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- Band:
Bleed from Within - Duration: 00:47:12
- Available since: 04/04/2025
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The Scottish Bleed from Within are one of those bands that has built their career with effort and dedication, one piece at a time, basing its credibility on intense live performances and an artistic path marked by a gradual evolution, capable of generating sensitive changes without however tears that could remove their fanbase.
We followed them from the Deathcore debuts passing through the Groove/Metalcore transition à la Lamb of God, up to the recent “Shrine” that played the 'Parkway Drive' card by voting towards a powerful and simplified sound, the same that made Australians that monstrous live car in the footsteps of the Rammstein.
The seventh album in the studio of ours, “Zenith”, continues on the same path and focuses everything in that direction, vehemence and, fortunately, a minimum of personality and ambition. Cancel from the memory complex arrangements, technical rifferia, long gays and dark moments and atmospheric moments: the new course is directed, simplified and immediate, a mix of metalcore, groove metal and melo-death that incorporates melodic voices, quiet passages, opera songs, thin arches, digital beats and acoustic guitar arpeggios.
Songs such as “Violent Nature” and “God Complex” focus everything on the immediate assimilation, with a contagious impact designed for a random listener in the endless festivals to which the Scottish aims. In expanding your horizons at least you try at least to do it with an original step, without following the path traced by the Bring Me The Horizon like all: the frames of “in Place of Your Halo” are therefore welcome, as well as the bewitching female voices of “Zenith”.
For the first time ever, moreover, we find guests: Brann Dailor dei Mastodon is certainly the most unexpected, giving the best possible personification of Howard Jones of the Killswitch Engage in the symphonic and epic “Immortal Desire”. The contribution of Josh Middleton of the sylosis is more canonical, who plays at home in the cadenced metalcore of “Hands of Sin”.
Perhaps the ending “Edge of Infinity” flaws for an excessive search for pathos, but overall “Zenith”, with its magnitude, its trust and creative touches, could easily be that breaking album that will deliver the Glasgow band to the mainstream allowing the jump to the general public: only a large hit will be needed, among the different potential candidates in this album, to guarantee the Bleed from Within A new dimension.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
