Internal Bleeding
Driven to Conquer (Pavement)
by Tim Den
When you think of leaders in the death metal genre, you don’t really think of Internal Bleeding. That’s because the band’s previous efforts, Voracious Contempt and The Extinction of Benevolence, were only copycat albums that tried to match the big names in heaviness, not songwriting. It didn’t work, obviously, and what was left was muddy music set to burping growls. All the songs ran together, and nothing set them apart from the average Tampa long hairs.
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