Band: Black Thoughts Bleeding
Title: Stomachion
Label: Silverwolf Productions
Distribution: Gordeon Music
Release date: 26/03/2010
Review: CD

Some of you might know this band from the three-track promo-demo Tragedy Of Evolution, which got downloaded more than 15,000 times on the band’s own website. Yes, that’s impressive.
The German quintet has now unleashed their debut full length, Stomachion, which has duration of forty minutes. The album of course goes on in the vein of that 2008-EP/demo. That means that Stomachion stands for a catchy combination of modern and Death-laden Thrash Metal, up-tempo Metalcore and groovy Hardcore. There is some necessary variation in both tempo and musical structure, with a few acoustic parts, both fast and slower pieces, varying vocals (melodic, grunts, screams, choirs etc), and a well-balanced equilibrium emotionality-aggression. However, the total lack of originality is painful. Neaera, Heaven Shall Burn, Caliban, Fall Of Serenity, all of them have influenced this band, and because Black Thoughts Bleeding do not always reach the same qualitative level, the whole might be less interesting (at least outside Germany, you bunch of chauvinistic sissies).
A few breakdowns, some slower parts, and several extreme riffs are, at the other hand, very interesting, and even I have to admit I’m impressed from time to time. However, if this band had an own face, I would be more positive probably. It does annoy me from time to time and that’s sad, in spite of some acceptable efforts.

73/100

Ivan Tibos.