To set the tone I’ll first start off with a description of
one of the tracks on the album:
“Grinding your Guts”: Opening with a blistering technical
solo for an introduction, this song plummets into death metal slow and growled
vocals about corpse mutilation decorated with deliberate and well timed riff
chord blast, then comes in the “Grinding your Guts” lyric and the speed picks
up a bit and then erupts violently into a plume of artillery fire drumming and
lightning speed strumming. There’s this innate and overtly clean and precise
way that these guys keep it unapologetically brutal, but there’s still much
song structure and clean precision of elements and where/how they are placed
that it’s almost surgically technical in that sense. You don’t have to sound
like shit to be brutal and old school and Bloodsoaked know that very well. I
just cannot bring myself to turn this damn song off; it’s just THAT infectious.
Now with all of that said, it’s time to emphasize that this “killing machine”
of classic U.S. death metal is a one man
operation, Peter Hasslebrack, and has been slaying since 2006.
The Death of Hope
is the third release to date and definitely not the last. The main thing that
is emphasized by Bloodsoaked is that adolescent aggression and pursuit of
creating a brutal assault to the ears with neck snapping intensity but without
straining to sound like anything else. Yes, this is not unfamiliar in sound,
but it does/will actually stand out to the ears and minds of death metal
veteran as being something “fresh” like the flickering jerks of raw nerves
exposed as the corpse is skinned immediately post mortem. The vocals are solid and discernable
without losing their aggression or intent, you can hear every utterance of
diabolical, heinous mutilation of the human body as if being talked through the
process of a killer in a confession. The riffs and some rhythms throttle like a
diesel chainsaw ready to sever your torso, and have this great simplistic down
tuned tone that physically wrenching your guts a bit…this stuff is pretty
heavy, great bass rumble!!!!
If like myself, you enjoy that sound that bands like
Obituary, early Death, Malevolent Creation, Cancer, etc. had then you’ll really
enjoy Bloodsoaked. All three albums are essential!!!!!
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