Internal Bleeding
Hello, my friends, hope you are still sane as we continue in this lunatic lockdown. If politicians are criss-crossing the UK, it’s only fair that we take a wander north of the border and visit our Glaswegian cousins, Bleed From Within. They have a ‘Fracture’ y’see and it needs mending, I think. Showing their hand in the Metalcore genre, this rabid little bunch know how to throw a few well-aimed punches, so let’s dance my friends.
We begin with the ominous ‘ The End Of All We Know’ and to be quite honest in our current climate, this is becoming a scenario all too real. Our lives have been thrown into the stratosphere and Lord help us when we have to rummage through the debris and start the rebuilding process. There are mega riffs and a huge chorus to chomp on, so eat up there’s plenty more where this came from.
Whoever emerges on the other side of this hell may need a ‘Pathfinder’ or else find themselves sauntering ‘Into Nothing’ sounds worrying, but if our heroes here can replenish their weary minds and bodies and return with a bang, then so can we. They are breaking out the heavy artillery on this record with lyrics to match. For example, on ‘Fall Away’ we hear how ‘everyday we’re breathing in the mess that you hide’ it is true and quite damning really, a little honesty would be great right about now.
‘Fracture’ is a brilliant word, it can be used in so many settings, physical injury, mental scars, emotional damage, and that fine line when you are teetering on a knife edge, a bit like craquelure in paintings. The erosion is already there, the extent of the dilapidation just bubbling under the surface. As for that ‘fuck it’ at the end, well it’s like I’ve just walked into a door, an almighty THWACK!
The mightily roarsome vocals of Scott Kennedy sit neatly beside the frenetic and at times frenzied guitars, and kick like a maniacal mule drumming, complementing each other, there is a hunger to engage the audience,
As we bravely attempt a ‘Night Crossing’ with our heroes, we call upon the companionship of fellow traveller Matt Heafy ( sigh…swoon…) and are resolute in our aim that ‘our suffering ends tonight’ oh hell yeah! We furiously ‘Ascend’ out of the hole we have been chucked into and build a ‘Utopia’ to share and ‘For All To See’, we are victorious, we have fought out of ‘A Depth that No One Dares’ to approach.
I hope the lads take comfort in the fact that we were still here waiting excitedly for them to come back to us, the light of Rock won’t diminish, we will stand with these bands that struggle to keep producing work under trying circumstances. Kettle’s on boys you’re home now.
Bleed From Within – Fracture out now via Century Media Records