Monokrator is the third album by the UK band The Bleeding, and their best yet. Released last summer by Redefining Darkness Records, it garnered heaping helpings of praise across the metalsphere, including from our own Andy Synn. In his review, he wrote that the album “bursts out of the speakers with the frenetic riffs and frenzied blastbeats of ‘Chemical Lobotomy’ and then proceeds to kick ass and take names like the bastard child of The Crown, Cannibal Corpse, and Goatwhore“.
He further acclaimed it as a record that succeeds in “marrying thrashy, galloping rhythms with streams of strangulating tremolo riffage and passages of lurching Death Metal heaviness, all topped off with some seriously sharp, snarling vocal hooks” — “the sort of record – lean, mean, and taking no prisoners – that may well put The Bleeding on the global metallic map where they belong.”
As a reminder of what a kick-ass album Monokrator truly is, or as an introduction to people who might have overlooked it, what we have for you today is the premiere of an official video for that song that launches the album in such exhilarating fashion — “Chemical Lobotomy“.
The song is so fucking explosive, so vicious, so electrifying that it cries out for brain-storming comparisons — like being hurled into a cage filled with rabid wolves, or being dropped into ground zero of a nuclear detonation, or jamming a live power line down your throat — or all those things at once.
It’s fast, it’s savage, it’s electrifying, the riffing is like blizzards made of steel, it thunders in the low end and the drums cut loose like automatic weaponry, the words get snarled and screamed faster than seems humanly possible — and yet the rampage includes startling changes in tempo and sudden stops and starts that underscore how technically talented the performers are, and how adventurous they’ve chosen to be in their songwriting. Icing on an exploding cake!
More icing comes from the video, which gives us a very good view of this wrecking crew in action, and is edited in a way that matches up to the high octane and megawatt voltage of the music.
THE BLEEDING is:
Jamie Stungo – Vocals
Tasos Tzimorotas – Guitar
Davide Marinni – Drums
Jordan Muscatello – Bass
Redefining Darkness is still offering the album on multiple formats — vinyl, CD, and digital — with apparel. They recommend it for fans of Kreator, Demolition Hammer, Sadus, and Destruction.
ORDER/DOWNLOAD:
https://thebleeding.bandcamp.com/album/monokrator
https://shop.redefiningdarkness.com/
THE BLEEDING:
http://deatheternal.com/
https://www.instagram.com/thebleedingofficial/
https://www.facebook.com/TheBleedingOfficial/
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Awesome. Worth listening to twice.