Justanothernimrod
06-27-2004, 10:12 AM
Mindbleed-Choke ep
Mindbleed haven’t been a band for a year yet, and yet they have just released an awesome ep, are about to headline a show in London, and are fast becoming fan-favourites in Norwich. And why have they become such a success? Because they are a very much needed band in the British music scene. While most British bands at the moment seem to be indulging on the American Hardcore/Punk/Emo scene now days, Mindbleed have broken away and done what the Brit’s use to be the only people good at, Heavy/Death Metal. And this ep is no different, a three track taster of one of the latest and greatest bands around. The whole thing kicks off with the unsurpassed “Down Inside� a 3 minute 24 second blast of dark heavy metal which is perfect for any gig you go to “Get the **** up�.
And the mood doesn’t end their with the, leaning more over to speed metal, “Bring You Down�. Fast, energetic and over all brilliant uneasy listening, this track is an absolute paramount. And then, as that track stops dead, it goes straight into the slow moving, far heavier, finale, far darker title track, “Choke� which could almost be passed as an ‘Iron Monkey’ track, suggesting, that they are not dead after all, as this song violently goes from slow and heavy to fast and energetic, but generally pretty black. This tracks most noticeable forte though is its breakdown, beginning with an echoing, haunting, guitar harmonic, with a stop start drum solo, going into your basic, must head-bang heavy outro to the ep.
Mindbleed have had to go through a lot of changes recently, their original singer leaving, which led to having adapted to the new singers voice, what songs to record, and even the ep title, but despite all this, they have still made a brilliant debut ep and should get signed and onto LP’s shortly. Their obvious influences are all there, Hatebreed, Chimaira, Slayer, Machine Head, Pantera, and Lamb of God but they have adapted a far heavier, most unique almost quite death metal/grindcore sounding, although not being that at all in the lyrics. The only bad points are that it’s all a bit linear, however because they are such a fast, straight to point, and above all, have a brilliant flowing kinetic energy making there music so good, it is what would you expect, except louder if you saw them live.
[9/10]
By Adam Turner-Heffer
Mindbleed haven’t been a band for a year yet, and yet they have just released an awesome ep, are about to headline a show in London, and are fast becoming fan-favourites in Norwich. And why have they become such a success? Because they are a very much needed band in the British music scene. While most British bands at the moment seem to be indulging on the American Hardcore/Punk/Emo scene now days, Mindbleed have broken away and done what the Brit’s use to be the only people good at, Heavy/Death Metal. And this ep is no different, a three track taster of one of the latest and greatest bands around. The whole thing kicks off with the unsurpassed “Down Inside� a 3 minute 24 second blast of dark heavy metal which is perfect for any gig you go to “Get the **** up�.
And the mood doesn’t end their with the, leaning more over to speed metal, “Bring You Down�. Fast, energetic and over all brilliant uneasy listening, this track is an absolute paramount. And then, as that track stops dead, it goes straight into the slow moving, far heavier, finale, far darker title track, “Choke� which could almost be passed as an ‘Iron Monkey’ track, suggesting, that they are not dead after all, as this song violently goes from slow and heavy to fast and energetic, but generally pretty black. This tracks most noticeable forte though is its breakdown, beginning with an echoing, haunting, guitar harmonic, with a stop start drum solo, going into your basic, must head-bang heavy outro to the ep.
Mindbleed have had to go through a lot of changes recently, their original singer leaving, which led to having adapted to the new singers voice, what songs to record, and even the ep title, but despite all this, they have still made a brilliant debut ep and should get signed and onto LP’s shortly. Their obvious influences are all there, Hatebreed, Chimaira, Slayer, Machine Head, Pantera, and Lamb of God but they have adapted a far heavier, most unique almost quite death metal/grindcore sounding, although not being that at all in the lyrics. The only bad points are that it’s all a bit linear, however because they are such a fast, straight to point, and above all, have a brilliant flowing kinetic energy making there music so good, it is what would you expect, except louder if you saw them live.
[9/10]
By Adam Turner-Heffer