Bleed For Us to Live (Bleed For Us To Live - Gutted)

Member Name: Frankingsteins

Product:	Bleed For Us To Live - Gutted
Date:	16/07/08 (19 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Average death metal.

Disadvantages: Average death metal.

Gutted are yet another distinctly average American death metal band from the early nineties, but are a slight curiosity for keeping things in the family, the three band members all being brothers. Sadly, there's no hint of shared musical genius here, as the performance is merely a competent and somewhat lightweight repetition of what numerous other bands were doing around the same time.

The production quality isn't all it could be, leaving the guitars sounding rather weak, but the band does impress with its grasp of speed and rhythm changes, perhaps indicating scholarly musical study somewhere down the line. While this is interesting at first, reaching its peak in the wildly varying speed of 'Cold in the Coffin,' it becomes a little dull thereafter, and the slow-downs especially become rather unwanted.

The guitar solos are nothing to write home about, but do their job adequately, and by far my favourite aspect of the album is the rhyming vocal style spewing forth the typically gruesome death metal lyrics.

1. Bleed
2. Sins of God
3. Nailed to the Cross
4. Cold in the Coffin
5. Chopped Up at the Altar
6. Death Before Dismember
7. Chock Full of Guts
8. Skeletonized
9. Kickin' the Corpse
10. Flood of Blood

Summary: Gutted's first album (1994).