| CD REVIEW Bloodattack |
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Band: Bloodattack German outfit Bloodattack will celebrate their tenth anniversary next year (or is it in two years?) and since almost a full decade, they do belong to the top of the German Grind / Hardcore scene. Not only because of their well-appreciated live performances, yet both former albums too were received with gratitude: Born Out Of Ashes (2003, mini-album) and Beast Enough To Stand This Hate (All Life Ends, 2006). In August last year, Bloodattack signed to German extreme music label Bastardized, and in May 2010 the quintet entered Tonstudio 45 (engineers: Kurt Ebelhäuser and Sascha Hoffmann) to record the second full length, which has duration of forty one minutes. This third studio recording, Rotten Leader, is a pretty varying one. This goes for different elements: the tempo, the melodies, and the influences / style. When it comes to the first, the tempo, well, this differs in all directions: from rather slow and slurring over pounding and mid-tempo, to pretty fast, with some lightning-fast parts too. The songs contain many tempo-changes, sometimes through almost mathematic hooks or via well-composed breaks. Musically, Bloodattack combines elements from different sonic genres: mainly punky and pushing Hardcore and slightly old styled yet melodic Thrash Metal (not ‘just German’, yet clearly inspired by the North-American scene too), modern grooving Death Metal (close to Metalcore / Deathcore) and technical Screamo-Grind. Sometimes this symbiosis is a bull’s eye hitter, sometimes it’s painfully ridiculous too. In spite of the dingy production, the whole sounds pretty modern yet not of the progressive / avant-garde kind, and without forgetting to caress carefully the sweet border with the late-eighties scene either. Additional info: mastered at Kohlekeller Studios (Bluttaufe, Winds Of Torment etc). 72/100 Ivan Tibos. |
