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• Amazon Sales Rank: #30940 in Digital Music Album
• Released on: 2007-06-28
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Pure Metal Begging to be Rediscovered: A Christian Band That Could Give All The Metal Greats A Run For Their Money
When metal absolutely detonated the music scene in the early and mid 80s, it brought lots of bands out. A new breed of Christian musicians found their way into the scene, too. Some of them were more or less riding the coat tails of Stryper. But one band was way ahead of their time and rivaled W.A.S.P., believe it or not, in sheer heaviness, deadly riffs, and they boasted a lead singer whose voice immediately cemented them in a serious-contender category. Like it or not, it's Les Carlsen as front man that most people remember when they think of Bloodgood. But the entire aura of this band was one to be truly reckoned with. These guys weren't sacrificing metal brutality in giving their hardcore Christian message, either. There's nothing fake to be had here; they lyrics range from being lost in a perpetual nighttime of sin, killing the black snake of the devil and setting demons on the run, a song retelling how the disciples betrayed Jesus through the human failing of sleep, and a very philosophical song whose lyrics are so un-metal (Does a child cry? Does the world turn around? Does a fire burn? Is the earth also ground? This we've learned, But what have found? Does a snowflake fall? And in fall does a tree drop its leaves? Does water freeze?) but are absolutely ripped out by Carlsen with such force that they're guaranteed to bring out the fist-pumps if not the devil horns. Even the album cover was stunning in its simplicity: a barbed wire logo and thick drops of blood shooting upwards and practically hanging in the air. I'm not trying to dis other Christian bands when I say that though Stryper has boasted a lot about their visual boldness, no Christian album has ever been more visually bold than this one. I'm sure it was a little much for many people of Bloodogood's own flock. The first five songs on this cd ("Accept the Lamb," "Stand in the Light," - listen to Michael Bloodgood kill the bass work on SITL - "Demon on the Run," "Anguish and Pain," and "Awake!") are absolute rockers, and I'd honestly rank them with anything that Accept, W.A.S.P., Twisted Sister, or KISS did in the same time period. In fact, I'd dare to put them up against what a lot of bands are doing right now. If you can make a metal ballad out of losing your soul, then "What's Following the Grave" is it; awesome low-tone fret work, gloomy but inspiring vocals, and a chorus that's awesome in it's time change. You want legitimate, bring-the-roof-down show-closers, listen to "Killing The Beast," "You Lose," and the lightning strike that's "Black Snake." This remains one of the metal albums that I can listen to still, and it amazes me that they aren't talked about when I read about that time or look up bands in the so-called metal encyclopedias that are popular right now (Bukszpan's encyc., Cogan's and Phillip's encyc., Christe's Sound of the Beast, or Sharpe-Young's and Halford's - for God's sake, Halford doesn't know about this band?! - so-called Definitive Guide) that these guys aren't mentioned. If they're being discounted because they didn't have the huge sales that mass markets generate or because they're Christian, people are making a grave, huge mistake. Bloodgood is pure metal.

Early Christian Metal
This CD stands up rather well over twenty years after it's release.
Strong Christian message, lots of hooks, nice vocals. I own the
original cassette and the reissue on CD. Simple, catchy on a low budget.