Bleeding Through

Stupid idea to have a fucking gig on concrete at an outside festival.

Bleeding through for me.

Their album that came out last year was absolutely superb.

They are constantly touring.

And they're actually having a bit of a reset.

Not that they've ever gone down, but people are finally recognising how incredible this band have always been and how probably much they should have been, more they should have been appreciated back in the day.

So yeah, Bleeding Through for me would be a huge one.

I don't know where they'd even fit in in the line-up.

Good stuff.

Last band that puts out something in 2002, Portraits by Bleeding Through.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Up in the

mix.

I think the first Bleeding Through record is one of their best.

Is it Dust to Ashes? Maybe.

And like I said, they're, they're, they're doing three shows in December.

They're opening up for Bleeding Through and 18 Visions, which that in itself is insane because that, those two bands have hated each other for close to 25 years now.

[chuckles]

Like the singers from each of those bands have hated each other because the singer from Bleeding Through used to play guitar in 18 Visions, played on a bunch of their... or a few of their records, and they ha- they had a falling out after he went and formed Bleeding Through.

And, um, and this is the first time I think they've properly played together in 25 years.

I...

Or almost 25 years, I'd say.

So that's great.

Yeah

... scene of bands that I fucking love, you know, when they had Unearth and they had Bleeding Through.

Walls of Jericho kind of feel like this year's kind of pull from that.

And they're one of the more cult kind of bands in that scene where I think a lot of people don't just kind of pay much mind to Walls of Jericho.

Walls of Jericho are a hardcore band, and they have their hardcore cred and everything.

But if you think about that time when, you know, Hatebreed had come through with Perseverance and they started putting beefy metallic hardcore with breakdowns onto Ozzfest and onto, like, big American main stage festivals, that's where Walls of Jericho's calling, you know, r- really came as part of, you know, the hardcore wing, but of, as you say, the, the new wave of American heavy metal.

And I think in that sense, that that little pool of bands, you know, it's not much of a surprise that we've seen bands like Unearth and Bleeding Through and Walls of Jericho, uh, appearing on, like, a Damnation stage rather than an Outbreak or something, 'cause they're formative, like, fondly remembered bands maybe for people on the metal side of things and of a- Mm ... certain kind of vintage as well.

The cover art for this album, The American Dream, could not be more new wave of American heavy metal if it tried.

Oh, yeah.

And then I went, uh, I went to a heavy metal concert in, like, high school, and I s- I experienced-- Uh, the first h- band I ever saw live was at a festival at 9:00 AM, the, a band called Bleeding Through.

Through.Okay. Yeah.

9:00 AM.

Yeah, no, I know.

But I'm like, why could they not have booked a fucking, like, noughties metalcore stage around that? Put Bleeding Through on there.

Put 18 Visions and Poison the World, like, all that shit.

On Earth, sure,