It's an overdone and highly redundant genre - this thing that we call hardcore. Let's face it, it's a beast that hasn't been re-invented since the likes of Frodus. Sure, we can sit there and say that The Blood Brothers and several others are doing inventive things, but let's face it - those chaps are just riding on the coattails of Swedish bombshells The Refused (who themselves aren't even that original if you look at the 80's bands they copped their moves and sound from).
Are Bleeding Through out to re-invent hardcore? Hardly. But they are out to smash in the collective faces of all who encounter them. With This Is Love, This Is Murderous, their third record, the band rages with more surging energy than any of their previous efforts ever dared to let on to. Brandan (ex-Throwdown/Eighteen Visions)'s bludgeoning roar in the record's second track Sweet Vampirous is lethal in that it'll send nothing less than chills down the spine of the listener.
As the record runs its course, the band plays measure after measure of black metal influenced hardcore that proves to be more and more ferocious upon each repeated listen. The drums are played with deadly precision as the double bass melds with the twin guitar attack to create a bed of devastating music that is only complemented by the dark keyboard laced throughout the entire record.
Bleeding Through may not be doing anything new - but in the end, that's all relative anyway. With This Is Love, This Is Murderous, they show why they're one of the most energetic and brutal acts around today.
3/4
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