Bleeding Through - Bleeding Through
Metal gang impress on their new longplayer.
This is something special. This is metal at its finest. Bleeding Through’s new self titled album delivers on all the promises made on 2008’s mighty ‘Declaration’, but it’s clear you need time with this one, otherwise the album might be mistaken as one long song. It’s no one trick note though, it’s just the layers are so intricate that it takes a while to savour them all.
We open with the haunting ‘A Resurrection’ which sets the mood before all hell is let loose. With some negativity still surrounding the band from metal fans, Bleeding Through have become the wounded animal you want to pet but risk losing your arm to if you get too close. It’s a brutal album, with former No Use for a Name guitarist Dave Nassie delivering pure uncut aggression, driving every note onwards to sweet oblivion. These intentions are made immediately clear on second track, ‘Anti-Hero’ and continue with ‘Your Abandonment’ and ‘Fifteen Minutes’. The latter offering no let up as lead singer Brandon Schieppati screams "I’ll ruin your fucking life" like he means it and resulting in an overwhelmingly vicious assault. With ‘Salvation Never Found’ drummer Derek Youngsma steps up to the plate, the thrash intensity is absolutely crushing before it gradually uncoils its ferocity, revealing the best song on the album.
Marta Peterson’s keyboards come into their own on this new album, ensuring Bleeding Through sound like no one else and duly take the lead on ‘Breathing in the Wrath’, finding their most effective use in the slow chorus which holds the song together and makes an interesting counter to Youngsma’s relentless thrashing drums. ‘This Time Nothing is Sacred’ ticks all the right boxes, epitomising Brandon’s continued disregard for failed relationships as he screams "You’re just a face I used to know!" The thunder resumes with ‘Drag me to the Ocean’, employing machine gun riffs not unlike early Fear Factory. It’s another stand out of raw brutality. The album closes with the nearest thing to a single, ‘Distortion, Devotion’; the chorus sung as opposed to screamed as Schieppati finally releases his superior melodic voice over the anger.
‘Bleeding Through’ is the natural successor to ‘Declaration’, as the more accessible sound of ‘The Truth’ becomes a distant memory, and something they've obviously tried very hard to achieve. This is metal war itself and a reminder to all the new so-called 'metal' acts how heavy and brilliant this genre really can be.
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