Bleach Eater – Night Work – Supercoven Records

This review is a long time coming as I am making a concerted effort to step my Death Metal game up and what better way to dive back in than with New York’s Bleach Eater. Night Work is a full length that came out last year but is most certainly worth the review. I heard about Bleach Eater while doing the Mother Brain interview for the zine and immediately started checking them out.

Bleach Eater play a style of Death Metal that reminds me a lot of early 2000’s era Razorback Records, which is legitimately one of my favorite eras of metal. Night Work kicks off with a short psychedelic type intro on “Pit of Kings” and transitions into a fit of rapid drumming and clever guitar work before dropping down into a thrashing death metal groove. The vocals come in with a pit of hell growl that then range from scathing to straight up vomit vox. The song clocks in at 4 minutes, which is about 3 minutes longer than when I usually check out, but they’ve constructed the song so well that it flows without ever getting redundant.  The rest of the album ranges from fast to mid-paced death metal around the 2 minute mark. “Horse Girl” is a prime example. Sound bite intro explodes into fast DM which chugs down heavy as fuck then ramps back up into a fast groove full of lung cookie gurgle vox.  “Nukekubi” comes in with a chunky riff before splattering into blasting drums to vomit vox before digging down into a mid-pace death groove and going on a long death metal all instrumental that gives way to more psychedelic noise that is present throughout Night Work; absolutely killer song. For a 2 piece (now a 3 piece), Bleach Eater bring precision riffs and tight drum work. More highlights from the album include the grooved outro on “Algor Mortis”, the vocal work on the intro to “Den of the Lummox”, and the death grooves on “La Bruja”.

My Death Metal intake is on a Terri Schiavo level of vegetative state, but this Bleach Eater full length is a rotted breath of pungent air for my atrophied lungs. Night Work is available on cd and limited edition vinyl. If you're like me and feeling stagnant in the Death Metal game, or are tired of having to get up to flip the vinyl every 4 minutes, do yourself a favor and check out this Bleach Eater full length. Its plus musicianship and heavy as fuck.