METAL needs this BAND
On the evening of April 25, 2018, Bleed From Within had arrived at London’s Camden Assembly, and were waiting to play their first gig in almost three years. Out front, the 400-cap venue was rammed to capacity with fans who had seized gleefully upon the band’s comeback album, Era. But backstage, frontman Scott Kennedy admits he was approaching brown trousers time. approaching brown trousers time.
“I was totally terrified because we hadn’t played a show in so long,” he laughs. “Before we went on stage I was almost about to spew with the nerves. We opened with Clarity, into Crown Of Misery [the opening tracks of Era]. And when the chorus came on, it was insane. You could hear the crowd singing over the band. We came off like, ‘YES, man! this is it!’”
It had been five years since the was a blistering effort that put the band firmly back on the map, and they’ve been on a roll ever since. When we catch up with Scott today, the band are preparing to release their fifth album, , which shoves their mammoth grooves in new directions. And despite feeling stir-crazy under the coronavirus lockdown and nursing a killer hangover, he’s eager to get the new music out into the world. The future looks bright, but as Scott will attest, it’s been a slog and a half to get here.
