Underlying Issues

Underlying Issues
Studio album by
Eldritch
ReleasedNovember 2015
GenreProgressive metal
Length56:02
LabelScarlet 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.

Reception

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 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]

Track listing

  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

References

  1. ^ "ELDRITCH - Underlying Issues". Rock Hard (review) (in German). No. 343. 18 November 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2026.
  2. ^ Hartranft, Craig (11 April 2015). "Eldritch: Underlying Issues". Dangerdog Music Reviews (review). Retrieved 13 February 2026.
  3. ^ McGinn, Katarina (5 November 2015). "Eldritch – Underlying Issues (Scarlet Records)". Dead Rhetoric (review). Retrieved 13 February 2026.
  4. ^ Jaeger, Frank (6 November 2015). "Ewiger Undergroundtipp. Leider". Powermetal.de (review) (in German). Retrieved 12 February 2026.
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