Helping the World to See [Enhanced]

Helping the World to See [Enhanced]

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Young and ambitious, Vehemence will be sure to leave its mark in the death metal community tearing down any disbelievers. They can be described as extreme yet melodic death metal, creating sounds that will be sure to drive the demons out of any who listen. Using a mix of brutal riffs and harmonies, Vehemence pulls off what few have, creating a sound and style of their own. Vehemence creates music only for the most extreme listeners of metal and seeks to gain more fans, friends, and recognition to take the world by storm. The fierce and intelligent lyric concept of vocalist Nathan Gearhart takes the band to a new level of originality with his style of vocal structure. The guitars played by Bjorn Dannov and John Chavez represent the band with brutal, melodic, dark, and atmospheric touches of metal with a technique that is not so often used in the death metal scene. Bass player Mark Kozuback backs up singer Nathan Gearhart with violently pitched screams, adding texture to an already intense song structure. Drummer Andy Schroeder drives Vehemence into the depths of hell and beyond with his technique that ranges from styles of punk, thrash, black, and death.

Recognition of this band started immediately after the pressing of their self released debut, "The Thoughts From Which I Hide". 1000 self-released discs hit distributors from around the world, and received great reviews from countries like Japan, The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Australia, Spain, France, Canada, South America and the United States. A combination of self promotion through the internet, word of mouth, and doing their first 15 day tour through West Coast America helped get the attention of Metal Blade Records in 2002 which ended in landing a record deal. Vehemence's hard work had finally paid off.

Vehemence's Metal Blade debut, 'God Was Created' was recorded at The Salt Mine Studios in Mesa, AZ in early January '02 and engineered by Mike Schomig assisted by Will Solares. It was then re-mixed in March by Juan Urteaga & Mike Blanchard at Trident Studios in the San Francisco area. In support of 'God Was Created', Vehemence toured with the likes of Incantation, Impaled, Decapitated, Dead To Fall, Testament, Exhumed, Vio-lence, All That Remains, Nuclear Assault, Deicide, Behemoth, Amon Amarth, and Revenge.

Vehemence's second effort for Metal Blade entitled 'Helping The World To See' was recorded at Porcupine Studios in Chandler, AZ and DBD studios in Maricopa, AZ with Will Solares as sole producer/engineer. This time around the band was able to take more time in the studio, thus allowing a more refined product. Recording began in September of 2003, and ended in November 2003. Editing and mixing took place thereafter, concluding in January 2004.

Expect more tours, merchandise, and music videos from Vehemence in 2004. Be sure to check out the official website for more updates.

Product Description
Death Metal

Tracks:

By your Bedside
Kill For God
Trinity Broadcasting (Know Your Enemy)
To The Taste
You Don't Have To Be Afraid Anymore
Alone In Your Presence
Spirit Of The Soldier
Darkness Is Comfort
What Could Go Wrong
We Are All Dying
Her Beautiful Eyes (Bonus Track)

Album Description

Death Metal

Customer Reviews:

Good but not excelent.......2007-01-28

This disc is quiet agressive yet melodic, but somehow it doesn't feel like a classic. This is interesting creative metal, but there isn't to much rythmical changes during the songs.

Great Album........2006-08-20

This album reminds me of a greatest hits album. That's how good it is. The quality of each song is very high. You've got two vocalists: one is a growler and the other has a banshee-like screech. Both of them are very good. The music is death metal. Its brutal, yet melodic and catchy. The songs are all distinctly different from each other. I think I even heard some piano in there. But don't let that fool you. Even though there's melody and catchiness, its still rock hard death metal at the core. And with a list price of only $10, you can't go wrong. Seriously, I love metal-particularly death-and this is one of the best extreme metal albums that I've ever heard. Because of the variation and quality of songwriting, you probably won't be bored by it. So give it a try.

Solid. But they still have alot to work on. (3.5 stars).......2006-07-08

Vehemence definitly has the talent to define themselves as one of the greats. They just lack the originality. This album, for the most part, uses the same beats over and over. Their sound resembles a cross between Six Feet Under's older albums at times, but isn't pulled off as well. What we have here is a prime example of un-inspired Death Metal. All Vehemence really needs is a push down the road of inspiration and they will be great.

Good melodic death metal!!!.......2005-09-13

Thanks lord for the creation of death metal, and bands like Vehemence got the chance to show the world how the music is to be. In this album, the production is very clear and so is the record. Good musicianship with change of tempos.

Awesome.......2005-07-28

The boys from Arizona are back with a new full length and this is the best yet from these guys. Although this came out in 2004 and I just bought it recently in june 2005 yet it still rules. I don't think that this is the dreaded "sophomore slump" at all. This is how modern metal anno 2004-05 should sound. Brutal and complex yet full of simple, yet not overpowering melody. While a lot of bands these days are using melody and inadvertently sacrificing their brutality and selling out, This band uses melody to add a dimension to their brutal sound, which bands should try to do more often. The album itself is basically flawlessly executed from start to finish. The drums are clear yet the guitars are thick. The lyrics are much more thought out and deeper in terms of meaning. All in all, this is thus far the defining record of this young bands career.