Poverty's No Crime are rich. Rich in experience, after all, the band has existed for 30 years, 20 of which were completed in the current line-up alone. Rich in creativity, with "A Secret To Hide" the number of released albums rises to eight. And rich in musical competence, their melodic progressive metal has maintained an amazing qualitative and stylistic consistency over all this time. The quintet is correspondingly well-rehearsed, and the fact that - due to the pandemic - they weren't able to meet in person once during the recordings this time didn't pose a major challenge: "We've been making music together for so long, there's a consensus among us as to how things should go. There are hardly any controversies, we have found an effective division of labour", explains singer and guitarist Volker Walsemann
