### Bleeding Through: Bleeding through

#### 29/07/10 || Trauma

Allow me to quote something in the first music track on this album: “I’m not impressed with a fucken thing you do”. I could end this review with that line alone and make a whole review out of only that. But you see, I have this thing called integrity and even when presented with music that would otherwise make me turn it off and throw the piece of plastic it came from out the window, in the trash, at your face… I will still write about it like I signed up to do.

Apparently the thing to do is just add a bunch of keyboards and orchestral effects into your music to try and make it stand out as something unique. Let me just say that speaks volumes at how shitty the style presented here is: metalcore, if you have no idea. That genre in which very, very, very, very few bands even have a discernible identity that is not equated with the words shit, buckets of cum, manure, scheisse, poo, wee-wee, or anything similar. They keyboards add nothing to this music and I really doubt they ever did, though an authority on this band I am not. Then the intro track: that’s another abomination, especially with this music. It serves no real purpose. It doesn’t build you up to this “assault” that you’re given. It’s more like a fucken water-balloon fight, what with the weak production of the guitars and drums. It has very little punch and no power. I can’t hear the bass in 90% of the record, either, six-hundred-and-sixty-six strings or not.

The guys can handle their instruments fine, and that’s even more disheartening that they choose to go this route with music. There is little to no substance and after you digest it, you just want to forget about whatever it was you just heard. I wrote that sentence during tracks 1, 2, and 3. I’m on track 4 and can’t remember a goddamn thing from the previous songs. And I’ve already heard this album 4 times since I’m also writing it for Audio Autopsy. Almost forgot, there are those annoying metalcore clean vocals on here.

Ok, I’ve about exhausted thoughts here. I have no choice but to hand out a big, fat, gigantic low score.

- Information
- Released: 2010
- Label: Rise Records
- Website: Bleeding Through Myspace
- Band
- Brandan Schieppatti: vocals
- Brian Leppke: guitar
- Dave Nassie: guitar
- Ryan Wombacher: bass, vocals
- Marta Peterson: keyboards
- Derek Youngsma: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. A resurrection
- 02. Anti-hero
- 03. Your abandonment
- 04. Fifteen minutes
- 05. Salvation never found
- 06. Breathing in the wrath
- 07. This time nothing is sacred
- 08. Divide the armies
- 09. Drag me to the ocean
- 10. Light my eyes
- 11. Slow your roll
- 12. Distortion, devotion