Leeched

To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse

Slow down January, you're starting to hurt me with all this impressive music.

Leeched come out with a premeditated yet pummeling album with To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse, one of which that takes the hardcore metal scene and injects an incredible dose of aggression and doom. The whole album is at a constant grind, with a major focus on titanic and fiercely produced percussion, ripping and wailing guitars, and a vocal performance that is nearly incomprehensible yet still feels like a massive ... read more

To Dull The Blades of Your Abuse is certainly finally a successful version of Manchester Leeched's metalcore band. Concretely this new album is of a devouring energy and a pleasant brutality. It sums up the previous efforts very well, some smashing sludge metal, however Leeched didn't content themselves with that, they refined their music by adding a certain complexity to it, notably in the instrumentation that enhances their contents.

However, they still had some of their flaws, mainly a ... read more

It is dark, grimy but most importantly it is sludge. This is a fantastic sludge metal record. I love the vocals and how powerful the instrumentals are and it kinda of gives me some death grips vibes and I can't help but love it. This is definitely my first contender for album of the year already. I loved every second of this record. I think it could of done with some polish but then again for me it is half the appeal that this record is a bit messy because it is god damn sludgier than ... read more

Man I actually wish I could rate this higher because I love this shit but there's just not enough variety to justify a higher score