Bloodwrath
The Hate Effect
Rising Records
There’s nothing like a good dose of raucous death metal to wake you up in a morning. You know? Something to shake the cobwebs away while you wait for that first cup of coffee to kick in. This being the case, we should be thanking Newcastle quintet Bloodwrath for providing us with a cracking wake up call in the form of The Hate Effect.
Now, having not paid much attention to the UK death metal scene for quite a few years now, it’s nice to see that, if you sift through all the deathcore and metalcore and whatevercore bands, you’ve got a band like Bloodwrath flying the flag for traditional UK death metal. Brutal to the last, these Geordie boys really know how to let rip. Right from the moment Hyperchrist kicks the album off, this is an album for the death metal purist, the one who likes his guitars to sound like flies buzzing around a festering corpse and his drums to sound like the sort of hangover that leaves you wanting to die. Tracks like Devastate sounds like proper death metal should, no messing about. They’re raw, they’re blisteringly heavy and you can imagine then being played in the damp back room of some grotty pub to an audience of greasy metallers in faded t-shirts with unreadable logos. To finish it all off the whole thing is topped off by a groove that fans of bands like Kataklysm will welcome with open arms.
Of course, it’s obvious there is going to be more of a market for bands like Bloodwrath across the water in mainstream Europe where metal fans are more concerned with how hard they can headbang than how quickly they can reapply their hairspray for daring to headbang. So, in Bloodwrath, while there is no doubting that the UK has got itself a great little band, it surely won’t be long before they realize their brutal, raw death metal is more appreciated elsewhere.
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