I'm sure anyone who's paid the smallest amount of attention will have heard of Thornspawn by now. Their last demo was hyped beyond any amount of reason in the underground. When I finally came across it, I couldn't help but wonder WHY (?!?) though.

And it's the same thing with this CD. Pre-reviews of the album (mostly from Americans) heralded it as a "true metal masterpiece"! "The greatest hope for the US scene!". Sigh. The merk scene is as good as dead if this is their last hope then...

Thornspawn are the Brittany Spears of black metal. Uninteresting music that somehow finds itself thrown into the spotlight by a marketing campaign and the brain dead masses (in this case American black metal folks) blindly supporting it because of the trendiness involved in doing so.

Boring (BORING!), generic, lame - all of these words nicely summarize "Blood of the Holy...". Traditional black metal with out any feeling really; blame it on the Americans and their pointless bending over and arse-kissing if you purchase this expecting something special. My ears felt numb after wasting thirty-six minutes with this derivative waste of a CD...

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