Bonded by Blood
Occupation
- Vocals: Paul Baloff
- Guitar: Gary Holt
- Guitar: Rick Hunolt
- Bass: Rob McKillop
- Drums: Tom Hunting
Bonded by Blood (English for connected by blood) is the debut album by the American thrash metal band Exodus. It was released on April 25, 1985 via Torrid Records and is considered one of the most influential albums of the genre. In 2008, the band in their current occupation, the album took on again and released the recordings under the title Let There Be Blood.
Formation
The nine songs on the album already created years before the album was recorded. Some songs of 1983 Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett impersonated contributed ideas. The recordings took place in the Prairie Sun Studios within three weeks. The stay in the studio was loud drummer Tom Hunting and guitarist Gary Holt a big party, to which the band invited friends and in which a large part of the furniture and equipment was destroyed.
"Most of the songs we recorded live with the full band; any technical details have not interest us. "
The album was produced by Mark Whitaker. Although the album was recorded in July 1984, it took nine months until Bonded by Blood was released. This was due to problems with the record company as well as the cover artwork. Originally the album A Lesson in Violence should (English for A Lesson in Violence ) hot. The title was then discarded, however, because no suitable cover artwork has been found.
The appearing on the cover artwork Siamese twins were loud Gary Holt only a stopgap. The band wanted an image that consists only of body parts, have as artwork. This was rejected by the record company. Months before the release advance copies of the album were used in tape -trading scene worldwide. According to Gary Holt, guitarist Rick Hunolt had lost a cassette of the album at a concert.
Title list
The re-releases of Combat Records (1989) and Century Media (1999 ) contained a bonus live recordings of the songs And Then There Were None and A Lesson in Violence. Both songs were recorded in London on 8 March 1989. As a singer performs here Baloffs successor Steve Souza. The re-release of Combat Records includes another album artwork, which only shows the band logo and the name of the album at a concert held in front of a red-black photo of the audience. Century Media used the original artwork for their re-release.
Importance
In the book " Best of Rock & Metal" of the German Rock Hard magazine, in the opinion of the Rock-Hard - editing 500 most metal and hard rock albums of all time lists, Bonded by Blood was ranked 56th Thomas copper described the work as " absolute milestone extreme music " and praised the " legendary guitar work ." However, he also criticized the " bloodthirsty and pointless lyrics ". The readers of the German Metal Hammer voted in 2005 their 100 best metal albums of all time. Bonded by Blood took it to 59th place. Marc Halupczok described the album as " the granddaddy of all thrash plates, although similarly stored bands like Metallica or Slayer have released two albums".
Even among musicians Bonded by Blood is considered to be influential work. Metallica singer James Hetfield described the album as its soundtrack of the early 1980s and as " a sound, where you could not help but to devastate the house of his friends." For Machine Head singer Robb Flynn Bonded by Blood is the album that he loved the most.
"The songs are amazing, and Paul Baloff was a completely insane front man. "
The Californian thrash metal band Bonded by Blood named after the Exodus debut.
Let There Be Blood
After the album Bonded by Blood was not available for a long time in the U.S., the band went to great regain the rights to the songs. When this was successful, the album was re-recorded in the current occupation in 2008. Only guitarist Gary Holt and drummer Tom Hunting can be heard on two albums. New to Let There Be Blood are the singer Rob Dukes, guitarist Lee Altus and bassist Jack Gibson. Produced Let There Be Blood by Gary Holt, was released the album through Zaentz Records. In addition to the nine songs from the original version of the song " Hell's Breath " was recorded.
Let There Be Blood was taken differently. Thomas copper from Rock Hard gave the album the highest score because he " can not recall any other new recording that has so skillfully captured the old-school spirit and supplied with additional pressure at the same time " itself. In contrast, doubted Marc Halupczok from Metal Hammer the necessity of this publication and the question arose whether Exodus need some small change. He forgave four of seven points.