Painted Paradise by FLESHBORE
Fleshbore have crafted a tech death album that is unrelenting from the get go. It's packed to the brim with riffs and to make things overwhelming, they offer innumerable variations and deliver it with rare, staggering intensity. The vocals are straight up furious; the frontman delivers both hoarse growls and deep grunts in a rapid stuttering style, interspersing it all with raspy vocals to suit the constantly shifting moods of the album. The music has an inherent momentum, oscillating violently between the sped up technical parts and progressive passages providing brief respite, and spicing things up with brutal death metal bits along the way. It's not just fast tech death; it's full-bodied intricate death metal, carefully and thoughtfully composed, and flawlessly executed. 'Painted Paradise' is an album that's also remarkably catchy and even memorable despite the ever-intensifying chaos. There are parts that will stand out from the cascade of riffs in every song and will have the listener delightfully coming back for more. Fleshbore have imbibed the best parts of the style and reimagined it in their vision, and spew out the volatile concoction forcefully as a fiery, acerbic projectile that ends up being some of the most exhilarating music in recent times.
For fans of - Archspire, Allegaeon, Psycroptic, The Zenith Passage, Soreption, Orphalis
Tracklist
| 1. | Setting Sun | 4:41 |
| 2. | The World | 5:38 |
| 3. | Target Fixation | 3:58 |
| 4. | Wandering Twilight | 4:13 |
| 5. | Inadequate | 4:59 |
| 6. | The Ancient Knowledge | 3:57 |
| 7. | Painted Paradise | 4:16 |
| 8. | Laplace's Game | 4:37 |
Videos
Credits
Lineup:
Michael McGinley - Guitar
Michael O’Hara - Vocals
Cole Chavez - Guitar
Cole Daniels (Demon King) - Bass
Other Personnel:
Robin Stone (Evilyn, Norse) - Session Drums
Jackson Ward - Mixing and Mastering
Mark Erskine - Art
PRESS -
► "Fleshbore have it all down on Painted Paradise, making it mandatory listening for metalheads" - Bandcamp Daily
daily.bandcamp.com/essential-releases/essential-releases-january-24-2025
► "It’s without a doubt a 10/10 in every aspect" - Technical Music Review
technicalmusicreview.com/2025/01/13/painted-paradise-by-fleshbore
► "something that you absolutely can’t miss if you are a fan of the technical or progressive death genre" - Metal Epidemic 5/5
www.metalepidemic.com/fleshbore-painted-paradise/
► "this album ticks all the right boxes when it comes down to this genre" - Evert's Band Promotion 10/10
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► "the direction that tech death needs to go in" - Metal Temple 9/10
metal-temple.com/review/fleshbore-painted-paradise
► "a style of tech that not only impresses but also hits that spot that just makes you go “Damn”" - Ghost Cult Magazine 9/10
ghostcultmag.com/album-review-fleshbore-painted-paradise-transcending-obscurity-records/
► "technical, brutal, and expertly crafted with not one piece out of place" - Toilet ov Hell
toiletovhell.com/exclusive-track-premiere-fleshbores-target-fixation
► "defining what it means to become masters in this craft" - Head-Banger Reviews
headbangerreviews.com/2024/11/25/fleshbore-painted-paradise/
► "Painted Paradise is an exemplary tech death release" - Musipedia of Metal 8/10
musipediaofmetal.blogspot.com/2025/01/reviews-fleshbore-disrupted-corroding.html
► "a superb mishmash of a Death metal" - Core and Co 8/10
www.coreandco.fr/chroniques/fleshbore-painted-paradise-10169.html
► "practically screams to be blasted through the speakers at maximum" - Metal
www.metal.de/reviews/fleshbore-painted-paradise-565180/
► "Fleshbore should be on your get to know list" - Dead Rhetoric 8/10
deadrhetoric.com/reviews/fleshbore-painted-paradise-transcending-obscurity/
► "truly ferocious and insanely complex, while maintaining a certain level of catchiness and memorable riffs" - The Killchain
thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/01/10/review-fleshbore-painted-paradise
► "Fans of the genre will definitely love the album" - Depart 8/10
depart.gr/fleshbore-painted-paradise-album-review/
► "execution of the music is precise and penetrating" - Flying Fiddlesticks
flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/01/22/fleshbore-painted-paradise-transcending-obscurity-2025/
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