The story of Dysangelium started end of 2000 after our studiodate for the Ep "massacre" and the split EP with Warspite. We started writing new songs, but things went very slowly and not that straight on. If we wouldn`t have done those 2 Eps, Dysangelium would have been released 1 year ago!! As we finished 9-10 new songs, we don`t like some of them at all. We arranged most of them new and also CLAUSI worked at his lyrics.
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Finally in 2002 we worked really hard for the new stuff. We cancelled most shows and wrote over 50 % of the new material. The nearer we went to the studiodate, the more we came in total trouble. Nothing was really ready and finished. Only the booklet, the title and the cover was totally finished. In the studio we hat tons of problems with the sound, with the technic and others... that we nearly had troubles with ourselves. But now we are very pleased with Dysangelium.
The sound was mastered by Pluto (Poserslaughter) and after that, the album got some more drive and brutality. All the stress and trouble was good for us, so we were able to give our absolutely best for this CD.
STUDIOREPORT* 2018 Tape Version by Grindfather productions (UK)
* 2021 CD - re-release by VIC records (NL).
Here are a few reviews:
Blood is without any doubts one of the first (if isn't the first) bands
from German death/grind scene. They are around since 1986 and this is the
7th album (we won't count countless singles). Blood freely can be a symbol for
the band that has strong beliefs and will what represents the fact that
almost from the beginning they are working in the same line-up."Dysangelium is for
me the best Blood album to date." Songs are in their recognisable
style but I can feel a slight change in sound. That change can be
heard in song "Devil Dance", which is total non-Blood song, with female
vocal.
Production is good as usual. For every fan of Hellraiser and this sound.
BLOOD
Dysangelium
(Morbid Records)
39:18min
21 songs in 39 minutes says it all, right? BLOOD’s seventh album purposely
doesn’t offer big stylistic surprises. This German Death / Grind band has been
around since 1986 already. Their old school sound is rather primitive but well
executed, some of their riffs don’t only kick some serious ass but offer
creative ideas at least I haven’t heard before, just like on ‘Poison For The
Soul’. Definitely an enjoyable album written to be played live. Some cool
movie samples add spice (“He wouldn’t even harm a fly” is from Psycho,
right?), so don’t get scared by the angelic intro. By the way, on ‘Devil
Dance’ that female voice appears again and absolutely fits into the brutal
structure of the song, cool contrast to the brutal grunts! I’m pretty
impressed that after 17 years in this business BLOOD still sound this fresh and
enthusiastic!
Ramon Claassen
www.voicesfromthedarkside.de
band: blood
title: dysangelium
label: morbid records
time: 39'48"
review:
Once in a while you come across living legends. Bands playing for over 15 years
is something to be proud on i think. So having this new Blood album in my hands
makes me in a way excited about it. Now, i'm not going to crap you up and praise
them to heaven just for this sole reason. But i honestly can't say anything
negative about this album. I even tried to search for something. It's not the
most original album (far from!) but i just love every part of it. The songs are
strong, powerfull and just simple straight in your face death/grind. I don't
think they will ever be very talented musicians. Maybe they are, but i don't
think Blood became a legend because of their 'technical songs'. Instead you get
raw music, cut-off guitar parts that really make you move. Hearing them makes me
tap my feet and play air-guitar, sing-along and make them a personal favourite.
Some samples they use are pretty neat, but then again, lots of bands are using
them. They even remind me of Punished Earth on certain parts. Check them out
live if you can, i promise you, you'll adore them! They have the energy and the
charisma to convince everybody.
review done by: ahfish
Can you spell old school? B.L.O.O.D. These German grindsters have been around for
nearly 20 years now, and Dysangelium might be something of an anniversary for
them. If I can still count correctly, this is already their 25th release (including
demo tapes and vinyl EPs of course). And listening to the 21 songs of their new
album, one thing is for sure: progress is something you will never get with
Blood. Their grind core is extremely primitive, the production is very basic,
and although the musicians' skills have improved over the years, they do their
best to hide is as good as they can within song structures that are mostly very
fast-paced, although from time to time there's some speed change when they
switch to more death metal sounding parts or the occasional female vocals.
The question is: who needs bands like Blood these days? And the answer is quite easy:
old school grind core bands still have a huge fan-base, and in times where cult
icons like Napalm Death and Extreme Noise Terror play a kind of high tech grind
with lots of gadgets, it's nice to know that there are still bands around who
stick to what originated the scene in the first place.
True, Dysangelium is probably not a classic, and it's also
for me not too easy to listen to it in one take, but it is a sincere piece of
music created by people who still believe in the roots of their genre.
6 points! (10)
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