Underlying Issues

Underlying Issues
Studio album by Eldritch
Released	November 2015
Genre	Progressive metal
Length	56:02
Label	Scarlet Records
Eldritch chronology
Tasting the Tears (2014) Underlying Issues (2015) Cracksleep (2018)

Underlying Issues is the tenth full-length album by Eldritch, released in 2015 on Scarlet Records.

Rock Hard rated the album with 7 points out of 10.^[1] The same percentage score (rendered as 3.5 out of 5) was given by Dangerdog Music Reviews. Underlying Issues contained an "abundance of riffage, powerful and relentless", taking a slight turn towards thrash metal. Vocalist Terence Holler was "the glue" that held the essential elements together.^[2] Dead Rhetoric saw Holler's voice as having "a rare quality to his voice that puts him in unique company". Eldritch continued exploring "heavier/current pastures" with a tint of Annihilator, though they had also included "a little more Forbidden-oriented thrash bursts" on Gaia's Legacy. The score was 8.5.^[3] Though Powermetal.de [de] gave a slightly lower score of 8, the reviewer called Underlying Issues a "truly outstanding" album. Eldritch was still marked by "Terence Holler's magnificent, expressive vocals and his melodies", but the lesser use of keyboards made the band "less stylistically outstanding".^[4]

1. "Changing Blood" – 5:04
2. "Danger Zone" – 5:45
3. "Broken" – 4:07
4. "All and More" – 4:39
5. "The Face I Wear" – 5:31
6. "To the Moon and Back" – 6:36
7. "Bringers of Hate" – 5:38
8. "The Light" – 4:32
9. "Piece of Clarity" – 4:59
10. "Before I Die" – 5:03
11. "Slowmotion K Us" – 4:08

• Review by Metal Express Radio
• Review by Metal Revolution
• Review by Earshot.at (in German)
• Review by Darkscene.at (in German)
• Review by Metal Paths
• Review by Hallowed.se