BLOOD FREAK "Mindscraper" Cd

(Willowtip Records)
Release date: 2011
Running time: 44:55

Review: Well, good to hear new Maniac Neil stuff! The whole booklet artwork looks awesome, like a handmade cut & paste kind of scrapbook... I like how this album evacuates all their usual 80's horror movie samples into one psychedelic acid trip of a opening track... Then the rest of the album is pretty much uninterrupted music throughout. It's an interesting idea but I'm not sure the result is completely successful as I liked how Blood Freak albums were usually ponctuated with weird movie samples which injected energy throughout...
Anyway the actual metal kicks in then... Guitar tone totally reminds me of Dead (Germany), ultra downtuned with a very metallic ring to it. This is still highly listenable, fun death metal. Chock full of Blood Freak's usual meaty, thrashing guitar riffs and unstoppable brutal beats. Guitar work is pretty fast and technical... But I've got to say the sound production seems slightly off, I'll blame that guy Scott Hull for this, this stuff sounds a bit too much like Pig Destroyer at times. Song structures are a little too complex and not focused enough on more basic, catchy riffs. But I guess bands need to musically evolve to keep things interesting for themselves... Maybe it'll get a few more listens to get into it. But I kind of miss the simple, more straightforward feel of the first Blood Freak which remains my favorite, maybe it's because it had more of a stupid goregrind flavor to it. But this new album is still sounding pretty sweet, it's always great to hear new stuff from this band.

Mp3: "Merchants of Sleaze"

Tracks: 1)Psychoplasmics (3:04) 2)Merchants of Sleaze (3:40) 3)Sleeping in Hell (3:14) 4)Pink on the Inside (3:29) 5)Scared Stiff (3:55) 6)Slaughterhouse Recollections (5:18) 7)Mindscraper (3:40) 8)Sex Trash Princess (4:03) 9)Paralyzed by the Medusa Spider (2:21) 10)Death Trip...In the Dryg Den of the Damned (2:57) 11)We Kill Cause We Care (3:32) 12)Gobble Up Your Guts! Pt. 3 (5:43)

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BLOOD FREAK "Live Fast, Die Young and Leave a Flesh-Eating Corpse!" Cd

(Razorback Records - RR37)
Release date: 2006
Running time: 67:30

Review: This is the quintessential Razorback album, the perfect hybrid of all the label's aspirations from old school grind/gore, thrash metal, death metal, doom to exploitation flicks & horror comics! Like the previous Blood Freak cd this album is still very much Grind/Gore/Death Metal at the core, taking a Impetigo meets Carcass/General Surgery meers early Entombed/Grave main direction, except this time a whole lot more ingenious thrash metal arrangements are added to the mix (in the vein of the latest Frightmare album perhaps), complete with wah solos and guitar effect that really bringing out a different, really exciting edge to Blood Freak I think! So the big reveal that Blood Freak is not a real band?! It was a really good prank but honestly anyone who bought that the first album was a long lost album recorded back in the day must be really thick... I however had no idea this was the work of a single person; Color me impressed! Blood Freak definitely sounds full-fledged, even though every instrument is recorded individually by the same person, execution is totally natural, everything flows perfectly and musicianship's exceptional on every aspect, from mindblowing guitar riffing, tight-as-fuck drumming to the blistering roaring and shrieking vocal delivery... I'm not sure what kind of drugs Neil is on to stay that consistently great at churning out excellent riffage in every single band and project he's helming but one sure thing is that I want some too! Song-writing is just excellent, songs are all memorable, catchy, hard-hitting, just cool-as-hell... Blood Freak more than any other death metal bands out there today simply delivers the goods! Always keeping it straightforward, take-no-prisoner, downtuned and thrashing! The styling and musical direction is really steady and strong, this is usually the most positive aspect of one-man bands, you don't have to struggle to mix different people's influences, I'm convinced that's what makes this album such pure, undiluted metal fun! The album still explores a variety of styles, it can be blastbeat grinding, thrashing mid-tempos, go into some d-beat rhythms or have some really cool Autopsy-like doom moments on some tracks like "The Flesh and Blood Show". As usual, tons of exploitation gore and horror movie and trailer samples are worked into the songs to great effect! The booklet is also filled with awesome comic book/vintage poster style artwork, terrific front cover by legendary Ed Repka and really cool inside black & white drawings by Putrid and others... Plus this time a complete lyric sheet!!! Razorback head Billy Nocera is responsible for writing most of them, in a whacky and insane Impetigo-style, meaning plenty of old school horror nostalgia and gore! So that's about it... This album really is the full package!

Tracks: 1)Butchermobile (1:34) 2)Toxic Tomb (2:22) 3)Bad Case Of Brain Rot (1:06) 4)Carnage Castle (2:05) 5)Gobble Up Your Guts Part 2:Revenge Of The Turkey Monster (2:36) 6)Splatter Of The Highest Order (1:25) 7)Mucouspewing Lungslasher (2:28) 8)30 Ft. Arterial Spray (1:24) 9)Full Moon Sacrifice (2:25) 10)Last Grindhouse On 666th Street (1:12) 11)The Flesh And Blood Show (2:40) 12)Worm Face Executioner (2:22) 13)Intermission (0:57) 14)Axe Of Violence (1:18) 15)Goretits (1:58) 16)The Nameless Stench Of Forgotten Celluloid (4:14) 17)The Slaughter Special (1:28) 18)Psychosexual Burial Ground (0:46) 19)Boarding House (2:34) 20)Shriek Of The Mutilated (2:06) 21)Doctor Bitch S.D.(Sexual Deviate) (2:27) 22)The Screamatorium Drive-In (2:08) 23)Right On! (23:55)

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