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Death metal is such a limitless genre. You can do whatever you'd like. It can be over the top technical or slow. Brutal or insane and it's all so good. When we made "Visions of Death" it just came out with a natural old school-ish vibe and that's great, but our newer material has a much more modern technical vibe. I love how death metal has evolved.
For me, death metal should be heavy as fuck, brutal (which doesn't necessarily mean "fast"), atmospheric and evil. If the "evil" thing is not there, you can't label yourself death metal, that's a fact. I'm so fucking close minded when it comes to metal music... I listen to the SAME hard rock, heavy, thrash, doom, death and black metal that I used to listen to 15 years ago.
Initially released independently by the band, but later re-worked and remastered for wider release by Bombworks Records. Melodic death metal with like Dark Tranquillity, mid-era In Flames and pre-"Reinkaos" era Dissection from Winston Salem, North Carolina. Vocals vary from tough-man shouts, grunts to shrieks and the occasional clean sung passages. Bloodline Severed know their way around their instruments and the trio of vocalists make this sound a bit as (early) Into Eternity, although they never truly reach quite that level of compositional skill and vocal interaction. Every once in a while Amy Lynn Corzine will provide some angelic chants, but she's not used often enough to truly warrant any attention. Bloodline Severed are practicing Christians and their lyrical content clearly shows their alliance. "Visions Revealed" isn't a terrible original album as the foundations for this genre were laid in Sweden 15 years ago. But even for American standards Bloodline Severed are a bit late to ride the coattails of the Swedish melo-death craze that struck the continent in the late 1990's and the subsenquent flood of faceless metalcore acts that adopted these very traits as their own. This re-issue has new artwork by Darkwave Art and fits the record much better than its original artwork. Recorded at Corsyns Studio by vocalist/guitarist Derek Corzine. Drums recorded at Safehouse Studio by Jason Franco. By no means revolutionary or mandatory, but "Visions Revealed" is a good little Gothenburg death metal record.http://www.bombworksrecords.comcomment itWouter 6
