their sound without venturing into the realms of avant-garde or post metal bollocks. This is delivered with thunderous double bass drum blasts and pneumatic riffs where tracks such as ‘Children of Fire’, ‘Death March Armageddon’ and ‘Fallen One’ show all the grimness of Celtic Frost, Hellhammer and Bathory and early Kreator, Sepultura and Pestilence.
There is no other way to really describe ‘Ashes of Our Past’ other than excellent. It is an absolutely fantastic album and any fan of 80’s style black/thrash/death should get on this because it really is one of the best underground albums of 2023.
Adam McCann
SUBTLE DEATH MAGAZINE
Never Reborn - Ashes of Our Past
Reviewed By Subtle Death Magazine
Wednesday July 19 2023
Metalczine: Chris Forbes’s Metal Reviews #13
Album Title: Ashes of Our Past
Reviewed on May 9th, 2023
A decent mix of thrash meets Kreator, by Kreator, I mean in the vocals as the signet could pass for Mille. The music is thrash metal with bits and pieces of death metal. The music is fairly catchy and not just generic thrash and having a singer that sounds like Mille is a plus as well.
Chris Forbes