### Bleeding Through: This is love, this is murderous

#### 06/05/04 || Lord K Philipson

In the latest edition of Sweden’s biggest metal-magazine, Close-Up, these guys were featured. Why do I bring this up? Becoz their name is Bleeding Through and on their photo in the article they were standing semi-covered in blood. When I say “semi-covered” I mean exactly that. They stand there, in all their glory, with a small ammount of blood on each member, like if they were thinking “I don’t want to destroy my clothes so let’s just put a little blood here and there shall we?”. Worst of all is the fucken chick in the band who’s got an even smaller ammount of blood in her face. Too fucken concerned about the make-up I guess? You should be, you are ugly enough without it being messed up.

Excuse me for that one dear, I just couldn’t help myself. (Oh yes I could, I just didn’t feel like it)

From this very moment, I knew these guys were weaklings. If you are going to use blood in photo-shoots, POUR it all over you, cowards. Fuck the clothes, you DO play metal, right?

Anyways… Bleeding Through sounds like I pictured them: Fart-metal. You know, the kind of metal that balances on the edge of being brutal, but after all it really isn’t. It’s weird, they throw in some blastbeats here and there, but it just fucken won’t make these guys especially heavy. Maybe I’m just pissed becoz of the piss-poor photo, maybe I’m just tired after tonight’s NHL-game, but they just don’t cut it as heavy-as-all-fuck.

Bleeding Through (they should change their name to Bleeding a Little Here and There) make sure we know they heard a few tunes by both Pantera, Pain, Slipknot, In Flames, and The Haunted before recording this album. It’s aggro-metal with a few keyboards thrown into the background. That keyboard sounds way out of place in this kind of music, but I guess this feature makes them think they are so fucken extra-super-special and original. Well guys, sorry to break this to you, but you are not extra-super-special and original. And on top of it, the keyboard-sound used for 90% of the time is ass.

Did I mention they sport some blastbeats here and there? Well, no blastbeat in the world can help happy metal-riffs to become brutal you know. I think that’s the whole problem with Bleeding Through: they want to have brutality in there, but as they throw in clean vocals, accoustic passages, and cheesy riffing in the cock-tail, the effect gets lost. No matter how hard they try, in the end it just sounds weak. When I hear their band name, I’m not thinking “Wow, those guys are brutal”. It’s more like “Damn, Calgary eliminated Detroit in the playoffs, who fucken knew?”.

The production isn’t exactly the best thing since I last shaved my girlfriend either. The guitar-sound is pretty lame and there’s no punch to the overall sound. Probably exactly as they wanted it (why would anyone want that by the way?). Considering the above-mentioned photo, they seem to dig doing stuff half-assed.

Bleeding From Time to Time are nothing special. They offer nothing exciting whatsoever. And that’s probably the way they like it: to be just another B-league aggro-band.

Well…

Congrats fuckers, you succeeded.

3 /10. Bleeding Through is not a wound, it’s a very, very small cut. And with a keyboard-player named Marta, I’m probably overrating this.

- Information
- Released: 2002
- Label: Trustkill Records
- Website: www.bleedingthrough.com
- Band
- Brandan Schieppati: vocals
- Marta: keyboards
- Scott Danough: guitar
- Derek Youngsma: drums
- Brian Leppke: guitar
- Ryan Wombacher: bass

- Tracklist
- 01. Love Lost In A Hale Of Gunfire
- 02. Sweet Vampirous
- 03. Number Seven With A Bullet
- 04. On Wings Of Lead
- 05. What I Bleed Without You
- 06. This Is Love, This Is Murderous
- 07. City Of The Condemned
- 08. Mutilation
- 09. Murder By Numbers
- 10. Dead Like Me
- 11. Shadow Walker
- 12. Revenge I Seek