I presume a fair few of you have a mate who’s “in a band”. And a ton of them will have produced a demo that you’ve convinced yourself (or at least convinced them) is pretty good before consigning it to some random drawer in the house somewhere.
Well, I’ve just been pleasantly surprised. I popped over to see Ian and Sam (and their teeny little new addition to the family) and he gave me a copy of Bloodstream‘s album Black Storm Harvest.
I’ve known Ian and some of the other band members for years, but in all honesty have heard very little by them. You know what… after this I’d like to hear more. I appreciate the band are changing members at the moment, the singer’s different and one of the other chaps is handing duties over to someone else. I can only hope they’re as tight as the lot who recorded this.
I don’t do the old Music Page any more, but if I did this would be a featured album. I had it on in the car for a bit and it’ll definitely be making another appearance some time soon. The whoele thing’s a hybrid of classic thrash with some death metal-style vocals let down only by the fact that you can make them out. Though you could take this is a good thing – I did.
Anyway, check out their web site if you reckon you could be interested. Good luck to them.
