{"id":68265,"date":"2018-08-14T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=68265"},"modified":"2018-08-26T16:52:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T15:52:11","slug":"review-the-five-hundred-bleed-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-the-five-hundred-bleed-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Five Hundred &#8211; Bleed Red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4F081F78-C12B-4E88-824A-29708B5D41F5.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-68266\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4F081F78-C12B-4E88-824A-29708B5D41F5-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4F081F78-C12B-4E88-824A-29708B5D41F5-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4F081F78-C12B-4E88-824A-29708B5D41F5-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4F081F78-C12B-4E88-824A-29708B5D41F5-600x600.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4F081F78-C12B-4E88-824A-29708B5D41F5-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4F081F78-C12B-4E88-824A-29708B5D41F5-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4F081F78-C12B-4E88-824A-29708B5D41F5-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4F081F78-C12B-4E88-824A-29708B5D41F5-465x465.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4F081F78-C12B-4E88-824A-29708B5D41F5-500x500.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4F081F78-C12B-4E88-824A-29708B5D41F5.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A common theme in tech-metal seems to be making the biggest, most progressively high-minded pieces possible, simply to outdo anyone who\u2019s come before. Sure, it can be impressive to hear these winding eight- or nine-minute-long suites, but it reaches a point where the impressiveness wears off and it becomes a chore to get through.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s something that already gives Nottingham\u2019s <b>The Five Hundred<\/b> the upper hand on their new album <i>\u2019Bleed Red\u2019<\/i>. At its core, there\u2019s an unmistakable essence of a tech-metal album (just listen to the polyrhythms that run through <i>\u2019Smoke &amp; Mirrors\u2019<\/i> or the surgical sharpness of <i>\u2019The Noose\u2019<\/i>), but paired with a clear melodic metalcore influence to drastically tighten things up, it\u2019s so much more immediate. This is an album that substitutes hugeness in runtimes for hugeness in a carnal, impactful sense, and is far more preferable by doing so.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s even better is that there\u2019s enough behind <b>The Five Hundred<\/b> to totally back this up. Of course the looming size of <i>\u2019Buried\u2019<\/i> or the melodic focus of standout <i>\u2019The Narcissist\u2019<\/i> does a lot of heavy lifting. However, with lyrics driven by everything from guitarist Paul Doughty\u2019s OCD and Tourette\u2019s syndrome to bassist Andy Crawford\u2019s former gambling addiction, there are stakes that go relatively unexplored elsewhere, but that <b>The Five Hundred<\/b> are able to make hugely compelling. Especially for a debut album, pretty much everything is weighty and hugely refined.<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"The Five Hundred - Smoke &amp; Mirrors (Official Video)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IzR9Zdyd7Yw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To nitpick, there could definitely be a bit more variety here and there (such is the case with the vast majority of tech-metal), but <i>\u2019Bleed Red<\/i> does plenty to establish itself as one of the metal debuts of the year. It\u2019s hardly pushing boundaries or anything, but for a layered, complex listen, yet one that remains wholeheartedly accessible and human, you can&#8217;t go wrong with this.<\/p>\n<p>4\/5<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8216;Bleed Red&#8217;<\/i> by <b>The Five Hundred<\/b> is released on 17th August on <b>Long Branch Records<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Five Hundred<\/b> links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefivehundred.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/wearethefivehundred\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/thefivehundred_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thefivehundred_\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefivehundred.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Luke Nuttall (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuttall_luke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@nuttall_luke<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Bleed Red&#8217; does plenty to establish itself as one of the metal debuts of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":68266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5879,15736,1138,15029,3056],"class_list":["post-68265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-reviews","tag-bleed-red","tag-long-branch-records","tag-luke-nuttall","tag-the-five-hundred"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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