| CD REVIEW Bleeding Through |
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Band: Bleeding Through Bleeding Through certainly is one of the best American Metalcore / Deathcore bands, and from all the bands the members are involved with (like: Cast In Stone, Throwdown or Eighteen Visions), this one may be the best. Declaration is the band’s fifth full length and lasts for 49:29 minutes. This might be the most brutal and intense album to date, I guess, and more than before, Extreme / Death Metal influences are of huge importance. After the classical-symphonic-orchestral instrumental opener Finis Fatalis Spei, with violins and cello, all Hell breaks loose with the title track, having a very Black Metal-oriented atmosphere. These blackened elements are not uncommon on this album and I do appreciate this nice evilution. The strongly Gothenburg-influenced riffs made room for much heavier and more intense guitar riffs and rhythms, and additional ingredients as Groove, Hardcore, Doom, Thrash, Black, and Death Metal, make this band different from the sad current Metalcore-scene (and from their former recordings). Also the subtle yet important use of atmospheric keyboards (which in fact isn’t that new) in some parts is just sublime. The compositions are very intelligent, the performance of each single member is well-balanced, and the sound, done by nobody else but Devin Townsend, nicely accompanies the raging and furious intensity of this release. Declaration is Bleeding Through’s most atmospheric, most brutal, most convincing, most emotional and most mature album to date, and it’s their first one I do really like a lot! 85/100 Ivan Tibos. |