Bleed From Within – ‘Shrine’ [Album Review]

Formed in Glasgow back in 2005, Scottish metal quintet Bleed From Within head into the seventeenth year of their career armed with Shrine, possibly the strongest album of their time together. Having already built a reputation for writing epic metalcore, Shrine fires out of the starting gate with the thunderous “I Am Damnation,” a track which certainly takes a shot of inspiration from more recent Parkway Drive output. Big riffs, Scott Kennedy’s gruff Scottish howls and a grandiose, dramatic air, the song has it all. Following that almost perfect opener, the Scots hurtle through their ferocious “Sovereign,” an absolute skin-melting slab of metalcore before the dramatics which herald the start of the third track, “Levitate,” form the perfect lead in to a track which sees the Scots effortlessl...

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