Night Work

Bleach Eater is a death metal band, but they also incorporate grindcore and one goregrind element in their music. The grindcore elements are the guitar playing and drumming. The low pitched shifted vocals is the goregrind element. This sound production on here is quite clear on this album. Don’t expect it to have a raw production or something like that. That was not the sound they were aiming for on this album.

The songs are fast like grind songs, but not ultra fast to the point they might blow your mind type of fast grind songs. They might be mind blowing to you if you haven’t listened to that much death metal mixed with grind elements. The drumming by Jay Hailey is fast and he has a fantastic sounding drum kit. Great beats are present on all of the songs. He has old school death metal drumming skills and modern death metal drumming skills. He executes a few good blast beats on this album, the best blast beats are found on Den of the Lummox and Transfixed.

The vocals are growl vocals you’d expect in death metal. It sounds like a pitch shifter is being used and it sounds extremely good with the songs. The late Don Millard puts his vocals to good use. Jay Hailey contributes vocals too, maybe they are the pitch shifted vocals. The pitch shifted vocals do not sound goofy on any of the songs. They don’t sound out of place.

Good guitar distortion is put to good use by Don Millard. He uses the perfect amount of distortion. Millard has skills when it comes to guitar riffs. He executes lots of excellent riffs on all of the songs. The riffs sound like death metal riffs and grindcore riffs. The riffs are a bit thrashy at times as well. He also executes sweet sounding pinch harmonics whenever pinch harmonics are being executed. The bass is good on this album, but no one is credited as the bassist on this album. The bass isn’t that audible, but it’s good when it is audible. Maybe Don Millard played bass? Den of the Lummox has the most impressive bass work, listen to the beginning of the song.

Now there’s samples that might have to deal with the title of the album, I’m not 100% sure on this. It sounds the samples are from a 1970’s movie, you can tell in the beginning of Pit of Kings and Night Work. Transfixed has some sample that doesn’t sound like something from the 1970’s.

My only complaint here is that it’s under 30 minutes. Only 26 minutes and 50 seconds. It could have been a bit longer and it’s too bad it’s not longer. I would have given this 100% if that was longer. If you’re looking for a deathgrind album, check out Night Work by Bleach Eater. You won’t be disappointed by it.