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This Is Love, This Is Murderous

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With "This is Love, This is Murderous", Bleeding Through has proven that they are here to stay. Another awesome album.

Musically, they have gotten much better. While their older albums were awesome, some songs got a little repetitive, and it seemed at times like they were playing the same chaotic stuff over and over. This time, the guitar riffs are much more defined, there are nice break-downs in the song where the mind-numbing brutality slows down for a few seconds, and the singer now does much more than just screaming. Also, the keyboard is much more involved, whereas she barely seemed needed on the last album.

I haven't listened to it enough to say whether or not it is better than their other two albums. At this point I would say no, "Portrait" is just an insane album and I don't think this tops it, but again, I have to listen to this one more.

They've gone just a bit away from the hardcore stuff and have gotten slightly more melodic. To some of you that may be good, to some bad, depending on your taste.

I think Bleeding Through is the best heavy band out there right now, I can't wait to see them on tour with AFI, and I suggest that you all check this album out!

Bleeding Through may at times appear to be a corny band by image,
they look like a bunch of gothic high-school kids.But I saw a clip of these guys live in a concert going nut's and gettin pit's
goin in some club and new I wanted to hear more.So my freind burn
-ed me a copy of this disc and I can't get enough.This band is
among one of the greatest band's I know of especially in the new
breed of American Heavy Metal speer-headed by bands like Lamb Of
God,Shadow's Fall,Killswitch Engage,Chimaira,e.t.c these guys
have great chemistry and know what they're doing with killer
riff's,solo's,blast beats,insane double bass,and insane vocals
from the former eighteen visions guitar player.This band can go
toe to toe with anyone and number 7 the opening riff is like a
clone of the one on Slayer's classic Raining Blood.Track #'s 1,4
,7,6 are standouts but all are good.Going on tour with Chimaira,
Soilwork,and AS I Lay Dying.I think Bleeding Through will kick
all there asses,YEAH THATS HOW GOOD THEY ARE....

This Is Love, This Is Murderous is, in my opinion, Bleeding Through's best effort to date. It has the best sound, the best lyrics, and best vocals. When I heard this album for the first time about a year or so ago, I couldnt wait for their next. Then when "The Truth" did come out, I was somewhat disappointed. They took a turn in the more generic Metalcore direction. Its more commercial. Sure, its still a decent album, but just not as good as this one. This album doesnt have that. Neither to their other first two.

Now, this album is not a masterpiece by any means. What this album does lack is the keyboard sounds. Which are a strong point on "The Truth". I mean, if you have a keyboardist, then use her! Some songs lack inspiration. They just sound the same...I dont know why bands would do that. Its like an over use of the Death Metal blast beat, except with groove guitar riffs being over used. What I do like about this album are the vocals most especially. Branden is a great vocalist, and he really can LEAD the band along. If you want to hear how Metalcore should be played then buy this album. Its a Metalcore classic.

Let me start off by saying I saw bleeding through live in Corona, CA about a year and a half ago. It was definately the best show I had been to up to that point. They turned that place into a bloodbath... literally you should have seen the walls and floor in the bathroom. I mean I was lucky not to be one of the people leaving the pit in an ambulence.
Their other album porrait of a godess did not leave my car cd player for about 2 months and I still listen to it all the time. If you want the good bleeding through cd get that one. Warning: it will make you want to break everything in sight and set things on fire.
Of coarse I wanted to be the first one on my block to have the new BT so I bought it the first day it came out and man was I dissapointed. Their are 3-4 very good songs on that album so it is worth hearing. The rest of the songs sounded like they could have been slopped together during a four day weekend. Another thing that sucked is the sound quality was really lacking the drum sound kind of tinny and the bass...did they even use a bass? and those insane breakdowns bleeding through is known for were substandard to say the least.
Bleeding Through is a very talented band and I am sure once they go back to the drawing board they will be able to put together an album even better than portrait of a godess.

I am reminded why most peoples opions arn't worth listening to. Ok so lets go back to 97 I think it was.. with what was my favorite hardcore album, and that had such a metal vibe I supose you could throw it into to metalcore genre, and that was strifes, in this defiance. This was my all time fav, and as I listen to BT album I can hear alot of strifes influence in thier work, but to say they ripped them off isn't acurate as there again are alot of difrrent influences in this album. To me alot of what was once called newschool hardcore always bored me to tears.. Personaly it was old school NYC hardcore that always intrested me the most. Earth Crisis had such a huge impact on hardcore yet had to be the most boring music I had heard at that time. It wasn't until the last album did I even bother to listen to them. I to this day still don't like hatebreed. The first album was ok, but perseverance suffered the same problems that alot of pure newschool hardcore does as it sounds to me like a chugging contest with random power chords at monotnous speeds. Perseverance was good message but... bored me. I see the problem people have with some of the songs, sounding to similar but even tho they are, to me can still hold my intrest longer than a lot of things. I supose if you really hate metalcore then you should be blaming strife for that. Though at the time it wasn't called metalcore, but I see so much of it in BT music. I have been gone from this scene for 5-6 years, and what marked my return was this album. Funny only to see people trash it. I also love the haunted and respect them highly and I don't see why the haunted would make any postive comments about them for no reason.

I give this album 4 stars only because as much as I liked the rather omonius sounding key boards, they could use some refinement, the clean vocals were excellent yet not used enough. Unfortnatly if they used the clean vocals more, more people would say they are ateryu rip offs, when BT came first. And concerning ateryu, they are not metal core (well the curse really wasn't) and my personal opions about them is that thier clean vocals sound alot of times really gay and the whole goth influence ruins alot of songs with gay lyrics and melodies and that there are lot of more intresting metal bands. And lastly four stars for a few weak songs and the last one I belive it was with the overly exsesive cursing.

But the lyrics? I can't tell you how much I can relate to them. I am a dignosed schizophrenic and the doctor told me go see a psycatrist yet he didn't refill the anti depressant I was on so I got dropped off it, got severly depressed, trying to come to tearms with my new found illness and my girlfriend who I needed more then ever before and I to this day will never need anyone that much ever again, said to me she couldn't be there for me because of her dream to be in broadway and this play was eatting up all her time. Ya so she let me go crazy, sucidal, and I ended up in the hospital, and did she ever vist me? Never and she came back later to me explaining how it was my fault and she was willing to forgive me!.... That was the first time in my life that I felt like I wanted to kill some one....

But this is an opion and most opions are worthless if you ask me and nobody should waste their time listening and letting other people make up thier minds for them. If you listen to it and like what you hear, you shouldn't have to waste your time listening to other people anyhow. Go to trustkill records, there are a few free songs. I only write this as a means of damage control and the fact that I refuse to let people trash perfectly good music.

I'm going to try to make this review as short, sweet, and objective as possible while still covering all aspects of the album.

About 1/3 of this album is absolutely incredible. "Love Lost in a Hail of Gunfire," "Number Seven with a Bullet," "On Wings of Lead," and "City of the Condemned" are all amazing tracks that display the band's obvious talent in both the areas of songwriting and musicianship. The band plays like a machine, positively hell-bent on creating the most brutal, invigorating music possible and undeniably succeeding.

Another 1/3 of this album is decent or perhaps slightly above average. "Sweet Vampirous," the title track, "Shadow Walker," and "Revenge I seek" have gotten stuck in my head before, but do not approach the quality of the four tracks in the previous paragraph.

The other 1/3 of this album is totally inane, uninteresting filler. I'll probably never listen to "What I Bleed Without You," "Mutilation," "Murder by Numbers," and "Dead Like Me" ever again. They're just way too boring.

The lyrics: Pretty awful, but then again, so are the lyrics for most metalcore bands, and no one listens to this kind of music expecting eloquent poetry.

Bottom line: A good metalcore release that is sure to please fans of the genre.

What the hell is wrong with you people? Who gives a crap if they look like hot topic kids. These are hot topic kids with talent. Who gives a crap about their image. The music is definately good. I have a friend that actually likes cryptopsy, strapping young lad, deicide, in flames (not the new stuff), dimension zero, and at the gates and he actually said this cd is impressive. However, when he found out that these hot topic kids were also straight-edgers, he lost a lot of respect for them...as did I. But still, the music is good...there's no denying that. I don't understand how you people could call yourselves intelligent and then go and make a superficial and shallow judgement of a band just because of their image. If you people had only heard the music and had not seen what the band looked like and had never heard of their image or the name of the band, I guarantee that you would have gave them a higher rating. Instead, you let your idiocy get the best of you once again.

If you've read my reviews of Bleeding Through's other albums, it's pretty easy to say I hold these guys on a high pedestal. This release is no different and I hold my opinion of them being the "Hero's of the Underground". After releasing an album on a somewhat major record label you'd think they'd compromise their sound for the masses...but that's not the case. These guys have been touring in Vegas since 1999/2000 before their release of "Dust to Ashes" and their shows and music have just gotten even more brutal. Recently they opened up for Dimmu Borgir here and the response for them was almost better than that of Dimmu. You can't deny the talent that B.T. emulates from every release they have. The only difference is the sound quality on this record is amazing compared to their earlier works, that's it. The brutality of Cannibal Corpse with the song arrangements and melodies of old In Flames is the driving force for this band. "Skeleton Thin Boys" get broken at B.T.'s shows from skinheads and moshers, so anyone who makes comments like those needs to go listen to their 80's buttrock and not review real metal. The front lines of metal were silent for awhile because after bands like HATE, Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Kataklysm and Crimson Thorn came out long ago there really hasn't been any good new bands. This band exploded out on the scene to prove us wrong and created a path of destruction since they've been conceived. Songs like "Number Seven With a Bullet" and "Mutilation" are mosh anthems of violence and carnage set at break neck speed. The use of occasional melodies like the ones in "On Wings of Lead" or "Love Lost in a Hail of Gunfire" are amazing because they don't take away from chaotic music that ensues around it. As long as their music stays to the formula that they have become accustomed to this band can do no wrong and will always be the "hero's of the underground." Just try to go to one of their shows and act like a bad@$$ and you'll be broken like when teeth meet the steeltoe.

Every negitive review, those one star reviews are made for one reason politics. I see time and time again how peopleabuse the goodwill of internet sites who allow consumer reviews. I once bought a dvd program off the internet and to my suprise it was featured on download.com and I personaly had no complaints about the product and thought it was a great decoder with excellent picture quality, now either I am blind and wrote this review though divination or it really was just fine but It recived votes in the 17% ratio for those who WOUlD recomend the product! They all said get power dvd instead! and I looked there and the rating ratio was just the same it was 17% range for Recomendation. The rewiews were absoltely outragous with not one ounce of creditbilty. I am both a musican and a artist, so when I see the crap that spews out of the mouths of those who either have the atttion span of a goldfish, wich by the way is 30seconds, or they are the stupid counter culture puppets of misinformation. Do you even read the reveiws that professional reviewers write? There have been a plethera of positve reviews! GO to the trustkill site for yourself. And the song the only song with the huge amount of cursing is a perviously released track remasted!!! OHHHH!!!! and so is the one right before it!!!! IT says so one the site!!!! Maybe really you must not like their older stuff then. And those complaing about the lyrics they arn't horrible go to a lyric site and read for yourself the REST of the lyrics, they may not be as good as the previous record but in know way is it horrible!!! The site I go to for lyrics says how many people have looked at the lyrics and when I look at the lyrics like classic hardcore like snapcase it reads under 750 views and when I look at bleeding through its in the 5000 range!!! This is all counter culture crap thats so tried... Yes its more popular than snapcase progression through unlearning! No one complains about that cd.. no one... But this cd!! oooo its diffrent cause ooohhh I am sorry people actually like it! And as far as hot topic goes get a life. I don't jugde people by what they ware and I could careless if they even shopped at old navy it makes no diffrence.. Ohh it just so happens that the keyboardist is a chic so what she helps give the band the much need edge with keybaords as far as I am concerned. It gives the music another dimension and makes it so much more dynamic.. Which is just a show of I dunno good musical composition which something so few of you must know something about. Its not really all that much like hardcore but I also am a big fan of scandinavian death metal and I think they are just as good as the haunted who I love! And look at hatebreed ok they went to a major lable but the music hasn't change they are still giving people a sence of positve motivation. How many pop culture crap tell people about perseverance? Lets look at pop music long ago it was a title given to popular music but now its an entirly diffrent music style then what is popular. lets look at this logically pop music = always popular? NO Popular music= always pop? NO there is plenty of pop music that is not popular! So is the same with pop culture.. WHAT YOU RETARDS DON"T KNOW IS POP CULTURE IS THE WORLDS ORIGINAL COUNTER CULTURE!!! OHHH YOU PEOPLE DON"T HAVE CLUE!! What is pop culture? its an attuide its all about the word cool, cool more or less is a philosphy base on existentialism and the major art movment called moderism! which is everthing that culture has been based apon in the entire 20th century. If you want to counter a culture you need to create a philiosy on wich it is based on as all ALL art is based on philoisphy such as classiasim the romatic era ect. What you problably don't know is that the counter culture is still based on what we would call cool as a philosopy. The thing about existentialism is it all about unrationalilty so often times the thing you find to be cool are for unrational reasons as the same reason why andy warhols pitcure of soup canscool. If you can find a rational reason to take a picture of soup cans you must be dumb and have never had a final expriance before. As I am showing you if you have a problem with pop culture the task ahead of you is virtualy impossible. You would have to convince every single person on the face of this earth to stop thinking indivdually and tell everyone to think based apon public opion alone such as universal rights and wrongs. Can you do that? Umm I wonder. And as far as a review goes This cd sounds exactly as trust kill explains it. It will apeal to harcore kids and fans of tecnical scandinavian style metal. I feal Like I am the only one in this world who isn't blind!!! All I can say is read a book! If you want to expliot the good will of amazon for political purposes I will find you out and again make you look like the complete idiot that you are. Excellent cd!!! Stop acting like elitest smack tards.. Ya there are things that are better but not by much I think the crown is excellent but they arn't eveyone's cup of tea, some might actually find them to be to extreme or extol again people might say way too extreme so I say if you have heard simlar acts and you thing they are too much then this cd you might like better. End rant..

If you grew up in this generation, one of two things probably come to mind when you hear the phrase "Orange County, California":: a) any number of punk and/or screamo bands, or b) that excruciatingly sappy (and now canceled) drama on the Fox Network ("The O.C."). Well, Bleeding Through are from Orange County, but they are neither a punk/screamo band or a group of melodramatic, honey-faced teenagers. They are an intense and hungry young metalcore outfit with loads of potential.

Bleeding Through's third album (and first on a major label, Trustkill Records), 2003's "This Is Love...This Is Murderous," is a bit more unique than typical, faceless metalcore releases, because it incorporates several other genres and influences into the mix. Brandan Schieppati delivers his furious vocals (in the form of growls, barks, and bellows) over a seemingly endless stream of pulverizing breakdowns, blistering Swedish death metal riffs, weighty rhythms, admirably technical drumming (i.e. walloping, grindcore-worthy blast beats), atmospheric, black metal-worthy keyboard accents (ala Dimmu Borgir), and even an occasional ripping guitar solo. The final sound is typically quite catchy, and always very lean, mean, punishing, and satisfying.

Listeners looking for pummeling hardcore beat-downs should definitely give "This Is Love..." a listen, because there are a ton of them to be heard here. And if they aren't your cup of tea, but you enjoy aggressive, brutal, abrasive music with raw-sounding production and a very powerful and visceral impact, you could do a lot worse than this album. After a brief intro ("Lost Love In A Hale Of Gunfire"), the pounding "Sweet Vampirous" is the official set opener, and it pretty much sets the mood perfectly for the rest of the songs, with its dense, churning riffs, bruising rhythm, throaty yells intertwined with clean singing, impeccable (albeit fairly brief) solo, and mellow ending. But then the band storm back with "Number Seven With A Bullet," a sneak attack (it's just over a minute long) backed by dense guitars and forceful death metal blasts that greet the listener like a steel-toed kick to the skull. Then, after the menacingly ambient and highly symphonic "On Wings Of Lead", the bludgeoning "What I Bleed Without You" knocks you flat on your back. Later, Brandon goes absolutely nuts on the microphone while bellowing out the lyrics to tracks like the title tune and "City Of The Condemned" (plus, the latter also features a surprising hardcore shout-along ending: "No regrets!");"Murder By Numbers" boasts scorching guitar interplay, wicked shrieks, slamming drums, and a couple of tasty solos; "Dead Like Me" is another onslaught with extra chunky riffing and a hard, driving rhythm; and "Revenge I Seek," which is probably the record's hookiest song, falls into a lurching, head-bobbing groove.

Monotony sets in after a while, leaving "This Is Love, This Is Murderous" as a good, if not entirely memorable album that shows Bleeding Through had plenty of room for growth (which they would achieve on their 2006 effort, "The Truth"). But it's still a very enjoyable listen, and it makes for competent headbanging sessions. Plus, it may lose out to a few other bands for the best metal/hardcore record of 2003 (see Lamb of God's "As The Palaces Burn," Chimaira 's "Impossibility of Reason," and Hatebreed 's "The Rise of Brutality"), but all in all, it is a pretty close call.