Birthed in the early-to-mid 90's – from the same inhuman, ice-covered swamp as both early Cryptopsy and Kataklysm, Canadian brutal death metal legends Blood Of Christ are a band who helped to define the sound known as Northern Hyperblast, a name invented by their peers in Kataklysm to describe the unrelenting brutality of Canadian death metal.
This label certainly applied to Blood Of Christ's early output, beginning with their critically-acclaimed, genre-defining debut album …a Dream to Remember. Released way back in '97, the album is filled with brutal pitriffs infused with relentless, vicious blast beats that, to this day, echo across Canada's frozen arctic tundra. This shit was stunningly bestial, proving that Canadian death metal could go toe-to-toe, mano a mano, cleaver-to-headcrushing-cleaver, with any band from any corner of the world.
As the history books have proven, the triumvirate of Canadian death metal kings, Gorguts, Cryptopsy, and Kataklysm, went on to conquer the world of brutality over the last quarter century. Not to be left behind, Blood Of Christ also kept busy, releasing their incredible sophomore effort in 2002's As The Rain Gently Falls (Anthology II), which featured guest vocals from Kataklysm frontman Maurizio Iacono. A year later they released what would turn out to be their swan-song, Breeding Chaos (Anthology IV).
Which brings us to today, the year two thousand eighteen, a year that will forever go down as an era of unrelenting brutality, marked by the the first recorded Blood Of Christ material in over fourteen years. That album, Anthology IV – Unrelenting Declivity Of Anguish, drops today, May 23rd, via CDN Records.
I'm incredibly stoked to bring you a first listen with an exclusive full-album stream. What you are about to hear is an album that pushes the limits of both epochal and contemporary death metal. In other words, Unrelenting Declivity Of Anguish, is as much a nod to brutal, old-school death metal as it is any top-tier, cutting-edge death metal band of our current age.
Take a listen below and order your very own copy Anthology IV – Unrelenting Declivity Of Anguish HERE.
