Biography
Glaswegian metal outfit Bleed from Within fuses punishing breakdowns and crushing guitars with sweeping melodies. The group first appeared in 2009 with a pair of releases that adhered strictly to deathcore conventions, yet later records—Era in 2018, Fracture in 2020, and Shrine in 2022—shifted toward a groove-oriented melodic metalcore sound that stayed equally uncompromising.
The musicians assembled in 2005 inside a youth club in Hamilton, Scotland, just outside Glasgow, where they first gathered to play Lamb of God covers. Scott Kennedy handled vocals, Ali Richardson sat behind the drums, Craig Gowans played bass, Dave Lennon covered guitar, and Scott McCreadie supplied the second guitar. Within two years they abandoned covers and self-recorded a pair of EPs, Eyes of the Forgotten in 2006 and Welcome to the Plague Year in 2007. Those tapes attracted Rising Records, which signed the band in 2008 and issued the debut album Humanity the following year.
Lineup adjustments arrived soon after, with McCreadie departing and Gowans moving from bass to guitar; Dave Provan was brought in on bass. Recognition spread in 2010 after the group joined Metal Hammer’s Razor Tour alongside Sylosis and While She Sleeps, prompting the release of sophomore album Empire later that same year.
Additional personnel changes marked the next two years, most visibly Martyn Evans replacing Lennon on guitar and a switch to Century Media Records. Third album Uprising reached stores in 2013 on the new label. The balance of the year was spent on the road, including support dates with Testament and Megadeth plus a slot on Metal Hammer’s Defenders of the Faith IV Tour with Amon Amarth, Hell, and Carcass. In 2014 the band crowdfunded the Death Walk EP, framed as a bridge between the fourth and fifth albums, but personal difficulties—including Evans’ exit—pushed the fifth LP back four years. Efforts to continue as a four-piece proved unworkable without two guitars, so Steven Jones joined; the resulting melodic metalcore-leaning Era appeared on Century Media in 2018 and was followed two years later by the epic and groove-laden Fracture. Working firmly in their matured style, Shrine arrived in 2022 and signaled a fresh partnership with Nuclear Blast Records.
The musicians assembled in 2005 inside a youth club in Hamilton, Scotland, just outside Glasgow, where they first gathered to play Lamb of God covers. Scott Kennedy handled vocals, Ali Richardson sat behind the drums, Craig Gowans played bass, Dave Lennon covered guitar, and Scott McCreadie supplied the second guitar. Within two years they abandoned covers and self-recorded a pair of EPs, Eyes of the Forgotten in 2006 and Welcome to the Plague Year in 2007. Those tapes attracted Rising Records, which signed the band in 2008 and issued the debut album Humanity the following year.
Lineup adjustments arrived soon after, with McCreadie departing and Gowans moving from bass to guitar; Dave Provan was brought in on bass. Recognition spread in 2010 after the group joined Metal Hammer’s Razor Tour alongside Sylosis and While She Sleeps, prompting the release of sophomore album Empire later that same year.
Additional personnel changes marked the next two years, most visibly Martyn Evans replacing Lennon on guitar and a switch to Century Media Records. Third album Uprising reached stores in 2013 on the new label. The balance of the year was spent on the road, including support dates with Testament and Megadeth plus a slot on Metal Hammer’s Defenders of the Faith IV Tour with Amon Amarth, Hell, and Carcass. In 2014 the band crowdfunded the Death Walk EP, framed as a bridge between the fourth and fifth albums, but personal difficulties—including Evans’ exit—pushed the fifth LP back four years. Efforts to continue as a four-piece proved unworkable without two guitars, so Steven Jones joined; the resulting melodic metalcore-leaning Era appeared on Century Media in 2018 and was followed two years later by the epic and groove-laden Fracture. Working firmly in their matured style, Shrine arrived in 2022 and signaled a fresh partnership with Nuclear Blast Records.
Albums
Singles
Fracture
2020
Night Crossing
2020
Into Nothing
2020
The End of All We Know
2019
Crown of Misery
2018
Afterlife
2018
Alive
2018
Empire
2010
Live
