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Bloodshedd - Spare No One

Last Updated (Tuesday, 09 March 2010 16:10) Written by Steve Parker Monday, 15 February 2010 17:06

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Genre: Death Metal

Label: Tower of Doom Records

IS Rating: 9

Comments: There’s Jazz too.

Release Date: January 10, 2010

When Bloodshedd are about to go onstage somewhere in the Phillipine capital Manila, they don the necessary leather and spikes for theatricality’s sake before the obliterating musical bombardment is unleashed. Such is the fearsome new look the band have embraced to suit their  equally fearsome sound. Good for them the image compliments the music, the latter heard in its primal glory throughout this sophomore release “Spare No One.” Press the skip button on the first track “The Time Has Been Cast Down” since it’s one of those quiet intros that gets louder and louder to emphasive the oncoming song’s intensity. The good stuff, as in bone-cracking percussion and Bloodshedd’s peculiar gritty twin guitar-driven walls of noise, arrives at “This Lifelong Emnity.” From here on in, expect nothing but savage blast beats, tidal waves of guitar, and a mosh worthy rhythm  section that has its roots in 80’s thrash. Growls too. Frontman Jojo Book’s vocal fussilades are akin to Chuck Schuldiner meets  the At The Gates guy with the venom of Dark Funeral’s satanic squeals. It’s just refreshing to hear a band from  the far side of the world who haven’t affiliated themselves too closely with the cookie monster club.
“Collective,” “Time For You To Die,” and the bruising “Leading The Dead” are a veritable carnage feast and  it isn’t till a meandering touch of Jazz suddenly pops up at “Collective” that we’re treated to a gentler side of these mild mannered (in real life) beasts. There’s an interlude that hints at the influence of industrial music lurking somewhere on the album as well (“Time To Change All”) and once it finishes the heavy stuffs return. Thank heavens Bloodshedd are that rare underground band who know their songwriting as very memorable lyrics grace the equally Jazz infected “This House Of Termites,” the slaying “...And They Thought Of Pastures” and the meaty “Destroy Heaven” where the band gear for a finale in grand style.  Perhaps the most epic song on the album “This House of Termites” features the most technical expression of  Jazz (plus a few seconds worth of Spanish guitar) thereby leave us quite a deep impression regarding Bloodshedd’s musical pedigree. No doubt about it; these guys are pros. The album ends in an avalanche of riffs and blasts for “Point Blank Target On God” and when it’s over, Bloodshedd prove they’re a musical unit to be reckoned with.

 

 

Miquel Blardony