A Fairly decent offering (although what's with the Godflesh reference in the title ?). This isn't really my sort of thing, but it does the job. Kind of reminds me of mid-late period Incantation, but nowhere near as powerful. Someone told me Blood sounded like old Napalm Death (when someone says "old" Napalm Death to me, I take that to mean the Dorrian/Steer period), but I don't really hear that unless they're refering to the "Celtic Frost riff with massive harmonics" thing. The CD starts off kind of weak, but kicks into high gear around track 5 (or perhaps it just took me 5 songs to get into this ?). I personally would have found this much more enjoyable if the vocals were slightly higher in tone (I don't dig the cookie monster approach to vocalizing) and if the production had a bit more bite to it (but it's a fairly good sounding record as is, so I don't mind). Not bad - doesn't make me want to run out and pick up this bands entire catalog, but I'm not writing them off either. Good quality subdued grind-oriented death metal.

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