Metal Month - Day 24: A high school friend introduced me to Bleeding Through in 2001. To me, they were fresh, ultra heavy, and super melodramatic with their use of symphonic keyboards. Now, 13 years later, I own every one of their releases, and still wear their t-shirts. These guys know how to cut to the core of me. Probably because of their mixture of several different metal styles. Bleeding Through brought us Metalcore - the illegitimate child of Hardcore and Death Metal. Throw in some 1990s Nu-Metal with its splash of clean vocals and funky hooks, and you got yourself a metal genre that dominated the end of the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century. Metalcores foundation is in Hardcore music with its low end, bassy riffs and punky beats. Additionally, the breakdown so common in Hardcore got a real boost with Metalcore as musicians played catchy patterns on open chords. The vocals ranged from low, throaty screams to clean, celestial singing. The blast beats made a return after being clinically dead for nearly a decade with Death Metal. And the lyrics varied from band to band: Love songs, gory murder fantasies, or just plain anti-establishment exhortations. With Bleeding Throughs arrival in 1999, they were among the first, and are today, the most prolific of the Metalcore movement. The sub-genres to follow owe their very foundation to Metalcore. While I love Bleeding Through, they were best heard on their actual records. Ive heard several live performances, and those guys all seem to be drumming to their own beat, falling apart several times per song. But, Im going to brave it out and show this live performance; its not too bad. https://youtube/watch?v=CYM_0OKqF0Q
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 04:37:40 +0000
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