Thine Eyes Bleed - In The Wake Of Separation CD
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Thine Eyes Bleed - In The Wake Of Separation CD
$2.00
In The Wake Of Separation’ hits the listener like an oncoming freight train and doesn’t let up throughout the albums punishing, excessively brutal nine tracks. This is nothing that you would have expected from bandleader Jeff Phillips who was the fill in guitarist in Kittie when Fallon Bowman exited the group. The band combines massive, technical riffing, speedy yet varied tempos and a diverse array of metal influences on this record, often sounding like a cross between some badass black metal and what is by leaps and bounds, some of the most excellent thrash metal out there. It’s really hard to place Thine Eyes Bleed’s music into a specific sub genre of metal, but if there was a sub-genre called ultra furious, smash-your-head-in metal, that’s where it rightfully would end up.
Think Coroner with an intensity that reaches an exponential factor of 10 and that about sums it up on key tracks like ‘Cold Victim’, ‘And Since Forgotten’ and ‘Live To Die’. The assault is purely relentless, with Johnny Araya showing that his skills on bass measure up to his brother Tom on the blazing ‘Corpse You Up’, a track emphasized by biting pinch harmonics and the rabid vocal manipulations of Justin Wolfe. Phillips and Derek Ward trade off razor sharp licks on ‘Innocent Mind’, a blistering, blasting track which is driven by the precise double kick pounding of drummer Darryl Stephens. Throughout the record, Stephen provides a plethora of rumbling beats that give the band their insanely chaotic up-tempo feel.
‘Sliver’ is a track that has a darkened feel, Wolfe sings in a more straightforward manner here, which really works for the song. Of all of the cuts on this record, this one is likely the most accessible. This is a shockingly fantastic debut that captures the spirit of everything that is makes extreme metal exciting to listen to. Thine Eyes Bleed have positioned themselves as one of the predominant rising talents in the metal scene and “In The Wake Of Separation’ is nothing less than mandatory listening. - The Metal Archives
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