Since I'm the involuntarily designated "Metal Man" of the site I was obliged to listen to Thine Eyes Bleed's first full length, In The Wake Of Separation. To be honest with you I got bored with it quite quick and had to put in GWAR and Morbid Angel to get the creative piss and vinegar flowing to write this review. To me it sounds like this band was forged in foul vapors of Soilent Green's colon and with many a mighty grunt and heave brought forth the shiny, hardened turd they call Thine Eyes Bleed. I bet the singer is the type of guy who gets really into it at shows and screams into the mic, violently shaking his head before gazing meaningfully into the heavens his arms widespread.

This is the band's first full length release, which isn't bad for a virgin effort. It was released on The End Records, which bothers me because I think
is also Kittie's label too, and fuck those punk-ass dykes all to hell. As far as creepy metal lyrics are concerned, I think Thine Eyes Bleed needed to offer up some more hysterical rantings dealing with horrific, detailed accounts of human suffering and demise. Instead they wrote some corny lyrics, none more so than those on "Corpse You Up." "I see myself fading deeper, in a world of pain and anger" and "I hang my head above your grave in hopes that one day I'll be the same." Give me a break - how much resin did these longhaired freaks have to smoke to come up with that shit? Yet with the lyric aspect of the package piss-weak at best, the liner-note artwork is great. Dead body graphics and dark-soul-wizard-master imagery give the band a little more death-metal morbidity cred.

Joining the front lines of the death metal wars with their annihilation-inducing neck-bending effects all add up to one hell of a head banging orgasm. It's nothing like the sick bass lines on The Romantics' "Talking In Your Sleep" but pretty damn close.