Raining Blood
Orange County, California or The OC has become associated with a vast of hardcore metal acts invading the metal scene with it was once associated with the sunny pop punks of Social Distortion or The Offspring. From the premier acts like Avenged Sevenfold, Eighteen Visions and Bleeding Through to the more underground acts like Throwdown or Odd Project, the OC is the metal equivalent of Seattle being the hotbed of grunge.
To emerge from this burgeoning scene is sextet Bleed The Sky. Like the other metal bands Bleed The Sky has elements of Scandinavian metal from cult acts like At The Gates as well as having hardcore shredding vocals.
First track Minion has the rawness of the bands contemporaries like Chimaira or Walls Of Jericho, taking the clean-cut choruses with blast-beat breakdowns. Killtank sounds as gruesome as it is on first glance. Imagine an even more brutal Cradle Of Filth with traces of Killswitch Engage melody.
The vocals of Noah Robinson are a major focal point to the band, which can overshadow the guitar work of Kyle Moorman and Wayne Miller. But with such focused aggression this can be easily overlooked.
Skin Un Skin starts off with an eerie intro before ripping in some downright vicious screaming then switching into soaring melodies. This creepy ability to switch from rough to smooth is unsettling but makes good listening.
On a label like Nuclear Blast these guys fit right in with the degree of extremeness with the other acts on the roster.
Bleed The Sky have up the levels off brutality in the world of Metal-core. Paradigm To Entropy is easily by the book brutal Metal-core at its best.