6th July 2022

Review: “Rage” by Bleeding Through

“Screaming into a microphone and playing music with my friends after 20 plus years and after a pandemic seemed like an impossibility. Low and behold here we are creating music again. Personally the last few years has been a total mental battle. This music is my weapon against doubt and depression. The song ‘Rage‘ was created with the anger and frustration built up over the last few years. This song is us joining the fight to have music heal a struggling world. ‘Rage‘ is the sound of 20 plus years as a band and years of built up aggression. No bullshit. Straight up Bleeding Through.” ~ Brandan Schieppati

Drummer Derek Youngsma brings the blasts as the band begin the catharsis with “Piss You Away“, a blue touch paper lighting instant classic with all the trademark stylings of the best of Bleeding Through. Gang chants alongside intertwining clean vocal harmonies between Schieppati and Marta Peterson are stunning, her icy keys adding symphonic flare while the band maintain those Hardcore roots. It’s quite literally as if the band had never been away and in all seriousness this one wouldn’t have been out of place if it had appeared on any one of their previous records, it’s that good. The same could be said of “Damage Done“, a real showcase for the talents of Peterson whose icy keys, solo burst and organ moments are essential to creating the melancholic atmosphere which makes the big sing-a-long chorus stand out for another classic moment fuelled by lyrical themes that run on personal struggles, love, loss, pain and hate. That leads into a final colossal breakdown section that proves why the band still refer to themselves as a Hardcore band, one which is an instant call to the pit. Arguably the darkest of this holy trinity of new cuts is single “Rage“, cutting with razor sharp sinister riffs and a pair of face melting solos and arsonistic tendencies, the synths making it sound like it belongs on the soundtrack to a futurist Vampire movie. Once again melancholic and metaphorical, it’s a cathartic release with all the brutal tendencies that make and have made the band an essential one over the past two decades, the return of much loved Orange County Metalcore veterans Bleeding Through four years after “Love Will Kill All” is very much a welcome one [8/10]

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