"Bleeding Through" CD by Bleeding Through

by Markus Eck (01.04.2010) This is really modern stuff spiced with some rough Thrash influences. You'll get great guitar work, symphonic parts, but still, this is tough as nails, fast, versatile Metalcore. Most mentionable: the brutal riffing, precise as a surgeon's knife. "Bleeding Through" provides you with your daily dose of hate and ire - aptly delivered by the band's crazy, psychotic vocalist, supported by his also mad companions wielding their weapons like there's no tomorrow.

by Terry Bezer (07.04.2010) Californian metalcore heroes get their defining moment WHEN a band decides to self-title their album, it’s a statement that says, ‘This is the album that defines our band’, and that is exactly what Bleeding Through have managed here. This is the first time in their existence that they haven’t really tried their hand towards something new; instead they’ve managed to take the chainsaw guitars and floor-pounding beatdowns of This Is Love, the melodic nous of The Truth and the blastbeats and black metal influences that were all over Declaration and concoct an album that melds together everything that is great about Bleeding Through into one brutally impressive package. Vocalist Brandan Schiepatti’s clean vocals get stronger with every album and Divide The Armies contains his greatest hook to date (although the production does see him stray dangerously into boy-band territory on occasion). Marta Peterson’s keyboards are again a vital component that swarm lusciously all over the blood and thunder of Breathing In The Wrath and add atmospherics to the likes of Anti-Hero and Your Abandonment. It’s also testament to the variation in Bleeding Through’s assault that they can viciously pummel your senses for the album’s duration without ever drifting into cliché or becoming one-dimensional whatso-ever. Encompassing and amplifying every element that has made them one of the pioneering forces in metalcore, Bleeding Through is yet another triumph for one of the most consistent bands within our world.