In 2003, The Black Dahlia Homicide roared out of Michigan with a debut album, Unhallowed, that set them up as probably the most necessary American steel bands of their time. As contemporaries like Lamb Of God and Killswitch Have interaction additionally took off, there remained one thing extra gritty and subterranean about Trevor Strnad’s troops of doom. Unhallowed was an album that propelled them upward, whereas holding its ft and ears firmly within the underground, not least due to their steel maniac singer’s obsession with discovering heaviness off the crushed observe.
Hundreds of miles away in Glasgow, a younger Scott Kennedy found the album as quickly because it was launched. When it got here to begin his personal outfit, the framework was already set. Right here, the Bleed From Inside frontman appears again on the impression TBDM and their late, much-missed vocalist had on his band and his life…
“If it wasn’t for Unhallowed I might not have began Bleed From Inside. It’s not my favorite steel album on the planet – it’s not even my favorite Black Dahlia Homicide album – but it surely’s one which once I give it some thought, it positively modified the course of my life. I bear in mind once I heard it, I turned obsessive about Trevor Strnad. I wished to be him. I wished to sound like him. And in the event you hearken to our first two albums, I’m actually emulating that man’s voice.
“I purchased that album just a few days after it got here out, and it blew me away. On the time, I assumed it was two vocalists that they had, as a result of Trevor was doing the excessive screams and the low stuff. I used to be like, ‘That’s two vocalists. How’s he doing that?’
“I’m not even joking once I say that was single-handedly the album that began Bleed From Inside. There’s been influences all throughout the board, like Pantera, Lamb of God, Metallica and Slayer which have type of influenced our sound, but it surely was them that basically made us wish to do one thing. There was extra of a dying steel affect, and it began due to Unhallowed.
