VEHEMENCE - Helping the World to See CD

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