Gothic Theatre
Bleeding Through
The pain, frustration, and despair of the preyed upon and forgotten have been fashioned into a sharpened point on Bleeding Through’s landmark new album, “The Truth.” Skeletons come forth from the closet, secrets are revealed, and broken promises arise from dirtied earth.
Faster yet more melodic, heavier yet more accomplished, more precise while even further off the deep-end into tragedy and loneliness, “The Truth” is a trend-proof middle finger toward the glut of over-saturation that threatens to destroy a scene this band helped to build.
“The Truth” is the band’s defining album. Stripped to their core, laid bare, like the artwork suggests — putting everything on the table with such naked honesty and painful catharsis their bodies threatened to fall apart from the weight of the boiling passion they’ve laid to record.
There are leaders and there are followers. When all of the so-called movements in underground music catching the “buzz” right now are over, expect to see Bleeding Through standing tall, with integrity, honor, and spirit intact. To the victor the spoils!
Wolves Among Sheep takes you deep inside the world of Bleeding Through. From the studio to the stage to the places they call home in Orange County, the clubs they came up in, and their favorite hangouts, in a long-form behind-the-scenes documentary comprised of interviews with all six members, former bandmates, friends and fans. Wolves Among Sheep provides “The Truth” about Bleeding Through and how they rose from their humble OC hardcore beginnings to share stages with AFI, on Ozzfest and MTV2’s “Headbanger’s Ball” tour. Wolves Among Sheep also includes live sets captured on 2005’s Strhess Tour in Los Angeles and San Diego, which gives you never-before-heard songs from what will prove to be their defining album, “The Truth,” as well as Bleeding Through classics like “Love Lost In A Hail Of Gunfire” and “Revenge I Seek.” This DVD also boasts music videos, out-takes, Japan/Australia tour hijinx, footage of their death-defying van crash and more. This is the real OC.
Finally in the summer of 1999 Bleeding Through was ready to play their first show, they were a last minute addition to an Eighteen Visions/Disembodied show at the Showcase Theater in Corona, CA. Fearing that people would not embrace the at the time unfamiliar sound, the band nonetheless got a great response and was welcomed with open arms. One year later the band added another unfamiliar aspect to the band when they added keyboards to the lineup. Finally having enough material the band recorded a full length for Prime Directive Records entitled “Dust to Ashes” in 2001.
The band did not play outside of Southern California very often because it was a part time thing and Brandan had obligations for Eighteen Visions, but the response locally was getting bigger and better. The band started receiving emails and letters from people all across the country that wanted to see them. So after a series of line up changes the band was steady enough to tour and with help from friends in Eighteen Visions and Throwdown the band stepped out of the door and hit the road. Seeing the response and welcome from people all over, Bleeding Through decided to go full time and in the summer of 2002 after recording “Portrait of the Goddess” for Indecision Records, the band set out for their first extended tour for the better part of seven months.
Shortly after Brandan parted ways with Eighteen Visions, the band solidified their line up as Brandan, Scott, Molly, Ryan, Brian and Derek. The band has plans to continue to tour their asses off and do anything necessary to have their music and message heard.
