For the Bleeders is an album that contains earlier demo work from Vision of Disorder before they landed a deal with the nu-metal-oriented Roadrunner Records. One might expect the older stuff to be inferior to their latter, more professionally done work, but this stuff has more of a four-guys-recording-in-their-garage hardcore sound rather than the sleekly-produced, Slipknottish type of nu-metal sound they kind of had when they were on Roadrunner. As you may have guessed, the first choice is better in my opinion. These guys actually sound like a real hardcore band here. Songs like "Choke" and "No Regret" mix rhythmic screaming with awesome breakdowns, and "Watch Out" and "7/13" are fast circle-pit starters that gracefully shift from faster to slower speeds on a dime. Toward the album's end you can feel the tension building with "Formula for Failure" with its fast-paced screams, "Beneath the Green" with its buildup of yelling to screaming, and "Take Them Out" with its pleading screams and rapid-fire drum fills. By the time the album bows out with the brutally screaming "In the Room," I felt I had just experienced the best kind of anger management session. I guess Vision of Disorder is proof that sometimes angry music is the cure for anxiety, and that going to smaller, lesser-known label can be the best musical therapy there is.