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A due anni dal predecessore ("This Is Love, This Is Murderous") ecco di nuovo sulle scene Mr.Brandon Schieppati e la sua orda di maleducati rocker. Ci troviamo di fronte ad un lavoro che può presentare diverse chiavi di ascolto: abbiamo, schierati da una parte i fan del metal-core (quello estremo) e dall'altra coloro che ascoltano anche altri generi (in cui mi identifico); cercando di essere più obiettivo possibile passiamo all'ascolto di insieme (non track-by-track perchè rischierei inutili e annoianti ripetizioni).
Principalmente si può dire che il disco si muove, per la sua quasi intera durata, su coordinate molto simili; diciamo pure che dopo un po' di ascolti si rischia di accantonare (come ha fatto il sottoscritto) questa nuova opera dei Bleeding.
Ci si trova davanti a devastante metal-core caratterizzato, ancora una volta, dalle solite urla disumane intervallate da clean vocals che a lungo andare possono incidere positivamente in un album che altrimenti sarebbe stato abbastanza scontato (e qui i true metal-corer non saranno troppo daccordo, credo...), diciamo pure che queste ultime danno la giusta carica emozionale a dei pezzi altrimenti scarni e simili agli altri presenti nell'insieme (es: "Kill To Believe" e "Love In Slow Motion"). Ciò che si nota nelle composizioni è la presenza di un rifaggio di chitarra quasi tipicamente Thrash, una batteria serrata e tritaossa che si muove alternando tempi veloci (con doppia cassa martellante per intenderci) e ritmiche più "lente" e cadenzate. Il basso segue la batteria e sostiene il sound della chitarra già di per sè devastante.
Fino a qua tutto bene! Nel senso, chi si fosse aspettato i Bleeding improvvisare assoli ultratecnici e virtuosismi assortiti può pure finirla qui con questa recensione... La nota stonata, a mio parere, nel loro sound è quella tastiera che, radicalmente, fa capolino cercando di portare nuova linfa ai pezzi ma che (con le sue nenie e le sue melodie senza senso e ripetitive) banalizza il lavoro (già non molto originale) svolto dai nostri.
Un piccolo cambio di rotta lo si ha arrivati alla track denominata "Line In The Sand" in cui si può ascoltare la band alle prese con una song molto malinconica e molto lenta, caratterizzata da arpeggi cupi di chitarra e ritornello dal tono disperato; subito la canzone fa venire in mente come può essere amaro il sapore di perdere un qualcosa o di un malessere che può capitare a tutte le persone durante il loro corso... Tentativo di alleggerire il disco riuscito (qui la tastiera non è fuori luogo e c'è un assolo di chitarra degno di nota!).
Subito dopo si torna ai soliti canoni, ovvero song molto potenti, poco orecchiabili e piene di malsane sensazioni, insomma piccoli esempi di pura cattiveria sempre rovinati sul più bello da una tastiera che inizia a infastidire le orecchie del malcapitato (o fortunato) ascoltatore...
In definitiva non completamente da bocciare la "ricetta scacciapensieri" dei Bleeding anche perchè, suonando il loro genere in questo periodo, è veramente difficile essere in qualche modo originali.
Vivamente consigliato a chi adora melodie senza fronzoli e senza compromessi, a chi ha subito dei torti da cui non riesce a riprendersi e a chi è troppo timido per affrontare delle difficili situazioni di vita; tranquilli la cattiveria dei Bleeding vi può aiutare a sputare in faccia a chiunque ogni vostro malumore...
Come accennato sopra, chi cerca virtuosismi e melodia a non finire stia ben lontano dall'act in questione... Per il resto consiglio comunque un ascolto anche superficiale a tutti coloro i quali, dopo una litigata in cui non sono riusciti ad avere ragione, venisse in mente di maltrattare qualcuno, lasciate pure che siano i Bleeding Through a maltrattare le vostre orecchie con il loro devastante sound che vi aiuterà a tranquillizzarvi (o ad innervosirvi definitivamente).
Saluti a tutti i DeBaseriani con la speranza di avervi illuminato su questo cd non ancora recensito. Come al solito: Rock and Roll!!!
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02 Confession (02:38)
Yesterday I reached my end.
Now I'm watching you leave me.
And today I feel sick.
I hear voices now.
This girl is killing.
Her face was pale.
She couldn't even shed a single tear
over my lifeless body.
She doesn't realize because she never loved me.
Today I hate myself.
Look at what I've done to you.
See what you've done to me.
You sent me straight to hell.
Now is this confession pointless?
Was my love entirely useless?
Shell never know because I'm face down in the ground.
Undergound.
Face down underground.
Tonight I killed myself.
They said a prayer standing over my body.
Rusty casket, empty funeral.
Is this confession pointless?
Was her love completely truth-less?
She doesn't care even now that I'm gone.
That night you left.
That night I died.
The air was cold, fit for a brilliant suicide.
The night was still.
The night you left was the night I died
05 Kill to Believe (03:57)
Now what do you want from me?
When I've sacrificed my heart so you can be set free
And time will never cure this disease
I'm only left with tired arms to stop from drowning
This,this is loveless
Love,your love is hopeless
Do you you remember
On that night I couldnt find the words to say I'm sorry
If you recall that night you ripped my heart right out
Before saying i loved you
Do you believe in this?
Do you believe in me?
If you believe in love
Would you believe in me?
So what will you take from me?
I'm the man with out a soul, a soul for you to seek
And time will never cure your desease
I'm only left with tired arms to stop from drowning.
Believe in me
I've emptied my soul
Believe in me.
I've killed this disease now
Now, time to shatter your heart
Bring you to your knees
I, I've found the strength to fight on
and stop the bleeding
And I've stopped the bleeding
You're killing, you're not the same to me now got to kill to believe
06 Dearly Demented (05:21)
Give up your heartache
Build your weapon to destroy them all
We have been stabbed to death
Now our hearts replaced with this hole
Eye for an eye
Eye for an eye, life for a life
Together we are as one
The broken and the heartless
Destroy hypocrisy
to eliminate the weak
Behind every plastic smile
lies the blood of humanity
We are the prophets of the night
And we will rise at our given time
Eye for an eye, life for a life
Walk among the hopeless souls
We are coming for you
We are armed to the teeth
Ghost of invincibility
We're coming for you
Dearly demented
The holes in our chest
mark the bravery of slaves
fighting for your life
Hunting for your life
We are whores the condemned
Cus someone else once held our heart
Your broken heart
my broken heart
Your broken hand
your broken heart
eye for an eye
We fight this fight for the hopless romantic
Life for a life
We take this on for the battered and broken
eye for an eye
We fight this fight for the hopeless romantic
life for a life
For those who felt they weren't good enough
And I felt that way
And we all felt that way
Now we are rising up in numbers
And we will no longer be slaves
07 Line in the Sand (04:09)
The line is being drawn through my heart
And we're conceiving fires through our thoughts
You're just like me
This is everything i wanted to tell you
I'm still in love with everthing about you
And I feel the wreckage from everything you do
And I'm tired of still waiting, woah-oh-oh-oh
If i told you the truth now
Would you still leave and take my heart?
And i still feel ugly but you're ugly just like me
When I told you the truth now, would you still leave? Will you ever change?
But i still feel empty
Will i always lose this game?
This is everything i wanted to show you
I'm no longer scared of anything about you
I lived through the damage of heart you took from me
And I'm tired of still wanting
08 She's Gone (01:30)
We are nothing.
A lost cause for a lost cause.
The hourglass is a loaded gun.
Running short of sand.
Breaking every single mirror.
I'm burning every single letter.
You're fading with a hundred pictures on my walls.
We are nothing.
We're fading faster.
We're fighting for another lost cause.
And you're fading fast.
Now you're fading out with the pictures of.
Were fading faster.
Were fighting for another lost cause.
And you're fading faster now.
You're fading out like the pictures on my walls
09 Tragedy of Empty Streets (02:57)
Now buildings are starting to fall
Bricks beginning to break
Your steps are leaving cracks in the sidewalks
Leaving trails of empty streets
And I'm going blind from staring at your eyes
Because they release the fire of a thousand suns
But I've grown so numb I can barely shed a tear
Even if you cut the strings that hold my head up
You're pulling teeth
Ripping flesh so you can lick the blood from your fingers
So break these bones taste my skin
Let my death sing the end of it
So you can do no more damage
So you collect no more trophies
Let me be the last
Let no one feel how I feel
This tragedy began with me
So let it end with me
From your hell I've become this numb
I wish this pain on no one
Behind your smile
Beneath your lungs
I hope your darkness comes
This tragedy began with me
So let it end with me
I tried to be what you wanted me to be
And I'm sorry that I can never be perfect for you
But everytime I look in the the mirror
I see your eyes staring right back at me
And I dont want it anymore
I hope you're fucking happy
10 Return to Sender (04:20)
We're hated
We're bleeding
We're loving
You're losing
Our lives are all about to change
There go the lights to the world I've made in my head now.
Ill make the stand.
Ill scratch out my eyes.
I won't stop til you are dead.
I hope that and pray that one day you will realize.
You were always my biggest inspiration.
The pain you've caused has built who I've become.
Now we might as well be strangers.
Won't be a corpse so you can drag your dead.
I've been blessed by the fires.
By the fires of your hell.
We're hated
We're bleeding
We're loving
You're losing
11 Hollywood Prison (02:52)
Since you left I've found myself locked in another prison
But your bars and chains can't take the heart of this man
Without you my skies are always gray.
Now I'm seeing read through a different face.
What can I say that hasn't been said before?
I wrote your name in blood on my prison walls
And without your contact those memories are all I have
So I can't feel alone I'll never be alone
The chemicals arn't aligned
Now I'm struggling to find your fucking spine
I'll rip out your spine
You can take my pain
But you can't have my heart
You can lock me in this cold dark cell
But you can't have my heart
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