Vehemence - Helping the World to See CD

Redefining Darkness release

CLASSICK US MELODEATH REISSUE. PROOF THAT MELODEATH DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN LAME. MANDATORY!!! A personal favorite of mine!! Glad it got reissued finally!!

300 x CD

Finally, almost exactly 20 years later, we are excited to announce the re-issue of Vehemence’s second full length album, Helping the World to See, originally released by Metal Blade Records in 2004. The band were heavily involved in the process from the very beginning. Unlike God Was Created, the band had all of the individual tracks from the original recording session and were able to fully remix the album together with audio engineer, David Jerkovich. Like the God Was Created re-issue we put out last year, John Bart Van Der Wal once again remastered the album and with the combined efforts of all of the above, the album sounds simple unbelievable! Of course, the sensational and unreal cover art by Wes Benscoter is just as stunning as it was in 2004 and we are very excited for you all to get your hands on it! This re-issue also comes with 4 bonus tracks compromised of earlier demos versions of a few of the tunes off of the album.

As Vehemence galvanized through a touring cycle supporting the first Metal Blade Records released album, "God Was Created", the band took musical ideas that pushed the band dynamic further forward and streamlined the songwriting process to generate the next collection of songs: "Helping The World To See".

The band pushed ahead with steadfast determination to create songs that captured the melodic and brutal soundscapes that were presented in the previous material, while diversifying the lyrics to encapsulate individual topics. Source material for the imagery presented in these songs were the headlines of the era. Terrorist attacks, infanticide, depression and insanity, televangelism, and other atrocities became the real life horror presented in the realities that Vehemence was "helping the world to see".

Each song highlights the individual strengths of each band member, and showcase a group of individuals that truly joined together in harmony when performing together.

The artwork for the album was another highlight, as the band were able to enlist the service of Wes Benscoter. His concept for the art was pulled directly from the album title and presents a bold image to represent the sound contained within.
- Nathan / Vocals
Vehemence

Banished to Infinity, originally written in 1995 while Nathan, Scott and I were still in high school is the first Vehemence song ever written and demo’d. The Death of Me was written shortly after in 1996. In 1997 we joined with Mark and Andy to complete the Vehemence line-up. Crusade of Hypocrisy was written in 1997. We eventually scrapped the song, and used a section of it in our song ‘Nameless Faces, Scattered Remnants” off our album The Thoughts From Which I Hide. Her Beautiful Eyes has been around since the demo days but for whatever reason, we didn't include it on an album until Helping The World To See.
-Bjorn / Guitar
Vehemence