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Two years after the predecessor ("This Is Love, This Is Murderous"), Mr. Brandon Schieppati and his horde of rude rockers are back on the scene. We are faced with a work that can present different listening keys: on one side, we have the extreme metal-core fans, and on the other, those who also listen to other genres (with whom I identify); trying to be as objective as possible, let's move on to a collective listening (not track-by-track because I would risk unnecessary and boring repetitions).
Primarily, it can be said that the album moves, for almost its entire duration, on very similar coordinates; let's say that after a few listens, you might set aside (as I did) this new work by Bleeding.
We are faced with a devastating metal-core characterized, once again, by the usual inhuman screams interspersed with clean vocals that, over time, can positively impact an album that would otherwise be quite predictable (and here the true metal-corers might not agree too much, I believe...), let's say these latter add the right emotional charge to otherwise bare pieces that are similar to others present in the ensemble (e.g., "Kill To Believe" and "Love In Slow Motion"). What is noticeable in the compositions is the presence of an almost typically Thrash guitar riffage, a tight and bone-crushing drum alternating fast tempos (with hammering double bass, so to speak) and more "slow" and cadenced rhythms. The bass follows the drums and supports the already devastating guitar sound.
So far, so good! In the sense that anyone expecting Bleeding to improvise ultra-technical solos and assorted virtuosities can end their reading here of this review... The discordant note, in my opinion, in their sound is that keyboard that radically peeps in, trying to bring new life to the tracks, but which (with its senseless and repetitive tunes and melodies) trivializes the work (already not very original) done by our guys.
A small change of course comes with the track called "Line In The Sand," where you can hear the band dealing with a very melancholic and slow song, characterized by dark guitar arpeggios and a chorus with a desperate tone; the song immediately brings to mind how bitter the taste of losing something can be or the malaise that can happen to everyone during their course... An attempt to lighten the album succeeded (here the keyboard is not out of place, and there's a noteworthy guitar solo!).
Right after, we return to the usual canons, namely very powerful songs, not very catchy and full of unhealthy sensations, small examples of pure evil always spoiled at the most beautiful moment by a keyboard that starts to annoy the ears of the unlucky (or lucky) listener...
Ultimately, the Bleeding's "worry-free recipe" is not to be completely dismissed, also because, playing their genre in this period, it is truly difficult to be original in any way.
Highly recommended to those who love straightforward melodies without frills and compromises, to those who have suffered wrongs they can't recover from, and to those who are too shy to face difficult life situations; don't worry, Bleeding's malice can help you spit in the face of anyone all your displeasure...
As mentioned above, those looking for virtuosity and endless melody should stay well away from the act in question... For the rest, I still recommend a casual listen to everyone who, after an argument in which they couldn't prevail, considers mistreating someone, let Bleeding Through mistreat your ears with their devastating sound that will help you calm down (or get you definitively aggravated).
Greetings to all the DeBaserians with the hope of having enlightened you on this yet-to-be-reviewed CD. As usual: Rock and Roll!!!
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
02 Confession (02:38)
Yesterday I reached my end.
Now I'm watching you leave me.
And today I feel sick.
I hear voices now.
This girl is killing.
Her face was pale.
She couldn't even shed a single tear
over my lifeless body.
She doesn't realize because she never loved me.
Today I hate myself.
Look at what I've done to you.
See what you've done to me.
You sent me straight to hell.
Now is this confession pointless?
Was my love entirely useless?
Shell never know because I'm face down in the ground.
Undergound.
Face down underground.
Tonight I killed myself.
They said a prayer standing over my body.
Rusty casket, empty funeral.
Is this confession pointless?
Was her love completely truth-less?
She doesn't care even now that I'm gone.
That night you left.
That night I died.
The air was cold, fit for a brilliant suicide.
The night was still.
The night you left was the night I died
05 Kill to Believe (03:57)
Now what do you want from me?
When I've sacrificed my heart so you can be set free
And time will never cure this disease
I'm only left with tired arms to stop from drowning
This,this is loveless
Love,your love is hopeless
Do you you remember
On that night I couldnt find the words to say I'm sorry
If you recall that night you ripped my heart right out
Before saying i loved you
Do you believe in this?
Do you believe in me?
If you believe in love
Would you believe in me?
So what will you take from me?
I'm the man with out a soul, a soul for you to seek
And time will never cure your desease
I'm only left with tired arms to stop from drowning.
Believe in me
I've emptied my soul
Believe in me.
I've killed this disease now
Now, time to shatter your heart
Bring you to your knees
I, I've found the strength to fight on
and stop the bleeding
And I've stopped the bleeding
You're killing, you're not the same to me now got to kill to believe
06 Dearly Demented (05:21)
Give up your heartache
Build your weapon to destroy them all
We have been stabbed to death
Now our hearts replaced with this hole
Eye for an eye
Eye for an eye, life for a life
Together we are as one
The broken and the heartless
Destroy hypocrisy
to eliminate the weak
Behind every plastic smile
lies the blood of humanity
We are the prophets of the night
And we will rise at our given time
Eye for an eye, life for a life
Walk among the hopeless souls
We are coming for you
We are armed to the teeth
Ghost of invincibility
We're coming for you
Dearly demented
The holes in our chest
mark the bravery of slaves
fighting for your life
Hunting for your life
We are whores the condemned
Cus someone else once held our heart
Your broken heart
my broken heart
Your broken hand
your broken heart
eye for an eye
We fight this fight for the hopless romantic
Life for a life
We take this on for the battered and broken
eye for an eye
We fight this fight for the hopeless romantic
life for a life
For those who felt they weren't good enough
And I felt that way
And we all felt that way
Now we are rising up in numbers
And we will no longer be slaves
07 Line in the Sand (04:09)
The line is being drawn through my heart
And we're conceiving fires through our thoughts
You're just like me
This is everything i wanted to tell you
I'm still in love with everthing about you
And I feel the wreckage from everything you do
And I'm tired of still waiting, woah-oh-oh-oh
If i told you the truth now
Would you still leave and take my heart?
And i still feel ugly but you're ugly just like me
When I told you the truth now, would you still leave? Will you ever change?
But i still feel empty
Will i always lose this game?
This is everything i wanted to show you
I'm no longer scared of anything about you
I lived through the damage of heart you took from me
And I'm tired of still wanting
08 She's Gone (01:30)
We are nothing.
A lost cause for a lost cause.
The hourglass is a loaded gun.
Running short of sand.
Breaking every single mirror.
I'm burning every single letter.
You're fading with a hundred pictures on my walls.
We are nothing.
We're fading faster.
We're fighting for another lost cause.
And you're fading fast.
Now you're fading out with the pictures of.
Were fading faster.
Were fighting for another lost cause.
And you're fading faster now.
You're fading out like the pictures on my walls
09 Tragedy of Empty Streets (02:57)
Now buildings are starting to fall
Bricks beginning to break
Your steps are leaving cracks in the sidewalks
Leaving trails of empty streets
And I'm going blind from staring at your eyes
Because they release the fire of a thousand suns
But I've grown so numb I can barely shed a tear
Even if you cut the strings that hold my head up
You're pulling teeth
Ripping flesh so you can lick the blood from your fingers
So break these bones taste my skin
Let my death sing the end of it
So you can do no more damage
So you collect no more trophies
Let me be the last
Let no one feel how I feel
This tragedy began with me
So let it end with me
From your hell I've become this numb
I wish this pain on no one
Behind your smile
Beneath your lungs
I hope your darkness comes
This tragedy began with me
So let it end with me
I tried to be what you wanted me to be
And I'm sorry that I can never be perfect for you
But everytime I look in the the mirror
I see your eyes staring right back at me
And I dont want it anymore
I hope you're fucking happy
10 Return to Sender (04:20)
We're hated
We're bleeding
We're loving
You're losing
Our lives are all about to change
There go the lights to the world I've made in my head now.
Ill make the stand.
Ill scratch out my eyes.
I won't stop til you are dead.
I hope that and pray that one day you will realize.
You were always my biggest inspiration.
The pain you've caused has built who I've become.
Now we might as well be strangers.
Won't be a corpse so you can drag your dead.
I've been blessed by the fires.
By the fires of your hell.
We're hated
We're bleeding
We're loving
You're losing
11 Hollywood Prison (02:52)
Since you left I've found myself locked in another prison
But your bars and chains can't take the heart of this man
Without you my skies are always gray.
Now I'm seeing read through a different face.
What can I say that hasn't been said before?
I wrote your name in blood on my prison walls
And without your contact those memories are all I have
So I can't feel alone I'll never be alone
The chemicals arn't aligned
Now I'm struggling to find your fucking spine
I'll rip out your spine
You can take my pain
But you can't have my heart
You can lock me in this cold dark cell
But you can't have my heart
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