After leaving Trustkill and trading them in for Rise Records in the States and the almighty Roadrunner in Europe and after adding No Use For A Name’s Dave Nassie as a guitarist, one would expect a fresh album by these Orange County veterans. Hell, a self-titled album this far in their career? That usually alludes to some serious changes.

Alas, in camp Bleeding Through it shows a severe case of anemia. Literally everything on here is something we have already heard them do before either on 2008’s “Declaration” or even as far back on “This Is Love, This Is Murderous”. I’m sure the fans will love to hear all the blastbeats, bombastic keyboards and Gothenburg-inspired guitar shredding one more time along with Brendan Schieppati’s simplistic lyrics, everyone else should refrain from an album this uninspired.

Oh, the one thing they did change is having bassist Ryan Wombacher take care of the clean vocals… big mistake! The guy can’t sing for shit.