Bleeder is out NOW - Rave reviews already pouring in

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The wait is over: you can get your copy of Mutoid Man’s Bleeder NOW, available on all digital and streaming platforms. Order a physical copy on our online stores - US $ which ships worldwide or UK £ which ships to the EU.

We’ll also be announcing their headlining tour soon, so stay tuned for dates...

If you need more convincing, check out what everyone’s saying about the album below.

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“Featuring Cave In’s Stephen Brodsky, Converge’s Ben Koller, and bassist Nick Cageao, Mutoid Man’s sound is that of a band having a blast dismantling and reassembling all of their influences. The galloping rhythm of opening track Bridgeburner is pure NWOBHM, whilst Beast fuses hardcore onto the insane guitar work of Megadeth’s Rust In Peace. Bleeder is far from simple homage however; there’s real invention at play here. Deadlock’s lightning quick shredding, blastbeats and shifts in pace are beautifully executed, highlighting the band’s dexterity and ability to straddle genres with aplomb. The slow-burn, emotional thrum of the title track shows a different side to the band, but when they get their heads down and concentrate on thrashing it out, as they do on Sweet Ivy, it’s unlikely anything will sound as much fun all year.” - Rock A Rolla, Issue 55 

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“Their first full-length, ‘Bleeder,’ is equal parts musical acrobatics and strong songwriting that strikes an off-kilter balance somewhere between Queens of the Stone Age and The Dillinger Escape Plan. After a couple listens to ‘Bridgeburner’ and ‘Sweet Ivy,’ listeners just might find themselves singing along—even as they marvel at the multitude of abrupt tempo shifts.” - 4/5, Revolver

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“Mutoid Man took the best of both of its forebears and parlayed it into an altogether new ethos - together with bassist Nick Cageao - producing a fiery, nasty, riff-filled metal and punk fest of unstoppable, unbeatable energy.” 8/10, Decibel July 2015 Issue

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“At only 29 minutes and change, Bleeder goes by in a seeming blur the first time through. But there is simply so much going on in its ever-changing (never boring) musical landscape that it will likely take a dozen listens to fully absorb it all. Ballou's production adds to both the ambition and achievement of execution in Mutoid Man's attack. Bleeder is one of the best outsider metal albums of the year.” - 4/5, All Music

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“Bleeder’s greatest strength, though, is in its wholehearted embrace of both numbskull hard rock and cerebral progressive metal, at a time when the two approaches have become almost mutually exclusive in heavy music. The album’s title track—which, at six minutes, is twice as long as any other song on the filler-free disc—simmers, lunges, and edges toward the dissonantly psychedelic, even as it throws off a chunky post-hardcore vibe. Like Red-era King Crimson after botched brain surgery, or the Mars Volta after the miraculous intervention of an impeccable editor, Mutoid Man merges highbrow fretboard architecture with immediacy, punch, and a merciless severity.” - Pitchfork

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"More than just a handful of heavy songs, Bleeder relies on the experience and will to explore of its players. This is the sound of heavy rock in 2015. Another breath of fresh air in a genre that sometimes is more than happy with its own redundancy and stiffness." - 8/10, Music & Riots June 2015 Issue

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“Conceived as an excuse for Cave In’s Stephen Brodsky and Converge’s Ben Koller to indulge in their wildest metal excesses, there’s a frazzled joy to be found in Mutoid Man’s ‘throw everything at the wall’ schtick – a surfeit of ideas that dazzle before quickly going supernova. Essentially, Bleeder is brutally smart, and pretty damn thrilling with it.” 4/5, The Skinny

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“Be it my love for the group's undeniably catch choruses, the fact that every song is frantic like an album opener or the fact that the music is just well written, I love Mutoid Man. Bleeder has only confirmed what the group's debut has told us - this band can do no wrong.” - Metal Injection

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“Bleeder is the sound of a band bottling everything fun and blissful about metal/hardcore/rock, shaking it up and let it spurt out all over the place. Not only have Mutoid Man pulled out one of the most jaw dropping and exhilarating metal/hardcore records released in a long, long time they’ve also put out a record that stands up to anything either of its more famous band members have ever put their name to. Given the names involved there can be no higher praise.” - Echoes and Dust

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“Songwriting like that found on Bleeder is hard to come by. Mutoid Man perfectly balance heaviness with catchiness, succinctness and complexity, a formula that isn’t seen much in metal these days and frankly, is refreshing. Pop music is generally shat upon within metal circles, but if there’s one thing that pop artists do well, it’s the ability to write songs that aren’t easily forgotten, and more metal bands would do well to take a page from that book and apply it to their own music. Mutoid Man aren’t afraid to tastefully incorporate pop elements into their songs, and they thrive because of it. Songs such as “Sweet Ivy” and “Beast” are prime examples of this, ripe with hooks and memorable melodies, but never sacrificing any of the adept musicianship, shredding or insanity that’s such a prominent staple of Mutoid Man’s music.” - 4.5/5, Heavy Blog Is Heavy

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“Mutoid Man certainly harkens back to earlier eras in heavy metal history, with occasional Rob Halford-like screams for vengeance on “Surveillance” and guitar solos to make Adrian Smith proud, but they remain modern enough to avoid sounding dated, pushing them closer to the sonic terrain of the prog-metalheads in Mastodon and Kylesa. Each song balances that fine line between unhinged aggression and consuming chaos, the technical prowess of the musicians serving as the only thing keeping the fury reasonably contained. The hardcore ending of “1000 Mile Stare” is a perfect example – superb drumming and throbbing bass keep the tune from spiraling into pure noise with the guttural vocal delivery leading the listener down a terrifying wormhole that presumably leads to hell.” - Best New Bands

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“Bleeder sounds like putting on your coolest leather jacket and taking the bike for a spin. I never really thought that “technical, hardcore-tinged arena rock” could be a thing, but here I am trying to figure out how to headbang to the odd time signatures behind some of the catchiest guitar leads this side of Motley Crue.” - Invisible Oranges

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“I like to think that Koller’s drumming is what’s keeping Brodsky’s Rock rooted in the Metal, but the two sound so good together that you can’t help feeling like they are just simply feeding off all their history of crossing paths and being in the same music circles. Nothing exemplifies this more than ‘1000 Mile Stare’ which fuses and moulds rock and hardcore within moments of each other, juxtaposing the melodic singing with vocal screams with barely a moment’s notice. ‘Soft Spot in My Skull’ repeats this mixing and matching of styles, but the real standout is the title track at the end of the album, and by far the longest at 5:54 minutes. Taking almost two minutes to build up from a slow yet excruciatingly foreboding beginning, to a thunderous high pitch voice that sounds like it is being ripped from the depths of the soul yelling “Bleeder – I’m your open wound” before Brodsky comes in again singing “Leave you my blood, I broke my own damn heart/ endless love, boiling from the start/ Burning my love, until we drown again.” The heaviness of this track recalls the distorted bass from the opening of the first track ‘Bridgeburner’ only taking a slower tempo to smash all the accents into your skull.” - 8/10, Soundblab

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“Collectively, there’s a fast flowing legerity that hurls the record’s quality skywards; by now these guys are seasoned pros and they make sure to dazzle you through the peppering of blistering instrumental breaks and anthemic singing all the while never allowing their music to be showmanship over necessity. It’s entertaining as hell and each member is damnably insane at their respective instrument, but everything you hear is driven by the desire and purpose for the song to be entertaining rather than a vehicle for flexing their muscles.” - The Sludgelord

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“A kaleidoscopic array of technicolor sludge and huge hooks, Bleeder is the summer metal record your non-metal friends have been begging you to find, infused with just enough legacy status and manic, octave pedal-enhanced shredding to keep the TRVE heshers from complaining.” - Free Williamsburg