Bloodbeast - Bloodlust
This is death/thrash from South Africa and the band formed in 2011. Apart from the stark and fitting artwork to this release, the usual suspects in terms of sound and delivery appear as soon as this monster is let loose. This sounds like many of the current crop of bands that criminally confuse melody with extremity and musical virtuosity. Not that there is too much of this to complain about, but I personally don’t favour this approach. This said, I do like the almost progressive riffing during ‘Sadeye SNAFU’, that almost reeks of Death’s latter approach, the ideas work, but they don’t necessarily need to come out all at once as some of these thoughtful moments are lost in a chaotic arrangement. In general the solos seem to miss the point of what the remainder of the band are achieving in a fair few cases, I find this on ‘Crawl of the Maggot’, a real shame as there is a great sound (I am thinking of Carcass/Death etc..) and perfect low end delivery on the rest of the track. Further negative evidence is during the solo to ‘Butcher for Pleasure’, it really just sounds out of sync without any real sense of what the backing track and what the low end heavy groove is doing. This really kills it for me and thus I am 50/50 in my appreciation even if it is only marginally rough around the edges thus rated as so.
Bloodbeast have some cool ideas but this release seems rushed and plays on a necessity to give you everything at once with busy technical solos that lose any cool momentum and direction previously built upon. Bloodbeast are however hard hitting, their groove is relentlessly produced time after time throughout this release. Given the nature and history of this new band, that appears to have been collated out of a few other bands, there is certainly potential for improvement and quality control in the future.
Bloodbeast have some cool ideas but this release seems rushed and plays on a necessity to give you everything at once with busy technical solos that lose any cool momentum and direction previously built upon. Bloodbeast are however hard hitting, their groove is relentlessly produced time after time throughout this release. Given the nature and history of this new band, that appears to have been collated out of a few other bands, there is certainly potential for improvement and quality control in the future.
- Visceral Birth (instrumental)
- Out For Blood
- Merciless
- Sadeye SNAFU
- Butcher For Pleasure
- Fuck Or Die
- Crawl Of The Maggot
- War Eternal
