In short: 'The Bleeding' was good, but really more helpful than good. The intro riff on the first track, 'Staring through the eyes.' is that stereotypical, jack-knife quick, clinical hammer-on/pull-off pattern on diminished scales those tapping-sounding riffs that modern tech-death bands have gorged themselves on as inspiration.īecause of that quasi-anachronistic facet on this it's from 1994 and yet feels ahead it can come across as just another one of those seminal albums in a field, that helped pave the way for the bands to come, but weren't actually fantastic records in and of themselves. ![]() This can simply be explained by how the album really loses its effect, ironically, from having been too modern too early in time this, compounded with being not good enough with the hindsight of decades now passed since its release. In other words, it has neither loads of retro charm, nor the intricacy and developments of their later incarnation. It sounds like modern Cannibal Corpse, but then it suffers from being a much less sophisticated version of modern Cannibal Corpse. ![]() This record bears a peculiar flaw: it's easy to pull it out of its timeline and context.
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