Internal bleeding
| Internal bleeding | |
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| General information | |
| origin | Long Island , New York , United States |
| Genre (s) | Death metal |
| founding | 1991, 2011 |
| resolution | 2004 |
| Website | www.internal-bleeding.com |
| Current occupation | |
| William "Bill" Tolley († 2017) | |
| Chris Pervelis | |
| Jason Liff | |
| Joe Marchese | |
Electric guitar |
Chris McCarthy |
Electric bass (live) |
Charlie Errigo |
Electric bass (live) |
Blue Spinazola |
Drums (live) |
Angel Cotte |
| former members | |
Electric bass |
Murphy |
Electric bass |
Andrew Hogan |
initially electric bass, later electric guitar |
Brian Hobbie |
Electric guitar |
Guy Marchais |
Electric guitar |
Matt Ferrara aka Matty Bones († 2015) |
Electric guitar |
Frank Buffolino |
singing |
Frank Rini |
singing |
Mike Lotito |
singing |
Wallace Milton |
singing |
Jerry Lowe |
Electric bass |
Jason Carbone |
Electric guitar |
Anthony Miola |
singing |
Eric Wigger |
singing |
Ray Lebron |
Electric bass |
John Colucco |
singing |
Ryan Schimmenti |
Electric guitar (live) |
Chris Montez |
Drums (live) |
Kyle Eddie |
singing |
Keith DeVito |
Internal Bleeding is a death metal band from Long Island , New York , that was founded in 1991, disbanded in 2004 and has been active again since 2011. They play typical New York Death Metal .
history
After his previous doom metal band Autumn Reign broke up, guitarist Chris Pervelis founded Internal Bleeding in early 1991. The original line-up included bassist Tom Slobowski, singer Brian Richards, drummer Bill Tolley and guitarist Anthony Miola in addition to Pervelis . Shortly afterwards, Slobowski and Richards were replaced by John Colucco and Eric Wigger. During the winter, 300 blank audio cassettes were found in a local university that were being used for the first One Dollar Demo . Then Wallace Milton took over the vocals and Brian Hobbie played the bass. In the winter of the following year, the second demo followed under the name Invocation of Evil . The subsequent re-release took place on Wild Rags Records , with the demo being the label's best-selling CD at the time, with sales of over 5,000 copies . Several self-financed tours followed. The next demo followed in early 1994 under the name Perpetual Degradation . For the recording, the drummer Tolley had taken over the vocals since Milton had left the band. Frank Rini, who works full-time as a police officer, then joined the cast as a permanent replacement. The release took place again at Wild Rags Records and sold around 6,200 copies. This was followed by other appearances, such as participation in the Milwaukee Metalfest in the same year . During the festival Pavement Music became aware of internal bleeding. After the band had signed a record deal with the label, Scott Burns' mixed debut album Voracious Contempt was released in 1995 . At the following concerts in 1995 and 1996, the group performed together, among others, Immolation and Six Feet Under .
In 1997 the second album The Extinction of Benevolence followed. Due to the label's financial problems, the album could hardly be advertised and tours could hardly be financed. Instead of promoting the album with tours, the band went inactive. In the same year, however, the band still performed at the Metalmania Festival in Milwaukee . Towards the end of 1998 the line-up of the band changed significantly before the next album Driven to Conquer was released in 1999 , which was produced by Brian Griffin of Broken Hope . Ray Lebron can then be heard as the new singer and Guy Marchais for Miola as the new guitarist. Ryan Schimmenti had previously replaced the previous singer Rini briefly. Schimmenti had previously been active in the band Disfigured. Rini had appeared as a guest musician on their Prelude to Dementia record . In 2000 the band split from Pavement Music and signed a contract with Olympic Recordings . In the same year Jason Carbon joined the band as the new bass player and replaced Hobbie. A compilation of early demos was released the following year under the name Alien Breed . In December 2001 Jerry Lowe ( Bodyfarm ) joined the line-up as the new singer and an album called Hatefuel was announced for 2002 . In mid-2002 Marchais was replaced by guitarist Frank Buffalino. The announced album was never released under this name, only a promo demo was released in 2003. Gigs with Pyrexia and Mortal Decay were announced for the beginning of July 2004, but they had to be canceled because Chris Pervelis left the band in June. Matt Ferrara, who was also involved in the side project Punchyourface by Buffalino and Lowe, was found as a replacement. Then they started again to include Hatefuel . The recordings took place at Full Force Studios under the direction of Terrance Hobbs . In May 2004 it was decided to change the title to Onward to Mecca . The album was released that same year. In August and September they went on a North American tour with Six Feet Under , before Pervelis returned to the band in October, which meant the departure for Buffalino. Guitarist Chris Montez and drummer Kyle Eddy joined the cast for a two-month US tour together with Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus and Strong Intention in mid-2005. After these two tours the band split up. In October 2006 it was announced that Rini, Pervelis, Hobbie and Tolley were planning to form a new band.
In early 2011, Chris Pervelis decided to re-form the band after contacting Bill Tolley and Brian Hobbie. Bassist Jason Liff and singer Keith DeVito (Pyrexia, Suffocation , Obituary ) joined the line-up as new members . This was followed by appearances at various festivals in Switzerland and the Netherlands and a tour through the USA. In mid-2012 appeared under the name Heritage of Sickness , which consists of their demos and live songs with Keith DeVito as the singer. Unique Leader Records became aware of the group through a promo demo in 2013 , and the album Imperium was released in September 2014 . In autumn of that year they went on tour together with Kataklysm , Jungle Rot , Pyrexia and Suffocation, before performing at Knotfest in October 2015 .
style
On their Facebook profile, the band describes themselves as pioneers of slam death metal . rockdetector.com pointed out that the debut album is almost considered a classic of the death metal genre.
Martin Wickler from Metal Hammer found in his review of Driven to Conquer that you can hear high quality and typical American Death Metal on it. However, the music is not very innovative. Just two editions later, Michael Schäfer reviewed the album again and wrote that the album stood out a little from mediocre Death Metal. The album is "brutally pounded, rhythmically hacked, elegantly tinkled or almost dreamily gazed into the distance". The song could "pull the trigger you gurgling air, grindcorig sneeze or simply throw up only in the face". The rhythm of the songs is complex, but the band never sounds disoriented.
Martin Popoff wrote in The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties about Voracious Contempt that it played aggressive and blasphemous Death Metal that was difficult to listen to because of its aggressiveness. He drew a comparison with Cannibal Corpse . On The Extinction of Benevolence you can hear gruff and atonal Death Metal, which he described as " jazzy " among other things . Especially the snare drum stands out from the songs. The singer Ray Lebron sounds a little more aggressive on Driven to Conquer than his predecessor. On the album, the group sounds more powerful, more precise and less artistically demanding. However, a technical way of playing is still available. The production has improved on the album, which can be heard above all from the improved double bass sound. The songs would deal with dark, socio-political issues. David Perri referred to Onward to Mecca in The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 4: The '00s as death metal, as it was common for the early 1990s, or milder grindcore. The band's music is sometimes unusual, but it sounds one-dimensional. The album offers drumming that is reminiscent of Misery Index , guitar harmonies comparable to those of Dying Fetus and a metalcore energy that is typical of Premonitions of War or Between the Buried and Me .
Discography
- 1991: One Dollar Demo (demo, self-published)
- 1992: Invocation of Evil (demo, self-published)
- 1994: Perpetual Degradation (Demo, Wild Rags Records )
- 1995: Voracious Contempt (Album, Pavement Music )
- 1997: The Extinction of Benevolence (Album, Pavement Music)
- 1999: Driven to Conquer (Album, Pavement Music)
- 2001: Alien Breed (compilation, Olympic Recordings )
- 2004: Pure American Fury (demo, self-published)
- 2004: Onward to Mecca (Album, Olympic Recordings)
- 2012: Heritage of Sickness (compilation, self-publication)
- 2014: Imperium (Album, Unique Leader Records )
- 2018: Corrupting Influence (Album, Unique Leader Records)
Web links
- Official website
- Internal Bleeding at Allmusic (English)
- Internal Bleeding at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Joel McIver: Extreme Metal . Omnibus Press, 2000, ISBN 0-7119-8040-3 , p. 95 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j A long history of pride, perseverance - and metal. (No longer available online.) Internal-bleeding.com, archived from the original on November 24, 2015 ; accessed on November 24, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d Steve Huey: Internal Bleeding. Allmusic , accessed November 25, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c Martin Popoff : The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2007, ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9 , pp. 210 .
- ^ Lisa Thompson: Metalmania . Milwaukee: Eagles Auditorium. In: Metal Hammer . September 1997, p. 126 ff .
- ↑ Internal Bleeding - Voracious Contempt. Discogs , accessed November 26, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Internal Bleeding Biography. Internal Bleeding: Twenty Years of Sonic Mayhem. internal-bleeding.com, accessed November 25, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Biography. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, archived from the original on December 7, 2015 ; Retrieved November 26, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Internal bleeding. uniqueleader.com, accessed November 25, 2015 .
- ↑ Internal Bleeding - Music From the Upcoming Album Hatefuel. Discogs, accessed November 25, 2015 .
- ↑ Internal Bleeding - Onward To Mecca. Discogs, accessed November 25, 2015 .
- ↑ Axl Rosenberg: Suffocation and Kataklysm to Tour with Jungle Rot, Pyrexia, and Internal Bleeding. metalsucks.net, accessed November 26, 2015 .
- ↑ Robert Pasbani: KNOTFEST 2015 Lineup Revealed: SLIPKNOT, JUDAS PRIEST, KORN & Many More Announced. metalinjection.net, accessed November 26, 2015 .
- ↑ Info. Facebook , accessed November 25, 2015 .
- ↑ Martin Wickler: Internal Bleeding . Driven to Conquer. In: Metal Hammer . December 1999, p. 91 .
- ↑ Michael Schäfer: Internal Bleeding . Driven to Conquer. In: Metal Hammer . February 2000, p. 96 .
- ↑ Martin Popoff, David Perri: The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 4: The '00s . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2011, ISBN 978-1-926592-20-6 , pp. 237 .
